PMID: 9193069May 1, 1997Paper

Intracellular localization of GBF proteins and blue light-induced import of GBF2 fusion proteins into the nucleus of cultured Arabidopsis and soybean cells

The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology
W B TerzaghiA R Cashmore

Abstract

The G-box is an important regulatory element found in the promoters of many different genes. Four members of an Arabidopsis gene family encoding basic leucine zipper proteins (GBFs) which bind the G-box have previously been cloned. To study GBFs, a polyclonal antibody was raised against GBF1 expressed in bacteria. This antibody also recognized GBF2 and GBF3. Immunoblot analysis of nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions from Arabidopsis and soybean (SB-M) cell cultures indicated that over 90% of proteins detected with anti-GBF1 were cytoplasmic. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays indicated that over 90% of G-box binding activity was cytoplasmic. DNA affinity chromatography demonstrated that each protein detected with anti-GBF1 specifically bound the G-box. To study individual GBFs, DNA constructs fusing GBF1, GBF2 and GBF4 to GUS were made and assayed by transient expression in SB-M protoplasts. Of GUS:GBF1 proteins, 50-62% were localized in the cytoplasm under all conditions tested, while 97% of GUS:GBF4 was localized in the nucleus. By contrast, whereas about 50% of GUS:GBF2 was found in the cytoplasm of dark-grown cells, over 80% of this protein was found in the nucleus in cells cultured under blue light. Deletion analysis of G...Continue Reading

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