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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2015

Chloroplast Biogenesis-Associated Nuclear Genes: Control by Plastid Signals Evolved Prior to Their Regulation as Part of Photomorphogenesis.

Alison C Hills, Safina Khan, Enrique López-Juez

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alison C HillsSchool of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, UK.
Safina KhanSchool of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, UK.
Enrique López-JuezSchool of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, UK.
Royal Holloway University of London · GB

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Abstract

The assembly of photosynthetically competent chloroplasts occurs in angiosperm seedlings when first exposed to light, and is due to the control by light of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes (PhANGs), also dependent upon plastid-to-nucleus "biogenic" communication signals. The relationship between light- and plastid signal-regulation of PhANGs is close but poorly understood. In contrast, many conifers green in the dark and the promoter of a pine PhANG, Lhcb, is active in the dark in tobacco. Here, we show that the activity of this promoter in tobacco is sensitive to plastid photobleaching, or to the inhibition of plastid translation in the light or the dark, and the same interventions reduce expression of the native gene in pine seedlings, demonstrating classic plastid biogenic signaling in gymnosperms. Furthermore, Arabidopsis mutations causing defective plastid biogenesis suppress the effect in darkness of mutations in COP1 and DET1, repressors of photomorphogenesis, for the expression of several PhANGs but not a photosynthesis-unrelated, light-regulated gene. GLK transcriptional regulators mediate the response of LHCB but not of other tested PhANGs. We propose the ability to suppress PhANG response to positive plastid biogenic signals in the dark may have contributed to the evolution of light-controlled chloroplast biogenesis.

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chloroplast developmentCOP1 ArabidopsisDET1GLKgymnosperm photomorphogenesisLHCBphotomorphogenesisplastid signals

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