SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA3 encodes a nuclear ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN6 required for floral repression in Arabidopsis.
Flowering traits in winter annual Arabidopsis thaliana are conferred mainly by two genes, FRIGIDA (FRI) and FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). FLC acts as a flowering repressor and is regulated by multiple flowering pathways. We isolated an early-flowering mutant, suppressor of FRIGIDA3 (suf3), which also shows leaf serration, weak apical dominance, and infrequent conversion of the inflorescence shoot to a terminal flower. The suf3 mutation caused a decrease in the transcript level of FLC in both a FRI-containing line and autonomous pathway mutants. However, suf3 showed only a partial reduction of FLC transcript level, although it largely suppressed the late-flowering phenotype. In addition, the suf3 mutation caused acceleration of flowering in both 35S-FLC and a flc null mutant, indicating that SUF3 regulates additional factor(s) for the repression of flowering. SUF3 is highly expressed in the shoot apex, but the expression is not regulated by FRI, autonomous pathway genes, or vernalization. SUF3 encodes the nuclear ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN6 (ARP6), the homolog of which in yeast is a component of an ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling SWR1 complex. Our analyses showed that SUF3 regulates FLC expression independent of vernalization, FRI, and an autonomous pathway gene, all of which affect the histone modification of FLC chromatin. Subcellular localization using a green fluorescent protein fusion showed that Arabidopsis ARP6 is located at distinct regions of the nuclear periphery.
Choi
Kyuha
K
Department of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
Kim
Sanghee
S
Kim
Sang Yeol
SY
Kim
Minsoo
M
Hyun
Youbong
Y
Lee
Horim
H
Choe
Sunghwa
S
Kim
Sang-Gu
SG
Michaels
Scott
S
Lee
Ilha
I
D000199:Actins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002843:Chromatin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015536:Down-Regulation / Q000235:genetics; D035264:Flowers / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism; D026161:MADS Domain Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008840:Microfilament Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D050436:Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional / Q000235:genetics; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / Q000235:genetics
C507995:ARP6 protein, Arabidopsis; D000199:Actins; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C498984:Arp6 protein, S pombe; D002843:Chromatin; C418902:At5g10140 protein, Arabidopsis; C414613:FRI protein, Arabidopsis; D006657:Histones; D026161:MADS Domain Proteins; D008840:Microfilament Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins