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Epple R, Carell T. Efficient Light-Dependent DNA Repair Requires a Large Cofactor Separation. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja990466l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Robert Epple
- Contribution from the Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Contribution from the Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Kleiner O, Kircher S, Harter K, Batschauer A. Nuclear localization of the Arabidopsis blue light receptor cryptochrome 2. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 19:289-96. [PMID: 10476076 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1999.00535.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The cryptochrome blue light photoreceptor family of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of two members, CRY1 and CRY2 (PHH1). CRY2 contains a putative nuclear localization signal (NLS) within its C-terminal region. We examined whether CRY2 is localized in the nucleus and whether the C-terminal region of CRY2 is involved in nuclear targeting. Total cellular and nuclear protein extracts from Arabidopsis were subjected to immunoblot analysis with CRY2-specific antibodies. Strong CRY2 signals were obtained in the nuclear fraction. Fusion proteins consisting of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and different fragments of CRY2 were expressed in parsley protoplasts and the localization of the fusion proteins was determined by fluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy. GFP-fusions containing the entire CRY2 protein or its C-terminal region were found exclusively in the nucleus. We conclude from these results that CRY2 is localized in the nucleus and that nuclear localization is mediated by the C-terminal region of CRY2.
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- O Kleiner
- FB Biologie/Botanik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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Kihara J, Watanabe Y, Honda Y. Suppression and reactivation of UV-induced sporulation by blue light in Bipolaris oryzae. MYCOSCIENCE 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02463882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Cryptochromes are blue/UV-A-absorbing photoreceptor proteins discovered originally in plants and so named because their nature proved elusive in over a century of research. Now we know that the photoreceptor essential for proper seedling establishment in blue light has homologues in the animal kingdom - in insects, in mice and in humans. In recent months, evidence has emerged pointing to a common role for cryptochromes in all of these organisms in entraining the circadian clock, a biochemical timing mechanism running within cells, synchronizing metabolism to the daily light-dark cycle and having consequences on a much larger scale in the regulation of behaviour such as the sleep-wake cycle.
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- P F Devlin
- Dept of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Kleiner O, Butenandt J, Carell T, Batschauer A. Class II DNA photolyase from Arabidopsis thaliana contains FAD as a cofactor. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 264:161-7. [PMID: 10447684 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00590.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The major UV-B photoproduct in DNA is the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD). CPD-photolyases repair this DNA damage by a light-driven electron transfer. The chromophores of the class II CPD-photolyase from Arabidopsis thaliana, which was cloned recently [Taylor, R., Tobin, A. & Bray, C. (1996) Plant Physiol. 112, 862; Ahmad, M., Jarillo, J.A., Klimczak, L.J., Landry, L.G., Peng, T., Last, R.L. & Cashmore, A.R. (1997) Plant Cell 9, 199-207], have not been characterized so far. Here we report on the overexpression of the Arabidopsis CPD photolyase in Escherichia coli as a 6 x His-tag fusion protein, its purification and the analysis of the chromophore composition and enzymatic activity. Like class I photolyase, the Arabidopsis enzyme contains FAD but a second chromophore was not detectable. Despite the lack of a second chromophore the purified enzyme has photoreactivating activity.
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- O Kleiner
- FB Biologie/Botanik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
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Guo H, Duong H, Ma N, Lin C. The Arabidopsis blue light receptor cryptochrome 2 is a nuclear protein regulated by a blue light-dependent post-transcriptional mechanism. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 19:279-287. [PMID: 10476075 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1999.00525.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Cryptochrome 2 is a flavin-type blue light receptor mediating floral induction in response to photoperiod and a blue light-induced hypocotyl growth inhibition. cry2 is required for the elevated expression of the flowering-time gene CO in response to long-day photoperiods, but the molecular mechanism underlying the function of cry2 is not clear. The carboxyl domain of cry2 bears a basic bipartite nuclear localization signal, and the cry2 protein was co-fractionated with the nucleus. Analysis of transgenic plants expressing a fusion protein of CRY2 and the reporter enzyme GUS (GUS-CRY2) indicated that the GUS-CRY2 fusion protein accumulated in the nucleus of transgenic plants grown in dark or light. The C-terminal domain of cry2 that contains the basic bipartite nuclear localization signal was sufficient to confer nuclear localization of the fusion protein. Phenotypic analysis of transgenic plants expressing the fusion protein GUS-CRY2 demonstrated that GUS-CRY2 acts as a functional photoreceptor in vivo, mediating the blue light-induced inhibition of hypocotyl elongation. These results strongly suggest that cry2 is a nuclear protein. Although no obvious light regulation was found for the nuclear compartmentation of GUS-CRY2 fusion protein, the abundance of GUS-CRY2 was regulated by blue light in a way similar to that of cry2.
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- H Guo
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1606, USA
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Jiang Z, Swem LR, Rushing BG, Devanathan S, Tollin G, Bauer CE. Bacterial photoreceptor with similarity to photoactive yellow protein and plant phytochromes. Science 1999; 285:406-9. [PMID: 10411503 DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5426.406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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A phytochrome-like protein called Ppr was discovered in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum. Ppr has a photoactive yellow protein (PYP) amino-terminal domain, a central domain with similarity to phytochrome, and a carboxyl-terminal histidine kinase domain. Reconstitution experiments demonstrate that Ppr covalently attaches the blue light-absorbing chromophore p-hydroxycinnamic acid and that it has a photocycle that is spectrally similar to, but kinetically slower than, that of PYP. Ppr also regulates chalcone synthase gene expression in response to blue light with autophosphorylation inhibited in vitro by blue light. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that R. centenum Ppr may be ancestral to cyanobacterial and plant phytochromes.
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- Z Jiang
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- T Todo
- Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Japan.
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Ahmad M. Seeing the world in red and blue: insight into plant vision and photoreceptors. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 1999; 2:230-235. [PMID: 10375562 DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5266(99)80040-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants see light through multiple photoreceptors, including phytochromes and cryptochromes. Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that participate in many blue-light responses, including phototropism in plants and entrainment of circadian rhythms in plants and animals. A novel flavoprotein, NPH1, is also implicated in plant phototropism. Phytochromes function as serine/threonine kinases whose potential interacting partners include cryptochrome (CRY1 and CRY2).
