Identification and characterization of an ABA-activated MAP kinase cascade in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Danquah, Agyemang | de Zélicourt, Axel | Boudsocq, Marie | Neubauer, Jorinde | Frei Dit Frey, Nicolas | Leonhardt, Nathalie | Pateyron, Stephanie | Gwinner, Frederik | Tamby, Jean-Philippe | Ortiz-Masia, Dolores | Marcote, Maria J. | Hirt, Heribert | Colcombet, Jean

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International audience. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a major phytohormone involved in important stress-related and developmental plant processes. Recent phosphoproteomic analyses revealed a large set of ABA-triggered phosphoproteins as putative mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) targets, although the evidence for MAPKs involved in ABA signalling is still scarce. Here, we identified and reconstituted in vivo a complete ABA-activated MAPK cascade, composed of the MAP3Ks MAP3K17/18, the MAP2K MKK3 and the four C group MAPKs MPK1/2/7/14. In planta, we show that ABA activation of MPK7 is blocked in mkk3-1 and map3k17mapk3k18 plants. Coherently, both mutants exhibit hypersensitivity to ABA and altered expression of a set of ABA-dependent genes. A genetic analysis further reveals that this MAPK cascade is activated by the PYR/PYL/RCAR-SnRK2-PP2C ABA core signalling module through protein synthesis of the MAP3Ks, unveiling an atypical mechanism for MAPK activation in eukaryotes. Our work provides evidence for a role of an ABA-induced MAPK pathway in plant stress signalling.

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