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Development ePress online publication date 19 Jul 2006
doi: 10.1242/dev.02508

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A role for chromatin remodeling in regulation of CUC gene expression in the Arabidopsis cotyledon boundary


Chang Seob Kwon, Ken-ichiro Hibara, Jennifer Pfluger, Staver Bezhani, Heral Metha, Mitsuhiro Aida, Masao Tasaka, and Doris Wagner*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: wagnerdo{at}sas.upenn.edu)

The CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON (CUC) genes CUC1, CUC2 and CUC3 act redundantly to control cotyledon separation in Arabidopsis. In order to identify novel regulators of this process, we have performed a phenotypical enhancer screen using a null allele of cuc2, cuc2-1. We identified three nonsense alleles of AtBRM, an Arabidopsis SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling ATPase, that result in strong cotyledon fusion in cuc2-1. atbrm also enhances cotyledon fusion in loss-of-function cuc1 and cuc3 mutants, suggesting a general requirement for this ATPase in cotyledon separation. By contrast, a null allele of SPLAYED (SYD), the closest homolog of AtBRM in Arabidopsis, enhances only the loss-of-function cuc1 mutant. By investigating the activities of the CUC promoters in the cotyledon boundary during embryogenesis in sensitized backgrounds, we demonstrate that AtBRM upregulates the transcription of all three CUC genes, whereas SYD upregulates the expression of CUC2. Our results uncover a specific role for both chromatin remodeling ATPases in the formation and/or maintenance of boundary cells during embryogenesis.


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