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ArticlePlant physiology2011

Partners in time: EARLY BIRD associates with ZEITLUPE and regulates the speed of the Arabidopsis clock.

Mikael Johansson, Harriet G McWatters, László Bakó, Naoki Takata, Péter Gyula, Anthony Hall, David E Somers, Andrew J Millar, Maria E Eriksson

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Article in Plant physiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Mikael JohanssonDepartment of Plant Physiology, Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea University, SE-901 87 Umea, Sweden.
Harriet G McWatters
László Bakó
Naoki Takata
Péter Gyula
Anthony Hall
David E Somers
Andrew J Millar
Maria E Eriksson
HUN-REN Szegedi Biológiai Kutatóközpont · HUHungarian Academy of Sciences · HUThe Ohio State University · USUmeå University · SEUniversity of Edinburgh · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F005318/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council G19886/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The circadian clock of the model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is made up of a complex series of interacting feedback loops whereby proteins regulate their own expression across day and night. early bird (ebi) is a circadian mutation that causes the clock to speed up: ebi plants have short circadian periods, early phase of clock gene expression, and are early flowering. We show that EBI associates with ZEITLUPE (ZTL), known to act in the plant clock as a posttranslational mediator of protein degradation. However, EBI is not degraded by its interaction with ZTL. Instead, ZTL counteracts the effect of EBI during the day and increases it at night, modulating the expression of key circadian components. The partnership of EBI with ZTL reveals a novel mechanism involved in controlling the complex transcription-translation feedback loops of the clock. This work highlights the importance of cross talk between the ubiquitination pathway and transcriptional control for regulation of the plant clock.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCircadian ClocksCircadian RhythmGene Expression Regulation, PlantMutationPhenotypePlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA, PlantTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsRNA, PlantTranscription FactorsZTL protein, Arabidopsis

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PMID21300918
PMCPMC3091123
OpenAlexW2128172662

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