A Light-Independent Allele of Phytochrome B Faithfully Recapitulates Photomorphogenic Transcriptional Networks

作     者：Wei Hu Yi-Shin Su J. Clark Lagarias 

作者机构：Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology College of Biological Sciences University of California Davis CA 95616 USA Present address: Carnegie Institution of Washington-Department of Plant Biology Stanford CA 94305 USA 

出 版 物：《Molecular Plant》 (分子植物（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第2卷第1期

页      面：166-182页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071007[理学-遗传学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0902[农学-园艺学] 

基　　金：美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）项目 

主　　题：light signaling signal transduction transcriptome analysis photomorphogenesis Arabidopsis phytochrome. 

摘      要：Dominant gain-of-function alleles of Arabidopsis phytochrome B were recently shown to confer lightindependent, constitutive photomorphogenic （cop） phenotypes to transgenic plants （Su and Lagarias, 2007）. In the present study, comparative transcription profiling experiments were performed to assess whether the pattern of gene expression regulated by these alleles accurately reflects the process of photomorphogenesis in wild-type Arabidopsis. Whole- genome transcription profiles of dark-grown phyAphyB seedlings expressing the Y^276H mutant of phyB （YHB） revealed that YHB reprograms about 13% of the Arabidopsis transcriptome in a light-independent manner. The YHB-regulated transcriptome proved qualitatively similar to but quantitatively greater than those of wild-type seedlings grown under 15 or 50 μmol m^-2 m^-1 continuous red light （Rc）. Among the 2977 genes statistically significant two-fold （SSTF） regulated by YHB in the absence of light include those encoding components of the photosynthetic apparatus, tetrapyrrole/pigment biosynthetic pathways, and early light-responsive signaling factors. Approximately 80% of genes SSTF regulated by Rc were also YHB-regulated. Expression of a notable subset of 346 YHB-regulated genes proved to be strongly attenuated by Rc, indicating compensating regulation by phyC-E and/or other Rc-dependent processes. Since the majority of these 346 genes are regulated by the circadian clock, these results suggest that phyA- and phyB-independent light signaling pathway（s） strongly influence clock output. Together with the unique plastid morphology of dark-grown YHB seedlings, these analyses indicate that the YHB mutant induces constitutive photomorphogenesis via faithful reconstruction of phyB signaling pathways in a light-independent fashion.