Abstract:
:Egy1 was isolated as an ethylene-dependent gravitropism-deficient Arabidopsis mutant. Molecular studies reveal that EGY1 gene encodes a 59-kDa plastid-targeted metalloprotease. It is actively expressed in hypocotyl tissue and targets to endodermal and cortex plastid. Its protein level is up-regulated by both ethylene and light. CAB protein accumulation and chlorophyll level is severely reduced in hypocotyls and endodermal cells, respectively. Sucrose is able to restore the severely reduced starch and lipid contents as well as the deficient endodermal plastid size found in light-grown egy1 hypocotyls yet it fails to rescue the reduced plastid number and chlorophyll level in egy1 endodermal cells. The loss-of-function egy1 mutation results in a smaller size (1.9 +/- 0.3 microm in diameter) and less number (5 +/- 1) of plastids in endodermal cells, which are nearly 50% of the wild-type. EGY1 is specially required for the development of full-size endodermal plastid in seedlings that are grown on sucrose-free media under light. It plays a direct role in controlling the light-induced chlorophyll production, grana formation and plastid replication in endodermal cell. However, it plays an indirect role in regulation of endodermal plastid size. It is likely that the ethylene-dependent gravitropism-deficient phenotype of egy1 hypocotyls may result from the smaller size and less number of endodermal plastids. Gravicurvature assays performed on ethylene-insensitive mutants, etr1-1, etr2-1, ers2-1, ein4-1 and ein2-5, have clearly demonstrated the necessary role for ethylene in vigorous gravitropism of light-grown hypocotyls. The degree of ethylene-dependent gravicurvature is positively correlated with the combined state of endodermal plastid mass and number. Neither ethylene nor EGY1-regulated full-size endodermal plastid is sufficient for promotion of vigorous hypocotyl gravitropism. Presence of 4 full-size plastids per endodermal cell together with ethylene pretreatment of hypocotyls becomes sufficient to trigger vigorous gravicurvature in light-grown seedlings. A model is therefore proposed to address the role of EGY1 in regulation of endodermal plastid size and number as well as the stimulatory effect of ethylene on hypocotyl gravitropism.
journal_name
Plant Mol Bioljournal_title
Plant molecular biologyauthors
Guo D,Gao X,Li H,Zhang T,Chen G,Huang P,An L,Li Ndoi
10.1007/s11103-007-9273-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-03-01 00:00:00pages
345-60issue
4eissn
0167-4412issn
1573-5028journal_volume
66pub_type
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