Brassinosteroid, gibberellin and phytochrome impinge on a common transcription module in Arabidopsis
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- 22 July 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 14 (8), 810-817
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb2546
Abstract
Brassinosteroid and gibberellin promote many similar developmental responses in plants; however, their relationship remains unclear. Here we show that BR and GA act interdependently through a direct interaction between the BR-activated BZR1 and GA-inactivated DELLA transcription regulators. GA promotion of cell elongation required BR signalling, whereas BR or active BZR1 suppressed the GA-deficient dwarf phenotype. DELLAs directly interacted with BZR1 and inhibited BZR1–DNA binding both in vitro and in vivo. Genome-wide analysis defined a BZR1-dependent GA-regulated transcriptome, which is enriched with light-regulated genes and genes involved in cell wall synthesis and photosynthesis/chloroplast function. GA promotion of hypocotyl elongation requires both BZR1 and the phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs), as well as their common downstream targets encoding the PRE-family helix–loop–helix factors. The results demonstrate that GA releases DELLA-mediated inhibition of BZR1, and that the DELLA–BZR1–PIF4 interaction defines a core transcription module that mediates coordinated growth regulation by GA, BR and light signals.Keywords
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