Salt-dependent regulation of a CNG channel subfamily in Arabidopsis 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Plant Biology BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Salt-dependent regulation of a CNG channel subfamily in Arabidopsis Annette Kugler1, Barbara K?hler2, Klaus Palme3, Patricia Wolff3 and Petra Dietrich*1 Address: 1Molecular Plant Physiology, Department Biology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, 2Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany and 3Institute of Biology II/Botany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Email: Annette Kugler - akugler@biologie.uni-erlangen.de; Barbara K?hler - bakoehl@uni-potsdam.de; Klaus Palme - klaus.palme@biologie.uni-freiburg.de; Patricia Wolff - klaus.palme@uni-freiburg.de; Petra Dietrich* - dietrich@biologie.uni- erlangen.de * Corresponding author Published: 27 November 2009 Received: 12 July 2009 Accepted: 27 November 2009 BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9:140 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-9-140 This article is available from: /1471-2229/9/140 ? 2009 Kugler et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: In Arabidopsis thaliana, the family of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNGCs) is composed of 20 members. Previous studies indicate that plant CNGCs are involved in the control of growth processes and responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. According to their proposed function as cation entry pathways these channels contribute to cellular cation homeostasis, including calcium and sodium, as well as to stress-related signal transduction. Here, we studied the expression patterns and regulation of CNGC19 and CNGC20, which constitute one of the five CNGC subfamilies. Results: GUS, GFP and luciferase reporter assays were used to study the expression of CNGC19 an