期刊
GENETICS
卷 204, 期 2, 页码 581-+出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.192385
关键词
maize; endosperm; storage proteins; transcription factors; subfunctionalization
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2016YFD0100500]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA08020107]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31371630, 91335109, 31422040]
- Chinese Thousand Talents Program grant
Maize transcription factors (TFs) opaque2 (O2) and the O2 heterodimerizing proteins (OHP1 and OHP2) originated from an ancient segmental duplication. The 22-kDa (z1C) and 19-kDa (z1A, z1B, and z1D) alpha-zeins are the most abundant storage proteins in maize endosperm. O2 is known to regulate alpha-zein gene expression, but its target motifs in the 19-kDa alpha-zein gene promoters have not been identified. The mechanisms underlying the regulation of alpha-zein genes by these TFs are also not well understood. In this study, we found that the O2 binding motifs in the alpha-zein gene promoters are quite flexible, with ACGT being present in the z1C and z1A promoters and a variant, ACAT, being present in the z1B and z1D promoters. OHPs recognized and transactivated all of the alpha-zein promoters, although to much lower levels than did O2. In the presence of O2, the suppression of OHPs did not cause a significant reduction in the transcription of alpha-zein genes, but in the absence of O2, OHPs were critical for the expression of residual levels of alpha-zeins. These findings demonstrated that O2 is the primary TF and that OHPs function as minor TFs in this process. This relationship is the converse of that involved in 27-kDa gamma-zein gene regulation, indicating that the specificities of O2 and the OHPs for regulating zein genes diverged after gene duplication. The prolamine-box binding factor by itself has limited transactivation activity, but it promotes the binding of O2 to O2 motifs, resulting in the synergistic transactivation of alpha-zein genes.
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