Importance of transcription factors in the regulation

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AbstractTranscriptionfactorsareknowntoplayakeyroleinregulatingfluxthroughpathwaysofsec-ondarymetabolism,bycontrollingthelevelsofpathwaygeneexpression.Thisregulatorymechanismseemstobeimportantfortheterpenoidpathway,asaccumulationofmanystress-inducedandstoredterpenoidsoftenfollowscoordinatedinductionofpathwaygenes.Whereasthebodyofknowledgeonregulatorsoftheflavonoidpathwayisalreadyquitelarge,transcriptionfactorscontrollingplantterpenoidaccumulationarejuststartingtobeidentified.Inadditiontotheirroleinmetaboliccontrol,transcrip-tionfactorsarealsoessentialinthedifferentiationofcellsthatproduceandaccumulateterpenoids.Inparticular,theyappeartoplayanimportantroleintheinitiationanddifferentiationofglandulartrichomes,

whichareamajorsiteofterpenoidaccumulationinplants.Wearepresentingheresomeoftherecentfindingsontheroleplayedbytheseimportantregu-latoryproteinsinsecondarymetabolismandinter-penoidbiosynthesis,aswellasthepicturethatisstartingtoemergeoftheirimplicationindifferenti-ationandmetabolicprocessesleadingtotheaccu-mulationofterpenoidsinplants.

KeywordsTranscriptionfactorÆTerpenoidÆTrichomeÆSecondaryMetabolismÆSecretorystructure

AbbreviationsTFTranscriptionFactorbHLHbasicHelix-Loop-HelixC1COLORLESS1RREDTT2,8TRANSPARENTTESTA2,8GL1GLABROUS1GL3GLABRA3PAP1,2PRODUCTIONOFANTHOCYANINPIGMENT1,2IN1INTENSIFIER1LcLEAFCOLORTTG1TRANSPARENTTESTAGLABRA1ORCA3OCTADECANOID-DERIVATIVERESPONSIVECATHARANTUSAPETALA2-DOMAINPROTEIN3

P.Broun(&)ÆY.LiuCNAPDepartmentofBiology(Area7),UniversityofYork,P.O.box373,YorkYO105YW,UKe-mail:pb22@york.ac.uk

E.QueenÆY.SchwarzÆM.L.AbenesÆM.LeibmanMendelBiotechnology,21375CabotBoulevard,Hayward94545CA,USA

M.LeibmanCenterforCancerSystemsBiologyandDepartmentofCancerBiology,Dana-FarberCancerInstitute,HarvardMedicalSchool,Boston,MA02115,USA

PhytochemRev(2006)5:27–38DOI10.1007/s11101-006-9000-x

123Importanceoftranscriptionfactorsintheregulationofplantsecondarymetabolismandtheirrelevancetothecontrolofterpenoidaccumulation

PierreBrounÆYanLiuÆEmilyQueenÆYukaSchwarzÆMaLlevaAbenesÆMarkLeibman

Received:7July2005/Accepted:25February2006/Publishedonline:1July2006ÓSpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2006GRGlucocorticoidReceptorChIPChromatinImmuno-PrecipitationHMGorHMGRHydroxyMethylGlutarylCo-enzymeADXR1-deoxyxylulose-5-phosphatereducto-isomeraseDXS1-deoxyxylulose-5-phosphatesynthasePSYphytoenesynthaseIPPisopentenyldiphosphateDMAPPdimethylallyldiphosphateMEP2-C-methyl-erythritol4-phosphateTIA(mono)TerpenoidIndoleAlkaloid

IntroductionManybiologicalfactorscontributetotheaccumula-tionofsecondarymetabolitesinplants.Biochemicalandcellularfactorsinfluencebiosyntheticfluxandhowefficientlymetabolitesaretransportedandstoredintheirfinalsiteofdeposition(Winkel2004;Yazaki2005).Developmentalfactorsinfluencetheinitiationanddifferentiationofspecializedcellularstructureswherethemetabolitesaresynthesizedandaccumu-late(Turneretal.2000a).Inthecaseofvolatileterpenoids,thedevelopmentofsecretorystructuresisparticularlyimportanttometabolicoutput,astheyarerequiredformetaboliteaccumulation.Plantmor-phologyandsizecanalsohaveanimportantimpactontheoverallmetabolicoutput.Finally,environ-mentalconditionshaveastrongeffectbymodulatingplantmetabolismanddevelopment(Broecklingetal.2005;ChienandSussex1996;Zhaoetal.1998).Bothmetabolicfluxandcellulardifferentiationareknowntobecontrolledtoalargeextentbytran-scriptionfactors(TF).Theseregulatoryproteins,whichoperateinthenucleus,havetheabilitytoselectivelybindpromoterregionsinspecificgenestoinfluencetheleveloftheirexpression.Byincreasingordecreasingtranscriptionoftheirtargetgenes,theycanhaveaprofoundeffectonthebiologicalpro-cessesthesegenescontrol(Latchman2003).Inthecaseofmetabolism,theycaninfluencetheexpressionofpathwaygenesandultimatelyaffectmetabolicflux.Transcriptionfactorsarealsoinvolvedin

controllingmanyplantdevelopmentalprocesses,inparticularmanyofthedifferentiationeventsleadingtometabolicallyspecializedcelltypes(Broun2004,2005).Theroleoftranscriptionfactorsincontrollingmetabolicfluxanddifferentiationofthecellularstructureswhereterpenoidsareproducedishigh-lightedinthisreview.Wearealsodescribingsomeofthenovelapproachesthataimatidentifyingspecifictranscriptionfactorsinvolvedinthecontrolofplantterpenoidproduction,eitherthroughtheirdirectinvolvementwiththepathway,orthroughtheirmodulationofcellulardifferentiationprocessesrele-vanttometaboliteaccumulation.

Transcriptionfactorsandtheregulationoffluxthroughpathwaysofsecondarymetabolisminplants:exampleoftheflavonoidpathway