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PROTEOMIC ANALYSES OF DEFENCE GENE EXPRESSION INA MODEL TOMATO-<strong>VERTICILLIUM</strong> PATHOSYSTEMJANE ROBB 1 , BARBARA LEE 1 , ALEX KUROSKY 2 AND ROSS N. NAZAR 11 Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, ON, Canada and Department of Biochemistryand2 Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USARelatively little is known about the molecular mechanisms utilized by plantsto defend themselves against fungal vascular pathogens. Based on DNA microarrayanalyses, in past studies we used a model tomato-Verticillium pathosystem to comparethe global expression of genes in compatible and incompatible interactions. Whilevery significant patterns of mRNA changes were defined, how these are translated atthe protein level remained unclear. In the present study, 2D gel electrophoresis andproteomic analyses were applied to evaluate the actual changes in protein levels.Whole cell protein was extracted simultaneously with RNA to permit parallelcomparisons of both mRNA and proteins from the same samples. Proteinsrepresenting 13 of the most intense changes were identified using mass spectrometry.Three were products of commonly identified pathogenesis related genes, three wereperoxidase related and two were osmotin related proteins, all products of genescommonly reported to be involved in genetic responses to stress or pathogens. Thelevels of induction relative to other cellular proteins were particularly striking, anobservation which underlines the plant's heroic systemic response to a vasculardisease such as Verticillium wilt.Supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.32

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