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- M Ahmad
- LPDP Universite Paris VI, UMR CNRS 7632, Tour 53 E5 Casier 156, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris, Cedex 05, France.
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Ninu L, Ahmad M, Miarelli C, Cashmore AR, Giuliano G. Cryptochrome 1 controls tomato development in response to blue light. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 18:551-556. [PMID: 10417705 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1999.00466.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Cryptochrome genes (CRY) are a novel class of plant genes encoding proteins that bear a strong resemblance to photolyases, a rare class of flavoproteins that absorb light in the blue (B) and UV-A regions of the spectrum and utilise it for photorepair of UV-damaged DNA. In Arabidopsis, both CRY1 and CRY2 are implicated in numerous blue light-dependent responses, including inhibition of hypocotyl elongation, leaf and cotyledon expansion, pigment biosynthesis, stem growth and internode elongation, control of flowering time and phototropism. No information about the in vivo function of CRY genes is available in other plant species. The tomato CRY1 gene (TCRY1) encodes a protein of 679 amino acids, which shows 78% identity and 88% similarity to Arabidopsis CRY1. In order to verify the in vivo function of TCRY1, we constructed antisense tomato plants using the C-terminal portion of the gene. Partial repression of both mRNA and protein levels was observed in one of the transformants. The progeny from this transformant showed an elongated hypocotyl under blue but not under red light. This character co-segregated with the transgene and was dependent on transgene dosage. An additional, partially elongated phenotype was observed in adult plants grown in the greenhouse under dim light and short days with no artificial illumination. This phenotype was suppressed by artificial illumination of both short and long photoperiods. The synthesis of anthocyanins under blue light was reduced in antisense seedlings. In contrast, carotenoid and chlorophyll levels and second positive phototropic curvature were essentially unaltered.
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An extraretinally expressed insect cryptochrome with similarity to the blue light photoreceptors of mammals and plants. J Neurosci 1999. [PMID: 10233998 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-10-03665.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Photic entrainment of insect circadian rhythms can occur through either extraretinal (brain) or retinal photoreceptors, which mediate sensitivity to blue light or longer wavelengths, respectively. Although visual transduction processes are well understood in the insect retina, almost nothing is known about the extraretinal blue light photoreceptor of insects. We now have identified and characterized a candidate blue light photoreceptor gene in Drosophila (DCry) that is homologous to the cryptochrome (Cry) genes of mammals and plants. The DCry gene is located in region 91F of the third chromosome, an interval that does not contain other genes required for circadian rhythmicity. The protein encoded by DCry is approximately 50% identical to the CRY1 and CRY2 proteins recently discovered in mammalian species. As expected for an extraretinal photoreceptor mediating circadian entrainment, DCry mRNA is expressed within the adult brain and can be detected within body tissues. Indeed, tissue in situ hybridization demonstrates prominent expression in cells of the lateral brain, which are close to or coincident with the Drosophila clock neurons. Interestingly, DCry mRNA abundance oscillates in a circadian manner in Drosophila head RNA extracts, and the temporal phasing of the rhythm is similar to that documented for the mouse Cry1 mRNA, which is expressed in clock tissues. Finally, we show that changes in DCry gene dosage are associated predictably with alterations of the blue light resetting response for the circadian rhythm of adult locomotor activity.
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Isolation and characterization of developmental variants in fruiting using a homokaryotic ruiting strain of Coprinus cinereus. MYCOSCIENCE 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02463959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Lascève G, Leymarie J, Olney MA, Liscum E, Christie JM, Vavasseur A, Briggs WR. Arabidopsis contains at least four independent blue-light-activated signal transduction pathways. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 120:605-14. [PMID: 10364413 PMCID: PMC59300 DOI: 10.1104/pp.120.2.605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/1998] [Accepted: 03/09/1999] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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We have investigated the stomatal and phototropic responses to blue light of a number of single and double mutants at various loci that encode proteins involved in blue-light responses in Arabidopsis. The stomatal responses of light-grown mutant plants (cry1, cry2, nph1, nph3, nph4, cry1cry2, and nph1cry1) did not differ significantly from those of their wild-type counterparts. Second positive phototropic responses of etiolated mutant seedlings, cry1, cry2, cry1cry2, and npq1-2, were also similar to those of their wild-type counterparts. Although npq1 and single and double cry1cry2 mutants showed somewhat reduced amplitude for first positive phototropism, threshold, peak, and saturation fluence values for first positive phototropic responses of etiolated seedlings did not differ from those of wild-type seedlings. Similar to the cry1cry2 double mutants and to npq1-2, a phyAphyB mutant showed reduced curvature but no change in the position or shape of the fluence-response curve. By contrast, the phototropism mutant nph1-5 failed to show phototropic curvature under any of the irradiation conditions used in the present study. We conclude that the chromoproteins cry1, cry2, nph1, and the blue-light photoreceptor for the stomatal response are genetically separable. Moreover, these photoreceptors appear to activate separate signal transduction pathways.
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- G Lascève
- Cadarache, Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Bioénergetique Cellulaire, F-13108, St. Paul lez Durance cedex, France
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Mockler TC, Guo H, Yang H, Duong H, Lin C. Antagonistic actions of Arabidopsis cryptochromes and phytochrome B in the regulation of floral induction. Development 1999; 126:2073-82. [PMID: 10207133 DOI: 10.1242/dev.126.10.2073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The Arabidopsis photoreceptors cry1, cry2 and phyB are known to play roles in the regulation of flowering time, for which the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. We have previously hypothesized that phyB mediates a red-light inhibition of floral initiation and cry2 mediates a blue-light inhibition of the phyB function. Studies of the cry2/phyB double mutant provide direct evidence in support of this hypothesis. The function of cryptochromes in floral induction was further investigated using the cry2/cry1 double mutants. The cry2/cry1 double mutants showed delayed flowering in monochromatic blue light, whereas neither monogenic cry1 nor cry2 mutant exhibited late flowering in blue light. This result suggests that, in addition to the phyB-dependent function, cry2 also acts redundantly with cry1 to promote floral initiation in a phyB-independent manner. To understand how photoreceptors regulate the transition from vegetative growth to reproductive development, we examined the effect of sequential illumination by blue light and red light on the flowering time of plants. We found that there was a light-quality-sensitive phase of plant development, during which the quality of light exerts a profound influence on flowering time. After this developmental stage, which is between approximately day-1 to day-7 post germination, plants are committed to floral initiation and the quality of light has little effect on the flowering time. Mutations in either the PHYB gene or both the CRY1 and CRY2 genes resulted in the loss of the light-quality-sensitive phase manifested during floral development. The commitment time of floral transition, defined by a plant's sensitivity to light quality, coincides with the commitment time of inflorescence development revealed previously by a plant's sensitivity to light quantity - the photoperiod. Therefore, the developmental mechanism resulting in the commitment to flowering appears to be the direct target of the antagonistic actions of the photoreceptors.
