TY - JOUR
T1 - Voltage-dependent anion channels
T2 - Their roles in plant defense and cell death
AU - Kusano, Tomonobu
AU - Tateda, Chika
AU - Takahashi, Yoshihiro
AU - Berberich, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We apologize to the researchers whose studies are not cited in this review due to space limitation. We profusely thank Dr. Prakash Kumar for the invitation to write this review article. Comments and suggestions on the manuscript from the editor and two anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged. This study was supported in part by Grant-in-Aids from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to TK (19658039 and 21380063) and to YT (21780087), the Saito Gratitude Foundation to CT and the Sumitomo Foundation to YT, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Plant Graduate Student from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan) to CT. CT is a recipient of the research fellowship for young scientists from JSPS. We also thank Dr. Matthew R. Shenton for critically reading the manuscript.
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - Thevoltage-dependentanionchannels(VDACs), mitochondrial outer membrane components, are present in organisms from fungi to animals and plants. They are thought to function in the regulation of metabolite transport between mitochondria and the cytoplasm. Sufficient knowledge on plant VDACs has been accumulated, so that we can here summarize the current information. Then, the involvement of mitochondria in plant defense and cell death is overviewed. While, in mammals, it is suggested that VDAC, also known as a component of the permeability transition pore (PTP) complex formed in the junction site of mitochondrial outer and inner membrane, is a key player in mitochondria-mediated cell death, little is known about the role of plant VDACs in this process. We have shown that plant VDACs are involved in mitochondria-mediated cell death and in defense against a non-host pathogen. In light of the current findings, we discuss the role of the PTP complex and VDAC as its component in plant pathogen defense and cell death.
AB - Thevoltage-dependentanionchannels(VDACs), mitochondrial outer membrane components, are present in organisms from fungi to animals and plants. They are thought to function in the regulation of metabolite transport between mitochondria and the cytoplasm. Sufficient knowledge on plant VDACs has been accumulated, so that we can here summarize the current information. Then, the involvement of mitochondria in plant defense and cell death is overviewed. While, in mammals, it is suggested that VDAC, also known as a component of the permeability transition pore (PTP) complex formed in the junction site of mitochondrial outer and inner membrane, is a key player in mitochondria-mediated cell death, little is known about the role of plant VDACs in this process. We have shown that plant VDACs are involved in mitochondria-mediated cell death and in defense against a non-host pathogen. In light of the current findings, we discuss the role of the PTP complex and VDAC as its component in plant pathogen defense and cell death.
KW - Bax Cell death Defense Mitochondrion Plant VDAC
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U2 - 10.1007/s00299-009-0741-z
DO - 10.1007/s00299-009-0741-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 19585120
AN - SCOPUS:77950022490
SN - 0721-7714
VL - 28
SP - 1301
EP - 1308
JO - Plant Cell Reports
JF - Plant Cell Reports
IS - 9
ER -