A microProtein repressor complex in the shoot meristem controls the transition to flowering.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_4354D1A171EF
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
A microProtein repressor complex in the shoot meristem controls the transition to flowering.
Journal
Plant physiology
Author(s)
Rodrigues V.L., Dolde U., Sun B., Blaakmeer A., Straub D., Eguen T., Botterweg-Paredes E., Hong S., Graeff M., Li M.W., Gendron J.M., Wenkel S.
ISSN
1532-2548 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0032-0889
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/09/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
187
Number
1
Pages
187-202
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
MicroProteins are potent post-translational regulators. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the miP1a/b microProteins delay floral transition by forming a complex with CONSTANS (CO) and the co-repressor protein TOPLESS. To better understand the function of the miP1a microProtein in floral repression, we performed a genetic suppressor screen to identify suppressors of miP1a (sum) function. One mutant, sum1, exhibited strong suppression of the miP1a-induced late-flowering phenotype. Mapping of sum1 identified another allele of the gene encoding the histone H3K4 demethylase JUMONJI14 (JMJ14), which is required for miP1a function. Plants carrying mutations in JMJ14 exhibit an early flowering phenotype that is largely dependent on CO activity, supporting an additional role for CO in the repressive complex. We further investigated whether miP1a function involves chromatin modification, performed whole-genome methylome sequencing studies with plants ectopically expressing miP1a, and identified differentially methylated regions (DMRs). Among these DMRs is the promoter of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), the prime target of miP1a that is ectopically methylated in a JMJ14-dependent manner. Moreover, when aberrantly expressed at the shoot apex, CO induces early flowering, but only when JMJ14 is mutated. Detailed analysis of the genetic interaction among CO, JMJ14, miP1a/b, and TPL revealed a potential role for CO as a repressor of flowering in the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Altogether, our results suggest that a repressor complex operates in the SAM, likely to maintain it in an undifferentiated state until leaf-derived florigen signals induce SAM conversion into a floral meristem.
Keywords
Arabidopsis/genetics, Arabidopsis/metabolism, Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics, Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism, Florigen/metabolism, Flowers/genetics, Flowers/growth & development, Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases/genetics, Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases/metabolism, Meristem/genetics, Meristem/growth & development
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Create date
31/05/2021 9:46
Last modification date
19/02/2024 10:38
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