Project description:Gene expression profiles of WT, jaz9 and jaz10 mutant treated with mock or with 3, 6, or 8 was performed using the custom microarray Agilent-034592 The experiments were designed to explore the effect of antagonist of jasmonate perception in WT and two mutants
Project description:The phytohormone 7-iso-(+)-jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-Ile) mediates plant defense responses against herbivore and pathogen attack, and thus increases plant resistance against foreign invaders. However, JA-Ile also causes growth inhibition; and therefore JA-Ile is not a practical chemical regulator of plant defense responses. Here, we describe the rational design and synthesis of a small molecule agonist that can upregulate defense-related gene expression and promote pathogen resistance at concentrations that do not cause growth inhibition in Arabidopsis. By stabilizing interactions between COI1 and JAZ9 and JAZ10 but no other JAZ isoforms, the agonist leads to formation of JA-Ile co-receptors that selectively activate the JAZ9-EIN3/EIL1-ORA59 signaling pathway. The design of a JA-Ile agonist with high selectivity for specific protein subtypes may help promote the development of chemical regulators that do not cause a tradeoff between growth and defense.
Project description:The phytohormone (+)-7-iso-jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-Ile) is a major regulator of developmental and stress responses in plants. The perception of JA-Ile involves the formation of a ternary complex with the F-box protein COI1 and a member of the JAZ family of co-repressors, which leads to JAZ degradation. Coronatine (COR) is a bacterial phytotoxin that functionally mimics JA-Ile and interacts with the co-receptor COI1-JAZ complex with higher affinity than JA-Ile. Based on the crystal structure of the co-receptor, we designed ligand derivatives that spatially impede the interaction of the co-receptor proteins and, therefore, should act as competitive antagonists of COR or JA-Ile. One derivative, Coronatine O-methyloxime (COR-MO), shows a strong activity preventing COI-JAZ interaction and the subsequent JAZ degradation. COR-MO efficiently reverts the effects of JA-Ile or COR treatments on JA-mediated responses, such as anthocyanin accumulation, root-growth inhibition and gene expression in Arabidopsis plants. Moreover, it potentiates plant resistance preventing the effect of bacterially produced COR during Pseudomonas syringae infections in different plant species. In addition to the utility of COR-MO for Plant Biology research, our results underscore its biotechnological and agronomical potential for a safer and sustainable agriculture.
Project description:The phytohormone (+)-7-iso-jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-Ile) is a major regulator of developmental and stress responses in plants. The perception of JA-Ile involves the formation of a ternary complex with the F-box protein COI1 and a member of the JAZ family of co-repressors, which leads to JAZ degradation. Coronatine (COR) is a bacterial phytotoxin that functionally mimics JA-Ile and interacts with the co-receptor COI1-JAZ complex with higher affinity than JA-Ile. Based on the crystal structure of the co-receptor, we designed ligand derivatives that spatially impede the interaction of the co-receptor proteins and, therefore, should act as competitive antagonists of COR or JA-Ile. One derivative, Coronatine O-methyloxime (COR-MO), shows a strong activity preventing COI-JAZ interaction and the subsequent JAZ degradation. COR-MO efficiently reverts the effects of JA-Ile or COR treatments on JA-mediated responses, such as anthocyanin accumulation, root-growth inhibition and gene expression in Arabidopsis plants. Moreover, it potentiates plant resistance preventing the effect of bacterially produced COR during Pseudomonas syringae infections in different plant species. In addition to the utility of COR-MO for Plant Biology research, our results underscore its biotechnological and agronomical potential for a safer and sustainable agriculture. Two-condition experiment, Col-0 vs Col-0 plants treated 2h with Coronatine 0-methyloxime (COR-MO) and Col-0 plants treated 2h with Coronatine vs Col-0 plants treated 2h with Coronatine plus COR-MO. Biological replicates: 4 control and 4 treated replicates
Project description:We report the development of subtype selective ligands into plant hormone jasmonate co-receptor COI1-JAZ. Plant hormone jasmonoyl isoleucine and the structural mimic natural product coronatine has non-selective affinity with 13 species of COI1-JAZ co-receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana to cause bath of bacterial defense and growth inhibition. Some subtype selective ligands were developed by our chemical screening and activated the part of whole jasmonate signaling. To examine the mode-of-action of the subtype selective ligand, gene expression profiles of WT and jaz9 mutant treated with mock or with coronatine (2) and subtype selective ligands (2e and 12) was performed using the RNA-seq. The subtype selective ligand induced partial activation of jasmonate signaling to cause defense responses against bacterial pathogen without growth inhibition.
Project description:JAZ genes are negative regulators of jasmonate responses with a dual function as repressors of transcription factors and co-receptors, together with COI1, of the hormone jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile). This family has been mainly studied in angiosperms, where high gene redundancy hinders the characterization of a complete depletion of JAZ function. Moreover, the recent discovery that JA-Ile is not the sole COI1/JAZ ligand in land plants, as dn-OPDA is the bioactive ligand in Marchantia polymorpha, underscores the importance of studying JAZ co-receptors in bryophytes. Here we exploited the low gene redundancy of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha to characterize the function of the single MpJAZ in this early-divergent plant lineage. We demonstrate that MpJAZ is the ortholog of AtJAZ and acts as a repressor of dinor-OPDA responses in Marchantia. Mpjaz mutants show a dwarf phenotype and severe developmental defects related to growth inhibition, consistent with a constitutive activation of the dinor-OPDA pathway and the overaccumulation of both dinor-OPDA and its precursor OPDA. The expression of AtJAZ3 in Mpjaz complements MpJAZ repressor function, indicating that JAZ function is conserved across land plants. However, AtJAZ3 is unable to form co-receptor complexes with MpCOI1 and dn-OPDA, which evidences that the Jas domain, and not only COI1, determines ligand specificity.
Project description:JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins are key regulators in the JA signaling pathway and function to repress the expression of JA-responsive genes. We found that JAZ proteins directly interact with several chromatin-associated Polycomb proteins to mediate repressive chromatin modifications at part of JA-responsive genes and thus their transcriptional repression in Arabidopsis.
Project description:JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins are key regulators in the JA signaling pathway and function to repress the expression of JA-responsive genes. We found that JAZ proteins directly interact with several chromatin-associated Polycomb proteins to mediate repressive chromatin modifications at part of JA-responsive genes and thus their transcriptional repression in Arabidopsis.
Project description:Suppression mechanism employed by transcriptional repressors is commonly existed in diverse phytohormone signaling. In Arabidopsis thaliana, JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins act as transcriptional repressors and involve in different aspects of the JA signaling network, through recruiting general co-repressors TOPLESS (TPL) and TPL-related proteins (TPRs). To accomplish overlapping but also finely separated functions of JAZ proteins, specificadaptor proteins are employed in JA signaling. Novel Interactor of JAZ (NINJA) is an adaptor protein mediates gene repression in JA-dependent root growth inhibition and pathogen defense. However, the adaptor protein(s) modulate other JA responsive biological processes is still a mystery. In this study, we demonstrated that a previously uncharacterized protein, ECAP(EAR-Containing Adaptor Protein) that connects JAZ6/8 and TPR to repress JA-mediated anthocyanin accumulation at low JA level. We also found ECAP-mediated transcriptional repression might play a general role in multiple aspects of plant development and responses to environments.