Trash to treasure:lactate and protein lactylation in maize root impacts response to drought  

作　　者：Zi Shi Miaoyi Zhou Wei Song Ya Liu Ronghuan Wang Yuandong Wang Ruyang Zhang Jiuran Zhao Wen Ren 

机构地区：[1]Beijing Key Laboratory of Maize DNA Fingerprinting and Molecular Breeding,Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,Beijing 100097,China

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2023年第8期1903-1914,共12页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Beijing Scholars Program(BSP041);Beijing Nova Program(20220484220);the High-level Returned Talents grant from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China;Science and Technology Xing Meng action focus project of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(KJXM2020001)。

摘　　要：Lactate,protein lactylation(Kla),and specifically histone lactylation have recently been shown to regulate antipathogenic immune responses in mammals.Herein,after we confirmed the presence and accumulation of lactate in maize roots under drought conditions,a lactylome profiling analysis revealed that Kla modifications were invariably present in maize roots,that there were obvious differences in the lactylomes of drought-sensitive(B73)vs.drought-tolerant(Jing2416)lines,and that growing Jing2416 under drought conditions caused significant decreases in the lactylation of multiple enzymes responsible for fatty acid degradation.Inspired by findings of histone-Kla based epigenetic regulation of immune functions in animals,we initially discovered 37 Kla sites on 16 histones in the maize genome,and again detected obvious differential histone Klamediated trends between two lines by Ch IP-Seq.Notably,only 2.7%of genes with differential histone Kla peaks detected during drought stress were commonly present in both lines,a finding demonstrating that abiotic stress triggers distinct epigenetic activities in diverse germplasm while also strongly supporting that a histone Kla layer of regulation is associated with physiological responses to drought stress.Interestingly,exogenous application of spermidine improved the drought tolerance of B73and substantially altered the levels of lactate,protein lactylation,and histone Kla modification.Thus,beyond extending the known domain of Kla-based biochemical and epigenetic regulation from animal immunity to plant stress physiology,our study suggests the physiological,biochemical,and genetic function of“the best-known metabolic waste”,lactate.

关 键 词：LACTATE lactylome DROUGHT SPERMIDINE MAIZE 

分 类 号：S513[农业科学—作物学]