Villajuana Bonequi, Mitzi (2011). Molecular and Genetic Analysis of the effects of SUMOylation on the regulation of floral transition in Arabidopsis. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
SUMOylation, the post-translational attachment of SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier) to a substrate protein, regulates the activity of several proteins involved in critical cellular processes like cell division and transcriptional regulation. SUMO is subsequently removed from substrates by SUMO-specific proteases, making this modification reversible. In plants, SUMOylation has been implicated in several physiological responses and flowering time control. ESD4 (Early in Short Days 4) encodes a SUMO-specific protease that prevents the accumulation of SUMO-conjugates in Arabidopsis. The esd4-1 mutant shows a very early flowering phenotype as well as several shoot developmental distortions suggesting an important role of SUMOylation in the regulation of plant development. To investigate the role of SUMOylation in flowering time control a suppressor screen of esd4 was performed. 120 independent suppressors of esd4 (sed) were isolated and 15 of them further characterized. The SUMO-conjugate levels of these seds are more similar to those of esd4-1 than to the wild type. Rough map positions for five of these sed mutants were established using classical genetic methods, and combined with Next Generation Sequencing sed111-1 was finemapped to a region of chromosome I that contains only six candidate genes. In a different study, SUMOylation of SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) was assessed and SUMO attachment lysines were determined using E. coli strains that recapitulate the SUMO conjugation pathway. SVP interacts with FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) to form a strong floral repressor complex. To study the role of SUMOylation in SVP function, an svp-null mutant (svp-41) was transformed with constructs aiming to hyperSUMOylate (translational fusions with SUMO or AtSCE) or hypoSUMOylate (mutations in the putative SUMO-attachment sites) the SVP protein in transgenic plants. Mutant phenotypes caused by these constructs are discussed.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-49056 | ||||||||
Date: | 8 November 2011 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Ehemalige Fakultäten, Institute, Seminare > Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > no entry | ||||||||
Subjects: | Generalities, Science Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 8 November 2011 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/4905 |
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