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- Title
JAZ8 Lacks a Canonical Degron and Has an EAR Motif That Mediates Transcriptional Repression of Jasmonate Responses in Arabidopsis.
- Authors
Shyu, Christine; Figueroa, Pablo; DePew, Cody L.; Cooke, Thomas F.; Sheard, Laura B.; Moreno, Javier E.; Katsir, Leron; Zheng, Ning; Browse, John; Howe, Gregg A.
- Abstract
The lipid-derived hormone jasmonoyl- l -Ile (JA-Ile) initiates large-scale changes in gene expression by stabilizing the interaction of JASMONATE ZIM domain (JAZ) repressors with the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 (COI1), which results in JAZ degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Recent structural studies show that the JAZ1 degradation signal (degron) includes a short conserved LPIAR motif that seals JA-Ile in its binding pocket at the COI1-JAZ interface. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana JAZ8 lacks this motif and thus is unable to associate strongly with COI1 in the presence of JA-Ile. As a consequence, JAZ8 is stabilized against jasmonate (JA)-mediated degradation and, when ectopically expressed in Arabidopsis , represses JA-regulated growth and defense responses. These findings indicate that sequence variation in a hypervariable region of the degron affects JAZ stability and JA-regulated physiological responses. We also show that JAZ8-mediated repression depends on an LxLxL-type EAR (for ERF-associated amphiphilic repression) motif at the JAZ8 N terminus that binds the corepressor TOPLESS and represses transcriptional activation. JAZ8-mediated repression does not require the ZIM domain, which, in other JAZ proteins, recruits TOPLESS through the EAR motif–containing adaptor protein NINJA. These findings show that EAR repression domains in a subgroup of JAZ proteins repress gene expression through direct recruitment of corepressors to cognate transcription factors.
- Subjects
JASMONATE; ARABIDOPSIS; EAR; HYPERVARIABLE regions; ARABIDOPSIS thaliana; ADAPTOR proteins
- Publication
Plant Cell, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 2, p536
- ISSN
1040-4651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1105/tpc.111.093005