Redox signaling to chromatin

Plšková, Zuzana

Chromatin is a highly dynamic structure, which is constantly subjected to regulation in response to environmental conditions. This response is mediated by chromatin modifiers, such as histone acetyltransferases, which deposit histone post-translational modifications, resulting in changes in gene expression. One of such modifiers in plants is GENERAL CONTROL NON-REPRESSIBLE 5 (GCN5). Despite its importance in plant growth and development, it remains poorly understood how GCN5 is regulated. Emergine evidence points towards redox regulation of chromatin remodeling that can be executed via redox modifications of chromatin modifiers. To investigate possible redox regulation of GCN5, we used redox insensitive lines, carrying GCN5 with mutated cysteine to serine. Even though gcn5 mutants displayed enhanced susceptibility to paraquat-induced oxidative stress, the mutated lines phenocopied the wild type. We further probed the interactome of GCN5 to identify putative functional partners, whose association with GCN5 could be altered under oxidative stress conditions, or affected by its redox status. Mutating of a single cysteine residue in GCN5 did not result in significant changes of its interactome, suggesting that additional single and higher order mutants need to be explored.

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