Lin Xiaowei, Yuan Can, Zhu Bonan, Yuan Tingting, Li Xiaorong, Yuan Shan, Cui Sujuan, Zhao Hongtao
Hebei Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Ministry of Education, Hebei Collaboration Innovation Center for Cell Signaling and Environmental Adaptation, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China.
School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Front Plant Sci. 2021 Aug 11;12:717649. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.717649. eCollection 2021.
Leaves start to develop at the peripheral zone of the shoot apical meristem. Thereafter, symmetric and flattened leaf laminae are formed. These events are simultaneously regulated by auxin, transcription factors, and epigenetic regulatory factors. However, the relationships among these factors are not well known. In this study, we conducted protein-protein interaction assays to show that our previously reported Leaf and Flower Related (LFR) physically interacted with SWI3B, a component of the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling SWI/SNF complex in Arabidopsis. The results of truncated analysis and transgenic complementation showed that the N-terminal domain (25-60 amino acids) of LFR was necessary for its interaction with SWI3B and was crucial for LFR functions in Arabidopsis leaf development. Genetic results showed that the artificial microRNA knockdown lines of () had a similar upward-curling leaf phenotype with that of loss-of-function mutants. ChIP-qPCR assay was conducted to show that LFR and SWI3B co-targeted the promoters of / (/) and (), which were misexpressed in and mutants. In addition, the association between LFR and the and loci was partly hampered by the knockdown of . These data suggest that LFR interacts with the chromatin-remodeling complex component, SWI3B, and influences the transcriptional expression of the important transcription factor, , and the auxin metabolism enzyme, , in flattened leaf lamina development.
叶片在茎尖分生组织的外周区域开始发育。此后,形成对称且扁平的叶片。这些过程同时受到生长素、转录因子和表观遗传调控因子的调节。然而,这些因子之间的关系尚不清楚。在本研究中,我们进行了蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用分析,结果表明我们之前报道的叶与花相关蛋白(LFR)与拟南芥中依赖ATP的染色质重塑SWI/SNF复合物的一个组分SWI3B发生物理相互作用。截短分析和转基因互补实验结果表明,LFR的N端结构域(25 - 60个氨基酸)对于其与SWI3B的相互作用是必需的,并且对于LFR在拟南芥叶片发育中的功能至关重要。遗传学结果表明,()的人工microRNA敲低株系具有与功能缺失突变体类似的叶片向上卷曲表型。染色质免疫沉淀定量PCR(ChIP-qPCR)分析表明,LFR和SWI3B共同靶向/(/)和()的启动子,这些基因在和突变体中表达失调。此外,的敲低部分阻碍了LFR与和基因座之间的关联。这些数据表明,LFR与染色质重塑复合物组分SWI3B相互作用,并在扁平叶片发育过程中影响重要转录因子和生长素代谢酶的转录表达。