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Measuring Gene Expression in Bombarded Barley Aleurone Layers with Increased Throughput
Published on: March 30, 2018
A GPS2-like protein interacts with HOS15 and HDA6 to form a repressor complex that regulates ABA signaling and
Akhtar Ali1, Shah Zareen2, Zein Eddin Bader3
1School of Advanced Biotechnology, Global Plant Stress Research Center, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea; Department of Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Abstract:
Plants rely on chromatin-mediated transcriptional control to fine-tune stress responses; however, the evolutionary conservation and functional diversification of repressor complexes remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify GPS2-like protein (GPL) as the missing component of the plant counterpart of the animal nuclear receptor-corepressor complex. GPL interacts with HOS15, PWR, and HDA6/HDA9 to form a chromatin repressor module that suppresses abscisic acid (ABA)-responsive genes. Loss-of-function gpl mutants exhibit ABA hypersensitivity and enhanced drought tolerance, whereas GPL overexpression confers ABA insensitivity. Mechanistically, GPL promotes histone H3K9 deacetylation and dimethylation at stress-responsive loci and stabilizes HOS15 to ensure its nuclear retention. Global RNA sequencing reveals widespread derepression of ABA-responsive transcriptional networks in gpl mutants. Under stress conditions, ABA destabilizes the GPL-HOS15 complex, relieving repression and activating defense-related genes. These findings establish GPL as the plant homolog of GPS2 and reveal that the GPL-HOS15 repressor complex functions as a chromatin-mediated rheostat to dynamically balance growth and drought adaptation. Our work provides mechanistic insight into stress-responsive chromatin remodeling and identifies GPL as a potential target for engineering climate-resilient crops.
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