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First published online January 17, 2003; 10.1105/tpc.006148

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The Plant Cell, Vol. 15, 393-409, February 2003, Copyright © 2003,
American Society of Plant Biologists

The {beta}-Subunit of the Arabidopsis G Protein Negatively Regulates Auxin-Induced Cell Division and Affects Multiple Developmental Processes

Hemayet Ullah1,a, Jin-Gui Chen1,a, Brenda Templeb, Douglas C. Boyesc, José M. Alonso2,d, Keith R. Davisc, Joseph R. Eckerd and Alan M. Jones3,a

a Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280
b Structural BioInformatics Core Facility, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
c Department of Plant Research, Paradigm Genetics, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-4528
d Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037-1099

3 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail alan_jones{at}unc.edu; fax 919-962-1625

Plant cells respond to low concentrations of auxin by cell expansion, and at a slightly higher concentration, these cells divide. Previous work revealed that null mutants of the {alpha}-subunit of a putative heterotrimeric G protein (GPA1) have reduced cell division. Here, we show that this prototypical G protein complex acts mechanistically by controlling auxin sensitivity toward cell division. Loss-of-function G protein mutants have altered auxin-mediated cell division throughout development, especially during the auxin-induced formation of lateral and adventitious root primordia. Ectopic expression of the wild-type G{alpha}-subunit phenocopies the G{beta} mutants (auxin hypersensitivity), probably by sequestering the G{beta}{gamma}-subunits, whereas overexpression of G{beta} reduces auxin sensitivity and a constitutively active (Q222L) mutant G{alpha} behaves like the wild type. These data are consistent with a model in which G{beta}{gamma} acts as a negative regulator of auxin-induced cell division. Accordingly, basal repression of approximately one-third of the identified auxin-regulated genes (47 of 150 upregulated genes among 8300 quantitated) is lost in the G{beta} transcript-null mutant. Included among these are genes that encode proteins proposed to control cell division in root primordia formation as well as several novel genes. These results suggest that although auxin-regulated cell division is not coupled directly by a G protein, the G{beta}-subunit attenuates this auxin pathway upstream of the control of mRNA steady state levels.




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