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Plant Cell, Vol. 11, 1047-1060, June 1999, Copyright © 1999, American Society of Plant Physiologists

Transgenic Tobacco Plants Expressing the Drosophila Polycomb (Pc) Chromodomain Show Developmental Alterations: Possible Role of Pc Chromodomain Proteins in Chromatin-Mediated Gene Regulation in Plants

Richard Ingrama, Benedicte Charriera, Claire Scollana, and Peter Meyera
a Leeds Institute for Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture (LIBA), Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Correspondence to: Peter Meyer, p.meyer{at}gps.leeds.ac.uk (E-mail), 44-113-2333144 (fax)

The chromodomain of the Drosophila Polycomb (Pc) protein has been introduced into tobacco nuclei to determine its location in the nucleus and its effect on plant development. Pc is a repressor of homeotic Drosophila genes that shares a well-conserved, although not identical, chromodomain with a structural heterochromatin component, Heterochromatin Protein 1. The chromodomains might therefore play a common role in chromatin repression. An analysis of transgenic plants expressing the Pc chromodomain, which was linked to the green fluorescent protein, suggested that the Pc chromodomain has distinct target regions in the plant genome. Transgenic plants expressing the Pc chromodomain had phenotypic abnormalities in their leaves and flowers, indicating a disruption in development. In axillary shoot buds of plants displaying altered leaf phenotypes, enhanced expression of a homeodomain gene, which is downregulated in wild-type leaves, was found. In Drosophila, Pc has been shown to possess distinct chromosome binding activity and to be involved in the regulation of development-specific genes. Our results support the assumptions that the heterologous chromodomain affects related functions in Drosophila and in plants, and that chromatin modification mechanisms are involved in the regulation of certain plant genes, in a manner similar to chromatin-mediated gene regulation in Drosophila.




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