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. 2018 Nov 20;9:1697. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01697

Table 1.

Functions of DSP-type MAPK phosphatases in plants.

Regulatory mechanism Interacting partners Phosphatase substrates Predominant subcellular localization Biological roles References
DsPTP1 Transcriptional induction by osmotic stress;
Catalytic activation by CaM binding in vitro
MPK4 (in vitro);
CaM (in vitro)
pNPP, pMBP, MPK4 N.A. Osmotic stress (−);
ABA responses (+)
Gupta et al., 1998
Yoo et al., 2004
Liu et al., 2015b
MKP2 Catalytic activation by MPK3 and MPK6 in vitro MPK3 (in vitro, in vivo);
MPK6 (in vitro,
In vivo)
OMFP, MPK3, MPK6 Nucleus
(Arabidopsis transgenic plants);
Nucleus and cytoplasm (Transient expression in tobacco cells)
Oxidative stress (+);
Pathogen resistance
Lee and Ellis, 2007
Lumbreras et al., 2010
IBR5 Alternative splicing MPK12 (in vitro, in vivo) OMFP, MPK12 Nucleus
(Arabidopsis transgenic plants driven by CaMV 35S promoter);
Nucleus and cytoplasm (Arabidopsis transgenic plants driven by native promoter)
Auxin responses (+);
ABA responses (+)
Resistance protein (CHS3, SNC1, RPS4, RPM1)
Monroe-Augustus et al., 2003
Strader et al., 2008a
Strader et al., 2008b
Lee et al., 2009
Strader and Bartel, 2009
Jayaweera et al., 2014
Johnson et al., 2015
Liu et al., 2015a
OsIBR5 Transcriptional induction by PEG6000, ABA and H2O2 SIPK (in vitro);
WIPK (in vitro);
NTF3 (in vitro);
MEK1 (in vitro)
N.A. Cytoplasm and nucleus
(Transient expression in rice protoplasts)
Drought/osmotic stress (−) Li et al., 2012
PHS1 Transcriptional induction by ABA MPK12 (in vitro)
MPK18 (in vitro, in vivo)
OMFP, MPK18 Cytoplasm
(Arabidopsis transgenic plants)
Cortical microtubule organization (+);
ABA responses (−);
Flowering (+)
Naoi and Hashimoto, 2004
Quettier et al., 2006
Walia et al., 2009
Pytela et al., 2010;
Fujita et al., 2013;
Tang et al., 2016
MKP1 Catalytic activation by phosphorylation;
Catalytic activation by CaM binding;
Increased protein stability by phosphorylation
MPK3 (in vitro, in vivo);
MPK4 (in vitro)
MPK6 (in vitro, in vivo)
CaM (in vitro)
OMFP,
MPK6
Cytoplasm
(Arabidopsis transgenic plants)
Genotoxic resistance (+);
Pathogen resistance (−);
Salt resistance (−);
Stomata development (+)
Ulm et al., 2001;
Ulm et al., 2002;
Lee et al., 2008;
Bartels et al., 2009;
Anderson et al., 2011;
Park et al., 2011;
González Besteiro and Ulm, 2013;
Anderson et al., 2014;
Jiang et al., 2017b;
Tamnanloo et al., 2018
NtMKP1 Transcriptional induction by wounding and TMV-induced cell death;
Catalytic activation by SIPK
SIPK (in vitro);
CaM (in vitro)
OMFP,
SIPK
N.A. Wounding (−);
Cell death (−);
Pathogen resistance (−)
Yamakawa et al., 2004;
Katou et al., 2005;
Oka et al., 2013
TMKP1 Transcriptional regulation by salt and osmotic stress;
Catalytic activation by 14-3-3 protein;
Catalytic activation by TMKP3
CaM (in vitro);
TMPK3 (in vivo);
TMPK6 (in vivo)
OMFP Nucleus
(Transient expression in tobacco cells)
Salt stress (+) Zaïdi et al., 2010;
Ghorbel et al., 2015;
Zaidi et al., 2016;
Ghorbel et al., 2017
OsMKP1 Transcriptional induction by wounding CaM (in vitro) N.A. N.A. Wounding (−) Katou et al., 2007

NA, not available; −, negative regulator; +, positive regulator; OMFP, 3-O-methylfluorescein; pMBP, phosphorylated myelin basic protein; pNPP, para-nitrophenyl phosphate; TMV, tobacco mosaic virus.