Abstract
Plant hormones play pivotal roles in growth, development and stress responses. Although it is essential to our understanding of hormone signalling, how plants maintain a steady state level of hormone receptors is poorly understood. We show that mutation of the Arabidopsis thaliana co-chaperone SGT1b impairs responses to the plant hormones jasmonate, auxin and gibberellic acid, but not brassinolide and abscisic acid, and that SGT1b and its homologue SGT1a are involved in maintaining the steady state levels of the F-box proteins COI1 and TIR1, receptors for jasmonate and auxin, respectively. The association of SGT1b with COI1 is direct and is independent of the Arabidopsis SKP1 protein, ASK1. We further show that COI1 is a client protein of SGT1b–HSP70–HSP90 chaperone complexes and that the complexes function in hormone signalling by stabilizing the COI1 protein. This study extends the SGT1b–HSP90 client protein list and broadens the functional scope of SGT1b–HSP70–HSP90 chaperone complexes.
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We thank D. Bartenstein, C. Mankiw and M. Cerulli for help in EMS mutant screening, C. Queitsch for providing the HSP90 RNAi-A1 and RNAi-C1 constructs, M. Borowsky for computational analyses of the Illumina sequencing reads and mapping of the hsm1 mutant, C. Haney and D. McEwan for discussion and critical reading, and J. Li, O. Liu, Y. Niu, L. Li and J. Sheen for plasmids, constructs and technical advice. This work was supported by NSF grants MCB-0519898 and IOS-0929226 and NIH grants GM48707 and P30 DK040561 awarded to F.M.A.
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X-C. Z., Y. M. and F. M. A. designed the study; X-C. Z., Y. M., Z. C. and J. B. performed experiments; X-C. Z. and F. M. A. wrote the manuscript.
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Zhang, XC., Millet, Y., Cheng, Z. et al. Jasmonate signalling in Arabidopsis involves SGT1b–HSP70–HSP90 chaperone complexes. Nature Plants 1, 15049 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.49
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