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American Society of Plant Biologists Convergence and Divergence of Stress-Induced Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling Pathways at the Level of Two Distinct Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase KinasesInstitute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna Biocenter, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria 2 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail hehi{at}gem.univie.ac.at; fax 43-1-42779546
Plants respond to biotic and abiotic stresses by inducing overlapping sets of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and response genes. To define the mechanisms of how different signals can activate a common signaling pathway, upstream activators of SIMK, a salt stress– and pathogen-induced alfalfa MAPK, were identified. Here, we compare the properties of SIMKK, a MAPK kinase (MAPKK) that mediates the activation of SIMK by salt stress, with those of PRKK, a distantly related novel MAPKK. Although both SIMKK and PRKK show strongest interaction with SIMK, SIMKK can activate SIMK without stimulation by upstream factors. In contrast, PRKK requires activation by an upstream activated MAPKK kinase. SIMKK mediates pathogen elicitor signaling and salt stress, but PRKK transmits only elicitor-induced MAPK activation. Of four tested MAPKs, PRKK activates three of them (SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK) upon elicitor treatment of cells. However, PRKK is unable to activate any MAPK upon salt stress. In contrast, SIMKK activates SIMK and MMK3 in response to elicitor, but it activates only SIMK upon salt stress. These data show that (1) MAPKKs function as convergence points for stress signals, (2) MAPKKs activate multiple MAPKs, and (3) signaling specificity is obtained not only through the inherent affinities of MAPKK-MAPK combinations but also through stress signal–dependent intracellular mechanisms.
Protein phosphorylation is one of the major mechanisms for controlling cellular functions in response to external signals. In eukaryotes, a specific class of Ser/Thr protein kinases, the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), is involved in many of these processes. A general feature of MAPK cascades is their composition of three functionally linked protein kinases. A MAPK is phosphorylated and thereby activated by a MAPK kinase (MAPKK), which itself becomes activated by another Ser/Thr protein kinase, a MAPKK kinase (MAPKKK). Targets of MAPKs can be various transcription factors and protein kinases as well as upstream components of the MAPK cascade, such as MAPKKs, MAPKKKs, or the receptors themselves (Karin, 1998  ; Whitmarsh and Davis, 1998).
Signaling through MAPK cascades can lead to different cellular responses, including differentiation, cell division, and stress responses (Robinson and Cobb, 1997
Several MAPKKs have been isolated from different plants, including Arabidopsis AtMEK1 and AtMKK2-5 (Morris et al., 1997
We reported previously the identification and characterization of SIMK as a salt stress– and elicitor-induced MAPK from alfalfa (Munnik et al., 1999
Isolation of PRKK To determine the mechanisms of how common MAPK pathways can be activated by different stresses, we decided to isolate and study the upstream components of SIMK, a salt stress– and elicitor-activated MAPK from alfalfa (Munnik et al., 1999 ; Cardinale et al., 2000). For this purpose, SIMK was fused to the GAL4 DNA binding domain of pBD-Gal4Cam. The yeast strain PJ69-4A was cotransformed with pBD-Gal4Cam-SIMK, and a plasmid cDNA library was prepared from suspension-cultured cells of alfalfa (Hybri-ZAP), which expresses the plant genes as fusions with the GAL4 activation domain. Approximately 150,000 transformants were screened by plating on selective medium lacking adenine, Leu, and Trp. Colonies were analyzed by plasmid rescue (Robzyk and Kassir, 1992) and retransformation of PJ69-4A yeast cells, followed by testing of their ability to confer adenine and histidine prototrophy to the yeast cells when coexpressed with SIMK. Several clones were obtained that could grow on medium lacking either adenine or histidine. Sequencing of the inserts of the isolated plasmids revealed that one of the cDNAs potentially encodes a protein of the family of MAPKKs; it was named PRKK for pathogen-responsive MAPKK. PRKK has the typical features of MAPKKs, containing 11 catalytic subdomains and two putative phosphorylation sites (Figure 1, asterisks) that are targeted by the upstream activating MAPKKK.
Sequence comparisons of PRKK with current databases revealed highest sequence identity to SIPKK from tobacco (Liu et al., 2000 ), LeMEK1 from tomato (Hackett et al., 1998), and AtMKK2 from Arabidopsis (Ichimura et al., 1998a). As shown in Figure 1, the N termini of these plant MAPKKs contain a slightly modified DEJL motif (K/R-K/R-K/R-X[1-5]-L/I-X-L/I), which was shown to function as a MAPK docking site in mammals (Jacobs et al., 1999). PRKK, SIPKK, LeMEK1, and AtMKK2 belong to the PMKK1 subgroup of plant MAPKKs (Ligterink and Hirt, 2001). In contrast, SIMKK, an alfalfa MAPKK that also interacts with SIMK, belongs to the PMKK2 subfamily (Kiegerl et al., 2000) and shows only 30% identity to PRKK or any of the other MAPKKs of the PMKK1 subfamily (Figure 1).
