Characterising the role of the Eucalyptus grandis SND2 promoter in secondary cell wall biosynthesis
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Background NAC and MYB transcription factors (TFs) have been shown to play prominent roles in the regulation of plant developmental processes. Two Arabidopsis thaliana NAC domain TFs (AtSND2, AtSND3) and one MYB domain TF (AtMYB103) were shown to be downstream targets of two master regulators of xylem fibre cell development, NST1 and SND1 [1,2]. These TFs were able to induce the expression of a GUS reporter gene under the control of the AtCesA8 promoter [3], indicating that they may be involved in the regulation of cellulose biosynthesis in the secondary cell walls of A. thaliana xylem fibres. It is hypothesized that putative orthologs of these TFs will also play important roles in regulating fibre secondary cell wall biosynthesis in woody plants such as Eucalyptus grandis. The transcriptional network regulating wood fibre development is uncharacterized in E. grandis, therefore it would be beneficial to identify upstream components of this transcriptional network in E. grandis. In this ongoing study we aim to identify TFs which bind to the promoter of the putative ortholog of AtSND2 in E. grandis (EgSND2) and possibly also to the promoters of the orthologs of AtSND3 and AtMYB103. In parallel, we are characterizing the detailed heterologous expression patterns of the EgSND2, EgSND3 and MYB103 promoter regions in A. thaliana plants. This work forms part of an effort to elucidate the transcriptional network regulating wood fibre development in E. grandis. Methods A reverse BLAST approach was used to identify candidate orthologs of AtSND2, AtSND3 and AtMYB103 in Eucalyptus, Populus and Vitis. In silico cis-element analysis was performed on the promoter regions of the putative orthologs to identify previously characterised and novel cis-elements. The 1.5 kb regions upstream of the translational start site (TSS) of EgSND2, EgSND3 and EgMYB103 were isolated from E. grandis genomic DNA. The amplified fragments were cloned into pMDC162, a GUS reporter vector, and introduced into A. thaliana Col-O plants for heterologous GUS expression analysis. The same reporter constructs were also transformed directly into the vascular cambium of potted E. grandis plants to determine endogenous promoter activity by Induced Somatic Sector Analysis (ISSA, [4]). Qualitative GUS reporter analyses were performed on the EgSND2promoter::GUS, EgSND3promoter::GUS and EgMYB103promoter::GUS constructs in Arabidopsis plants at 1, 3 and 6 weeks. A 500 bp truncation upstream of the TSS of EgSND2 was generated and cloned into the pHIS2.1 vector along with the 1.5 kb EgSND2 promoter sequence for use in yeast onehybrid (Y1-H) screening. Candidate proteins which bind to the cloned promoter sequences will be identified using Y1-H analysis and further characterised.
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