Metabolic repression of transcription in higher plants.
Open Access
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Cell
- Vol. 2 (10), 1027-1038
- https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.2.10.1027
Abstract
Using freshly isolated maize mesophyll protoplasts and a transient expression method, I showed that the transcriptional activity of seven maize photosynthetic gene promoters is specifically and coordinately repressed by the photosynthetic end products sucrose and glucose and by the exogenous carbon source acetate. Analysis of deleted, mutated, and hybrid promoters showed that sugars and acetate inhibit the activity of distinct positive upstream regulatory elements without a common consensus. The metabolic repression of photosynthetic genes overrides other forms of regulation, e.g., light, tissue type, and developmental stage. Repression by sugars and repression by acetate are mediated by different mechanisms. The identification of conditions that avoid sugar repression overcomes a major obstacle to the study of photosynthetic gene regulation in higher plants.This publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
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