Dartan, Burcu (2008). Molecular and biochemical analysis of trichome patterning in arabidopsis thaliana. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
In the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis, a de novo patterning mechanism is responsible for the non-random distribution of trichomes. Whether an epidermal cell becomes a trichome or not, is determined by the interplay of MYB-bHLH-WD40 proteins. These proteins are regulating the expression of genes required for initiation of trichomes. The trichome pattern formation in Arabidopsis leaves has been investigated by genetic analyses of trichome initiation mutants and yeast two-hybrid interactions among these trichome patterning proteins. Additionally, the comparison to similar mechanisms, such as root hair patterning has revealed further insights. However, biochemical information about specific intrinsic properties of the trichome patterning proteins and their direct protein-protein and DNA-protein interactions is still rare. In this study, bacterial expression and purification of the GL1, GL3, EGL3, TTG1 and TRY proteins, which serve as the key components of the MYB-bHLH-WD40 complex, is successfully performed for the first time. GST pull-down experiments conducted with these purified proteins reveal direct and novel interactions among the members of the MYB-bHLH-WD40 complex. Moreover, TTG2, a recently identified regulator of trichome development, is bacterially expressed, purified and analysed for its in vitro protein interactions via GST pull-down and affinity purification experiments. Specific antibodies against GL1, EGL3, TTG1, TTG2 and TRY proteins are also produced, purified and tested for detection of these proteins from Arabidopsis plant extracts. These pure proteins and antibodies pave the way to future biochemical experiments investigating protein-protein as well as protein-DNA interactions, protein mobility and posttranslational modifications, with the aim to answer open questions for understanding of the trichome patterning.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-28451 | ||||||||
Date: | 2008 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Biology > Botanical Institute | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences | ||||||||
Date of oral exam: | 20 November 2008 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/2845 |
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