Recombinant PRKK Is an Inactive MAPKK
PRKK Is a MAPKK That Requires Activation through an Upstream MAPKKK MAPKKs usually become activated by phosphorylation through MAPKKKs (Robinson and Cobb, 1997 ). Therefore, it was likely that recombinant GST-PRKK required activation by upstream activators for MAPKK activity. To test this possibility, PRKK was tagged with a hemagglutinin (HA) peptide and expressed in parsley protoplasts as PRKK-HA in the absence and presence of  NPK1, a constitutively active tobacco MAPKKK (Kovtun et al., 2000). Thereafter, PRKK-HA was immunoprecipitated from protein extracts and tested for the ability to phosphorylate SIMK. When PRKK-HA was expressed in the absence of NPK1, immunoprecipitated PRKK-HA showed no MAPKK activity (Figure 3A, lane 3). In contrast, in the presence of active MAPKKK, PRKK was active and phosphorylated GST-SIMK(K84R) (Figure 3A, lane 4). As shown by Coomassie blue staining of the SDS–polyacrylamide gel used for autoradiography, equal amounts of GST-SIMK(K84R) were present in the assays (Figure 3B). Expression of the empty vector pRT101 or NPK1 alone showed that the HA antibody did not immunoprecipitate endogenous MAPKK activity. Immunoblotting the protein extracts with the HA antibody further proved the specificity of the assay by showing that only PRKK-HA was recognized under these conditions (Figure 3C). These data show that PRKK is a functional enzyme that requires activation by an upstream MAPKKK for MAPKK activity.
SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK Are Activated by PRKK in Vivo To determine whether PRKK also can activate SIMK in vivo, the two enzymes were coexpressed transiently in parsley protoplasts. Parsley cells were used for the transient expression assays because attempts to use various alfalfa cell lines were unsuccessful. SIMK was immunoprecipitated subsequently from protein extracts and analyzed for activity by in vitro kinase assays using myelin basic protein (MBP) as a substrate. The same experiment was conducted in parallel with three other alfalfa MAPKs, MMK2, MMK3, and SAMK, as well as with SIMKK as an upstream MAPK activator. No kinase activity was associated with immunoprecipitates from cells that contained the empty vector pRT101 (Figure 4A, lane 1). In cells that expressed the MAPKs alone, extremely low MBP kinase activity was associated with the immunoprecipitated MAPKs (Figure 4A, lane 2), indicating that the transiently expressed MAPKs require upstream activation. In agreement with previous data (Kiegerl et al., 2000 ), coexpression of the MAPKs with SIMKK resulted in the activation of SIMK and SAMK (Figure 4A, lane 3). Coexpression of the four MAPKs with PRKK did not result in significant activation of the MAPKs (Figure 4A, lane 4). When constitutively active NPK1 was expressed, activation of all four tested MAPKs was observed (Figure 4A, lane 5). Coexpression of the MAPKs with NPK1 and PRKK, however, resulted in a severalfold increase in the activation of SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK. No enhancement of MMK2 activation was observed under such conditions (Figure 4A, lane 6). As shown by immunoblotting, the differences in MAPK activities were not attributable to different amounts of MAPKs in the extracts (Figure 4B). These results indicate that PRKK and SIMKK are both MAPK activators but that the MAPKKs activate different and partially overlapping sets of MAPKs.
SIMKK and PRKK Both Mediate Elicitor-Induced SIMK Activation, but Only SIMKK Mediates the Salt Stress–Induced Activation of SIMK To determine which extracellular signals are mediated by PRKK, parsley protoplasts were cotransformed with expression vectors containing either SIMKK or PRKK and any of the four MAPKs (SIMK-HA, MMK2, MMK3, or SAMK). In addition, transformed protoplasts were treated with high salt and elicitor. SIMK is activated by hyperosmotic conditions (Munnik et al., 1999 ) and by various fungal elicitors (Cardinale et al., 2000). Treatment of protoplasts for 10 min with 50 nM Pep13, an oligopeptide elicitor derived from the fungal pathogen Phytophthora sojae, resulted in strong activation of SIMK-HA and a weaker activation of MMK2, MMK3, and SAMK (Figure 5A, lane 2). NaCl (250 mM) induced SIMK activation exclusively at 10 min but none of the other three MAPKs (Figure 5A, lane 3). In the absence of extracellular signals, coexpression of PRKK was unable to activate any MAPK (Figure 5A, lane 4). In contrast to salt stress (Figure 5A, lane 6), coexpressed PRKK enhanced the activation of SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK upon elicitor treatment (Figure 5A, lane 5). These results indicate that PRKK is not a transmitter of the salt-induced activation of SIMK but is a mediator of the elicitor-induced activation of SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK.
