Plant Cell Advance Online Publication
Published on April 20, 2007; 10.1105/tpc.106.047076
Received September 4, 2006
Returned for revision March 14, 2007
Accepted April 3, 2007
The Transcription Factor WIN1/SHN1 Regulates Cutin Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
Rubini Kannangara 1, Caroline Branigan 1, Yan Liu 1, Teresa Penfield 1, Vijaya Rao 2, Grégory Mouille 3, Herman Höfte 3, Markus Pauly 4, José Luis Riechmann 2, and Pierre Broun 1*
1 Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5YW, United Kingdom
2 Millard and Muriel Jacobs Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology 156-29, Pasadena, California 91125
3 Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
4 Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Golm, Germany
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pb22{at}york.ac.uk.
The composition and permeability of the cuticle has a large influence on its ability to protect the plant against various forms of biotic and abiotic stress. WAX INDUCER1 (WIN1) and related transcription factors have recently been shown to trigger wax production, enhance drought tolerance, and modulate cuticular permeability when overexpressed in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that WIN1 influences the composition of cutin, a polyester that forms the backbone of the cuticle. WIN1 overexpression induces compositional changes and an overall increase in cutin production in vegetative and reproductive organs, while its downregulation has the opposite effect. Changes in cutin composition are preceded by the rapid and coordinated induction of several genes known or likely to be involved in cutin biosynthesis. This transcriptional response is followed after a delay by the induction of genes associated with wax biosynthesis, suggesting that the regulation of cutin and wax production by WIN1 is a two-step process. We demonstrate that at least one of the cutin pathway genes, which encodes long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase LACS2, is likely to be directly targeted by WIN1. Overall, our results suggest that WIN1 modulates cuticle permeability in Arabidopsis by regulating genes encoding cutin pathway enzymes.
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