Project description:Plant vascular tissues are essential for the existence of land plants. Many studies have revealed the process underlying the development of vascular tissues. However, the initiation of vascular development is still a mystery. LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW), which encodes a bHLH transcription factor, is expressed in the initial step of vascular development in roots. LHW and TMO5 LIKE1 (T5L1) interact each other and function as a heterodimer. Here, we identified specific genes downstream of LHW-T5L1 with transformed suspension culture cells in microarray experiments.
Project description:The final size and arrangement of the plant vasculature requires precise adjustment of cell proliferation. In particular, radial growth of vascular bundles is to a large extent controlled by a bHLH transcription factor heterodimer formed by TARGET OF MONOPTEROS5 (TMO5) and LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW). Excess activity of this TMO5/LHW dimer causes excessive proliferation of vascular cell divisions and thus suggests the existence of a molecular mechanism that restricts its activity in space and time. Here we show that this overproliferation phenotype is similar to acaulis5 (acl5) mutants, suggesting a role for ACL5 in controlling TMO5/LHW activity. We further identify the clade of SAC51-LIKE (SACL) bHLH transcription factors whose translation is regulated by ACL5, as inhibitors of TMO5/LHW activity. We show that SACL proteins interact with LHW impairing activation of downstream targets and alleviating the overproliferation caused by TMO5/LHW misexpression. Given that transcription of SACL genes is induced by TMO5/LHW and its upstream trigger auxin, we propose that SACL proteins represent a feedback mechanism that limits activity of this pathway and controls periclinal cell divisions.
Project description:Over time, plants have evolved flexible self-organizing patterning mechanisms to adapt tissue functionality to continuous organ growth. A clear example of this process is the multicellular organization of vascular cells into narrow and elongated conductive channels in foliar organs of Arabidopsis thaliana such as cotyledons. The establishment of a closed vascular network is achieved through the coordinated specification of newly recruited procambial cells by means of their proliferation and elongation. An important and yet poorly understood component of this process is secondary vein branching; a mechanism employed to extend vascular tissues throughout cotyledon surface. Here we revise the directionality of the formation of vascular tissues in the embryonic cotyledon of Arabidopsis and show that distal veins arise from the bifurcation of cell files contained in the midvein. Instead, proximal veins emerge from the division of provascular cells, a process partially constrained by RECEPTOR LIKE PROTEIN KINASE 2 (RPK2). Utilizing genetic, transcriptomic and live-cell imaging analyses, we show that RPK2 function is antagonized by COTYLEDON VASCULAR PATTERN 2 and its homologous CVP2 LIKE 1. Whilst RPK2 expression at the cotyledon margin prevents the branching of secondary proximal veins, the divergence of the midvein into distal veins appears to be auxin-dependent and follows a distinct regulatory mechanism. Our work supports a model in which RPK2 modulates vascular complexity independently of cell-to-cell auxin-propagation to adapt the spatial configuration of vascular tissues to organ growth.
Project description:Plant vascular tissues are essential for the existence of land plants. Many studies have revealed the process underlying the development of vascular tissues. However, the initiation of vascular development is still a mystery. LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW), which encodes a bHLH transcription factor, is expressed in the initial step of vascular development in roots. LHW and TMO5 LIKE1 (T5L1) interact each other and function as a heterodimer. Here, we identified specific genes downstream of LHW-T5L1 with transformed suspension culture cells in microarray experiments. To identify genes downstream of LHW-T5L1, we collected three samples at 0h and 12h with or without estrogen with triplicates.
Project description:The final size and arrangement of the plant vasculature requires precise adjustment of cell proliferation. In particular, radial growth of vascular bundles is to a large extent controlled by a bHLH transcription factor heterodimer formed by TARGET OF MONOPTEROS5 (TMO5) and LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW). Excess activity of this TMO5/LHW dimer causes excessive proliferation of vascular cell divisions and thus suggests the existence of a molecular mechanism that restricts its activity in space and time. Here we show that this overproliferation phenotype is similar to acaulis5 (acl5) mutants, suggesting a role for ACL5 in controlling TMO5/LHW activity. We further identify the clade of SAC51-LIKE (SACL) bHLH transcription factors whose translation is regulated by ACL5, as inhibitors of TMO5/LHW activity. We show that SACL proteins interact with LHW impairing activation of downstream targets and alleviating the overproliferation caused by TMO5/LHW misexpression. Given that transcription of SACL genes is induced by TMO5/LHW and its upstream trigger auxin, we propose that SACL proteins represent a feedback mechanism that limits activity of this pathway and controls periclinal cell divisions. Three biological replicates were generated per sample. The goal of this experiment is to compare different genotypes that suppress the acl5 mutant as Columbia-0, acl5 + pHS::SACL3 and acl5 ajax2-31, against the acl5 mutant. Every pair of samples that were compared in the same array, were also growth in the same plate. The acl5 + pHS::SACL3 seedlings (and the acl5 ones against they are went compared) were treated to 37C degrees heat shock and then collected at the different times (30 and 210 min) after heat shock. In each comparison 1 or 2 or the replcates were reversed-labeled.
Project description:In this study we show that the Arabidopsis transcription factor MYB46, previously described to regulate secondary cell wall biosynthesis in the vascular tissue of the stem, is pivotal for mediating disease susceptibility to the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea. We identified MYB46 by its ability to bind to a new cis element located in the 5´ promoter region of the pathogen-induced Ep5C gene which encodes a type III cell wall-bound peroxidase. We present genetic and molecular evidence indicating that MYB46 modulates the magnitude of Ep5C gene induction following pathogenic insults. Moreover, we demonstrate that different myb46 knock-down mutant plants exhibit increased disease resistance to B. cinerea, a phenotype that is accompanied by selective transcriptional reprogramming of a set of genes encoding cell wall proteins and enzymes, of which extracellular type III peroxidases are conspicuous. In essence our results substantiates that defense-related signaling pathways and cell wall integrity are interconnected, and MYB46 likely functions as a disease susceptibility modulator to B. cinerea through the integration of cell wall remodeling and downstream activation of secondary lines of defense.
Project description:DNA methylation in wild type bolting plants, wild type seedlings, and ddm1 seedlings. The purpose of the McrBC methylation microarray assay is to determine which regions of a genome are methylated versus those that are unmethylated in a single Arabidopsis thanliana genotype. McrBC is a methylation-sensitive enzyme that restricts DNA only at purine-Cmethyl half sites when separated between 50bp and 3kb. A designated amount of DNA from a particular genotype is sheared to a size range of 1kb-10kb using nebulization. We restrict half of the nebulized DNA with McrBC, and the methylated fraction is then removed from the unmethylated fraction through gel purification of DNA fragments greater than 1kb.* The remaining nebulized DNA is subjected to the same gel purification scheme, but with no McrBC treatment. In a single hybridization, the untreated sample is labeled with Cy5 and the McrBC-treated sample with Cy3. Thus, after labeling and microarray hybridization, the ratio of normalized Cy5 to normalized Cy3 represents the relative methylation at the sequence represented by the spot on the microarray. Dye swap analysis is carried out to take account of experimental variation by repeating the hybridization with identical samples labeled with Cy3 and Cy5, respectively. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE1329: DNA methylation in wild-type bolting Arabidopsis thaliana plants GSE1330: DNA methylation in ddm1 seedling Arabidopsis thaliana plants GSE1331: VC133+137, DNA methylation in ddm1 seedling Arabidopsis thaliana plants GSE1332: VC134+136, DNA methylation in wild-type seedling Arabidopsis thaliana plants Refer to individual Series