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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 111, Issue 26, Pages 9407-9412Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1324147111
Keywords
synthetic biology; signaling dynamics
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- Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CISE-0832773]
- NSF
- Seattle Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations [1317694, 1317653, 0832824] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Emerging Frontiers & Multidisciplinary Activities
- Directorate For Engineering [1137266] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Auxin influences nearly every aspect of plant biology through a simple signaling pathway; however, it remains unclear how much of the diversity in auxin effects is explained by variation in the core signaling components and which properties of these components may contribute to diversification in response dynamics. Here, we recapitulated the entire Arabidopsis thaliana forward nuclear auxin signal transduction pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to test whether signaling module composition enables tuning of the dynamic response. Sensitivity analysis guided by a small mathematical model revealed the centrality of auxin/indole-3-acetic acid (Aux/IAA) transcriptional corepressors in controlling response dynamics and highlighted the strong influence of natural variation in Aux/IAA degradation rates on circuit performance. When the basic auxin response circuit was expanded to include multiple Aux/IAAs, we found that dominance relationships between coexpressed Aux/IAAs were sufficient to generate distinct response modules similar to those seen during plant development. Our work provides a new method for dissecting auxin signaling and demonstrates the key role of Aux/IAAs in tuning auxin response dynamics.
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