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ArticleNature plants2025

ARF degradation defines a deeply conserved step in auxin response.

Martijn de Roij, Jorge Hernández García, Shubhajit Das, Jan Willem Borst, Dolf Weijers

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Article in Nature plants, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  3. Mutational analyses of an instability domain reveal its conserved role in the regulation of class-B ARF levels inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR thermostability.Nature communications · 2026
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Martijn de RoijLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4724-9650
Jorge Hernández GarcíaLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2526-8639
Shubhajit DasLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7775-1054
Jan Willem BorstLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Dolf WeijersLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. dolf.weijers@wur.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4378-141X

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RGP0015/2022Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) OCENW.M20.031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In land plants, the signalling molecule auxin profoundly controls growth and development, chiefly through a transcriptional response system. The auxin response is mediated by modulating the activity of DNA-binding auxin response factor (ARF) proteins. The concentrations and stoichiometry of the competing A- and B-class ARFs define cells' capacity for auxin response. In the minimal auxin response system of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, both A- and B-ARFs are unstable, but the underlying mechanisms, developmental relevance and evolutionary history of this instability are unknown. Here we identify a minimal motif that is necessary for MpARF2 (B-class) degradation and show that it is critical for development and the auxin response. Through comparative analysis and motif swaps among all ARF classes in extant algae and land plants, we infer that the emergence of ARF instability probably occurred in the ancestor of the A- and B-ARF clades and, therefore, preceded or coincided with the origin of the auxin response system.

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Indoleacetic AcidsMarchantiaPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsTranscription FactorsGene Expression Regulation, PlantIndoleacetic AcidsPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID40216983
PMCPMC12014493

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