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ArticleNature plants2023

Evolution of a plant growth-regulatory protein interaction specificity.

Zhe Ji, Eric J Belfield, Siyu Zhang, Jacques Bouvier, Shan Li, Jason Schnell, Xiangdong Fu, Nicholas P Harberd

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Article in Nature plants, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhe JiDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-2598
Eric J BelfieldDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0892-100X
Siyu ZhangNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6943-5171
Jacques BouvierDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6617-0112
Shan LiState Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2837-9027
Jason SchnellDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8204-7608
Xiangdong FuState Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-7543
Nicholas P HarberdDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. nicholas.harberd@biology.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7634-3902
University of Oxford · GBChinese Academy of Sciences · CNNanjing Agricultural University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32020103004National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32122065RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/M011224/1RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/S013741/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Specific protein-protein interactions (PPIs) enable biological regulation. However, the evolution of PPI specificity is little understood. Here we trace the evolution of the land-plant growth-regulatory DELLA-SLY1/GID2 PPI, revealing progressive increase in specificity of affinity of SLY1/GID2 for a particular DELLA form. While early-diverging SLY1s display relatively broad-range DELLA affinity, later-diverging SLY1s tend towards increasingly stringent affinity for a specific DELLA A' form generated by the growth-promoting phytohormone gibberellin (GA). Our novel mutational strategy reveals amino acid substitutions contributing to the evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana SLY1 A' specificity, also showing that routes permitting reversion to broader affinity became increasingly constrained over evolutionary time. We suggest that progressive affinity narrowing may be an important evolutionary driver of PPI specificity and that increase in SLY1/GID2-DELLA specificity enabled the enhanced flexibility of plant physiological environmental adaptation conferred by the GA-DELLA growth-regulatory mechanism.

Indexed as

ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, PlantGibberellinsPlant DevelopmentPlant Growth RegulatorsTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsGibberellinsPlant Growth RegulatorsTranscription Factors

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PMID37903985
PMCPMC10724065
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