Analise funcional do regulador de transcrição do tipo bZIP AtbZIP9 de Arabidopsis thaliana atraves da superexpressão de seus genes alvos / Fucntional characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana bZIP transcription factor AtbZIP9 by overexpression of its target genes
AUTOR(ES)
Amanda Bortolini Silveira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
Transcriptional regulatory factors (TFs) play an important role in controlling growth and development of ali organisms. bZIPs TFs have been described in ali eukaryotes and are characterized by a basic aminoacid rich DNA binding domain and a leucine zipper, responsible for dimerization. bZIPs have been reported to act in several different plantspecific processes such as organ development, cell elongation, defense mechanism, hormones and sucrose signalization, light response, control of nitrogen/carbon balance, osmotic control and flowering. We showed that Arabidopsis thaliana and Orysa sativa genomes encode a complete and non-redundant set of 76 and 113 bZIP transcription factors, respectively, which were divided into 11 unique groups of homologous genes. More detailed phylogenetic analysis led to the identification of 33 Possible Groups of Monocot and Eudicot Orthologous Genes (PoGO), which allows rationalizing functional studies in angiosperms. Group C, which includes genes homologous to the maize Opaque-2 locus, is formed by three PoGOs, suggesting that this group represents three ancestral functions among angiosperms. In Arabidopsis these three possible ancestral functions may be represented by the bZIP Qpaque-2. homologous genes (Bzo2h), Bzo2h3/AtbZIP63 (PoGO C1), Bzo2h1/AtbZIP10 and Bzo2h4/AtbZIP25 (PoGO C2) and Bzo2h2/AtbZIP9 (PoGO C3). To get insight into the evolution pattern and function of Group C members, we have iniciated the functional characterization of the Bzo2h genes concentrating initially on AtbZIP9, a unique gene that represents an ancestral function and for which no functional informational is available. We showed that AtbZIP9 expression is restricted to phloem cells and regulated by glucose, abscisic acid and cytokinin, suggesting that this gene is an element of the signalization pathways of these metabolic and hormonal signals in the phloem. Reverse genetic approaches such as RNAi, knockout and superexpression failed to reveal the biological function of AtbZIP9 in Arabidopsis life cycle and suggested that post-transcriptional regulation and/or functional redundancy may act on AtbZIP9. In order to improve our Rnowledge on AtbZIP9 function, Arabidopsis transgenic lines expressing constitutive transcriptional activator versions of AtbZIP9 were obtained. Since such modified versions of AtbZIP9 are theoretically able to promote the superexpression of AtbZIP9 target genes, this strategy should be independent of functional redundancy. When compared to wild type plants, primary transformants for constitutive transcriptional activator versions of AtbZIP9 showed alterations of leaf morphology, as well as metabolic and physiologic modifications, such as phenolic compound accumulation in leaves, cell death and senescence symptoms. Analyses of this transformants also suggest that AtbZIP9 is possibly involved in the control of leaf and root vascular system development. We suspect that the alteration of leaf morphology and physiology observed in primary transformants possibly reflects consequences of changes in phloem transport functional properties, due to defects in vascular cylinder cell differentiation and organization.
ASSUNTO(S)
basic-leucine zipper transcription factor dominio de ativação da transcrição vp16 fatores de transcrição bzip arabidopsis thaliana cilindro vascular vascular cylinder floema vp16 transcriptional activation domain phloem
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