Aux/IAA Proteins Contain a Potent Transcriptional Repression Domain
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Aux/IAA proteins are short-lived nuclear proteins that repress expression of primary/early auxin response genes in protoplast transfection assays. Repression is thought to result from Aux/IAA proteins dimerizing with auxin response factor (ARF) transcriptional activators that reside on auxin-responsive promoter elements, referred to as AuxREs. Most Aux/IAA proteins contain four conserved domains, designated domains I, II, III, and IV. Domain II and domains III and IV play roles in protein stability and dimerization, respectively. A clear function for domain I had not been established. Results reported here indicate that domain I in Aux/IAA proteins is an active repression domain that is transferable and dominant over activation domains. An LxLxL motif within domain I is important for conferring repression. The dominance of Aux/IAA repression domains over activation domains in ARF transcriptional activators provides a plausible explanation for the repression of auxin response genes via ARF-Aux/IAA dimerization on auxin-responsive promoters.
Source: The Plant Cell
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.017384
Institution: University of Missouri
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2144249817