Wheat Antimicrobial Peptides

Одинцова, Т. И.; Egorov, Tsezi A.

doi:10.1002/9780470196502.ch5

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“…Most AMPs share a number of features: they are very small (<10 kDa), highly cationic charged and have an even number of conserved cysteine residues (4, 6 or 8), which are connected by intra-molecular disulfide bridges [ 13 ]. Cysteine-free AMPs are rarely described in plants, and among these, mainly glycine-rich peptides showed a similar antimicrobial activity [ 14 , 15 ]. AMPs are typically produced as pre-proteins containing N-terminal signal peptides, essential for successful heterologous expression, as they avoid an undesired intracellular accumulation and allow the formation of disulfide bridges when passing through the endoplasmatic reticulum.…”

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Label-free nanoUPLC-MSE based quantification of antimicrobial peptides from the leaf apoplast of Nicotiana attenuata

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BackgroundOverexpressing novel antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in plants is a promising approach for crop disease resistance engineering. However, the in planta stability and subcellular localization of each AMP should be validated for the respective plant species, which can be challenging due to the small sizes and extreme pI ranges of AMPs which limits the utility of standard proteomic gel-based methods. Despite recent advances in quantitative shotgun proteomics, its potential for AMP analysis has not been utilized and high throughput methods are still lacking.ResultsWe created transgenic Nicotiana attenuata plants that independently express 10 different AMPs under a constitutive 35S promoter and compared the extracellular accumulation of each AMP using a universal and versatile protein quantification method. We coupled a rapid apoplastic peptide extraction with label-free protein quantification by nanoUPLC-MSE analysis using Hi3 method and identified/quantified 7 of 10 expressed AMPs in the transgenic plants ranging from 37 to 91 amino acids in length. The quantitative comparison among the transgenic plant lines showed that three particular peptides, belonging to the defensin, knottin and lipid-transfer protein families, attained the highest concentrations of 91 to 254 pmol per g leaf fresh mass, which identified them as best suited for ectopic expression in N. attenuata. The chosen mass spectrometric approach proved to be highly sensitive in the detection of different AMP types and exhibited the high level of analytical reproducibility required for label-free quantitative measurements along with a simple protocol required for the sample preparation.ConclusionsHeterologous expression of AMPs in plants can result in highly variable and non-predictable peptide amounts and we present a universal quantitative method to confirm peptide stability and extracellular deposition. The method allows for the rapid quantification of apoplastic peptides without cumbersome and time-consuming purification or chromatographic steps and can be easily adapted to other plant species.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12870-014-0398-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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