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- T C Mockler
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA90095, USA.
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Berrocal-Tito G, Sametz-Baron L, Eichenberg K, Horwitz BA, Herrera-Estrella A. Rapid blue light regulation of a Trichoderma harzianum photolyase gene. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:14288-94. [PMID: 10318850 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.20.14288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Photolyases and blue light receptors belong to a superfamily of flavoproteins that make use of blue and UVA light either to catalyze DNA repair or to control development. We have isolated a DNA photolyase gene (phr1) from Trichoderma harzianum, a common soil fungus that is of interest as a biocontrol agent against soil-borne plant pathogens and as a model for the study of light-dependent development. The sequence of phr1 is similar to other Class I Type I eukaryotic photolyase genes. Low fluences of blue light rapidly induced phr1 expression both in vegetative mycelia, which lack photoprotective pigments, and, to a greater extent, in conidiophores. Thus, visible light induces the development of pigmented, resistant spores as well as the expression of phr1, perhaps announcing in this way the imminent exposure to the more damaging short wavelengths of sunlight. Light induction of phr1 in non-sporulating mutants shows that a complete sporulation pathway is not required for photoregulation. The light requirements for photoinduction of phr1 were not altered in dimY photoperception mutants. This suggests that photoinduction of sporulation and of photolyase expression is distinct in their photoreceptor system or in the transduction of the blue light signal.
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- G Berrocal-Tito
- Department of Plant Genetic Engineering, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Irapuato, Apartado Posta 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36500, México
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Cryptochromes are blue, ultraviolet-A photoreceptors. They were first characterized for Arabidopsis and are also found in ferns and algae; they appear to be ubiquitous in the plant kingdom. They are flavoproteins similar in sequence to photolyases, their presumptive evolutionary ancestors. Cryptochromes mediate a variety of light responses, including entrainment of circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis, Drosophila, and mammals. Sequence comparison indicates that the plant and animal cryptochrome families have distinct evolutionary histories, with the plant cryptochromes being of ancient evolutionary origin and the animal cryptochromes having evolved relatively recently. This process of repeated evolution may have coincided with the origin in animals of a modified circadian clock based on the PERIOD, TIMELESS, CLOCK, and CYCLE proteins.
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- A R Cashmore
- Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA.
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Osterlund MT, Ang LH, Deng XW. The role of COP1 in repression of Arabidopsis photomorphogenic development. Trends Cell Biol 1999; 9:113-8. [PMID: 10201077 DOI: 10.1016/s0962-8924(99)01499-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Photomorphogenic development in Arabidopsis is regulated by the key repressor COP1, which interacts with specific transcription factors in the nucleus to modulate their activities. In the dark, COP1 accumulates in the nucleus and represses photomorphogenic development. Light diminishes the nuclear accumulation of COP1 and abrogates its repressor activity. A number of cellular components are involved in light-dependent nucleocytoplasmic partitioning of COP1, including the multisubunit COP9 complexes and at least three well-characterized photoreceptors. This review discusses current understanding of the mechanisms of COP1 action.
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- M T Osterlund
- Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA
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Ballaré CL. Keeping up with the neighbours: phytochrome sensing and other signalling mechanisms. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 1999; 4:97-102. [PMID: 10322540 DOI: 10.1016/s1360-1385(99)01383-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants 'forage' for light in plant canopies using a variety of photosensory systems. Far-red radiation (FR) reflected by neighbours is an early signal of competition that elicits anticipatory shade-avoidance responses. In Arabidopsis and cucumber, perception of reflected FR requires phytochrome B. Horizontal blue (B) light gradients also guide plant shoots to canopy gaps in patchy vegetation, and these B light signals are perceived by specific photoreceptors. When plants are shaded by neighbours they undergo extensive reprogramming of their morphological development. Although phytochromes and B light receptors are certainly involved in these responses to shading, other sensory systems probably play important roles in the field. Recent studies of plant-plant signalling are unveiling a paradigm of sensory diversity and sophistication, which has important implications for understanding the functioning of plant populations and communities.
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- CL Ballaré
- IFEVA (Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute), University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Av. San Mart n 4453, (1417) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- S M Assmann
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
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Selby CP, Sancar A. A Third Member of the Photolyase/Blue-light Photoreceptor Family in Drosophila: A Putative Circadian Photoreceptor. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb05313.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Okano S, Kanno SI, Takao M, Eker APM, Lsono K, Tsukahara Y, Yasui A. A Putative Blue-Light Receptor From Drosophila melanogaster. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb05314.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ishikawa T, Matsumoto A, Kato T, Togashi S, Ryo H, Ikenaga M, Todo T, Ueda R, Tanimura T. DCRY is a Drosophila photoreceptor protein implicated in light entrainment of circadian rhythm. Genes Cells 1999; 4:57-65. [PMID: 10231393 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00237.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Light is the major environmental signal for the entrainment of circadian rhythms. In Drosophila melanogaster, the period(per) and timeless (tim) genes are required for circadian behavioural rhythms and their expression levels undergo circadian fluctuations. Light signals can entrain these rhythms by shifting their phases. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism for the perception and transduction of the light signal. The members of the photolyase/cryptochrome family contain flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) as chromophore and are involved in two diverse functions, DNA repair and photoreception of environmental light signals. RESULTS We report the cloning of a new member of this family, dcry, from Drosophila. Northern blot analysis shows that this gene is expressed in various tissues. The dcry mRNA is expressed in a circadian manner in adult heads, while such rhythmic fluctuation is abolished in the clock-defective per0 and tim0 mutants. The circadian expression is dampened down in constant darkness. The over-expression of the dcry gene alters the light-induced phase delay in the locomotor activity rhythms of flies. CONCLUSION These results suggest that DCRY is a circadian photoreceptor and that its expression is regulated by circadian clock genes.
