Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21072261
Keywords
non-specific lipid transfer protein; pavement cell; trichome
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871610, 31901492]
- Transgenic Special Item of China [2016ZX08002003-002]
- Shandong Provincial Foundation [2019LZGC016]
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Plant epidermis serves important functions in shoot growth, plant defense and lipid metabolism, though mechanisms of related transcriptional regulation are largely unknown. Here, we identified cis-elements specific to shoot epidermis expression by dissecting the promoter of Triticum aestivum lipid transfer protein 1 (TaLTP1). A preliminary promoter deletion analysis revealed that a truncated fragment within 400 bp upstream from the translation start site was sufficient to confer conserved epidermis-specific expression in transgenic Brachypodium distachyon and Arabidopsis thaliana. Further, deletion or mutation of a GC(N4)GGCC motif at position -380 bp caused a loss of expression in pavement cells. With an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and transgenic reporter assay, we found that a light-responsive CcATC motif at position -268 bp was also involved in regulating pavement cell-specific expression that is evolutionary conserved. Moreover, expression specific to leaf trichome cells was found to be independently regulated by a CCaacAt motif at position -303 bp.
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