Pautler, M., Eveland, A. L., LaRue, T., Yang, F., Weeks, R., Lunde, C., Je, B. I., Meeley, R., Komatsu, M., Vollbrecht, E., Sakai, H., Jackson, D. (January 2015) FASCIATED EAR4 Encodes a bZIP Transcription Factor That Regulates Shoot Meristem Size in Maize. Plant Cell, 27 (1). pp. 104-120. ISSN 1040-4651
Abstract
Plant architecture is dictated by precise control of meristematic activity. In the shoot, an imbalance in positive or negative maintenance signals can result in a fasciated or enlarged meristem phenotype. fasciated ear4 (fea4) is a semidwarfed mutant with fasciated ears and tassels as well as greatly enlarged vegetative and inflorescence meristems. We identified FEA4 as a bZIP transcription factor, orthologous to Arabidopsis thaliana PERIANTHIA. FEA4 was expressed in the peripheral zone of the vegetative shoot apical meristem and in the vasculature of immature leaves and conspicuously excluded from the stem cell niche at the tip of the shoot apical meristem and from incipient leaf primordia. Following the transition to reproductive fate, FEA4 was expressed throughout the entire inflorescence and floral meristems. Native expression of a functional YFP:FEA4 fusion recapitulated this pattern of expression. We used chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing to identify 4060 genes proximal to FEA4 binding sites, including ones that were potentially bound and modulated by FEA4 based on transcriptional changes in fea4 mutant ears. Our results suggest that FEA4 promotes differentiation in the meristem periphery by regulating auxin-based responses and genes associated with leaf differentiation and polarity, potentially in opposition to factors such as KNOTTED1 and WUSCHEL.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transcription organism description > plant > maize organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > meristem bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > transcription factor |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Jackson lab School of Biological Sciences > Publications |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 23 January 2015 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2015 19:39 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2015 16:57 |
| PMCID: | PMC4330574 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/31169 |
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