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Volume 52 Issue 12
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The HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1 interacts with CONSTANS to promote flowering in Arabidopsis

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2025.01.010
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    State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China to Z.L. (32300474) and to C.L. (32470346 and 32270362), the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation to C.L. (2024A1515010612), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities to X.S. (24qnpy078).

  • Received Date: 2024-10-08
  • Accepted Date: 2025-01-15
  • Rev Recd Date: 2025-01-15
  • Publish Date: 2025-12-31
    Abstract
  • Chromatin modifications, including histone acetylation, play essential roles in regulating flowering. The CBP/p300 family HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1 (HAC1), which mediates histone acetylation, promotes the process of floral transition; however, the precise mechanism remains largely unclear. Specifically, how HAC1 is involved in the flowering regulatory network and which genes are the direct targets of HAC1 during flowering regulation are still unknown. In this study, we elucidate the critical function of HAC1 in promoting flowering via exerting active epigenetic markers at two key floral integrators, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1 (SOC1), thereby regulating their expression to trigger the flowering process. We show that HAC1 physically interacts with CONSTANS (CO) in vivo and in vitro. Chromatin immunoprecipitation results indicate that HAC1 directly binds to the FT and SOC1 loci. Loss of HAC1 impairs CO-mediated transcriptional activation of FT and SOC1 in promoting flowering. Moreover, CO mutation leads to the decreased enrichment of HAC1 at FT and SOC1, indicating that CO recruits HAC1 to FT and SOC1. Finally, HAC1, as well as CO, is required for the elevated histone acetylation level at FT and SOC1. Taken together, our finding reveals that HAC1-mediated histone acetylation boots flowering via a CO-dependent activation of FT and SOC1.
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