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Weber, M.; Trampczynska, A.; Clemens, S.; Comparative transcriptome analysis of toxic metal responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and the Cd2+-hypertolerant facultative metallophyte Arabidopsis halleri Plant Cell Environ. 29, 950-963, (2006) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01479.x

Toxic effects of both essential and non‐essential heavy metals are well documented in plants. Very little is known, however, about their modes of toxicity, about tolerance mechanisms and the signalling cascades involved in mediating transcriptional responses to toxic metal excess. We analysed transcriptome changes upon Cd2+ and Cu2+ exposure in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana and the Cd2+‐hypertolerant metallophyte Arabidopsis halleri . Particularly, three categories of genes were identified with the help of this comparative approach: (1) common responses, which might indicate stable and functionally relevant changes conserved across plant species; (2) metallophyte‐specific responses as well as transcripts differentially regulated between the two species, representing candidate genes for Cd2+ hypertolerance; and (3) those specifically responsive to Cd2+ and therefore indicative of toxicity mechanisms or potentially involved in signalling cascades. Our data define, for instance, Arabidopsis core responses to Cd2+ and Cu2+. In addition, they suggest that Cd2+ exposure very rapidly results in apparent Zn deficiency, and they show the existence of highly specific Cd2+ responses and distinct signalling cascades. Array results were independently confirmed by real‐time quantitative PCR, thereby further validating cross‐species transcriptome analysis with oligonucleotide microarrays.
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Trampczynska, A.; Böttcher, C.; Clemens, S.; The transition metal chelator nicotianamine is synthesized by filamentous fungi FEBS Lett. 580, 3173-3178, (2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.04.073

Nicotianamine is an important metal ligand in plants. Surprisingly, recent genome sequencing revealed that ascomycetes encode proteins with similarity to plant nicotianamine synthases (NAS). By expression in a Zn2+‐hypersensitive fission yeast mutant we show for a protein from Neurospora crassa that it indeed possesses NAS activity. Using electrospray‐ionization‐quadrupole‐time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry we prove the formation of nicotianamine in N. crassa . Transcript level is strongly upregulated under Zn deficiency as shown by real‐time PCR. These findings demonstrate that nicotianamine is more widespread in nature than anticipated and provide further evidence for a function of nicotianamine as a cytosolic chelator of Zn2+ ions.
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