Journal
PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 303, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110750
Keywords
AUXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1 (ABP1); Auxin; Plant development; Auxin signaling
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Funding
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [742985]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [I 3630-B25]
- DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- European Structural and Investment Funds, Operational Programme Research, Development and Education [CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/17_050/0008496]
- Czech Science Foundation [GA 20-20860Y]
- MEYS CR [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000738]
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ABP1 is a key player in plant development with broad expression and possible involvement in additional auxin perception mechanisms. While it is not essential for transcriptional auxin signaling, gain-of-function alleles of ABP1 exhibit a wide range of growth and developmental defects.
Auxin is a major plant growth regulator, but current models on auxin perception and signaling cannot explain the whole plethora of auxin effects, in particular those associated with rapid responses. A possible candidate for a component of additional auxin perception mechanisms is the AUXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1 (ABP1), whose function in planta remains unclear. Here we combined expression analysis with gain- and loss-of-function approaches to analyze the role of ABP1 in plant development. ABP1 shows a broad expression largely overlapping with, but not regulated by, transcriptional auxin response activity. Furthermore, ABP1 activity is not essential for the transcriptional auxin signaling. Genetic in planta analysis revealed that abp1 loss-of-function mutants show largely normal development with minor defects in bolting. On the other hand, ABP1 gain-of-function alleles show a broad range of growth and developmental defects, including root and hypocotyl growth and bending, lateral root and leaf development, bolting, as well as response to heat stress. At the cellular level, ABP1 gain-of-function leads to impaired auxin effect on PIN polar distribution and affects BFA-sensitive PIN intracellular aggregation. The gain-of-function analysis suggests a broad, but still mechanistically unclear involvement of ABP1 in plant development, possibly masked in abp1 loss-of-function mutants by a functional redundancy.
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