First published online August 31, 2007; 10.1105/tpc.107.052274
The Plant Cell 19:2531-2543 (2007)
© 2007 American Society of Plant Biologists
Arabidopsis TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA2 Is Directly Regulated by R2R3 MYB Transcription Factors and Is Involved in Regulation of GLABRA2 Transcription in Epidermal Differentiation[W]
Tetsuya Ishidaa,
Sayoko Hattoria,
Ryosuke Sanoa,1,
Kayoko Inouea,2,
Yumiko Shiranob,3,
Hiroaki Hayashic,4,
Daisuke Shibatab,1,
Shusei Satod,
Tomohiko Katod,5,
Satoshi Tabatad,
Kiyotaka Okadaa,e,6 and
Takuji Wadaa,7
a Plant Science Center, RIKEN, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
b Mitsui Plant Biotechnology Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
c Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
d Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
e Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
7 Address correspondence to twada{at}psc.riken.jp.
Arabidopsis thaliana TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA2 (TTG2) encodes a WRKY transcription factor and is expressed in young leaves, trichomes, seed coats, and root hairless cells. An examination of several trichome and root hair mutants indicates that MYB and bHLH genes regulate TTG2 expression. Two MYB binding sites in the TTG2 5' regulatory region act as cis regulatory elements and as direct targets of R2R3 MYB transcription factors such as WEREWOLF, GLABRA1, and TRANSPARENT TESTA2. Mutations in TTG2 cause phenotypic defects in trichome development and seed color pigmentation. Transgenic plants expressing a chimeric repressor version of the TTG2 protein (TTG2:SRDX) showed defects in trichome formation, anthocyanin accumulation, seed color pigmentation, and differentiation of root hairless cells. GLABRA2 (GL2) expression was markedly reduced in roots of ProTTG2:TTG2:SRDX transgenic plants, suggesting that TTG2 is involved in the regulation of GL2 expression, although GL2 expression in the ttg2 mutant was similar to that in the wild type. Our analysis suggests a new step in a regulatory cascade of epidermal differentiation, in which complexes containing R2R3 MYB and bHLH transcription factors regulate the expression of TTG2, which then regulates GL2 expression with complexes containing R2R3 MYB and bHLH in the differentiation of trichomes and root hairless cells.
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