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ArticleNature communications2025

Inactivation of GH3.5 by COP1-mediated K63-linked ubiquitination promotes seedling hypocotyl elongation.

Yongting Liu, Yinpeng Xie, Dongqing Xu, Xing Wang Deng, Jian Li

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Yongting LiuState Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences in Weifang, Weifang, Shandong, China.
Yinpeng XieShenzhen Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Engineering and Molecular Design, Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-9612
Dongqing XuState Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, National Center for Soybean Improvement, College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7498-6568
Xing Wang DengState Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences in Weifang, Weifang, Shandong, China. deng@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-1467
Jian LiCollege of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. jian@njnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1287-8932

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32200198
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 (COP1), which was first discovered as a central repressor of photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis, destabilizes proteins by ubiquitination in both plants and animals. However, it is unclear whether and how Arabidopsis COP1 mediates non-proteolytic ubiquitination to regulate photomorphogenesis. Here, we show that COP1-mediated lysine 63 (K63)-linked polyubiquitination inhibits the enzyme activity of GRETCHEN HAGEN 3.5 (GH3.5), a synthetase that conjugates amino acids to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), thereby promoting hypocotyl elongation in the dark. We show that COP1 physically interacts with and genetically acts through GH3.5 to promote hypocotyl elongation. COP1 does not affect GH3.5 protein stability; however, it suppresses GH3.5 activity through K63-linked ubiquitination in the dark, inhibiting the endogenous conversion of IAA to IAA-amino acid conjugates. Further, light regulates IAA metabolism by suppressing the inhibitory effect of COP1 on the function of GH3.5 and its homologs. Our results shed light on the non-proteolytic role of COP1-mediated ubiquitination and the mechanism by which light regulates auxin metabolism to modulate hypocotyl elongation.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsHypocotylSeedlingsUbiquitin-Protein LigasesGene Expression Regulation, PlantIndoleacetic AcidsLightLysineUbiquitinationArabidopsis ProteinsAT2G32950 protein, Arabidopsisindoleacetic acidIndoleacetic AcidsLysineUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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