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Plant Physiol, July 2002, Vol. 129, pp. 1138-1149
Combinatorial Interaction of Cis Elements Specifies the
Expression of the Arabidopsis AtHsp90-1
Gene1
Kosmas
Haralampidis,23
Dimitra
Milioni,24
Stamatis
Rigas, and
Polydefkis
Hatzopoulos*
Molecular Biology Laboratory, Agricultural University of Athens,
Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
The promoter region of the Arabidopsis
AtHsp90-1 gene is congested with heat shock elements and
stress response elements, as well as with other potential
transcriptional binding sites (activating protein 1, CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein element, and metal regulatory element).
To determine how the expression of this bona fide
AtHsp90-1 gene is regulated, a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative promoter deletion analysis was conducted under various environmental conditions and during development. The
promoter induces gene expression at high levels after heat shock and
arsenite treatment. However, our results show that the two stress
responses may involve common but not necessarily the same regulatory
elements. Whereas for heat induction, heat shock elements and stress
response elements act cooperatively to promote high levels of gene
expression, arsenite induction seems to require the involvement of
activating protein 1 regulatory sequences. In stressed transgenic
plants harboring the full-length promoter, -glucuronidase activity
was prominent in all tissues. Nevertheless, progressive deletion of the
promoter decreases the level of expression under heat shock and
restricts it predominantly in the two meristems of the plant. In
contrast, under arsenite induction, proximal sequences induce
AtHsp90-1 gene expression only in the shoot meristem. Distally located elements negatively regulate AtHsp90-1
gene expression under unstressed conditions, whereas flower-specific
regulated expression in mature pollen grains suggests the prominent
role of the AtHsp90-1 in pollen development. The results
show that the regulation of developmental expression, suppression, or
stress induction is mainly due to combinatorial contribution of the cis elements in the promoter region of the AtHsp90-1 gene.
1
This work was supported by the General
Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece (grant no. 91/910 to
P.H.). K.H. and S.R. were supported by State Foundation Scholarships, Greece.
2
These authors contributed equally to the paper.
3
Present address: Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes
Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
4
Present address: Cell and Developmental Biology
Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail phat{at}aua.gr; fax 0030-1-5294321.
© 2002 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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