张宪省*, 作物生物学国家重点实验室, 山东农业大学生命科学学院, 泰安 271018 ZhangXian-sheng*, State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China 引用本文 张宪省. 我国科学家在程序性细胞死亡机制研究领域取得重大突破. 植物学报, 2018, 53(4): 445-446
Abstract: Programmed cell death (PCD) plays important roles in regulating plant development and stress responses, and the reactive oxygen species (ROS) acts as the key regulator in PCD process. However, the underlying mechanism remains to be addressed. Recently, the Jiayang Li’s group from Institute of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has made great breakthroughs in the mechanism of PCD regulated by ROS. The group demonstrated that malate shuttling from the chloroplast to mitochondrion triggers ROS production and subsequent PCD in Arabidopsis. The study provides novel results for understanding the mechanism of PCD regulation.
Key words:programmed cell death ; reactive oxygen species ; malate ; chloroplast ; mitochondrion
中科院遗传与发育所植物基因组学国家重点实验室李家洋研究组前期鉴定了1个拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana)细胞死亡突变体mod1 (mosaic death 1)。在该突变体中发现有活性氧的积累, 降低线粒体电子传递链复合体I的活性则抑制活性氧的积累和细胞死亡(Wu et al., 2015)。MOD1编码1个烯酰-ACP还原酶, 它对于叶绿体中脂肪酸的从头合成是必需的(Mou et al., 2000)。这些结果暗示, 在MOD1突变导致的细胞死亡过程中可能存在叶绿体到线粒体的信息传递。