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First published online June 3, 2005; 10.1105/tpc.105.032771

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The Plant Cell 17:1994-2008 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists

The Recessive Epigenetic swellmap Mutation Affects the Expression of Two Step II Splicing Factors Required for the Transcription of the Cell Proliferation Gene STRUWWELPETER and for the Timing of Cell Cycle Arrest in the Arabidopsis Leaf

Nicole K. Clay and Timothy Nelson1

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8104

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail timothy.nelson{at}yale.edu; fax 203-432-5711.

Generally, cell division can be uncoupled from multicellular development, but more recent evidence suggests that cell cycle progression and arrest is coupled to organogenesis and growth. We describe a recessive mutant, swellmap (smp), with reduced organ size and cell number. This defect is partially compensated for by an increase in final cell size. The mutation causes a precocious arrest of cell proliferation in the organ primordium and possibly reduces the rate of cell division there. The mutation proved to be an epigenetic mutation (renamed smpepi) that defined a single locus, SMP1, but affected the expression of both SMP1 and a second very similar gene, SMP2. Both genes encode CCHC zinc finger proteins with similarities to step II splicing factors involved in 3' splice site selection. Genetic knockouts demonstrate that the genes are functionally redundant and essential. SMP1 expression is associated with regions of cell proliferation. Overexpression of SMP1 produced an increase in organ cell number and a partial decrease in cell expansion. The smpepi mutation does not affect expression of eukaryotic cell cycle regulator genes CYCD3;1 and CDC2A but affects expression of the cell proliferation gene STRUWWELPETER (SWP) whose protein has similarities to Med150/Rgr1-like subunits of the Mediator complex required for transcriptional activation. Introduction of SWP cDNA into smpepi plants fully restored them to wild-type, but the expression of both SMP1 and SMP2 were also restored in these lines, suggesting a physical interaction among the three proteins and/or genes. We propose that step II splicing factors and a transcriptional Mediator-like complex are involved in the timing of cell cycle arrest during leaf development.




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