The Interactome of Soybean GmWRKY53 using Yeast 2-Hybrid Library Screening to Saturation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-23-2015

Publication Title

Plant Signaling & Behavior

Volume

10

Issue

7

Abstract

Soybean GmWRKY53 functions in both biotic and abiotic stress signaling. Using GmWRKY53 as a bait yeast 2-hybrid library screening to saturation isolated multiple independent fragments for many interacting proteins, enabling delineation of minimal interacting domains and computation of a confidence score. Multiple independent clones coding for the LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL clock protein GmLCL2 (MYB114) were isolated and the binding site for GmWRKY53 was mapped to 90 amino acids separate from the MYB domain. This suggests a direct input from the clock on GmWRKY53 activity. The GmWRKY53-interacting proteins also included 3 water stress-inducible AP2/ERF transcription factors. One of these (Glyma03g26310) is one of the most strongly water stress induced genes in soybean roots, suggesting that GmWRKY53/ERF complexes regulate water stress responses.

Keywords

Clock protein; Drought; ERF transcription factor; Protein-protein interaction; Soybean; WRKY transcription factor

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