Possible role of plant nucleoredoxins in context of ‘stress memory adaptation’ for oxidative stress as revealed by in-silico and citation network analysis

Abstract

Plants being sessile constantly phase encountered stresses throughout their life both abiotic and biotic stresses. Due to these stresses, plants need to possess some memory and currently there is need to correlate ecological constraints and importance of stress memory. Stress priming deals with the plant's capacity to memorize stress onslaught and adapt to recurring stress. Oxidative stress is one such abiotic stress which disturbs the cell homeostasis and redox balance inside the cell which is thereby countered by plant's antioxidant machinery. Thus, plants need to have some kind of memory to encounter future oxidative stress. Redoxins such as glutaredoxin (GRX), thioredoxin (TRX), peroxiredoxin (PRX), nucleoredoxin (NRX) etc. are enzymatic antioxidants which plays vital role in the plant growth and development. NRXs have been lesser characterized in plants as per existing literature and scientometric analysis in present work sheds light on the importance of plant NRXs. Nucleoredoxin, possessing antioxidant properties and the ability to scavenge ROS, may play a crucial role in molecular priming mechanisms. The citation network analysis using VOSviewer server also showed the importance of current research and relation of NRXs with terms like ROS, gene expression regulation, plant gene, phytohormones and plant immunity. Later the Cicer arietinum NRX sequence was bioinformatically characterized using several tools for better understanding. Currently, there is growing evidence and research on this ‘stress memory concept’ and how different molecular players are related to it.