Securing food and feed for the increasing world population and decreasing arable land is one of the major challenges of our time.Green revolution or agriculture revolution was propelled by the use of semidwarf rice an...Securing food and feed for the increasing world population and decreasing arable land is one of the major challenges of our time.Green revolution or agriculture revolution was propelled by the use of semidwarf rice and wheat varieties around the world since the 1960s(Peng et al.,1999;Sasaki et al.,2002).The semi-dwarfness leads to lodging resistance and thus allows planting of crops in high densities。展开更多
The plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids （BRs）, play important roles in plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stresses. BRs signal through receptors localized to the plasma membrane and other...The plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids （BRs）, play important roles in plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stresses. BRs signal through receptors localized to the plasma membrane and other signaling components to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which modulates the expression of thousands of genes. How BESl/BZR1 and their interacting proteins function to regulate the large number of genes are not com- pletely understood. Here we report that histone lysine methyltransferase SDG8, implicated in histone 3 lysine 36 diand trimethylation （H3K36me2 and me3）, is involved in BR-regulated gene expression. BES1 interacts with SDG8, directly or indirectly through IWSl, a transcription elongation factor involved in BR-regulated gene expression. The knockout mutant sdg8 displays a reduced growth phenotype with compromised BR responses. Global gene expression studies demonstrated that, while BR regulates about 5000 genes in wild-type plants, the hormone regulates fewer than 700 genes in sdg8 mutant. In addition, more than half of BR-regulated genes are differentially affected in sdg8 mutant. A Chromatin Immunoprecipitation （CHIP） experiment showed that H3K36me3 is reduced in BR-regulated genes in the sdg8 mutant. Based on these results, we propose that SDG8 plays an essential role in mediating BR-regulated gene expression. Our results thus reveal a major mechanism by which histone modifications dictate hormonal regulation of gene expression.展开更多
基金National Science Foundation(MCB 1818160)National Institutes of Health(NIH 1R01GM120316-01A1)Plant Sciences Institute at Iowa State University。
文摘Securing food and feed for the increasing world population and decreasing arable land is one of the major challenges of our time.Green revolution or agriculture revolution was propelled by the use of semidwarf rice and wheat varieties around the world since the 1960s(Peng et al.,1999;Sasaki et al.,2002).The semi-dwarfness leads to lodging resistance and thus allows planting of crops in high densities。
文摘The plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids （BRs）, play important roles in plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stresses. BRs signal through receptors localized to the plasma membrane and other signaling components to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which modulates the expression of thousands of genes. How BESl/BZR1 and their interacting proteins function to regulate the large number of genes are not com- pletely understood. Here we report that histone lysine methyltransferase SDG8, implicated in histone 3 lysine 36 diand trimethylation （H3K36me2 and me3）, is involved in BR-regulated gene expression. BES1 interacts with SDG8, directly or indirectly through IWSl, a transcription elongation factor involved in BR-regulated gene expression. The knockout mutant sdg8 displays a reduced growth phenotype with compromised BR responses. Global gene expression studies demonstrated that, while BR regulates about 5000 genes in wild-type plants, the hormone regulates fewer than 700 genes in sdg8 mutant. In addition, more than half of BR-regulated genes are differentially affected in sdg8 mutant. A Chromatin Immunoprecipitation （CHIP） experiment showed that H3K36me3 is reduced in BR-regulated genes in the sdg8 mutant. Based on these results, we propose that SDG8 plays an essential role in mediating BR-regulated gene expression. Our results thus reveal a major mechanism by which histone modifications dictate hormonal regulation of gene expression.
