GONUTS has been updated to MW1.31 Most things seem to be working but be sure to report problems.

Have any questions? Please email us at ecoliwiki@gmail.com

PMID:11402162

From GONUTS
Jump to: navigation, search
Citation

Covington, MF, Panda, S, Liu, XL, Strayer, CA, Wagner, DR and Kay, SA (2001) ELF3 modulates resetting of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 13:1305-15

Abstract

The Arabidopsis early flowering 3 (elf3) mutation causes arrhythmic circadian output in continuous light, but there is some evidence of clock function in darkness. Here, we show conclusively that normal circadian function occurs with no alteration of period length in elf3 mutants in dark conditions and that the light-dependent arrhythmia observed in elf3 mutants is pleiotropic on multiple outputs normally expressed at different times of day. Plants overexpressing ELF3 have an increased period length in both constant blue and red light; furthermore, etiolated ELF3-overexpressing seedlings exhibit a decreased acute CAB2 response after a red light pulse, whereas the null mutant is hypersensitive to acute induction. This finding suggests that ELF3 negatively regulates light input to both the clock and its outputs. To determine whether ELF3's action is phase dependent, we examined clock resetting by using light pulses and constructed phase response curves. Absence of ELF3 activity causes a significant alteration of the phase response curve during the subjective night, and constitutive overexpression of ELF3 results in decreased sensitivity to the resetting stimulus, suggesting that ELF3 antagonizes light input to the clock during the night. The phase of ELF3 function correlates with its peak expression levels in the subjective night. ELF3 action, therefore, represents a mechanism by which the oscillator modulates light resetting.

Links

PubMed PMC135573

Keywords

Arabidopsis/physiology; Arabidopsis/radiation effects; Arabidopsis Proteins; Circadian Rhythm/physiology; Circadian Rhythm/radiation effects; Cloning, Molecular; Darkness; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Light; Mutation; Nuclear Proteins/physiology; Plant Proteins/physiology; Plants, Genetically Modified; Transcription Factors/physiology

Significance

Annotations

Gene product Qualifier GO ID GO term name Evidence Code with/from Aspect Notes Status


See also

References

See Help:References for how to manage references in GONUTS.