Journal
EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.15252/embj.2021108664
Keywords
brassinosteroids; heat shock factors; hormone; HSFA1; steroid
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- TUM University Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [PO1640/6-1]
- Projekt DEAL
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Heat stress is a significant environmental stress that can hinder plant growth and development. A study has shown that brassinosteroids (BRs) play a role in the heat stress response in plants and interact with heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) to enhance their activity. These findings expand our understanding of the plant's heat stress response and highlight the involvement of BES1 in heat stress signaling.
Heat stress is a major environmental stress type that can limit plant growth and development. To survive sudden temperature increases, plants utilize the heat shock response, an ancient signaling pathway. Initial results had suggested a role for brassinosteroids (BRs) in this response. Brassinosteroids are growth-promoting steroid hormones whose activity is mediated by transcription factors of the BES1/BZR1 subfamily. Here, we provide evidence that BES1 can contribute to heat stress signaling. In response to heat, BES1 is activated even in the absence of BRs and directly binds to heat shock elements (HSEs), known binding sites of heat shock transcription factors (HSFs). HSFs of the HSFA1 type can interact with BES1 and facilitate its activity in HSE binding. These findings lead us to propose an extended model of the heat stress response in plants, in which the recruitment of BES1 is a means of heat stress signaling cross-talk with a central growth regulatory pathway.
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