In vivo FRET-FLIM reveals cell-type-specific protein interactions in Arabidopsis roots

Long, Yuchen, Stahl, Yvonne, Weidtkamp-Peters, Stefanie, Postma, Marten, Zhou, Wenkun, Goedhart, Joachim, Sánchez-Pérez, María-Isabel, Gadella, Theodorus W. J., Simon, Rüdiger, Scheres, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-9578 and Blilou, Ikram 2017. In vivo FRET-FLIM reveals cell-type-specific protein interactions in Arabidopsis roots. Nature 548 (7665) , pp. 97-102. 10.1038/nature23317

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Abstract

During multicellular development, specification of distinct cell fates is often regulated by the same transcription factors operating differently in distinct cis-regulatory modules1,2,3, either through different protein complexes, conformational modification of protein complexes, or combinations of both. Direct visualization of different transcription factor complex states guiding specific gene expression programs has been challenging. Here we use in vivo FRET–FLIM (Förster resonance energy transfer measured by fluorescence lifetime microscopy) to reveal spatial partitioning of protein interactions in relation to specification of cell fate. We show that, in Arabidopsis roots, three fully functional fluorescently tagged cell fate regulators establish cell-type-specific interactions at endogenous expression levels and can form higher order complexes. We reveal that cell-type-specific in vivo FRET–FLIM distributions reflect conformational changes of these complexes to differentially regulate target genes and specify distinct cell fates.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Nature
ISSN:	0028-0836
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 December 2018
Date of Acceptance:	19 June 2017
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 23:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117542

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