Increased <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> cell culture resistance to sodium fluoride by constitutive expression of HSP101

Abstract

Fluorine is one of the toxic elemental components of industrial emissions. Increased fluoride content in the atmosphere, soil or water negatively affects the growth and development of plants, as well as reducing resistance to various environmental stressors. An increase in ambient temperature causes a protective response in all organisms taking the form heat shock protein synthesis. The specific protein HSP101, which performs the function of protecting plant cells from heat damage, is also responsible for inducible thermotolerance, representing the ability of organisms to withstand the effects of severe heat shock that were previously exposed to mild heat stress, as a result of which heat shock proteins are induced. Heat shock proteins are involved in protecting not only against elevated temperatures, but also various other stress factors. In this work, the effect of sodium fluoride treatment on the viability of Arabidopsis thaliana cell culture, expression and synthesis of heat shock proteins was studied along with the role of heat shock protein HSP101 in providing resistance to fluoride. Sodium fluoride has been shown to significantly reduce the viability of A. thaliana cells by suppressing the activation of HSP101 gene expression with an increase in temperature. At the same time, the A. thaliana line, which has constitutive expression of the HSP101 gene, proved to be more resistant to the toxic effects of sodium fluoride.