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The Relationship between Ethylene Binding and Dominant
Insensitivity Conferred by Mutant Forms of the ETR1 Ethylene
Receptor1
Anne E. Hall,
Qianhong Grace Chen,
Jennifer L. Findell,
G. Eric
Schaller, and
Anthony B. Bleecker*
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
53706 (A.E.H., Q.G.C., A.B.B.); and Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New
Hampshire 03824 (J.L.F., G.E.S.)
Ethylene responses in Arabidopsis are
mediated by a small family of receptors, including the
ETR1 gene product. Specific mutations in the N-terminal
ethylene-binding domain of any family member lead to dominant ethylene
insensitivity. To investigate the mechanism of ethylene insensitivity,
we examined the effects of mutations on the ethylene-binding activity
of the ETR1 protein expressed in yeast. The
etr1-1 and
etr1-4 mutations completely eliminated ethylene binding, while the etr1-3
mutation severely reduced binding. Additional site-directed mutations
that disrupted ethylene binding in yeast also conferred dominant
ethylene insensitivity when the mutated genes were transferred into
wild-type Arabidopsis plants. By contrast, the
etr1-2 mutation did not disrupt ethylene
binding in yeast. These results indicate that dominant ethylene
insensitivity may be conferred by mutations that disrupt ethylene
binding or that uncouple ethylene binding from signal output by the
receptor. Increased dosage of wild-type alleles in triploid lines led
to the partial recovery of ethylene sensitivity, indicating that dominant ethylene insensitivity may involve either interactions between
wild-type and mutant receptors or competition between mutant and
wild-type receptors for downstream effectors.
1
This work was supported by the National Science
Foundation (grant no. MCB-9603679 to G.E.S. and grant no. MCB-9513463
to A.B.B.), the HATCH project (grant no. 386 to G.E.S.), the Department
of Energy (grant no. DE-FG02-91ER20029 to A.B.B.), and the Department of Energy-National Science Foundation-U.S. Department of Agriculture Collaborative Research in Plant Biology Program (grant no. BIR92-20331 to support A.E.H.).
*
Corresponding author; e-mail Bleecker{at}facstaff.wisc.edu; fax
608-262-7509.
Plant Physiol. (1999) 121: 291-300
Copyright Clearance Center: 0032-0889/99/121//10
© 1999 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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