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RESEARCH ATRICLE
Arabidopsis ZINC FINGER PROTEIN1 Acts Downstream of GL2 To Repress Root
Hair Initiation and Elongation by Directly Suppressing bHLH Genes
Guoliang Hana, Xiaocen Weia, Xinxiu Donga, Chengfeng Wanga, Na Suia, Jianrong Guoa, Fang Yuana, Zhizhong Gongb, Xuezhi Lia, Yi Zhanga, Zhe Menga, Zhuo Chena, Dazhong Zhaoc, Baoshan Wanga, d
aShandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, Shandong, 250014, P.R. China
bState Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan Xilu, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, P.R. China
cDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Short title: AtZP1 represses root hair initiation and elongation
One-sentence summary: A C2H2-type zinc finger protein gene containing an EAR motif inhibits root hair initiation and elongation by suppressing the expression of genes known to play important roles in root hair initiation and elongation.
The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantcell.org) is: Baoshan Wang ([email protected]).
ABSTRACT C2H2-type zinc finger proteins promote root hair growth and development by regulating their target genes. However, little is known about their potential negative roles in root hair initiation and elongation. Here we show that the C2H2-type zinc finger protein named ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 1 (AtZP1), which contains an EAR motif, negatively regulates Arabidopsis thaliana root hair initiation and elongation. Our results demonstrate that AtZP1 is highly expressed in root hairs and that AtZP1 inhibits transcriptional activity during root hair development. Plants overexpressing AtZP1 lacked root hairs, while loss-of-function mutants had longer and more numerous root hairs than the wild type. Transcriptome analysis indicated that AtZP1 downregulates genes encoding bHLH transcription factors associated with root hair cell differentiation and elongation. Mutation or deletion of the EAR motif substantially reduced the inhibitory activity of AtZP1. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays, AtZP1:GR induction experiments, electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs), and yeast one-hybrid assays showed that AtZP1 directly targets the promoters of bHLH transcription factor genes, including the key root hair initiation gene ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE6 (RHD6) and root hair elongation genes ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE 6-LIKE 2 (RSL2) and RSL4, and suppresses root hair development. Our findings suggest that AtZP1 functions downstream of GL2 and negatively regulates root hair initiation and elongation, by suppressing RHD6, RSL4, and RSL2 transcription via the GL2/ZP1/RSL pathway.
Plant Cell Advance Publication. Published on November 15, 2019, doi:10.1105/tpc.19.00226
Supplemental Figure 6. RT-qPCR analysis of CPC, WER, GL3, EGL3, TTG, and GL2 expression of WT
and AtZP1 overexpression lines. (Supports Figures 5, 6, and 7)
Supplemental Figure 7. RT-qPCR analysis of RSL2, RSL4, and RHD6 expression of ZP1-GR lines after
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CHX treatment. (Supports Figure 6.)
Supplemental Figure 8. Effects of cytokinin or ethylene on the relative expression levels of AtZP1.
