title: Tobacco transcription factor TGA2.2 is the main component of as-1-binding factor ASF-1 and is involved in salicylic acid- and auxin-inducible expression of as-1-containing target promoters.
abstract: In higher plants, activating sequence-1 (as-1) of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35 S promoter mediates both salicylic acid (SA)- and auxin-inducible transcriptional activation. Originally found in promoters of several viral and bacterial plant pathogens, as-1-like elements are also functional elements of plant promoters activated in the course of a defense response upon pathogen attack. Nuclear as-1-binding factor (ASF-1) and cellular salicylic acid response protein (SARP) bind specifically to as-1. Four different tobacco bZIP transcription factors (TGA1a, PG13, TGA2.1, and TGA2.2) are potential components of either ASF-1 or SARP. Here we show that ASF-1 and SARP are very similar in their composition. TGA2.2 is a major component of either complex, as shown by supershift analysis and Western blot analysis of DNA affinity-purified SARP. Minor amounts of a protein immunologically related to TGA2.1 were detected, whereas TGA1a was not detectable. Overexpression of either TGA2.2 or a dominant negative TGA2.2 mutant affected both SA and auxin (2, 4D) inducibility of various target promoters encoding as-1-like elements, albeit to different extents. This indicates that TGA2.2 is a component of the enhancosome assembling on these target promoters, both under elevated SA and 2,4D concentrations. However, the effect of altered TGA2.2 levels on gene expression was more pronounced upon SA treatment than upon 2,4D treatment.
authors.affiliation: Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut fuer Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universitaet Goettingen, Untere Karspuele 2, 37073 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Niggeweg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thurow
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kegler
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gatz
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D005966:Glucuronidase / Q000378:metabolism; D007210:Indoleacetic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009154:Mutation; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D020156:Salicylic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D007210:Indoleacetic Acids; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C065794:TGA1a protein, Nicotiana tabacum; D014157:Transcription Factors; D005966:Glucuronidase; D020156:Salicylic Acid