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Annexin 1 Is a Component of Eatp-Induced Cytosolic Calcium Elevation in Arabidopsis Thaliana Roots International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article Annexin 1 Is a Component of eATP-Induced Cytosolic Calcium Elevation in Arabidopsis thaliana Roots Amirah Mohammad-Sidik 1 , Jian Sun 2 , Ryoung Shin 3 , Zhizhong Song 4, Youzheng Ning 1, Elsa Matthus 1, Katie A. Wilkins 1 and Julia M. Davies 1,* 1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK; [email protected] (A.M.-S.); [email protected] (Y.N.); [email protected] (E.M.); [email protected] (K.A.W.) 2 School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China; [email protected] 3 RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; [email protected] 4 School of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai 264205, China; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +44-1223-333-939 Abstract: Extracellular ATP (eATP) has long been established in animals as an important signalling molecule but this is less understood in plants. The identification of Arabidopsis thaliana DORN1 (Does Not Respond to Nucleotides) as the first plant eATP receptor has shown that it is fundamental 2+ 2+ to the elevation of cytosolic free Ca ([Ca ]cyt) as a possible second messenger. eATP causes other downstream responses such as increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide, plus changes in gene expression. The plasma membrane Ca2+ influx channels involved in eATP- 2+ induced [Ca ]cyt increase remain unknown at the genetic level. Arabidopsis thaliana Annexin 1 has been found to mediate ROS-activated Ca2+ influx in root epidermis, consistent with its operating as a transport pathway. In this study, the loss of function Annexin 1 mutant was found to have 2+ impaired [Ca ]cyt elevation in roots in response to eATP or eADP. Additionally, this annexin was implicated in modulating eATP-induced intracellular ROS accumulation in roots as well as expression Citation: Mohammad-Sidik, A.; Sun, of eATP-responsive genes. J.; Shin, R.; Song, Z.; Ning, Y.; Matthus, E.; Wilkins, K.A.; Davies, Keywords: extracellular ATP; ADP; root; Arabidopsis; annexin 1; calcium; calcium channel; reactive J.M. Annexin 1 Is a Component of oxygen species eATP-Induced Cytosolic Calcium Elevation in Arabidopsis thaliana Roots. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 494. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020494 1. Introduction Received: 14 December 2020 Extracellular ATP (eATP) is implicated as an apoplastic signal molecule in the abiotic Accepted: 4 January 2021 and biotic stress responses of plants, their cellular viability, growth and stomatal regula- Published: 6 January 2021 tion [1–6]. In Arabidopsis thaliana, eATP can act as a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) and activates immunity signalling through the plasma membrane purinorecep- Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neu- tor AtDORN1 (Does Not Respond to Nucleotides1, also known as P2K1) [7]. A plasma tral with regard to jurisdictional clai- membrane co-receptor P2K2 has recently been identified and both DORN1/P2K1 and ms in published maps and institutio- P2K2 are lectin receptor kinases [8]. eATP-dependent but AtDORN1-independent effects nal affiliations. have also been reported [9,10], pointing to the presence of other perception mechanisms. 2+ 2+ eATP perception triggers increase in root and leaf free cytosolic Ca ([Ca ]cyt)[5] that can lead to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as further putative signalling agents [11–14]. Nitric oxide (NO) production can also be increased [2,15,16]. Eventually, Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Li- signalling causes changes in gene expression [7,10,12,17–19]. Many eATP-responsive genes censee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. contain the CAM-box motif, which suggests that CAMTAs (Calmodulin-binding Transcrip- This article is an open access article tion Activators) are important components [18]. Indeed, gene regulation could run through distributed under the terms and con- CAMTA3 [18], potentially connecting Ca2+ as a second messenger to changes in transcrip- ditions of the Creative Commons At- 2+ tribution (CC BY) license (https:// tion due to eATP. It may be that the nuclear Ca increase that follows eATP-induced 2+ 2+ creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ [Ca ]cyt increase [20] activates CAMTA3 through Ca -CAM interaction. Understanding 2+ 4.0/). how eATP causes [Ca ]cyt increase is, therefore, relevant to downstream responses. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 494. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020494 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 494 2 of 20 2+ It is known that eATP-induced [Ca ]cyt increase in Arabidopsis roots requires plasma membrane Ca2+ influx channels but the molecular identities of these channels remain un- known, as is also the case for other organs [9,11,14,21–23]. It has been hypothesized that the Arabidopsis annexin 1 protein (AtANN1) could be involved in mediating plasma membrane 2+ 2+ Ca influx [5,24] and recently AtANN4 was found to mediate eATP-induced [Ca ]cyt increase when expressed in Xenopus oocytes [25]. AtANN1 is thought to act as a plasma 2+ 2+ membrane Ca channel in the root [Ca ]cyt response to salinity stress, hyperosmotic stress, and oxidative stress [26–28]. In this study, the possible involvement of AtANN1 in the root 2+ and leaf eATP-[Ca ]cyt signalling pathway has been tested using an Atann1 loss of func- 2+ tion mutant constitutively expressing cytosolic (apo)aequorin as a luminescent [Ca ]cyt 2+ reporter [26–28]. As eADP has also been shown to increase [Ca ]cyt [7,11,12,14,21], this nucleotide was also tested. The consequences for eATP-induced root intracellular ROS elevation and gene transcription were also investigated. The results show that AtANN1 2+ is required for the normal [Ca ]cyt response towards both eATP and eADP in roots. It affects the spatial extent of intracellular ROS accumulation in roots and influences their eATP-induced transcriptional response. 2. Results 2+ 2.1. AtANN1 Mediates Root [Ca ]cyt Elevation In Response To eATP and eADP 2+ Previously, eATP-dependent root [Ca ]cyt elevation was found to be wholly reliant on the AtDORN1 receptor [5]. To assess the role of AtANN1 in this response, seven- day-old whole roots of Atann1 (loss of function mutant) and Col-0 (expressing cytosolic (apo)aequorin under the 35S CaMV promoter) were excised and assayed individually to 2+ measure [Ca ]cyt in the presence of eATP. Addition of control solution after 35 s of mea- 2+ surement evoked a monophasic [Ca ]cyt increase in response to mechanical stimulation (“touch response”) before returning to the basal level (Figure1a). The touch response of Atann1 roots was similar to Col-0 in terms of the amplitude (“touch peak”) and the total 2+ accumulation of [Ca ]cyt (estimated as the area under the curve, AUC) (p > 0.05; Figure1b ). 2+ Measurement of [Ca ]cyt in response to 1 mM eATP revealed a biphasic increase compris- ing a first peak and second peak after the initial touch response (Figure1c). A biphasic response in roots was also observed previously [5,11]. The touch response was similar be- tween genotypes (p > 0.5) and although the first eATP peak was lower in Atann1 it was not 2+ significantly different to Col-0 (p > 0.05) (Figure1d). The second eATP-induced [Ca ]cyt peak response of Atann1 was significantly lower than Col-0 (p < 0.0001) (Figure1e ). The 2+ total [Ca ]cyt accumulated was also significantly lower in Atann1 (p < 0.0001; Figure1e). 2+ eADP also evokes a biphasic [Ca ]cyt increase in roots [5,11] that is entirely dependent on AtDORN1 [5]. To assess whether AtANN1 is also required, a similar test with eADP on seven-day-old excised roots was carried out for Col-0 and Atann1. As shown in Figure2a, control treatment elicited a monophasic touch response in both genotypes. No significant 2+ differences were evident for either the touch peak (p > 0.05) or the overall [Ca ]cyt (p > 0.05) between Col-0 and Atann1 (Figure2b). In the presence of 1 mM eADP as shown in Figure2c, 2+ both Col-0 and Atann1 produced a biphasic [Ca ]cyt increase following the touch response. No significant difference was found between Col-0 and Atann1 in the touch peak response (p > 0.05) (Figure2d). Unlike eATP treatment however, Atann1 showed a significantly impaired ability to produce both a normal first peak in response to 1 mM eADP (p < 0.0001) (Figure2d) and a normal second peak ( p < 0.0001) (Figure2e). Overall, the loss of functional 2+ AtANN1 protein led to a reduced total accumulation of [Ca ]cyt compared to Col-0 (p < 0.0001) (Figure2e). Lowered AtDORN1 expression cannot explain the impairments in Atann10s response to extracellular nucleotides as no significant difference in the receptor’s expression between Col-0 and Atann1 roots was found in either control conditions (p > 0.5) 2+ or in the presence of 1 mM ATP (p > 0.5) (Figure2f). Therefore, the defects in [Ca ]cyt elevation appear to rest with the lack of AtANN1. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, x FOR PEER REVIEW 3 of 21 Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 494 3 of 20 (a) (b) Control treatment Touch peak AUC 0.3 Col-0 Control 0.6 8.0 a a Atann1 Control a a 0.2 6.0 M) 0.4 µ M) ( µ ( cyt ] cyt, 4.0 ] 2+ 2+ [Ca 0.1 0.2 [Ca 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 50 100 150 Time (s) (c) (d) 1 mM ATP treatment Touch peak First peak 0.4 Col-0 1 mM ATP 0.6 0.6 Atann1 1 mM ATP a a 0.3 a a 0.4 0.4 M) (µM) µ ( cyt, 0.2 ] cyt, ] 2+ 2+ [Ca 0.2 0.2 [Ca 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 50 100 150 Time (s) (e) (f) Second peak AUC (iii) 0.4 30 a b (iv) a b (ii) 0.3 M) 20 µ ( cyt, ] 0.2 2+ (v) [Ca 10 0.1 (i) 0.0 0 0 35 155 2+ FigureFigure 1.
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