Supplemental Table 1 H cell specification in the root epidermis and root hair and non-root hair cell
production in various genotypes
Supplemental Table 2. H cell specification in the root epidermis and root hair and non-root hair cell
production in various lines overexpressing ZP1 with a mutated EAR motif
Supplemental Table 3. Primers used for expression pattern analysis of AtZP1
Supplemental Table 4. Primers used for promoter GUS reporter analysis
Supplemental Table 5. Primers used for the subcellular localization assay of AtZP1
Supplemental Table 6. Primers used to generate AtZP1 overexpression lines
Supplemental Table 7. Primers used for AtZP1 loss-of-function mutants by CRISPR-Cas9
Supplemental Table 8. Primers used to generate the AtZP1 complementation line
Supplemental Table 9. Primers used for transient luciferase expression assay
Supplemental Table 10. Primers used to obtain p35S:AtZP1-GR transgenic lines and RT-qPCR genes
Supplemental Table 11. Primers used for yeast one-hybrid assay
Supplemental Table 12. Primers used to construct the GFP transgenic line
Supplemental Table 13. Comparison of genes identified by RNA-Seq and their primer sequences
Supplemental Table 14. Possible AtZP1 binding sites in the RHD6 gene promoter region and primers used
for ChIP analysis
Supplemental Table 15. Possible AtZP1 binding sites in the RSL2 gene promoter region and primers used for
ChIP analysis
Supplemental Table 16. Possible AtZP1 binding sites in the RSL4 gene promoter region and primers used for
ChIP analysis
Supplemental Table 17. Possible AtZP1 binding sites in the LRL1 gene promoter region and primers used for
ChIP analysis
Supplemental Table 18. Possible AtZP1 binding sites in the LRL3 gene promoter region and primers used for
ChIP analysis
Supplemental Table 19. Binding sequence primers of AtZP1 to the promoter regions of target genes used in
EMSA
Supplemental Table 20. Primers used to amplify the RHD6, RSL4, and RSL2 genes
Supplemental File 1: Sequence alignments used to generate the phylogeny presented in Figure 1B obtaining
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by MAFFT program
Supplemental File 2: Tree file used to generate the phylogeny in Figure 1B obtaining by MEGA5.1 software
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the NSFC (National Natural Science Research Foundation of China, project No.
31570251; 31600200; 31770288), the Shandong Province Key Research and Development Plan
(2017CXGC0313; 2016GNC113012), the Natural Science Research Foundation of Shandong Province
(ZR2014CZ002; ZR2017MC003), the Higher Educational Science and Technology Program of Shandong
Province (J15LE08; J17KA136).
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Guoliang Han, Dazhong Zhao, Zhizhong Gong, and Baoshan Wang designed the research. Guoliang Han,
Xiaocen Wei, Xinxiu Dong, Chengfeng Wang, Na Sui, Jianrong Guo, Fang Yuan, Xuezhi Li, Yi Zhang,
Zhuo Chen, and Zhe Meng performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. Guoliang Han and
Baoshan Wang wrote the paper with contributions from the other authors.
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Figure 1. Bioinformatics analysis of AtZP1.
(A) Conserved domain and sequence analysis of AtZP1. Different numbers (1–204) and lines represent all the
contiguous amino acids of AtZP1 from N-terminus to C-terminus. Boxes represent conserved domains of the
AtZP1 protein. The C2H2 zinc finger domain is the amino acids from 46–68 , the QALGGH sequence is from
59–64, and the EAR motif is from 194–199.
(B) Phylogenetic relationships among different C2H2 zinc finger protein family members in Arabidopsis.
Phylogenetic analysis of 22 C2H2 zinc finger proteins using the neighbor-joining method. The proteins were
divided into four groups (I–Ⅳ) corresponding to different branches in the neighbor-joining tree. Scale bar = 0.1.
Figure 2. Expression analysis of AtZP1.
(A) Relative expression levels of AtZP1 in different Arabidopsis tissues. Data represent the means of threebiological replicates ± SD. Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple rangetest. Significant differences at P < 0.05 are represented by different letters (a, b, c, d, and e) above the bars.
(B–F) GUS analysis of AtZP1 promoter activity in young seedlings (B), mature roots (C), epidermal cells of youngleaves (D), flowers (E), and siliques (F). Scale bar = 0.5 cm for (B), (D), (E) and (F). Scale bar = 200 μm for (C).
Figure 3. Root hair phenotypes of wild type, overexpression lines (L2 and L7), loss-of-function atzp1 mutants(zp1-1 and zp1-2) and AtZP1 complementation lines in the atzp1 mutant background (ProZP1:ZP1:zp1-1 andProZP1:ZP1:zp1-2).
(A) Root hair phenotypes of the wild type, overexpression lines (L2 and L7), atzp1 mutants (zp1-1 and zp1-2) andAtZP1 complementation lines in the atzp1 mutant background (ProZP1:ZP1:zp1-1 and ProZP1:ZP1:zp1-2). Scalebar = 400 μm.