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- T Ishikawa
- Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshida-konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Nozue K, Kanegae T, Imaizumi T, Fukuda S, Okamoto H, Yeh KC, Lagarias JC, Wada M. A phytochrome from the fern Adiantum with features of the putative photoreceptor NPH1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:15826-30. [PMID: 9861055 PMCID: PMC28129 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.26.15826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/1998] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In plant photomorphogenesis, it is well accepted that the perception of red/far-red and blue light is mediated by distinct photoreceptor families, i.e., the phytochromes and blue-light photoreceptors, respectively. Here we describe the discovery of a photoreceptor gene from the fern Adiantum that encodes a protein with features of both phytochrome and NPH1, the putative blue-light receptor for second-positive phototropism in seed plants. The fusion of a functional photosensory domain of phytochrome with a nearly full-length NPH1 homolog suggests that this polypeptide could mediate both red/far-red and blue-light responses in Adiantum normally ascribed to distinct photoreceptors.
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- K Nozue
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-osawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
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Christie JM, Reymond P, Powell GK, Bernasconi P, Raibekas AA, Liscum E, Briggs WR. Arabidopsis NPH1: a flavoprotein with the properties of a photoreceptor for phototropism. Science 1998; 282:1698-701. [PMID: 9831559 DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5394.1698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 407] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The NPH1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a 120-kilodalton serine-threonine protein kinase hypothesized to function as a photoreceptor for phototropism. When expressed in insect cells, the NPH1 protein is phosphorylated in response to blue light irradiation. The biochemical and photochemical properties of the photosensitive protein reflect those of the native protein in microsomal membranes. Recombinant NPH1 noncovalently binds flavin mononucleotide, a likely chromophore for light-dependent autophosphorylation. The fluorescence excitation spectrum of the recombinant protein is similar to the action spectrum for phototropism, consistent with the conclusion that NPH1 is an autophosphorylating flavoprotein photoreceptor mediating phototropic responses in higher plants.
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- J M Christie
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Emery P, So WV, Kaneko M, Hall JC, Rosbash M. CRY, a Drosophila clock and light-regulated cryptochrome, is a major contributor to circadian rhythm resetting and photosensitivity. Cell 1998; 95:669-79. [PMID: 9845369 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81637-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 639] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Light is a major environmental signal for circadian rhythms. We have identified and analyzed cry, a novel Drosophila cryptochrome gene. All characterized family members are directly photosensitive and include plant blue light photoreceptors. We show that cry transcription is under circadian regulation, influenced by the Drosophila clock genes period, timeless, Clock, and cycle. We also show that cry protein levels are dramatically affected by light exposure. Importantly, circadian photosensitivity is increased in a cry-overexpressing strain. These physiological and genetic data therefore link a specific photoreceptor molecule to circadian rhythmicity. Taken together with the data in the accompanying paper, we propose that CRY is a major Drosophila photoreceptor dedicated to the resetting of circadian rhythms.
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- P Emery
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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Thresher RJ, Vitaterna MH, Miyamoto Y, Kazantsev A, Hsu DS, Petit C, Selby CP, Dawut L, Smithies O, Takahashi JS, Sancar A. Role of mouse cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptor in circadian photoresponses. Science 1998; 282:1490-4. [PMID: 9822380 DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5393.1490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 298] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Cryptochromes are photoactive pigments in the eye that have been proposed to function as circadian photopigments. Mice lacking the cryptochrome 2 blue-light photoreceptor gene (mCry2) were tested for circadian clock-related functions. The mutant mice had a lower sensitivity to acute light induction of mPer1 in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) but exhibited normal circadian oscillations of mPer1 and mCry1 messenger RNA in the SCN. Behaviorally, the mutants had an intrinsic circadian period about 1 hour longer than normal and exhibited high-amplitude phase shifts in response to light pulses administered at circadian time 17. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that CRY2 protein modulates circadian responses in mice and suggest that cryptochromes have a role in circadian photoreception in mammals.
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- R J Thresher
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Kobayashi K, Kanno S, Smit B, van der Horst GT, Takao M, Yasui A. Characterization of photolyase/blue-light receptor homologs in mouse and human cells. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:5086-92. [PMID: 9801304 PMCID: PMC147960 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.22.5086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We isolated and characterized mouse photolyase-like genes, mCRY1 (mPHLL1) and mCRY2 (mPHLL2), which belong to the photolyase family including plant blue-light receptors. The mCRY1 and mCRY2 genes are located on chromosome 10C and 2E, respectively, and are expressed in all mouse organs examined. We raised antibodies specific against each gene product using its C-terminal sequence, which differs completely between the genes. Immunofluorescent staining of cultured mouse cells revealed that mCRY1 is localized in mitochondria whereas mCRY2 was found mainly in the nucleus. The subcellular distribution of CRY proteins was confirmed by immunoblot analysis of fractionated mouse liver cell extracts. Using green fluorescent protein fused peptides we showed that the C-terminal region of the mouse CRY2 protein contains a unique nuclear localization signal, which is absent in the CRY1 protein. The N-terminal region of CRY1 was shown to contain the mitochondrial transport signal. Recombinant as well as native CRY1 proteins from mouse and human cells showed a tight binding activity to DNA Sepharose, while CRY2 protein did not bind to DNA Sepharose at all under the same condition as CRY1. The different cellular localization and DNA binding properties of the mammalian photolyase homologs suggest that despite the similarity in the sequence the two proteins have distinct function(s).
