Functional Diversification within the Family of

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FunctionalDiversificationwithintheFamilyof

B-GATATranscriptionFactorsthroughthe

Leucine-Leucine-MethionineDomain1[C][W][OPEN]

CarinaBehringer,EmmanouilBastakis,QuirinL.Ranftl,KlausF.X.Mayer,andClausSchwechheimer*

PlantSystemsBiology,TechnischeUniversitätMünchen,85354Freising,Germany(C.B.,E.B.,Q.L.R.,C.S.);and

MunichInformationCentreforProteinSequences,InstituteforBioinformaticsandSystemsBiology,Helmholtz

ZentrumMünchen,GermanResearchCenterforEnvironmentalHealth,85764Neuherberg,Germany(K.F.X.M.)

ThetranscriptionoftheArabidopsis(Arabidopsisthaliana)GATAtranscriptionfactorsGATA,NITRATE-INDUCIBLE,CARBON

METABOLISM-INVOLVED(GNC)andGNC-LIKE(GNL)/CYTOKININ-RESPONSIVEGATAFACTOR1iscontrolledby

severalgrowthregulatorysignalsincludinglightandthephytohormonesauxin,cytokinin,andgibberellin.Todate,GNCandGNL

havebeenattributedfunctionsinthecontrolofgermination,greening,floweringtime,floraldevelopment,senescence,andfloralorgan

abscission.GNCandGNLbelongtothe11-memberfamilyofB-classGATAtranscriptionfactorsthatarecharacterizedtodatesolely

bytheirhighsequenceconservationwithintheGATADNA-bindingdomain.Thedegreeoffunctionalconservationamongthevarious

B-classGATAfamilymembersisnotunderstood.Here,weidentifyandexamineB-classGATAsfromArabidopsis,tomato(Solanum

lycopersicon),Brachypodium(Brachypodiumdistachyon),andbarley(Hordeumvulgare).WefindthatB-classGATAsfromthesefour

speciescanbesubdividedbasedontheirshortorlongNterminiandthepresenceofthe13-aminoacidC-terminalleucine-leucine-

methionine(LLM)domainwiththeconservedmotifLLM.Throughoverexpressionanalysesandbycomplementationofagncgnl

doublemutant,weprovideevidencethatthelengthoftheNterminusmaynotallowdistinguishingbetweenthedifferentB-class

GATAsatthefunctionallevel.Inturn,wefindthatthepresenceandabsenceoftheLLMdomainintheoverexpressorshasdifferential

effectsonhypocotylelongation,leafshape,andpetiolelength,aswellasongeneexpression.Thus,ouranalysesidentifytheLLM

domainasanevolutionarilyconserveddomainthatdeterminesB-classGATAfactoridentityandprovidesafurthersubclassification

criterionforthistranscriptionfactorfamily.

GATAfactorsareevolutionarilyconservedtran-

scriptionalregulatorswithatypeIVzincfingerdomain

(C-X2-C-X17-20-C-X2-C)thatbindstotheconsensusDNA

sequenceWGATAR(whereWisTorAandRisGorA;

Reyesetal.,2004).WhereasGATAfactorsfromnonplant

speciesoftencontainmultipleGATAdomainswithloops

ofvariablelength,all30previouslyclassifiedGATA-like

zincfingerproteinsfromArabidopsis(Arabidopsisthaliana)

containonlyonezincfinger(http://www.arabidopsis.org;

Reyesetal.,2004).GATAfactorsfromArabidopsisand

rice(Oryzasativa)weresubdividedintofourclassesbased

ontheirsequencesimilarity,thepresenceorabsenceof

additionalrecognizableproteindomains,andtheirexon-

intronstructure(Reyesetal.,2004).ThisclassificationalsoincludesB-GATAsthatsharehighsequencesimilarities

betweentheindividualfamilymembersbutaredevoid

ofanyasyetidentifieddistinguishingsequencefeatures

outsideoftheGATADNA-bindingdomain.

Todate,fourofthe11membersoftheArabi-

dopsisB-GATAshavebeenexaminedinsomedetail:

thefunctionallyredundantGATA,NITRATE-INDUCIBLE,

CARBONMETABOLISM-INVOLVED(GNC;AtGATA21),

CYTOKININ-RESPONSIVEGATAFACTOR1/GNC-LIKE

(CGA1/GNL;AtGATA22;hithertoGNL),HANABA

TARANU(HAN;AtGATA18),andGATA23(AtGATA23).

GNCwasoriginallyidentifiedasanitrate-induciblegene

withanapparentroleinthecontrolofgreening(Bietal.,

2005;Hudsonetal.,2011;Chiangetal.,2012).TheGNC

paralogGNLwasalsodesignatedCGA1basedonits

transcriptionalregulationbycytokinin(Naitoetal.,

2007).FurtheranalysesshowedthatGNCandGNLare

functionallyredundanttranscriptionfactorswhoseex-

pressionisalsocontrolledbytheDELLAregulatorsofthe

GAsignalingpathway,thelight-labilePHYTOCHROME

INTERACTINGFACTORS,theAUXINRESPONSE

FACTORSARF2andARF7oftheauxinsignalingpath-

way,andthefloweringregulatorSUPPRESSOR-OF-

constans1(Richteretal.,2010,2013a,2013b).Moreover,

GNCandGNLwereproposedtobedirectlyrepressed

bythefloraldevelopmentregulatorsAPETALA3and

PISTILLATA,anditwassuggestedthatthisrepression

servestopreventgreeninginArabidopsispetals

(Mara1ThisworkwassupportedbygrantsfromtheDeutscheFor-

schungsgemeinschaft(nos.SCHW751/9–1andSCHW751/10–1in

theSPP1530toC.S.andno.SFB924toK.F.X.M.).

*Addresscorrespondencetoclaus.schwechheimer@wzw.tum.de.

Theauthorresponsiblefordistributionofmaterialsintegraltothe

findingspresentedinthisarticleinaccordancewiththepolicyde-

scribedintheInstructionsforAuthors(www.plantphysiol.org)is:

ClausSchwechheimer(claus.schwechheimer@wzw.tum.de).

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