PMID:20439546

Citation	Li, Y, Tessaro, MJ, Li, X and Zhang, Y (2010) Regulation of the expression of plant resistance gene SNC1 by a protein with a conserved BAT2 domain. Plant Physiol. 153:1425-34
Abstract	Plant Resistance (R) genes encode immune receptors that recognize pathogens and activate defense responses. Because of fitness costs associated with maintaining R protein-mediated resistance, expression levels of R genes have to be tightly regulated. However, mechanisms on how R-gene expression is regulated are poorly understood. Here we show that MODIFIER OF snc1, 1 (MOS1) regulates the expression of SUPPRESSOR OF npr1-1, CONSTITUTIVE1 (SNC1), which encodes a Toll/interleukin receptor-nucleotide binding site-leucine-rich repeat type of R protein in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). In the mos1 loss-of-function mutant plants, snc1 expression is repressed and constitutive resistance responses mediated by snc1 are lost. The repression of snc1 expression in mos1 is released by knocking out DECREASE IN DNA METHYLATION1. In mos1 mutants, DNA methylation in a region upstream of SNC1 is altered. Furthermore, expression of snc1 transgenes using the native promoter does not require MOS1, indicating that regulation of SNC1 expression by MOS1 is at the chromatin level. Map-based cloning of MOS1 revealed that it encodes a novel protein with a HLA-B ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPT2 (BAT2) domain that is conserved in plants and animals. Our study on MOS1 suggests that BAT2 domain-containing proteins may function in regulation of gene expression at chromatin level.
Links	PubMed PMC2899940 Online version:10.1104/pp.110.156240
Keywords	Alleles; Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Arabidopsis/genetics; Arabidopsis/microbiology; Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry; Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics; Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism; Chromatin/metabolism; Cloning, Molecular; Conserved Sequence/genetics; DNA Methylation/genetics; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genes, Plant/genetics; Genetic Loci; Immunity, Innate/genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation/genetics; Phenotype; Plant Diseases/genetics; Plant Diseases/immunology; Plant Diseases/microbiology; Plants, Genetically Modified; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Sequence Alignment; Transcription Factors/chemistry; Transcription Factors/genetics; Transcription Factors/metabolism
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