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- K Kobayashi
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, 980 8575 Sendai, Japan
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Cashmore AR. Higher-plant phytochrome: "I used to date histidine, but now I prefer serine". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:13358-60. [PMID: 9811805 PMCID: PMC33916 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- A R Cashmore
- Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA
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Poppe C, Sweere U, Drumm-Herrel H, Schäfer E. The blue light receptor cryptochrome 1 can act independently of phytochrome A and B in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 16:465-71. [PMID: 9881166 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00322.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Blue light responses in higher plants can be mediated not only by specific blue light receptors, but also by the red/far-red photoreversible phytochrome system. The question of interdependence between these photoreceptors has been debated over many years. The availability of Arabidopsis mutants for the blue light receptor CRY1 and for the two major phytochromes phyA and phyB allows a reinvestigation of this question. The analysis of photocontrol of seed germination, inhibition of hypocotyl growth and anthocyanin accumulation clearly demonstrates that (i) phyA shows a strong control in blue light responses especially at low fluence rates; (ii) phyB mediated induction reactions can be reversed by subsequent blue light irradiations; and (iii) CRY1 mediates blue light controlled inhibition of hypocotyl growth only at fluence rates higher than 5 mumol m-2s-1 and independently of phytochrome A and B.
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- C Poppe
- Institut für Biologie II, Botany, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Osterlund MT, Deng XW. Multiple photoreceptors mediate the light-induced reduction of GUS-COP1 from Arabidopsis hypocotyl nuclei. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 16:201-208. [PMID: 9839465 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00290.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The subcellular localization of COP1, a key photomorphogenic repressor, is regulated by light in Arabidopsis seedlings. Photoreceptor loss-of-function mutants and dominant gain-of-function overexpression transgenes were both used to analyze the influences of the three photoreceptors, phyA, phyB, and CRY1, on the light-regulated subcellular localization of COP1. Through a semiquantitative analysis of the nuclear abundance of GUS-COP1 in the various genetic backgrounds, the specific roles of the individual photoreceptors have been established. The data suggest that multiple photoreceptors influence the light-regulated subcellular localization of COP1 in white light. Under specific wavelengths of light, phyA, phyB, and CRY1 each play critical roles in mediating far-red, red, and blue light signals, respectively. Our data also support an interdependency between CRY1 and the phytochromes in mediating the light-regulated subcellular localization of COP1 and thus seedling development.
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- M T Osterlund
- Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA
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Parks BM, Cho MH, Spalding EP. Two genetically separable phases of growth inhibition induced by blue light in Arabidopsis seedlings. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 118:609-15. [PMID: 9765547 PMCID: PMC34837 DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.2.609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/1998] [Accepted: 07/09/1998] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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High fluence-rate blue light (BL) rapidly inhibits hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis, as in other species, after a lag time of 30 s. This growth inhibition is always preceded by the activation of anion channels. The membrane depolarization that results from the activation of anion channels by BL was only 30% of the wild-type magnitude in hy4, a mutant lacking the HY4 BL receptor. High-resolution measurements of growth made with a computer-linked displacement transducer or digitized images revealed that BL caused a rapid inhibition of growth in wild-type and hy4 seedlings. This inhibition persisted in wild-type seedlings during more than 40 h of continuous BL. By contrast, hy4 escaped from the initial inhibition after approximately 1 h of BL and grew faster than wild type for approximately 30 h. Wild-type seedlings treated with 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid, a potent blocker of the BL-activated anion channel, displayed rapid growth inhibition, but, similar to hy4, these seedlings escaped from inhibition after approximately 1 h of BL and phenocopied the mutant for at least 2.5 h. The effects of 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid and the HY4 mutation were not additive. Taken together, the results indicate that BL acts through HY4 to activate anion channels at the plasma membrane, causing growth inhibition that begins after approximately 1 h. Neither HY4 nor anion channels appear to participate greatly in the initial phase of inhibition.
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- B M Parks
- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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An Arabidopsis blue-light receptor, Cry2, has been found to play a critical role in the photoperiodic control of flowering time; and genes have been identified that may control the production of a transmissible flower-inducing signal, which may turn out to be the long-elusive putative flowering hormone 'florigen'.
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- H Ma
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Wartik Laboratory, University Park 16802-5301, USA.
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Casal JJ, Mazzella MA. Conditional synergism between cryptochrome 1 and phytochrome B is shown by the analysis of phyA, phyB, and hy4 simple, double, and triple mutants in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 118:19-25. [PMID: 9733522 PMCID: PMC34855 DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.1.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/1998] [Accepted: 06/03/1998] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Wild-type or phyA, phyB, or hy4 mutant Arabidopsis seedlings lacking phytochrome A (phyA), phytochrome B (phyB), or cryptochrome 1 (cry1), respectively, and the double and triple mutants were used in combination with blue-light treatments given simultaneously with red or far-red light. We investigated the interaction between phytochromes and cry1 in the control of hypocotyl growth and cotyledon unfolding. Under conditions deficient for cry1 (short exposures to blue light) or phyB (far-red background), these photoreceptors acted synergistically: Under short exposures to blue light (3 h/d) added to a red-light background, cry1 activity required phyB (e.g. the hy4 mutant was taller than the wild type but the phyBhy4 mutant was not taller than the phyB mutant). Under prolonged exposures to blue light (24 h/d) added to a far-red light background, phyB activity required cry1 (e.g. the phyAphyB mutant was taller than the phyA mutant but the phyAphyBhy4 mutant was not taller than the phyAhy4 mutant). Under more favorable light inputs, i.e. prolonged exposures to blue light added to a red-light background, the effects of cry1 and phyB were independent. Thus, the synergism between phyB and cry1 is conditional. The effect of cry1 was not reduced by the phyA mutation under any tested light condition. Under continuous blue light the triple mutant phyAphyBhy4 showed reduced hypocotyl growth inhibition and cotyledon unfolding compared with the phyAphyB mutant. The action of cry1 in the phyAphyB double mutant was higher under the red-light than the far-red-light background, indicating a synergistic interaction between cry1 and phytochromes C, D, or E; however, a residual action of cry1 independent of any phytochrome is likely to occur.