(B) Average root hair length in the wild type, overexpression lines (L2 and L7), atzp1 mutants (zp1-1 and zp1-2)and complementation lines in the atzp1 mutant background (ProZP1:ZP1:zp1-1 and ProZP1:ZP1:zp1-2). Errorbars indicate standard deviation (SD) (n = 20). Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA,Duncan’s multiple range test. Significant differences at P < 0.01 are represented by different letters (a, b and c) indifferent columns.
Figure 4. AtZP1 is a transcriptional repressor of root hair growth and development.
(A) Schematic representation of the reporter and various effector constructs used in the luciferase activity assay.Red font represents mutated amino acids.
(B) Bioluminescence (showing relative luciferase activity) in Arabidopsis protoplasts. Error bars indicate standarddeviation (SD) (n = 3). Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple range test.Significant differences at P < 0.01 are represented by different letters (a, b, and c) above the bars.
(C) Root hair phenotypes of the controls (WT), 35S:ZP1 lines, 35S:ZP1m lines, and 35S:ZP1d lines. Scale bar =200 μm.
(D) Relative expression levels of AtZP1 in different types of transgenic Arabidopsis lines determined by RT-qPCR;UBQ10 was used for the internal reference. Cont indicates the control group (wild-type Arabidopsis). Data aremeans of three biological replicates ± SD. Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’smultiple range test. Significant differences at P = 0.05 are represented by different letters (a and b) above the bars.
(E) Average root hair length for the controls (WT), 35S:ZP1 lines, 35S:ZP1m lines, and 35S:ZP1d lines. Statisticalsignificance was determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple range test. For each column, significantdifferences at P < 0.01 are represented by different letters (a, b, and c) above the bars.
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Figure 5. ChIP analysis showing that AtZP1 binds to the A[AG/CT]CNAC regions of bHLH gene promoters.
(A) Conserved sequence A[AG/CT]CNAC (gray bars) and various promoter positions in the candidate bHLH
genes examined by ChIP-PCR (lines #1–#6). The positions in the promoters are relative to the start codons of the
bHLH genes. Numbers (1–6) and lines represent the possible binding sequences of AtZP1 in the different promoter
region. Different bars represent the binding sequence of AtZP1 at the corresponding position of the promoters,
numbers and bases show the position and sequence information of AtZP1 binding to the promoter.
(B) to (F) ChIP-PCR enrichment (fold) of the regions shown in (A). The ChIP experiment was performed with
wild-type (Cont) and ProAtZP1:AtZP1:GFP transgenic Arabidopsis. Error bars indicate ± SD from three biological
repeats. Values are relative to each Cont value. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 (Student’s t test) represent significant
differences from the control value.
Figure 6. AtZP1 represses the expression of RSL2, RSL4, and RHD6.
(A) Root hair phenotypes of WT and AtZP1:GR plants after transfer to DEX-containing medium for 2 days. Thecontrol shows wild-type Arabidopsis on standard medium. Scale bar = 300 μm.
(B) Root hair length of WT and AtZP1:GR plants after transfer to DEX-containing medium for 2 days. Sixbiological replicates were performed. Error bars indicate standard deviation (SD) (n = 6). Statistical significancewas determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple range test. Significant differences at P < 0.01 arerepresented by different letters (a and b) above the bars.
(C) to (E) RT-qPCR analysis of RSL2, RSL4, and RHD6 expression, respectively, after AtZP1 activation in thepresence of DEX or CHX+DEX. Three biological replicates were performed. Error bars indicate standarddeviation (SD) (n = 3). Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple range test.Significant differences at P < 0.05 are represented by different letters (a and b) above the bars.
Figure 7. EMSAs and yeast one-hybrid analysis.
