ArticlePlant physiology2016
Ethylene Regulates the Physiology of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 via an Ethylene Receptor.
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- Ethylene signals through an ethylene receptor to modulate biofilm formation and root colonization in a beneficial plant-associated bacterium.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Gas-sensing riboceptors.RNA biology · 2024Article
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- Evolution of ethylene as an abiotic stress hormone in streptophytes.Environmental and experimental botany · 2023Review
- Characterization of the transcriptional responses of Armillaria gallica 012m to GA3.Archives of microbiology · 2023Article
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- Basis for high-affinity ethylene binding by the ethylene receptor ETR1 of Arabidopsis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Comparative transcriptome analysis ofPeerJ · 2023Article
- Two Hybrid Histidine Kinases Involved in the Ethylene Regulation of the Mycelial Growth and Postharvest Fruiting Body Maturation and Senescence of Agaricus bisporus.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Impairment of a cyanobacterial glycosyltransferase that modifies a pilin results in biofilm development.Environmental microbiology reports · 2022Article
- The G protein subunit α1, CaGα1, mediates ethylene sensing of mango anthracnose pathogenFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Ethylene signaling in plants.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Review
- Translating New Synthetic Biology Advances for Biosensing Into the Earth and Environmental Sciences.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Review
- Recent Advances in Biological Functions of Thick Pili in the CyanobacteriumFrontiers in plant science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Ethylene is a plant hormone that plays a crucial role in the growth and development of plants. The ethylene receptors in plants are well studied, and it is generally assumed that they are found only in plants. In a search of sequenced genomes, we found that many bacterial species contain putative ethylene receptors. Plants acquired many proteins from cyanobacteria as a result of the endosymbiotic event that led to chloroplasts. We provide data that the cyanobacterium Synechocystis (Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803) has a functional receptor for ethylene, Synechocystis Ethylene Response1 (SynEtr1). We first show that SynEtr1 directly binds ethylene. Second, we demonstrate that application of ethylene to Synechocystis cells or disruption of the SynEtr1 gene affects several processes, including phototaxis, type IV pilus biosynthesis, photosystem II levels, biofilm formation, and spontaneous cell sedimentation. Our data suggest a model where SynEtr1 inhibits downstream signaling and ethylene inhibits SynEtr1. This is similar to the inverse-agonist model of ethylene receptor signaling proposed for plants and suggests a conservation of structure and function that possibly originated over 1 billion years ago. Prior research showed that SynEtr1 also contains a light-responsive phytochrome-like domain. Thus, SynEtr1 is a bifunctional receptor that mediates responses to both light and ethylene. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a functional ethylene receptor in a nonplant species and suggests that that the perception of ethylene is more widespread than previously thought.
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