Project description:Transcription factors are key components of light signalling as they amplify the signal, which results in massive changes in genome-wide expression during photomorphogenesis. Three bZIP transcription factors (TFs), namely GBF1, HY5, and HYH, form heterodimers with each other and regulate photomorphogenesis in an interdependent manner. GBF1 acts as both a positive and negative regulator of photomorphogenesis, whereas HY5 and HYH mainly act as positive regulators of photomorphogenesis. In this study, the impact of heterodimerization of GBF1 with HY5 and HYH was analyzed for genome-wide binding of GBF1 through ChIP-chip in GBF1. We identified more than 2000 direct targets of GBF1 in the presence of HY5 and HYH. However, in the absence of HY5, very few binding sites were found, and in the absence of functional HYH protein, the number of GBF1 direct targets reduced to only half compared to when functional HYH was present.
Project description:Transcription factors are key components of light signalling as they amplify the signal, which results in massive changes in genome-wide expression during photomorphogenesis. Three bZIP transcription factors (TFs), namely GBF1, HY5, and HYH, form heterodimers with each other and regulate photomorphogenesis in an interdependent manner. GBF1 acts as both a positive and negative regulator of photomorphogenesis, whereas HY5 and HYH mainly act as positive regulators of photomorphogenesis. In this study, the impact of heterodimerization of GBF1 with HY5 and HYH was analyzed for genome-wide binding of GBF1 through ChIP-chip in GBF1. We identified more than 2000 direct targets of GBF1 in the presence of HY5 and HYH. However, in the absence of HY5, very few binding sites were found, and in the absence of functional HYH protein, the number of GBF1 direct targets reduced to only half compared to when functional HYH was present. ChIPed DNA with GBF1 antibody from GBF1OE, hy5 GBF1OE, and hyh GBF1OE lines vs. ChIPed DNA with GBF1 antibody from wild-type.
Project description:Three bZIP transcription factors (TFs), namely GBF1, HY5, and HYH, form heterodimers with each other and regulate photomorphogenesis in an interdependent manner. GBF1 acts as both a positive and negative regulator of photomorphogenesis, whereas HY5 and HYH mainly act as positive regulators of photomorphogenesis. To study the effect of HY5 and HYH on GBF1-mediated genome-wide expression, transcript profiling was performed in the gbf1 single mutant and gbf1hy5 and gbf1hyh double mutants. Our study revealed that GBF1 mainly acts antagonistic to HY5 and HYH for genome-wide expression.
Project description:Three bZIP transcription factors (TFs), namely GBF1, HY5, and HYH, form heterodimers with each other and regulate photomorphogenesis in an interdependent manner. GBF1 acts as both a positive and negative regulator of photomorphogenesis, whereas HY5 and HYH mainly act as positive regulators of photomorphogenesis. To study the effect of HY5 and HYH on GBF1-mediated genome-wide expression, transcript profiling was performed in the gbf1 single mutant and gbf1hy5 and gbf1hyh double mutants. Our study revealed that GBF1 mainly acts antagonistic to HY5 and HYH for genome-wide expression. Four-day-old constant white-light grown Arabidipsis seedlings of wild-type (Col-0), gbf1 mutant, gbf1 hy5 double mutant and gbf1 hyh double mutant were harvested for total RNA extraction and Affymetrix microarray hybridisation. Two biological replicates of each sample were used for hybridisation and data analysis. Data were analysed using GeneSpring software by utilising the RMA algorithm. To draw the conclusions from this study, probe level intensity of gbf1, gbf1 hy5, and gbf1 hyh was normalised against the probe level intensity of wild-type, and also the probe level intensity of gbf1 hy5 and gbf1 hyh double mutants was normalised against the probe level intensity of the gbf1 single mutant.
Project description:We show that longer-term inhibition of shade avoidance in Arabidopsis is sustained by ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 (HY5) and HY5 HOMOLOG (HYH) which, together, regulate transcriptional reprogramming of genes involved in hormone signalling and cell wall modification.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings comprising hy5 single mutant , hyh single mutant, hy5 hyh double mutant and wild-type plants were germinated in the dark on agar medium on usual Murashig and Skoog medium (pH 5.8) without sucrose. After 3 days of germination, etiolated seedlings were transfered to light conditions in liquid media similar to previous one but without agar . After 5 hours, auxin (10 micromolar IAA) was added to all treated samples except to controls (Mock treatment). all samples were harvested after one-hour treatment and frozen for further RNA extraction. Aim of the project was to detect impact of exogenous auxin treatment on each genotype