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. 2024 Jul 1;17(7):1054-1072.
doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2024.05.007. Epub 2024 May 27.

Non-transcriptional regulatory activity of SMAX1 and SMXL2 mediates karrikin-regulated seedling response to red light in Arabidopsis

Wenwen Chang  1 , Qiao Qiao  1 , Qingtian Li  2 , Xin Li  1 , Yanyan Li  3 , Xiahe Huang  4 , Yingchun Wang  5 , Jiayang Li  6 , Bing Wang  7 , Lei Wang  8
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Non-transcriptional regulatory activity of SMAX1 and SMXL2 mediates karrikin-regulated seedling response to red light in Arabidopsis

Wenwen Chang et al. Mol Plant. .

Abstract

Karrikins and strigolactones govern plant development and environmental responses through closely related signaling pathways. The transcriptional repressor proteins SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1 (SMAX1), SMAX1-like2 (SMXL2), and D53-like SMXLs mediate karrikin and strigolactone signaling by directly binding downstream genes or by inhibiting the activities of transcription factors. In this study, we characterized the non-transcriptional regulatory activities of SMXL proteins in Arabidopsis. We discovered that SMAX1 and SMXL2 with mutations in their ethylene-response factor-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR) motif had undetectable or weak transcriptional repression activities but still partially rescued the hypocotyl elongation defects and fully reversed the cotyledon epinasty defects of the smax1 smxl2 mutant. SMAX1 and SMXL2 directly interact with PHYTOCHROME INTERACTION FACTOR 4 (PIF4) and PIF5 to enhance their protein stability by interacting with phytochrome B (phyB) and suppressing the association of phyB with PIF4 and PIF5. The karrikin-responsive genes were then identified by treatment with GR24ent-5DS, a GR24 analog showing karrikin activity. Interestingly, INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID INDUCIBLE 29 (IAA29) expression was repressed by GR24ent-5DS treatment in a PIF4- and PIF5-dependent and EAR-independent manner, whereas KARRIKIN UPREGULATED F-BOX 1 (KUF1) expression was induced in a PIF4- and PIF5-independent and EAR-dependent manner. Furthermore, the non-transcriptional regulatory activity of SMAX1, which is independent of the EAR motif, had a global effect on gene expression. Taken together, these results indicate that non-transcriptional regulatory activities of SMAX1 and SMXL2 mediate karrikin-regulated seedling response to red light.

Keywords: PIF4 and PIF5; SMAX1 and SMXL2; gene expression; karrikin signaling; non-transcriptional repression activity; red light.

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