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. 2009 Feb;1789(2):117-24.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.09.003. Epub 2008 Sep 26.

Two Arabidopsis orthologs of the transcriptional coactivator ADA2 have distinct biological functions

Amy T Hark  1 , Konstantinos E Vlachonasios, Kanchan A Pavangadkar, Sumana Rao, Hillary Gordon, Ioannis-Dimosthenis Adamakis, Athanasios Kaldis, Michael F Thomashow, Steven J Triezenberg
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Two Arabidopsis orthologs of the transcriptional coactivator ADA2 have distinct biological functions

Amy T Hark et al. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2009 Feb.

Abstract

Histone acetylation is an example of covalent modification of chromatin structure that has the potential to regulate gene expression. Gcn5 is a prototypical histone acetyltransferase that associates with the transcriptional coactivator Ada2. In Arabidopsis, two genes encode proteins that resemble yeast ADA2 and share approximately 45% amino acid sequence identity. We previously reported that plants harboring a T-DNA insertion in the ADA2b gene display a dwarf phenotype with developmental defects in several organs. Here we describe T-DNA insertion alleles in the ADA2a gene, which result in no dramatic growth or developmental phenotype. Both ADA2a and ADA2b are expressed in a variety of plant tissues; moreover, expression of ADA2a from a constitutive promoter fails to complement the ada2b-1 mutant phenotype, consistent with the hypothesis that the two proteins have distinct biochemical roles. To further probe the cellular roles of ADA2a and ADA2b, we studied the response of the transcriptional coactivator mutants to abiotic stress. Although ada2b seedlings display hypersensitivity to salt and abscisic acid and altered responses to low temperature stress, the responses of ada2a seedlings to abiotic stress generally parallel those of wildtype plants. Intriguingly, ada2a;ada2b double mutant plants display an intermediate, gcn5-like phenotype, suggesting that ADA2a and ADA2b each work independently with GCN5 to affect genome function in Arabidopsis.

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