Constitutive auxin response in Physcomitrella reveals complex interactions between Aux/IAA and ARF proteins

Autor: Meirav Lavy, Michael J Prigge, Sibo Tao, Stephanie Shain, April Kuo, Kerstin Kirchsteiger, Mark Estelle
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: eLife, Vol 5 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.13325
Popis: The coordinated action of the auxin-sensitive Aux/IAA transcriptional repressors and ARF transcription factors produces complex gene-regulatory networks in plants. Despite their importance, our knowledge of these two protein families is largely based on analysis of stabilized forms of the Aux/IAAs, and studies of a subgroup of ARFs that function as transcriptional activators. To understand how auxin regulates gene expression we generated a Physcomitrella patens line that completely lacks Aux/IAAs. Loss of the repressors causes massive changes in transcription with misregulation of over a third of the annotated genes. Further, we find that the aux/iaa mutant is blind to auxin indicating that auxin regulation of transcription occurs exclusively through Aux/IAA function. We used the aux/iaa mutant as a simplified platform for studies of ARF function and demonstrate that repressing ARFs regulate auxin-induced genes and fine-tune their expression. Further the repressing ARFs coordinate gene induction jointly with activating ARFs and the Aux/IAAs.
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