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Romani F, Sauret-Güeto S, Rebmann M, Annese D, Bonter I, Tomaselli M, Dierschke T, Delmans M, Frangedakis E, Silvestri L, Rever J, Bowman JL, Romani I, Haseloff J. The landscape of transcription factor promoter activity during vegetative development in Marchantia. Plant Cell 2024:koae053. [PMID: 38391349 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koae053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
Abstract
Transcription factors (TFs) are essential for the regulation of gene expression and cell fate determination. Characterising the transcriptional activity of TF genes in space and time is a critical step towards understanding complex biological systems. The vegetative gametophyte meristems of bryophytes share some characteristics with the shoot apical meristems of flowering plants. However, the identity and expression profiles of TFs associated with gametophyte organization are largely unknown. With only ∼450 putative TF genes, Marchantia (Marchantia polymorpha) is an outstanding model system for plant systems biology. We have generated a near-complete collection of promoter elements derived from Marchantia TF genes. We experimentally tested reporter fusions for all the TF promoters in the collection and systematically analysed expression patterns in Marchantia gemmae. This allowed us to build a map of expression domains in early vegetative development and identify a set of TF-derived promoters that are active in the stem cell zone. The cell markers provide additional tools and insight into the dynamic regulation of the gametophytic meristem and its evolution. In addition, we provide an online database of expression patterns for all promoters in the collection. We expect that these promoter elements will be useful for cell-type-specific expression, synthetic biology applications, and functional genomics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Facundo Romani
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic., 3800 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic., 3800 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal, Buenos Aires 1876, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA UK
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Marron AO, Sauret‐Güeto S, Rebmann M, Silvestri L, Tomaselli M, Haseloff J. An enhancer trap system to track developmental dynamics in Marchantia polymorpha. Plant J 2023; 116:604-628. [PMID: 37583263 PMCID: PMC10952768 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
Abstract
A combination of streamlined genetics, experimental tractability and relative morphological simplicity compared to vascular plants makes the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha an ideal model system for studying many aspects of plant biology. Here we describe a transformation vector combining a constitutive fluorescent membrane marker with a nuclear marker that is regulated by nearby enhancer elements and use this to produce a library of enhancer trap lines for Marchantia. Screening gemmae from these lines allowed the identification and characterization of novel marker lines, including markers for rhizoids and oil cells. The library allowed the identification of a margin tissue running around the thallus edge, highlighted during thallus development. The expression of this marker is correlated with auxin levels. We generated multiple markers for the meristematic apical notch region, which have different spatial expression patterns, reappear at different times during meristem regeneration following apical notch excision and have varying responses to auxin supplementation or inhibition. This reveals that there are proximodistal substructures within the apical notch that could not be observed otherwise. We employed our markers to study Marchantia sporeling development, observing meristem emergence as defining the protonema-to-prothallus stage transition, and subsequent production of margin tissue during the prothallus stage. Exogenous auxin treatment stalls meristem emergence at the protonema stage but does not inhibit cell division, resulting in callus-like sporelings with many rhizoids, whereas pharmacologically inhibiting auxin synthesis and transport does not prevent meristem emergence. This enhancer trap system presents a useful resource for the community and will contribute to future Marchantia research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alan O. Marron
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
- Present address:
Crop Science CentreUniversity of Cambridge93 Lawrence Weaver, RoadCambridgeCB3 0LEUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CambridgeDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 3EAUK
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Frangedakis E, Guzman-Chavez F, Rebmann M, Markel K, Yu Y, Perraki A, Tse SW, Liu Y, Rever J, Sauret-Gueto S, Goffinet B, Schneider H, Haseloff J. Construction of DNA Tools for Hyperexpression in Marchantia Chloroplasts. ACS Synth Biol 2021; 10:1651-1666. [PMID: 34097383 PMCID: PMC8296666 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Chloroplasts are attractive platforms for synthetic biology applications since they are capable of driving very high levels of transgene expression, if mRNA production and stability are properly regulated. However, plastid transformation is a slow process and currently limited to a few plant species. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a simple model plant that allows rapid transformation studies; however, its potential for protein hyperexpression has not been fully exploited. This is partially due to the fact that chloroplast post-transcriptional regulation is poorly characterized in this plant. We have mapped patterns of transcription in Marchantia chloroplasts. Furthermore, we have obtained and compared sequences from 51 bryophyte species and identified putative sites for pentatricopeptide repeat protein binding that are thought to play important roles in mRNA stabilization. Candidate binding sites were tested for their ability to confer high levels of reporter gene expression in Marchantia chloroplasts, and levels of protein production and effects on growth were measured in homoplastic transformed plants. We have produced novel DNA tools for protein hyperexpression in this facile plant system that is a test-bed for chloroplast engineering.
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- Eftychios Frangedakis
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Fairy Lake Botanical Garden & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518004, China
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, United States
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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Sauret-Güeto S, Frangedakis E, Silvestri L, Rebmann M, Tomaselli M, Markel K, Delmans M, West A, Patron NJ, Haseloff J. Systematic Tools for Reprogramming Plant Gene Expression in a Simple Model, Marchantia polymorpha. ACS Synth Biol 2020; 9:864-882. [PMID: 32163700 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
We present the OpenPlant toolkit, a set of interlinked resources and techniques to develop Marchantia as testbed for bioengineering in plants. Marchantia is a liverwort, a simple plant with an open form of development that allows direct visualization of gene expression and dynamics of cellular growth in living tissues. We describe new techniques for simple and efficient axenic propagation and maintenance of Marchantia lines with no requirement for glasshouse facilities. Marchantia plants spontaneously produce clonal propagules within a few weeks of regeneration, and lines can be amplified million-fold in a single generation by induction of the sexual phase of growth, crossing, and harvesting of progeny spores. The plant has a simple morphology and genome with reduced gene redundancy, and the dominant phase of its life cycle is haploid, making genetic analysis easier. We have built robust Loop assembly vector systems for nuclear and chloroplast transformation and genome editing. These have provided the basis for building and testing a modular library of standardized DNA elements with highly desirable properties. We have screened transcriptomic data to identify a range of candidate genes, extracted putative promoter sequences, and tested them in vivo to identify new constitutive promoter elements. The resources have been combined into a toolkit for plant bioengineering that is accessible for laboratories without access to traditional facilities for plant biology research. The toolkit is being made available under the terms of the OpenMTA and will facilitate the establishment of common standards and the use of this simple plant as testbed for synthetic biology.
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- Susanna Sauret-Güeto
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EG, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K
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Hannon R, Gipson MT, Rebmann M, Keneipp J, Sattler J, Lonero P, Day CL, Bolter JF. Self-rating of prospective memory by normal, brain-injured and alcoholic individuals. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 1991. [DOI: 10.1093/arclin/6.3.189a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Hannon R, Rebmann M, Keneipp J, Kriskovich M, Schmedel W, Walker JA. Language lateralization in temporal lobe versus generalized seizure patients as determined by the Wada test. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 1991. [DOI: 10.1093/arclin/6.3.190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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