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- J J Casal
- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. San Martín 4453, 1417-Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Kim BC, Tennessen DJ, Last RL. UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 15:667-74. [PMID: 9778848 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00246.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Relatively little is known about the types of photomorphogenic responses and signal transduction pathways that plants employ in response to ultraviolet-B (UV-B, 290-320 nm) radiation. In wild-type Arabidopsis seedlings, hypocotyl growth inhibition and cotyledon expansion were both reproducibly promoted by continuous UV-B. The fluence rate response of hypocotyl elongation was examined and showed a biphasic response. Whereas photomorphogenic responses were observed at low doses, higher fluences resulted in damage symptoms. In support of our theory that photomorphogenesis, but not damage, occurs at low doses of UV-B, photomorphogenic responses of UV-B sensitive mutants were indistinguishable from wild-type plants at the low dose. This allowed us to examine UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis in photoreceptor deficient plants and constitutive photomorphogenic mutants. The cry1 cryptochrome structural gene mutant, and phytochrome deficient hy1, phyA and phyB mutant seedlings resembled wild-type seedlings, while phyA/phyB double mutants were less sensitive to the photomorphogenic effects of UV-B. These results suggest that either phyA or phyB is required for UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis. The constitutive photomorphogenic mutants cop1 and det1 did not show significant inhibition of hypocotyl growth in response to UV-B, while det2 was strongly affected by UV-B irradiation. This suggests that COP1 and DET1 work downstream of the UV-B signaling pathway.
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- B C Kim
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Neff MM, Chory J. Genetic interactions between phytochrome A, phytochrome B, and cryptochrome 1 during Arabidopsis development. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 118:27-35. [PMID: 9733523 PMCID: PMC34865 DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.1.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 349] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/1998] [Accepted: 06/03/1998] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Single, double, and triple null combinations of Arabidopsis mutants lacking the photoreceptors phytochrome (phy) A (phyA-201), phyB (phyB-5), and cryptochrome (cry) 1 (hy4-2.23n) were examined for de-etiolation responses in high-fluence red, far-red, blue, and broad-spectrum white light. Cotyledon unhooking, unfolding, and expansion, hypocotyl growth, and the accumulation of chlorophylls and anthocyanin in 5-d-old seedlings were measured under each light condition and in the dark. phyA was the major photoreceptor/effector for most far-red-light responses, although phyB and cry1 modulated anthocyanin accumulation in a phyA-dependent manner. phyB was the major photoreceptor in red light, although cry1 acted as a phyA/phyB-dependent modulator of chlorophyll accumulation under these conditions. All three photoreceptors contributed to most blue light deetiolation responses, either redundantly or additively; however, phyB acted as a modulator of cotyledon expansion dependent on the presence of cry1. As reported previously, flowering time in long days was promoted by phyA and inhibited by phyB, with each suppressing the other's effect. In addition to the effector/modulator relationships described above, measurements of hypocotyls from blue-light-grown seedlings demonstrated phytochrome activity in blue light and cry1 activity in a phyAphyB mutant background.
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- M M Neff
- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Ballario P, Talora C, Galli D, Linden H, Macino G. Roles in dimerization and blue light photoresponse of the PAS and LOV domains of Neurospora crassa white collar proteins. Mol Microbiol 1998; 29:719-29. [PMID: 9723912 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00955.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The genes coding for white collar-1 and white collar-2 (wc-1 and wc-2) have been isolated previously, and their products characterized as Zn-finger transcription factors involved in the control of blue light-induced genes. Here, we show that the PAS dimerization domains present in both proteins enable the WC-1 and WC-2 proteins to dimerize in vitro. Homodimers and heterodimers are formed between the white collar (WC) proteins. A computer analysis of WC-1 reveals a second domain, called LOV, also identified in NPH1, a putative blue light photoreceptor in plants and conserved in redox-sensitive proteins and in the phytochromes. The WC-1 LOV domain does not dimerize with canonical PAS domains, but it is able to self-dimerize. The isolation of three blind wc-1 strains, each with a single amino acid substitution only in the LOV domain, reveals that this region is essential for blue light responses in Neurospora. The demonstration that the WC-1 proteins in these LOV mutants are still able to self-dimerize suggests that this domain plays an additional role, essential in blue light signal transduction.
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- P Ballario
- Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Centro di Studio per gli Acidi Nucleici, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Wang X, Iino M. Interaction of cryptochrome 1, phytochrome, and ion fluxes in blue-light-induced shrinking of Arabidopsis hypocotyl protoplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 117:1265-79. [PMID: 9701582 PMCID: PMC34890 DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.4.1265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/1997] [Accepted: 04/24/1998] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Protoplasts isolated from red-light-adapted Arabidopsis hypocotyls and incubated under red light exhibited rapid and transient shrinking within a period of 20 min in response to a blue-light pulse and following the onset of continuous blue light. Long-persisting shrinkage was also observed during continuous stimulation. Protoplasts from a hy4 mutant and the phytochrome-deficient phyA/phyB double mutant of Arabidopsis showed little response, whereas those from phyA and phyB mutants showed a partial response. It is concluded that the shrinking response itself is mediated by the HY4 gene product, cryptochrome 1, whereas the blue-light responsiveness is strictly controlled by phytochromes A and B, with a greater contribution by phytochrome B. It is shown further that the far-red-absorbing form of phytochrome (Pfr) was not required during or after, but was required before blue-light perception. Furthermore, a component that directly determines the blue-light responsiveness was generated by Pfr after a lag of 15 min over a 15-min period and decayed with similar kinetics after removal of Pfr by far-red light. The anion-channel blocker 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid prevented the shrinking response. This result, together with those in the literature and the kinetic features of shrinking, suggests that anion channels are activated first, and outward-rectifying cation channels are subsequently activated, resulting in continued net effluxes of Cl- and K+. The postshrinking volume recovery is achieved by K+ and Cl- influxes, with contribution by the proton motive force. External Ca2+ has no role in shrinking and the recovery. The gradual swelling of protoplasts that prevails under background red light is shown to be a phytochrome-mediated response in which phytochrome A contributes more than phytochrome B.
