Heat Shock Protein 90.1 Plays a Role in Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation

摘要

Dear Editor, Many bacterial proteins are involved inAgrobacteriummediated plant transformation.By contrast,relatively little is known about plant proteins that play key roles in transformation.Some of these host proteins interact with Virulence effector proteins,including VirE2,that are transferred from Agrobacterium to plants (Gelvin,2010;Pitzschke and Hirt,2010).A recent study indicated that the plant protein SUPPRESSOR OF G2 ALLELE OF SKP1 (SGT1),a co-chaperone of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90),is required for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (Anand et al.,2012).These studies suggested the involvement of HSP90 in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.