PMID- 21525334 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110926 LR - 20211020 IS - 1532-2548 (Electronic) IS - 0032-0889 (Print) IS - 0032-0889 (Linking) VI - 156 IP - 2 DP - 2011 Jun TI - FAR-RED INSENSITIVE219 modulates CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 activity via physical interaction to regulate hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis. PG - 631-46 LID - 10.1104/pp.111.177667 [doi] AB - FAR-RED INSENSITIVE219 (FIN219) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is involved in phytochrome A-mediated far-red (FR) light signaling. Previous genetic studies revealed that FIN219 acts as an extragenic suppressor of CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 (COP1). However, the molecular mechanism underlying the suppression of COP1 remains unknown. Here, we used a transgenic approach to study the regulation of COP1 by FIN219. Transgenic seedlings containing ectopic expression of the FIN219 amino (N)-terminal domain in wild-type Columbia (named NCox for the expression of the N-terminal coiled-coil domain and NTox for the N-terminal 300-amino acid region) exhibited a dominant-negative long-hypocotyl phenotype under FR light, reflected as reduced photomorphogenic responses and altered levels of COP1 and ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 (HY5). Yeast two-hybrid, pull-down, and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays revealed that FIN219 could interact with the WD-40 domain of COP1 and with its N-terminal coiled-coil domain through its carboxyl-terminal domain. Further in vivo coimmunoprecipitation study confirms that FIN219 interacts with COP1 under continuous FR light. Studies of the double mutant fin219-2/cop1-6 indicated that HY5 stability requires FIN219 under darkness and FR light. Moreover, FIN219 levels positively regulated by phytochrome A can modulate the subcellular location of COP1 and are differentially regulated by various fluence rates of FR light. We conclude that the dominant-negative long-hypocotyl phenotype conferred by NCox and NTox in a wild-type background was caused by the misregulation of COP1 binding with the carboxyl terminus of FIN219. Our data provide a critical mechanism controlling the key repressor COP1 in response to FR light. FAU - Wang, Jhy-Gong AU - Wang JG AD - Institute of Plant Biology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. FAU - Chen, Chih-Hao AU - Chen CH FAU - Chien, Ching-Te AU - Chien CT FAU - Hsieh, Hsu-Liang AU - Hsieh HL LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110427 PL - United States TA - Plant Physiol JT - Plant physiology JID - 0401224 RN - 0 (Arabidopsis Proteins) RN - 0 (Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (FIN219 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (HY5 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (AT2G32950 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases) SB - IM MH - Arabidopsis/genetics/*growth & development/*metabolism/radiation effects MH - Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/metabolism MH - Cytoplasm/metabolism/radiation effects MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/radiation effects MH - Genes, Dominant/genetics MH - Hypocotyl/*growth & development/metabolism/radiation effects MH - Light MH - Light Signal Transduction/radiation effects MH - Morphogenesis/radiation effects MH - Mutation/genetics MH - Nuclear Proteins/metabolism MH - Phenotype MH - Plants, Genetically Modified MH - Protein Binding/radiation effects MH - Protein Multimerization/radiation effects MH - Protein Stability/radiation effects MH - Protein Structure, Tertiary MH - Seedlings/genetics/radiation effects MH - Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC3177264 EDAT- 2011/04/29 06:00 MHDA- 2011/09/29 06:00 PMCR- 2011/04/27 CRDT- 2011/04/29 06:00 PHST- 2011/04/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/04/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/04/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - pp.111.177667 [pii] AID - 177667 [pii] AID - 10.1104/pp.111.177667 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Plant Physiol. 2011 Jun;156(2):631-46. doi: 10.1104/pp.111.177667. Epub 2011 Apr 27.