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- X Wang
- Botanical Gardens, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Kisaichi, Katano-shi, Osaka 576, Japan
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Yang Z, Emerson M, Su HS, Sehgal A. Response of the timeless protein to light correlates with behavioral entrainment and suggests a nonvisual pathway for circadian photoreception. Neuron 1998; 21:215-23. [PMID: 9697865 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80528-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The period (per) and timeless (tim) genes are required for circadian behavioral rhythms in Drosophila. The current model for how these rhythms entrain to light is based upon the light induced decrease in timeless protein (TIM) levels. We show here that the TIM response to light correlates with the effect of light on the behavioral rhythm. To identify components of the entrainment pathway, we also assayed the TIM response in flies with mutant visual systems. Flies that lacked eyes displayed a normal response in lateral neurons. The TIM response to a light pulse was attenuated in flies that were mutant for the transient receptor potential (trp) and trp-like (trpl) genes, which are required for calcium conductance in the visual transduction cascade. The reduced TIM response was accompanied by a reduced phase shift in the behavioral rhythm, but neither response was completely eliminated, and the trpl;trp flies entrain to light-dark cycles, suggesting that these genes perturb some aspect of circadian entrainment when mutated but are not essential for it. The TIM response was also unaffected in ninaE flies that lack the rhodopsin protein (rh1). These results support the hypothesis that circadian entrainment does not rely on the visual system and likely involves a dedicated pathway for photoreception.
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- Z Yang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Chattopadhyay S, Puente P, Deng XW, Wei N. Combinatorial interaction of light-responsive elements plays a critical role in determining the response characteristics of light-regulated promoters in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 15:69-77. [PMID: 9744096 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00180.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We have studied the roles of PhyA, PhyB and CRY1 photoreceptors and the downstream light-signaling components, COP1 and DET1, in mediating high-irradiance light-controlled activity of promoters containing synthetic light-responsive elements (LRE). Promoters with paired LREs were able to respond to a wide spectrum of light through multiple photoreceptors, while the light-inducible single LRE promoters primarily responded to a specific wavelength of light. In addition, our results indicate that Cry1 is involved in PhyB-mediated red-light induction of the G-GATA/NOS101 promoter, and that both Cry1 and PhyB are required for effective repression of the GT1/NOS101 promoter by red or blue light. An interaction between PhyA and PhyB in mediating GT1-GATA/NOS101 promoter light activation was also observed. Furthermore, our data indicate that COP1 and DET1 exert negative control in the dark only on paired LRE promoters but not single LRE promoters. From these results, we conclude that the combinatorial interaction of LREs is essential in determining the ability of light-responsive promoters to be modulated by crucial cellular regulators and to respond to diverse light environments.
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- S Chattopadhyay
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Bruggemann EP, Doan B, Handwerger K, Storz G. Characterization of an unstable allele of the Arabidopsis HY4 locus. Genetics 1998; 149:1575-85. [PMID: 9649544 PMCID: PMC1460247 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/149.3.1575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Arabidopsis HY4 gene encodes the nonessential blue light photoreceptor CRY1. Loss-of-function hy4 mutants have an elongated hypocotyl phenotype after germination under blue light. We previously analyzed 20 independent hy4 alleles produced by fast neutron mutagenesis. These alleles were grouped into two classes based on their genetic behavior and corresponding deletion size: (1) null hy4 alleles that were semidominant over wild type and contained small or moderate-sized deletions at HY4 and (2) null hy4 alleles that were recessive lethal and contained large HY4 deletions. Here we describe one additional fast neutron hy4 mutant, B144, that did not fall into either of these two classes. Mutant B144 was isolated as a heterozygote with an intermediate hy4 phenotype. One allele from this mutant, hy4-B144(Delta), contains a large deletion at HY4 and is recessive lethal. The other allele from this mutant, HY4-B144*, appears to be intact and functional but is unstable and spontaneously converts to a nonfunctional hy4 allele. In addition, HY4-B144* is lethal in homozygotes and suppresses local recombination. We discuss genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that may account for the unusual behavior of the HY4-B144* allele.
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- E P Bruggemann
- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5430, USA
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Koornneef M, Alonso-Blanco C, Peeters AJM, Soppe W. GENETIC CONTROL OF FLOWERING TIME IN ARABIDOPSIS. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998; 49:345-370. [PMID: 15012238 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 388] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The timing of the transition from vegetative to reproductive development is of great fundamental and applied interest but is still poorly understood. Recently, molecular-genetic approaches have been used to dissect this process in Arabidopsis. The genetic variation present among a large number of mutants with an early- or late-flowering phenotype, affecting the control of both environmental and endogenous factors that influence the transition to flowering, is described. The genetic, molecular, and physiological analyses have led to identification of different components involved, such as elements of photoperception and the circadian rhythm. Furthermore, elements involved in the signal transduction pathways to flowering have been identified by the cloning of some floral induction genes and their target genes.
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- Maarten Koornneef
- Department of Genetics, Wageningen Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 2, Wageningen, NL-6703 HA The Netherlands
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Ahmad M, Jarillo JA, Smirnova O, Cashmore AR. The CRY1 blue light photoreceptor of Arabidopsis interacts with phytochrome A in vitro. Mol Cell 1998; 1:939-48. [PMID: 9651577 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80094-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Plants have at least two major photosensory receptors: phytochrome (absorbing primarily red/far-red light) and cryptochrome (absorbing blue/UV-A light); considerable physiological and genetic evidence suggests some form of communication or functional dependence between the receptors. Here, we demonstrate in vitro, using purified recombinant photoreceptors, that Arabidopsis CRY1 and CRY2 (cryptochrome) are substrates for phosphorylation by a phytochrome A-associated kinase activity. Several mutations within the CRY1 C terminus lead to reduced phosphorylation by phytochrome preparations in vitro. Yeast two-hybrid interaction studies using expressed C-terminal fragments of CRY1 and phytochrome A from Arabidopsis confirm a direct physical interaction between both photoreceptors. In vivo labeling studies and specific mutant alleles of CRY1, which interfere with the function of phytochrome, suggest the possible relevance of these findings in vivo.
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- M Ahmad
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6018, USA.
