Abstract
The phytohormone jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) regulates defense, growth and developmental responses in vascular plants. Bryophytes have conserved sequences for all JA-Ile signaling pathway components but lack JA-Ile. We show that, in spite of 450 million years of independent evolution, the JA-Ile receptor COI1 is functionally conserved between the bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha and the eudicot Arabidopsis thaliana but COI1 responds to different ligands in each species. We identified the ligand of Marchantia MpCOI1 as two isomeric forms of the JA-Ile precursor dinor-OPDA (dinor-cis-OPDA and dinor-iso-OPDA). We demonstrate that AtCOI1 functionally complements Mpcoi1 mutation and confers JA-Ile responsiveness and that a single-residue substitution in MpCOI1 is responsible for the evolutionary switch in ligand specificity. Our results identify the ancestral bioactive jasmonate and clarify its biosynthetic pathway, demonstrate the functional conservation of its signaling pathway, and show that JA-Ile and COI1 emergence in vascular plants required co-evolution of hormone biosynthetic complexity and receptor specificity.
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We thank J. Paz-Ares and members of Solano's lab for critical reading of the manuscript and C. Mark for English editing. We thank K. Inoue (Kyoto University) for vector construction and assistance with CRISPR–Cas9D10A cloning. We also thank H. Matsuura (Hokkaido Univ.) for assistance with OPDA synthesis. J. Langdale (Oxford University) kindly provided Anthoceros agrestis and B. Benito (CBGP-UPM-INIA) Physcomitrella patens. E.E. Farmer (University of Lausanne) kindly provided Methyl-dn-OPDA and M. Alfonso (EEAD-CSIC) provided dn-OPDA. L. Colombo (University of Milan) kindly provided pTFT vector. This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation grant BIO2016-77216-R (MINECO/FEDER). I.M. was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the Ministerio de Educación, Spain (grant AP2010-1410) and EMBO Short Term Fellowship (ASTF 385-2013). This work was partly supported by MEXT KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15K21758 and JP25113009 to TK. P.R and C.G.-D. are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Grant Nr. 31003A_169278
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I.M. and R.S. designed the experiments. I.M. performed experiments in Figs. 1,2,4 and 6 and Supplementary Figs. 1, 2, 3a, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 and prepared the samples for experiments in Figs. 3 and 5 and Supplementary Fig. 8. S.I. identified Mpcoi1-1. A.M.Z. quantified oxylipins (Figs. 1 and 5 and Supplementary Figs. 1 and 8). M.H. synthesized all chemicals described in Methods. J.M.F.-Z. designed and analyzed microarray data. G.G.-C. performed gene expression analysis. C.G.-D. performed insect feeding assays. P.R. designed, supervised and analyzed insect feeding assays. K.T. synthesized OPDA and OPDA-Ile. J.M.G.-M. designed and supervised LC–MS experiments. R.N. and T.K. designed and supervised homologous recombination and CRISPR experiments to obtain Mpcoi1 mutants. R.S. supervised the work. I.M and R.S. wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and edited the manuscript.
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Enriched Gene Ontology (GO) terms based on the Arabidopsis orthologues of genes shown in clusters in Figure 3b
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Monte, I., Ishida, S., Zamarreño, A.M. et al. Ligand-receptor co-evolution shaped the jasmonate pathway in land plants. Nat Chem Biol 14, 480–488 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-018-0033-4
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