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First published online 19 July 2006
doi: 10.1242/dev.02498

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APETALA1 and SEPALLATA3 interact with SEUSS to mediate transcription repression during flower development

Vaniyambadi V. Sridhar^*, Anandkumar Surendrarao and Zhongchi Liu

Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

Author for correspondence (e-mail: zliu{at}umd.edu)

Accepted 15 June 2006

The transcriptional repression of key regulatory genes is crucial for plant and animal development. Previously, we identified and isolated two Arabidopsis transcription co-repressors LEUNIG (LUG) and SEUSS (SEU) that function together in a putative co-repressor complex to prevent ectopic AGAMOUS (AG) transcription in flowers. Because neither LUG nor SEU possesses a recognizable DNA-binding motif, how they are tethered to specific target promoters remains unknown. Using the yeast two-hybrid assay and a co-immunoprecipitation assay, we showed that APETALA1 (AP1) and SEPALLATA3 (SEP3), both MADS box DNA-binding proteins, interacted with SEU. The AP1-SEU protein-protein interaction was supported by synergistic genetic interactions between ap1 and seu mutations. The role of SEU proteins in bridging the interaction between AP1/SEP3 and LUG to repress target gene transcription was further demonstrated in yeast and plant cells, providing important mechanistic insights into co-repressor function in plants. Furthermore, a direct in vivo association of SEU proteins with the AG cis-regulatory element was shown by chromatin immunoprecipitation. Accordingly, a reporter gene driven by the AG cis-element was able to respond to AP1- and SEP3-mediated transcriptional repression in a transient plant cell system when supplied with SEU and LUG. These results suggest that AP1 and SEP3 may serve as the DNA-binding partners of SEU/LUG. Our demonstration of the direct physical interaction between SEU and the C-terminal domain of SEP3 and AP1 suggests that AP1 and SEP3 MADS box proteins may interact with positive, as well as negative, regulatory proteins via their C-terminal domains, to either stimulate or repress their regulatory targets.

Key words: AGAMOUS (AG), Co-repressors, MADS box proteins, Transcription repression, Flower

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