Abstract
Gibberellins (GAs) are phytohormones that are essential for many developmental processes in plants. It has been postulated that plants have both membrane-bound and soluble GA receptors; however, no GA receptors have yet been identified. Here we report the isolation and characterization of a new GA-insensitive dwarf mutant of rice, gid1. The GID1 gene encodes an unknown protein with similarity to the hormone-sensitive lipases, and we observed preferential localization of a GID1–green fluorescent protein (GFP) signal in nuclei. Recombinant glutathione S-transferase (GST)–GID1 had a high affinity only for biologically active GAs, whereas mutated GST–GID1 corresponding to three gid1 alleles had no GA-binding affinity. The dissociation constant for GA4 was estimated to be around 10-7 M, enough to account for the GA dependency of shoot elongation. Moreover, GID1 bound to SLR1, a rice DELLA protein, in a GA-dependent manner in yeast cells. GID1 overexpression resulted in a GA-hypersensitive phenotype. Together, our results indicate that GID1 is a soluble receptor mediating GA signalling in rice.
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We thank H. Oomiya, S. Hattori and I. Aichi for technical assistance, and C. Ueguchi for suggestions regarding the yeast two-hybrid assay. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for the Center of Excellence, the Program for the Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Bioscience (M.M. and H.K), the MAFF Rice Genome Project, IP1003 (M.A. and M.M.), and by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (I.Y., M.N. and M.U.-T.).
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Positional cloning and the structure of GID1 gene. (PDF 220 kb)
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Reversibility of GA-binding to GST-GID1. (PDF 248 kb)
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Structures of GAs in Table1. (PDF 227 kb)
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Ueguchi-Tanaka, M., Ashikari, M., Nakajima, M. et al. GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 encodes a soluble receptor for gibberellin. Nature 437, 693–698 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04028
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