Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2024, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (3): 481-494.DOI: 10.11983/CBB23074  cstr: 32102.14.CBB23074

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Effect of Amino Acid Point Mutations on the Structure and Function of Phytochrome B in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yanxiao Chen1,2, Yaping Li2, Jinjun Zhou3, Lixia Xie2, Yongbin Peng2, Wei Sun2, Yanan He2, onghui Jiang2, Zenglan Wang1, Chongke Zheng2,*(), Xianzhi Xie2,*()   

  1. 1School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
    2Institute of Wetland Agriculture and Ecology, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China
    3Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China
  • Received:2023-06-05 Accepted:2023-12-19 Online:2024-05-10 Published:2024-05-10
  • Contact: E-mail: zhengck1983@163.com; xzhxie2010@163.com

Abstract: Organisms have evolved different photoreceptors to adapt to the ever-changing conditions of the external light environment. Phytochromes (phys) are one of the classic plant photoreceptors, mainly perceiving red and far-red light. Phytochromes detect red and far-red light through the light conversion between the dark-adapted Pr state and the light-activated Pfr state. All plant phytochromes have a conserved N-terminal photoreceptor region and a C-terminal regulatory region. The N-terminal includes NTE, PAS, GAF, and PHY subdomains, while C-terminal includes two PAS domains and a histidine kinase-related domain (HKRD). In order to understand how the structure of photochromes controls its function, many function-deficient photochrome derivatives and amino acid point mutants have been obtained and studied. The N-terminal domain plays important roles in the spectral properties, light signal perception and light signal transduction of phyB. The C-terminal domain is essential for dimerization and nuclear localization of photochrome. This paper mainly reviews point mutations of amino acid in various subdomains of phyB in Arabidopsis thaliana and their effects on the function of phyB, in order to have a better understanding of the structure and functional regulation of phyB. It lays a foundation for obtaining crops with desired agronomic characteristics through gene editing.

Key words: phyB, Arabidopsis thaliana, domain, amino acid point mutation, function