When SIMKK was coexpressed in parsley protoplasts with MAPKs in the absence of extracellular signals, activation of SIMK and SAMK was observed (Figure 4A, lane 3, and Figure 5A, lane 7). Upon elicitor treatment, SIMKK coexpression resulted in strong activation of SIMK and MMK3 and weak enhancement of SAMK (Figure 5A, lane 8). In contrast, coexpression of SIMKK in salt-stressed cells strongly enhanced the activation of SIMK but not SAMK or any of the other MAPKs (Figure 5A, lane 9). These data show that SIMKK is a mediator of elicitor-induced activation of SIMK and MMK3. Moreover, SIMKK acts as a mediator of salt stress–induced SIMK activation. To exclude artifacts from the endogenous parsley kinases, protoplasts expressing empty vector also were analyzed after stress treatment. No MAPK activity was immunoprecipitated under any of the conditions used (Figure 5A, lanes 10 and 11), indicating that the kinase activities are not derived from endogenous MAPKs. To exclude the possibility that different amounts of MAPK protein were responsible for the differences observed in MAPK activities, the cell extracts used for immunokinase assays in Figure 5A were immunoblotted with antibodies against the MAPKs. As shown in Figure 5B, MAPK protein levels did not vary in these experiments, indicating that different levels of MAPK activities were not the result of different expression levels of the MAPKs but of activation by different upstream MAPKKs. Together, these data show that SIMKK and PRKK both mediate the elicitor-induced activation of distinct but overlapping sets of MAPKs, but SIMKK alone mediates the salt stress–induced activation of SIMK.
MAPKs play important roles in mediating stress responses in animals, yeast, and plants (Meskiene and Hirt, 2000 ). In plants, the SIMK pathway has been identified as being activated by high salt concentrations and elicitors (Munnik et al., 1999; Cardinale et al., 2000). By yeast two-hybrid interaction screening of SIMK with an alfalfa library, SIMKK and PRKK were isolated. SIMKK and PRKK are two highly different MAPKKs that are only 30% identical in primary sequences. They belong to separate MAPKK subfamilies and have distinct substrate specificities and regulatory properties. Both MAPKKs respond to elicitor, but only SIMKK mediates salt stress signaling (Figure 6). In the presence of elicitor, SIMKK and PRKK both target SIMK and MMK3, but PRKK also targets SAMK. SIMKK, but not PRKK, is a mediator of salt stress–induced SIMK activation. These studies provide insight into how different upstream signals can be integrated into common MAPK signaling pathways and how a cell distributes information to different downstream MAPK effectors.
Analysis of SIMKK and PRKK revealed that the two MAPKKs have quite distinct properties with respect to their activation. In contrast to SIMKK, recombinant PRKK was completely inactive as a MAPKK. This result suggested that the activation of PRKK, but not of SIMKK, required phosphorylation by upstream factors. In agreement with this idea, PRKK immunoprecipitated from transformed protoplasts was completely inactive unless coexpressed with an active MAPKKK, whereas SIMKK did not require activation by an upstream MAPKKK. An explanation for the different behavior of PRKK and SIMKK might be found in the activation loops of these two enzymes. For activation, all animal and yeast MAPKKs must become phosphorylated by MAPKKKs at Ser and/or Thr residues in the SXXXS/T motif that is located between subdomains VII and VIII (Robinson and Cobb, 1997 ). The corresponding region of plant MAPKKs lacks the first Serine residue and has a spacing of five amino acids between the putative phosphorylation sites, with S/TXXXXXS/T as a consensus sequence (Figure 1) (Ligterink and Hirt, 2001). Interestingly, SIMKK and other MAPKKs of the PMKK2 subfamily (such as tobacco NtMEK2) share the same consensus sequence but contain an Asp residue at position 3, showing TXDXXXS (Ligterink and Hirt, 2001). Because substitution of any of the animal phosphorylation sites by acidic residues activates the respective MAPKKs, it is likely that the PMKK2 group constitutes an autoactive class of MAPKKs, but additional studies on the phosphorylation of these plant MAPKKs are required to assess the biological importance of this variation.
Previous work with tobacco identified SIPKK as an interaction partner of SIPK (Liu et al., 2000 To identify the extracellular stimuli to which PRKK and SIMKK respond, parsley protoplasts were transfected transiently with expression vectors carrying different combinations of MAPKs and either PRKK or SIMKK. The protoplasts then were treated with salt stress or elicitor. Under these conditions, SIMKK was found to mediate SIMK activation by salt stress and elicitor, suggesting that SIMKK functions to integrate different upstream stimuli. This finding provides an explanation for how members of the SIMK subfamily of MAPKs can be activated by abiotic and biotic stimuli such as salt stress and elicitors (Figure 6).
