Arabidopsis REM16 acts as a B3 domain transcription factor to promote flowering time via directly binding to the promoters of SOC1 and FT

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Actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) is a key modulator for dynamic organization of actin cytoskeleton. Interestingly, it was found that the ADF1 gene silencing delays flowering, but its mechanism remains unclear. In this study, ADF1 was used as a bait to screen its interacting proteins by the yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system. One of them, the REM16 transcription factor was identified. As one of the AP2/B3-like transcriptional factor family members, the REM16 contains two B3 domains and its transcript levels kept increasing during the floral transition stage. Overexpression of REM16 accelerates flowering while silencing of REM16 delays flowering. Gene expression analysis indicated that the key flowering activation genes such as CONSTANS (CO), FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), LEAFY (LFY) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS (SOC1) were upregulated in the REM16 overexpression lines, while the transcription of the flowering suppression gene FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) was decreased. In contrast, the REM16 gene silencing lines contained lower transcript levels of the CO, FT, LFY and SOC1 but higher transcript levels of the FLC compared with the wild-type plants. It was proved that REM16 could directly bind to the promoter regions of SOC1 and FT by in vitro and in vivo assays. Genetic analysis supported that REM16 acts upstream of SOC1 and FT in flowering pathways. All these studies provided strong evidence demonstrating that REM16 promotes flowering by directly activating SOC1 and FT.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:103

Enthalten in:

The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 103(2020), 4 vom: 15. Aug., Seite 1386-1398

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Yanchong [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Longfei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiacai [VerfasserIn]
Rong, Yongheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yuhang [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Xiankui [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jinpeng [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Xiaomin [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Chun-Hai [VerfasserIn]

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AGL20 protein, Arabidopsis
AT3G53310 protein, Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis Proteins
B3 domain
FT protein, Arabidopsis
Flowering
Journal Article
MADS Domain Proteins
REM16
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Transcription Factors
Transcription Factors, General
Transcription factor

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Date Completed 19.03.2021

Date Revised 09.04.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/tpj.14807

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309747759