New insights into the mechanisms of phytochrome–cryptochrome coaction

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 217; no. 2; pp. 547 - 551
• Main Authors: Wang, Qin, Liu, Qing, Wang, Xu, Zuo, Zecheng, Oka, Yoshito, Lin, Chentao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2018
• Subjects: blue light; Blue‐light Inhibitors of Cryptochrome1 (BIC1); Cryptochromes; Gene expression; Genomes; Helix-loop-helix proteins (basic); Histones; Light effects; Phosphorylation; Photoreception; Photoreceptors; Photoregulatory Protein Kinase1 (PPK1); Phytochromes; Protein interaction; Proteins; Signaling; Transcription; Transcription factors; Ubiquitin; Ubiquitin-protein ligase; Wavelengths; Blue-light Inhibitors of Cryptochrome1 (BIC1); blue light; cryptochromes; Photoregulatory Protein Kinase1 (PPK1); phytochromes
• ISSN: 0028-646X; 1469-8137; 1469-8137
• DOI: 10.1111/nph.14886

Contents Summary 547 I. Introduction 547 II. Phytochromes mediate light‐induced transcription of BICs to inactivate cryptochromes 548 III. PPKs phosphorylate light‐signaling proteins and histones to affect plant development 548 IV. Prospect 550 Acknowledgements 550 References 550 Summary Plants perceive and respond to light signals by multiple sensory photoreceptors, including phytochromes and cryptochromes, which absorb different wavelengths of light to regulate genome expression and plant development. Photophysiological analyses have long revealed the coordinated actions of different photoreceptors, a phenomenon referred to as the photoreceptor coaction. The mechanistic explanations of photoreceptor coactions are not fully understood. The function of direct protein–protein interaction of phytochromes and cryptochromes and common signaling molecules of these photoreceptors, such as SPA1/COP1 E3 ubiquitin ligase complex and bHLH transcription factors PIFs, would partially explain phytochrome–cryptochrome coactions. In addition, newly discovered proteins that block cryptochrome photodimerization or catalyze cryptochrome phosphorylation may also participate in the phytochrome and cryptochrome coaction. This Tansley insight, which is not intended to make a comprehensive review of the studies of photoreceptor coactions, attempts to highlight those recent findings and their possible roles in the photoreceptor coaction.