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CycC1;1 negatively modulates ABA signaling by interacting with and inhibiting ABI5 during seed germination

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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue 4, Pages 2812-2827

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac456

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [32000150]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province [222300420401]

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The C-type cyclin protein CycC1;1 interacts with ABI5 to downregulate ABA-responsive genes and ABI5 itself, thereby inhibiting ABA signaling during seed germination.
Regulation of seed germination is important for plant survival and propagation. ABSCISIC ACID (ABA) INSENSITIVE5 (ABI5), the central transcription factor in the ABA signaling pathway, plays a fundamental role in the regulation of ABA-responsive gene expression during seed germination; however, how ABI5 transcriptional activation activity is regulated remains to be elucidated. Here, we report that C-type Cyclin1;1 (CycC1;1) is an ABI5-interacting partner affecting the ABA response and seed germination in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). The CycC1;1 loss-of-function mutant is hypersensitive to ABA, and this phenotype was rescued by mutation of ABI5. Moreover, CycC1;1 suppresses ABI5 transcriptional activation activity for ABI5-targeted genes including ABI5 itself by occupying their promoters and disrupting RNA polymerase II recruitment; thus the cycc1;1 mutant shows increased expression of ABI5 and genes downstream of ABI5. Furthermore, ABA reduces the interaction between CycC1;1 and ABI5, while phospho-mimic but not phospho-dead mutation of serine-42 in ABI5 abolishes CycC1;1 interaction with ABI5 and relieves CycC1;1 inhibition of ABI5-mediated transcriptional activation of downstream target genes. Together, our study illustrates that CycC1;1 negatively modulates the ABA response by interacting with and inhibiting ABI5, while ABA relieves the CycC1;1 interaction with and inhibition of ABI5 to activate ABI5 activity for the ABA response, thereby inhibiting seed germination. The C-type cyclin protein CycC1;1 interacts with ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE5 (ABI5) to downregulate the expression of ABA-responsive genes and ABI5 itself, thereby inhibiting ABA signaling during seed germination.

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