Striking differences between downstream MAPK targets of SIMKK were observed when protoplasts were transformed with different combinations of MAPKs and SIMKK. In the absence of any extracellular signal, SIMKK activated SIMK and SAMK but not MMK3 (Figure 5A). However, upon elicitor treatment, SIMKK strongly activated SIMK and MMK3 but barely increased SAMK activation (Figure 5A). Moreover, in salt stress–treated cells, SIMKK enhanced the activation of SIMK but not of MMK3 or SAMK (Figure 5A). These results indicate that the outcome of signaling cascades is not influenced only by the inherent affinities between different combinations of MAPKKs and MAPKs but also by intracellular signal-dependent mechanisms. Among the best candidates for generating signaling selectivity are scaffold proteins. A number of scaffold proteins have been identified for animal and yeast MAPK cascades, showing that scaffold proteins influence the assembly, transport, and substrate specificity of MAPK modules (Whitmarsh and Davis, 1998
Combinatorial transient expression of different MAPKs with PRKK in parsley protoplasts revealed that PRKK enhances the elicitor-induced activation of SIMK, MMK3, and SAMK (Figure 5A). However, PRKK is unable to enhance the activation of any MAPK by salt stress (Figure 5A). It should be observed that elicitor-induced MMK2 activation is not mediated by either PRKK or SIMKK (Figure 5A). Therefore, another yet unidentified MAPKK must be postulated that is responsible for MMK2 activation (Figure 6). Together, our data show that at least three MAPKKs, PRKK, SIMKK, and an unknown MAPKK, are involved in pathogen signaling. This might explain our previous findings that various elicitors can activate multiple MAPK cascades (Cardinale et al., 2000
A possible answer to this puzzle might be found in the number of components available to assemble MAPK cascades. Database analysis of the complete Arabidopsis genome indicated that there are 37 MAPKKKs, 10 MAPKKs, and 24 MAPKs present (Wrzaczek and Hirt, 2001
Isolation of PRKK The amino acid sequence of PRKK was deduced from the sequence of a cDNA clone isolated by screening an alfalfa (Medicago sativa) cDNA library (Hybri-ZAP; Stratagene) using SIMK in the pBD-Gal4Cam vector (Stratagene) as a bait in a yeast two-hybrid system. Yeast colonies of strain PJ69-4A (James et al., 1996 ) were selected sequentially for adenine-positive and histidine-positive prototrophy on medium lacking Leu, Trp, and adenine or Leu, Trp, and histidine, respectively. Strict histidine auxotrophy was obtained by growing the cells in the presence of 10 mM 3-aminotriazole. Approximately 150,000 transformants were screened. To eliminate false-positive results, the plasmids obtained from primary positive clones were retransformed into PJ69-4A yeast and tested again for histidine or adenine auxotrophy. The PRKK clone was sequenced entirely and shown to contain a 1065-bp open reading frame, a 6-bp 5' untranslated region, and a 401-bp 3' untranslated region including a poly(A)+ tail.
In Vitro Kinase Assays
Transient Expression Assays
Immunocomplex Kinase Assays
Kinase reactions on the immunoprecipitated mitogen-activated protein kinases were performed for 30 min at room temperature in 20 µL of kinase buffer containing 5 µg of myelin basic protein (MBP) and 2 µCi of
For protein gel blot analysis, equal amounts of total protein extracts were separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes, and probed with either the HA antibody as recommended by the manufacturer (BABCO, Richmond, CA) or with M11 or M24 antibodies as described previously (Jonak et al., 1995
Treatment of Transiently Transfected Protoplasts with NaCl and Fungal Elicitor
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We thank J. Sheen for providing the NPK1 expression vector and I. Somssich, D. Scheel, and T. Nürnberger for providing the parsley cell culture and Pep13 elicitor. This work was supported by Grant Nos. P14631-GEN, P14114-GEN, and P13535-GEN of the Austrian Science Foundation.
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1 Current address: Di.Va.P.R.A., University of Turin, I-10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy. Received June 27, 2001; accepted November 1, 2001.
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-32P-ATP) alone or with 5 µg of MAPK (GST-SIMK[K84R]) as a substrate.
-glycerophosphate, 15 mM p-nitrophenylphosphate, 0.1% Tween 20, 0.5 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 5 µg/mL leupeptin, and 5 µg/mL aprotinin). After centrifugation at 20,000g for 45 min, equal protein amounts from the cleared supernatant were subjected to a 2-hr preincubation in the presence of mixed protein G– and protein A–Sepharose beads (20 µL, 1:1; preclearance step). The supernatant then was immunoprecipitated for 2 hr with either protein G beads and 5 µL of HA antibody (for HA-tagged SIMK and MMK3) or protein A beads and 5 µg of protein A–purified M11 antibodies for MMK2 or M24 antibody for SAMK (Jonak et al., 1995
