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Expression of a truncated ATHB17 protein in maize increases ear weight at silking.

ABSTRACT: ATHB17 (AT2G01430) is an Arabidopsis gene encoding a member of the ?-subclass of the homeodomain leucine zipper class II (HD-Zip II) family of transcription factors. The ATHB17 monomer contains four domains common to all class II HD-Zip proteins: a putative repression domain adjacent to a homeodomain, leucine zipper, and carboxy terminal domain. However, it also possesses a unique N-terminus not present in other members of the family. In this study we demonstrate that the unique 73 amino acid N-terminus is involved in regulation of cellular localization of ATHB17. The ATHB17 protein is shown to function as a transcriptional repressor and an EAR-like motif is identified within the putative repression domain of ATHB17. Transformation of maize with an ATHB17 expression construct leads to the expression of ATHB17?113, a truncated protein lacking the first 113 amino acids which encodes a significant portion of the repression domain. Because ATHB17?113 lacks the repression domain, the protein cannot directly affect the transcription of its target genes. ATHB17?113 can homodimerize, form heterodimers with maize endogenous HD-Zip II proteins, and bind to target DNA sequences; thus, ATHB17?113 may interfere with HD-Zip II mediated transcriptional activity via a dominant negative mechanism. We provide evidence that maize HD-Zip II proteins function as transcriptional repressors and that ATHB17?113 relieves this HD-Zip II mediated transcriptional repression activity. Expression of ATHB17?113 in maize leads to increased ear size at silking and, therefore, may enhance sink potential. We hypothesize that this phenotype could be a result of modulation of endogenous HD-Zip II pathways in maize.

SUBMITTER: Rice EA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3988052 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Expression of a truncated ATHB17 protein in maize increases ear weight at silking.

Rice Elena A EA Khandelwal Abha A Creelman Robert A RA Griffith Cara C Ahrens Jeffrey E JE Taylor J Philip JP Murphy Lesley R LR Manjunath Siva S Thompson Rebecca L RL Lingard Matthew J MJ Back Stephanie L SL Larue Huachun H Brayton Bonnie R BR Burek Amanda J AJ Tiwari Shiv S Adam Luc L Morrell James A JA Caldo Rico A RA Huai Qing Q Kouadio Jean-Louis K JL Kuehn Rosemarie R Sant Anagha M AM Wingbermuehle William J WJ Sala Rodrigo R Foster Matt M Kinser Josh D JD Mohanty Radha R Jiang Dongming D Ziegler Todd E TE Huang Mingya G MG Kuriakose Saritha V SV Skottke Kyle K Repetti Peter P PP Reuber T Lynne TL Ruff Thomas G TG Petracek Marie E ME Loida Paul J PJ

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ATHB17 (AT2G01430) is an Arabidopsis gene encoding a member of the α-subclass of the homeodomain leucine zipper class II (HD-Zip II) family of transcription factors. The ATHB17 monomer contains four domains common to all class II HD-Zip proteins: a putative repression domain adjacent to a homeodomain, leucine zipper, and carboxy terminal domain. However, it also possesses a unique N-terminus not present in other members of the family. In this study we demonstrate that the unique 73 amino acid N- ...[more]

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