Journal
PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 80, Issue 4-5, Pages 405-418Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-012-9956-4
Keywords
HD-Zip; PP2C; ABA; SnRK2; ABA receptors; Drought stress response
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- European commission (TF-STRESS)
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Lars Hiertas Minne Foundation
- Nils and Dorthi Troedsson Foundation
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [EX2006-1690]
- Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation
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Plants perceiving drought activate multiple responses to improve survival, including large-scale alterations in gene expression. This article reports on the roles in the drought response of two Arabidopsis thaliana homeodomain-leucine zipper class I genes; ATHB7 and ATHB12, both strongly induced by water-deficit and abscisic acid (ABA). ABA-mediated transcriptional regulation of both genes is shown to depend on the activity of protein phosphatases type 2C (PP2C). ATHB7 and ATHB12 are, thus, targets of the ABA signalling mechanism defined by the PP2Cs and the PYR/PYL family of ABA receptors, with which the PP2C proteins interact. Our results from chromatin immunoprecipitation and gene expression analyses demonstrate that ATHB7 and ATHB12 act as positive transcriptional regulators of PP2C genes, and thereby as negative regulators of abscisic acid signalling. In support of this notion, our results also show that ATHB7 and ATHB12 act to repress the transcription of genes encoding the ABA receptors PYL5 and PYL8 in response to an ABA stimulus. In summary, we demonstrate that ATHB7 and ATHB12 have essential functions in the primary response to drought, as mediators of a negative feedback effect on ABA signalling in the plant response to water deficit.
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