PMID- 20061554 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100415 LR - 20211020 IS - 1532-298X (Electronic) IS - 1040-4651 (Print) IS - 1040-4651 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 1 DP - 2010 Jan TI - Arabidopsis CULLIN4-damaged DNA binding protein 1 interacts with CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1-SUPPRESSOR OF PHYA complexes to regulate photomorphogenesis and flowering time. PG - 108-23 LID - 10.1105/tpc.109.065490 [doi] AB - CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 (COP1) possesses E3 ligase activity and promotes degradation of key factors involved in the light regulation of plant development. The finding that CULLIN4 (CUL4)-Damaged DNA Binding Protein1 (DDB1) interacts with DDB1 binding WD40 (DWD) proteins to act as E3 ligases implied that CUL4-DDB1 may associate with COP1-SUPPRESSOR OF PHYA (SPA) protein complexes, since COP1 and SPAs are DWD proteins. Here, we demonstrate that CUL4-DDB1 physically associates with COP1-SPA complexes in vitro and in vivo, likely via direct interaction of DDB1 with COP1 and SPAs. The interactions between DDB1 and COP1, SPA1, and SPA3 were disrupted by mutations in the WDXR motifs of MBP-COP1, His-SPA1, and His-SPA3. CUL4 cosuppression mutants enhanced weak cop1 photomorphogenesis and flowered early under short days. Early flowering of short day-grown cul4 mutants correlated with increased FLOWERING LOCUS T transcript levels, whereas CONSTANS transcript levels were not altered. De-etiolated1 and COP1 can bind DDB1 and may work with CUL4-DDB1 in distinct complexes, but they mediate photomorphogenesis in concert. Thus, a series of CUL4-DDB1-COP1-SPA E3 ligase complexes may mediate the repression of photomorphogenesis and, possibly, of flowering time. FAU - Chen, Haodong AU - Chen H AD - Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. FAU - Huang, Xi AU - Huang X FAU - Gusmaroli, Giuliana AU - Gusmaroli G FAU - Terzaghi, William AU - Terzaghi W FAU - Lau, On Sun AU - Lau OS FAU - Yanagawa, Yuki AU - Yanagawa Y FAU - Zhang, Yu AU - Zhang Y FAU - Li, Jigang AU - Li J FAU - Lee, Jae-Hoon AU - Lee JH FAU - Zhu, Danmeng AU - Zhu D FAU - Deng, Xing Wang AU - Deng XW LA - eng GR - R01 GM047850/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 GM047850/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM47850/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20100108 PL - England TA - Plant Cell JT - The Plant cell JID - 9208688 RN - 0 (Arabidopsis Proteins) RN - 0 (CULLIN4 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (Cell Cycle Proteins) RN - 0 (Cullin Proteins) RN - 0 (DDB1a protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (RNA, Plant) RN - 0 (SPA1 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (AT2G32950 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Arabidopsis/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism MH - Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Cullin Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Flowers/genetics/*growth & development/metabolism MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Plant MH - Light MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutation MH - Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics/growth & development/metabolism MH - RNA, Plant/genetics MH - Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC2828697 EDAT- 2010/01/12 06:00 MHDA- 2010/04/16 06:00 PMCR- 2011/01/01 CRDT- 2010/01/12 06:00 PHST- 2010/01/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/04/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - tpc.109.065490 [pii] AID - 065490 [pii] AID - 10.1105/tpc.109.065490 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Plant Cell. 2010 Jan;22(1):108-23. doi: 10.1105/tpc.109.065490. Epub 2010 Jan 8.