Overexpression of Physcomitrium patens cell cycle regulators leads to larger gametophytes

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  • Anantha Peramuna
  • Carmen Quiñonero López
  • Francisco Javier Astorga Rios
  • Hansol Bae
  • Jonatan Ulrik Fangel
  • Rituraj Batth
  • Jesper Harholt
  • Henrik Toft Simonsen

Regulation of cell division is crucial for the development of multicellular organisms, and in plants, this is in part regulated by the D-type cyclins (CYCD) and cyclin-dependent kinase A (CDKA) complex. Cell division regulation in Physcomitrium differs from other plants, by having cell division checks at both the G1 to S and G2 to M transition, controlled by the CYCD1/CDKA2 and CYCD2/CDKA1 complexes, respectively. This led us to hypothesize that upregulation of cell division could be archived in Bryophytes, without the devastating phenotypes observed in Arabidopsis. Overexpressing lines of PpCYCD1, PpCYCD2, PpCDKA1, or PpCDKA2 under Ubiquitin promotor control provided transcriptomic and phenotypical data that confirmed their involvement in the G1 to S or G2 to M transition control. Interestingly, combinatorial overexpression of all four genes produced plants with dominant PpCDKA2 and PpCYCD1 phenotypes and led to plants with twice as large gametophores. No detrimental phenotypes were observed in this line and two of the major carbon sinks in plants, the cell wall and starch, were unaffected by the increased growth rate. These results show that the cell cycle characteristics of P. patens can be manipulated by the ectopic expression of cell cycle regulators.

Original languageEnglish
Article number4301
JournalScientific Reports
Volume13
Issue number1
Number of pages10
ISSN2045-2322
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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