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Published 23 June 2003. doi:10.1083/jcb.200301099
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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2003/6/1035 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 161, Number 6, 1035-1040


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Yeast osmosensor Sln1 and plant cytokinin receptor Cre1 respond to changes in turgor pressure



Vladimír Reiser1, Desmond C. Raitt1 and Haruo Saito1,2

1 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
2 Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan

Address correspondence to Dr. Haruo Saito, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115. Tel.: (617) 632-3814. Fax: (617) 632-5951. E-mail: h-saito{at}ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Very little is known about how cellular osmosensors monitor changes in osmolarity of the environment. Here, we report that in yeast, Sln1 osmosensor histidine kinase monitors changes in turgor pressures. Reductions in turgor caused by either hyperosmotic stress, nystatin, or removal of cell wall activate MAPK Hog1 specifically through the SLN1 branch, but not through the SHO1 branch of the high osmolarity glycerol pathway. The integrity of the periplasmic region of Sln1 was essential for its sensor function. We found that activity of the plant histidine kinase cytokinin response 1 (Cre1) is also regulated by changes in turgor pressure, in a manner identical to that of Sln1, in the presence of cytokinin. We propose that Sln1 and Cre1 are turgor sensors, and that similar turgor-sensing mechanisms might regulate hyperosmotic stress responses both in yeast and plants.

Key Words: signal transduction; high osmolarity stress; histidine kinase; two-component system; HOG MAPK pathway


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* Abbreviations used in this paper: Cre1, cytokinin response 1; HOG, high osmolarity glycerol; TM, transmembrane.


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