Sánchez Villarreal, Alfredo (2010). Genomic and Physiological Characterization of the Mutant time for coffee within the Arabidopsis thaliana Circadian Clock. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
ircadian clocks are internal timekeepers that provide organisms with a sense of time. These oscillators, which are entrained by external stimuli, predict the daily day/night transitions and have a periodicity of about 24 hours. The Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock is composed of interconnected transcriptional-translational feedback loops. The morning expressed elements CCA1 and LHY, which are clock controlled and light inducible, repress the transcription of the evening element TOC1. At dusk, TOC1 repression is relieved as CCA1 and LHY protein diminish. Then TOC1 stimulates the expression of the morning components closing the loop. Still, how the light signal at dawn entrains this clock has remained elusive. time for coffee (tic) was originally reported as a circadian-clock mutant based on its early phase and a short period. It was found that tic is defective in sensing dawn because its clock incorrectly resets before morning light. Because TIC mRNA and protein were found to be constant through a diurnal cycle, an activation event could trigger TIC time-specific function within the oscillator. Therefore TIC action takes place before the expression of CCA1 and LHY and coincides in time with clock entrainment by light. In this thesis, I report the results from a microarray study that led to a detailed phenotypic analysis of tic in an effort to uncover the mechanism to clock entrainment. I could confirm and expand the defective clock-gene expression profile of tic. Interestingly tic showed increased transcriptional changes in response to the environment compared to wild type. Global transcriptomic analysis indicated that tic has altered redox homeostasis and defects in ABA signalling pathways. Furthermore GO enrichment analysis highlighted that stress and environmental responses were among the most abundant categories misexpressed in tic. In conclusion, TIC was found to be an essential component for global transcriptome reprogramming to a dawn light signal. The results obtained through the microarray analysis directed me to demonstrate that tic resulted in an array of pleiotropic phenotypes. Besides its clock defects, tic presented hypersensitivity to oxidative stress, altered ABA-related signalling and responses, such as drought tolerance, defects in iron homeostasis, alterations in starch metabolism and disrupted stress responses. Furthermore it is suggested that tic has a role in nucleotide and secondary metabolism. All together, I concluded that TIC functions in maintaining metabolic homeostasis through modulation of stress responses. In summary from the data presented here, I hypothesize that clock entrainment occurs through metabolic signals, probably derived from photosynthesis and cellular energy homeostasis. These signals would be integrated to the oscillator by TIC. In this way, TIC would promote the anticipation of the oncoming new day.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-32310 | ||||||||
Date: | 2010 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen > MPI for Plant Breeding Research | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences | ||||||||
Date of oral exam: | 28 June 2010 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/3231 |
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