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Miyamoto Y, Sancar A. Vitamin B2-based blue-light photoreceptors in the retinohypothalamic tract as the photoactive pigments for setting the circadian clock in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:6097-102. [PMID: 9600923 PMCID: PMC27591 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.11.6097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 327] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/1998] [Accepted: 04/01/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In mammals the retina contains photoactive molecules responsible for both vision and circadian photoresponse systems. Opsins, which are located in rods and cones, are the pigments for vision but it is not known whether they play a role in circadian regulation. A subset of retinal ganglion cells with direct projections to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) are at the origin of the retinohypothalamic tract that transmits the light signal to the master circadian clock in the SCN. However, the ganglion cells are not known to contain rhodopsin or other opsins that may function as photoreceptors. We have found that the two blue-light photoreceptors, cryptochromes 1 and 2 (CRY1 and CRY2), recently discovered in mammals are specifically expressed in the ganglion cell and inner nuclear layers of the mouse retina. In addition, CRY1 is expressed at high level in the SCN and oscillates in this tissue in a circadian manner. These data, in conjunction with the established role of CRY2 in photoperiodism in plants, lead us to propose that mammals have a vitamin A-based photopigment (opsin) for vision and a vitamin B2-based pigment (cryptochrome) for entrainment of the circadian clock.
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- Y Miyamoto
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Ahmad M, Jarillo JA, Smirnova O, Cashmore AR. Cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptors of Arabidopsis implicated in phototropism. Nature 1998; 392:720-3. [PMID: 9565033 DOI: 10.1038/33701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Phototropism-bending towards the light-is one of the best known plant tropic responses. Despite being reported by Darwin and others over a century ago to be specifically under the control of blue light, the photoreceptors mediating phototropism have remained unknown. We have characterized a blue-light photoreceptor from Arabidopsis, named CRY1 for cryptochrome 1; this photoreceptor is a flavoprotein that mediates numerous blue-light-dependent responses. In Arabidopsis, HY4 (the gene encoding CRY1) is a member of a small gene family that also encodes a related photoreceptor, CRY2, which shares considerable functional overlap with CRY1. Here we report that mutant plants lacking both the CRY1 and the CRY2 blue-light photoreceptors are deficient in the phototropic response. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants overexpressing CRY1 or CRY2 show enhanced phototropic curvature. We conclude that cryptochrome is one of the photoreceptors mediating phototropism in plants.
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- M Ahmad
- Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6018, USA.
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Christopher DA, Hoffer PH. DET1 represses a chloroplast blue light-responsive promoter in a developmental and tissue-specific manner in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 14:1-11. [PMID: 9681024 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00078.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The chloroplast psbD-psbC loci, which encode the D2 and CP43 subunits of the photosystem II reaction center, respectively, are regulated by a blue light-responsive promoter (BLRP). It has recently been shown in barley seedlings that activation of psbD-psbC transcription by blue light involves inhibition of a protein kinase that represses the BLRP in the dark. To elucidate further the photosensory pathways regulating the psbD BLRP, the effects of three nuclear mutations on the expression of the BLRP in chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana were examined. The mutants used included the det1-1 and det1-6 alleles for the nuclear protein DET1, involved in repressing photomorphogenesis, and the cry1 gene for the blue light photoreceptor, cryptochrome (CRY1), involved in hypocotyl elongation. The BLRP was not significantly expressed in cotyledons of light-grown wild-type seedlings, unlike the light-responsive expression of the chloroplast, psbA and rbcL, and nuclear, Lhcb and Chs, genes. Analysis of the mutants revealed that DET1 represses transcription from the BLRP in a developmental and tissue-specific manner, which is unique from the effects that DET1 has on other light-regulated promoters. In addition, the cry1 mutation did not reduce the expression of the BLRP in response to blue light. This suggests that the BLRP is regulated by a different photosensory system relative to CRY1. A model is proposed involving blue light, DET1 and phytochrome in regulating transcription from the psbD BLRP.
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- D A Christopher
- Department of Plant Molecular Physiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822, USA.
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Lin C, Yang H, Guo H, Mockler T, Chen J, Cashmore AR. Enhancement of blue-light sensitivity of Arabidopsis seedlings by a blue light receptor cryptochrome 2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:2686-90. [PMID: 9482948 PMCID: PMC19462 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.5.2686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/1997] [Accepted: 12/23/1997] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cryptochrome is a group of flavin-type blue light receptors that regulate plant growth and development. The function of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 in the early photomorphogenesis of seedlings was studied by using transgenic plants overexpressing CRY2 protein, and cry2 mutant plants accumulating no CRY2 protein. It is found that cryptochrome 2 mediates blue light-dependent inhibition of hypocotyl elongation and stimulation of cotyledon opening under low intensities of blue light. In contrast to CRY1, the expression of CRY2 is rapidly down-regulated by blue light in a light-intensity dependent manner, which provides a molecular mechanism to explain at least in part that cryptochrome 2 functions primarily under low light during the early development of seedlings.
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- C Lin
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Reed JW, Elumalai RP, Chory J. Suppressors of an Arabidopsis thaliana phyB mutation identify genes that control light signaling and hypocotyl elongation. Genetics 1998; 148:1295-310. [PMID: 9539443 PMCID: PMC1460030 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/148.3.1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Ambient light controls the development and physiology of plants. The Arabidopsis thaliana photoreceptor phytochrome B (PHYB) regulates developmental light responses at both seedling and adult stages. To identify genes that mediate control of development by light, we screened for suppressors of the long hypocotyl phenotype caused by a phyB mutation. Genetic analyses show that the shy (short hypocotyl) mutations we have isolated fall in several loci. Phenotypes of the mutants suggest that some of the genes identified have functions in control of light responses. Other loci specifically affect cell elongation or expansion.
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- J W Reed
- Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-3280, USA.
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The shift in plants from vegetative growth to floral development is regulated by red-far-red light receptors (phytochromes) and blue-ultraviolet A light receptors (cryptochromes). A mutation in the Arabidopsis thaliana CRY2 gene encoding a blue-light receptor apoprotein (CRY2) is allelic to the late-flowering mutant, fha. Flowering in cry2/fha mutant plants is only incompletely responsive to photoperiod. Cryptochrome 2 (cry2) is a positive regulator of the flowering-time gene CO, the expression of which is regulated by photoperiod. Analysis of flowering in cry2 and phyB mutants in response to different wavelengths of light indicated that flowering is regulated by the antagonistic actions of phyB and cry2.
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- H Guo
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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