(A) EMSAs showing the binding of AtZP1 to the A[AG/CT]CNAC regions of bHLH gene promoters. GST-taggedAtZP1 and biotinylated A[AG/CT]CNAC probe were used. The competitor was nonbiotinylated A[AG/CT]CNACat10-, 100-, and 200-fold the amount of biotinylated probe.
(B) Interaction of AtZP1 with the bHLH gene promoters verified by yeast one-hybrid analysis. Detection of LacZactivity in co-transformed yeast with different expression vectors pB42AD-ZP1 and pLacZi-A[AG/CT]CNAC. Threeco-transformation combinations, pB42AD and pLacZi, pB42AD and pLacZi-A[AG/CT]CNAC, and pB42AD-ZP1 andpLacZi, were used as the controls.
Figure 8. AtZP1 functions in the same genetic pathway as RHD6, RSL4 and RSL2.
(A)-(C) Relative expression levels of RHD6, RSL4, and RSL2 in different lines. Three biological replicates wereperformed. Error bars indicate standard deviation (SD) (n = 3). Statistical significance was determined by one-wayANOVA,Duncan’s multiple range test. Significant differences at P < 0.05 are represented by different letters (a, b,c, and d) above the bars.
(D) Root hair phenotype of 5-day-old WT (Cont) plants; AtZP1 overexpression lines (L2 and L7); and RHD6,RSL4 and RSL2 overexpression lines in the L2 and L7 background. Scale bar = 500 μm.
Figure 9. AtZP1 is regulated by GL2.
(A) Expression analysis of AtZP1 in various mutants and the wild type. Three biological replicates were performed.Error bars indicate standard deviation (SD) (n = 3). Statistical significance was determined by Student’s t tests. *P< 0.05 represents a significant difference.
(B) Root hair phenotypes of WT, 35:AtZP1, atzp1-1, gl2, atzp1-1 gl2, and 35;AtZP1×gl2 plants. Scale bar = 500μm.
(C) Mean root hair lengths of WT, 35;AtZP1, atzp1-1, gl2, atzp1-1 gl2, and 35:AtZP1×gl2 genotypes. Sixbiological replicates were performed. Error bars indicate standard deviation (SD) (n = 6). Statistical significancewas determined by one-way ANOVA, Duncan’s multiple range test. Significant differences at P < 0.01 arerepresented by different letters (a, b, c, d, and e) above the bars.
(D) Schematic diagram of the AtZP1 promoter region [3 kb from the start codon, L1 box sequence TAAATGT(gray bars) and its location (lines marked #1 and #2)] and ChIP-PCR enrichment (fold) of the regions [the ChIPexperiment was performed with WT (Cont) and ProGL2:GL2:GFP transgenic Arabidopsis]. The error bars indicatethe mean values ± SDs from three biological repeats. The values are relative to each Cont value. *P < 0.05(Student’s t test) represents significant differences from the control value. Numbers (1–2) and lines represent thepossible binding sequences of GL2 in the different promoter region of AtZP1. Different bars represent the bindingsequence of GL2 at the corresponding position of the AtZP1 promoter, numbers (-2227 and -1873) show theposition information of AtZP1 promoter.
Figure 10. A model showing how AtZP1 regulates the expression of bHLH transcription factor genes to promote root
hair development. GL2 positively regulates AtZP1, and AtZP1 directly negatively regulates RHD6, RSL4, and RSL2.
RHD6 directly regulates RSL4. The thickness of the arrow represents the relative level of gene expression.
DOI 10.1105/tpc.19.00226; originally published online November 15, 2019;Plant Cell
WangZhizhong Gong, Xuezhi Li, Yi Zhang, Zhe Meng, Zhuo Chen, Dazhong Dave Zhao and Baoshan Guo-Liang Han, Xiaocen Wei, Xinxiu Dong, Chengfeng Wang, Na Sui, Jian-rong Guo, Fang Yuan,
Initiation and Elongation by Directly Suppressing bHLH GenesArabidopsis ZINC FINGER PROTEIN1 Acts Downstream of GL2 To Repress Root Hair
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