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Update Review for Focus Issue, Energy: Light and Oxygen Dynamics 1
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Retrograde signals navigate the path to chloroplast development 3
Tamara Hernández-Verdeja and Åsa Strand* 4
Umeå Plant Science Centre, Dept. of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, 5
Sweden. 6
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*Corresponding author: 8
Åsa Strand 9
Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, S-901 87 10
Umeå, Sweden 11
Phone: +46 90 786 9314 12
Email: [email protected] 13
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Key words: 15
Chloroplast, seedling development, retrograde, photosynthesis, signalling, GUN1 16
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This work was supported by grants from the Swedish research foundation, VR (ÅS). 18
Å.S. and T.H.V. contributed equally to writing of the manuscript. 19
Summary: Complex signalling networks between the chloroplast and the nucleus mediate the 20
emergence of the seedling into the light and the establishment of photosynthesis. 21
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1. INTRODUCTION 24
Light is the main source of energy for life on Earth, and plants and algae are able to convert 25
light energy, through photosynthesis, into chemical energy that can be used by all organisms. 26
The photosynthetic reactions are housed in the chloroplasts but the chloroplasts are also the site 27
for synthesis of essential compounds like fatty acids, vitamins, amino acids and tetrapyrroles. 28
Given their essential role, the correct formation and function of chloroplasts is vital for the 29
growth and development of plants and algae, and hence for almost all organisms. Chloroplasts 30
evolved from an endosymbiotic event where a photosynthetic prokaryotic organism was 31
acquired by a pro-eukaryotic cell. With time, the photosynthetic prokaryote lost or transferred 32
most of its genes to the host genome. As a result, plastid protein complexes, such as the 33
photosynthetic complexes, are encoded by genes of both the nuclear and plastid genomes. This 34
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division of genetic information requires a precise co-ordination between the two genomes to 35
achieve proper plastid development and function. Plastid development and gene expression is 36
under nuclear control, in what is referred to as anterograde control. However, there is also a 37
signalling system originating in the plastids, so called retrograde signals, transmitting 38
information about the developmental and functional state of the plastids to the nucleus to 39
regulate nuclear gene expression. Retrograde signalling is a complex network of signals that can 40
be divided into ‘biogenic control’, referring to signals generated by the plastid as it develops 41
from a proplastid or etioplast into a chloroplast, and ‘operational control’ signals, including 42
those generated from a mature chloroplast in response to environmental perturbations (Chan et 43
al., 2016). 44
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2. FROM THE PLASTID SIGNAL TO THE COMPLEX NETWORK OF PLASTID-TO-46
NUCLEUS SIGNALLING 47
The original idea of a single plastid signal has evolved over the years and we now know that the 48
retrograde signalling system is a complex network of signals and pathways, most of which are 49
still unknown. To date, four major signals/pathways have been described: (1) signals related to 50
the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway (TBP), (2) signals triggered by plastid gene expression 51
(PGE), (3) reactive oxygen species (ROS) and changes to the activity of the photosynthetic 52
electron transport chain (PET), and (4) signals deriving from disturbed plastid metabolism such 53
as accumulation of 3’-phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphate (PAP), 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-54
cyclodiphosphate (MEcPP), or carotenoid derivatives like β-cyclocitral or apocarotenoids 55
(Estavillo et al., 2011; Ramel et al., 2012; Xiao et al., 2012; Avendaño-Vázquez et al., 2014). 56
The signals derived from plastid metabolism are mostly related to stress responses and 57
operational control of the chloroplast. Those pathways have recently been extensively reviewed, 58
and will not be covered in this review (Bobik and Burch-Smith, 2015; Chi et al., 2015; De 59
Souza et al., 2017). Our focus here is on biogenic control and the retrograde signals linked to 60
the early light response and to chloroplast development. 61
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The biogenic signals can be linked to the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway (TBP), plastid gene 63
expression (PGE) and changes to the photosynthetic electron transport activity (Fig. 1). 64
Chlorophyll and the other major tetrapyrroles, like heme, siroheme, and phytochromobilin, 65
derive from a common biosynthetic pathway (TBP) located in the plastids. Arabidopsis mutants 66
with impaired communication between the chloroplast and the nucleus, referred to as the gun 67
(genomes uncoupled) mutants were isolated from forward genetic screens (Susek et al., 1993; 68
Mochizuki et al., 2001; Woodson et al., 2011). GUN2-6 all encode components closely 69
associated with tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and the respective mutants have changes to the flux 70
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through TBP (Details Box 1). The phenotype of the gun mutants has been linked to oxidative 71
stress causing perturbations of flux through the TBP resulting in accumulation of both ROS and 72
specific metabolites (reviewed in Larkin, 2016). In addition, the tetrapyrrole heme has been 73
proposed as a plastid signal positively regulating the expression of Photosynthesis Associated 74
Nuclear Genes (PhANGs) during chloroplast development (Woodson et al., 2011). During 75
chloroplast development, precise co-ordination between the synthesis of the light absorbing 76
pigments and the expression of the nuclear-encoded chlorophyll-binding proteins is required to 77
correctly assemble the antennae-reaction centre super complexes of PSII and PSI. Thus, 78
regulation of PhANG expression is linked to tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and it has been suggested 79
that PhANG expression is controlled by a balance between light signalling pathways and a 80
plastid signal triggered by impaired flux through chlorophyll biosynthesis, Mg-ProtoIX and or 81
heme (Woodson et al., 2011; Barajas-López et al., 2013). Furthermore 1O2, a known operational 82
control signal, has been proposed to also play a role during chloroplast development by 83
repressing PhANGs in response to moderate increases of chlorophyll precursors (Page et al., 84
2017b). 85
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The status of plastid transcription and translation as a trigger for a retrograde signal has been 87
demonstrated by repression of PhANG expression following chemical treatments such as the 88
plastid translational inhibitors lincomycin or rifampicin, which selectively inhibits the plastid-89
encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) (Woodson et al., 2013; Chan et al., 2016). The repression of 90
PhANG expression phenotype was also observed in mutants affected in the plastid 91
transcriptional machinery, including: the RpoTp/SCA3 protein of the nuclear-encoded RNA 92
polymerase (NEP); the sigma factors SIG2 and SIG6 essential for PEP activity; and other 93
proteins required for full expression of the PEP-dependent genes like Polymerase-Associated 94
Protein7 (PAP7), Plastid Redox Insensitive2 (PRIN2) or Yellow Seedlings1 (YS1) (Hricová et 95
al., 2006; Gao et al., 2011; Kindgren et al., 2012; Woodson et al., 2013) (Details Box 2). The 96
exact nature of the signal generated by PGE is unknown and different but overlapping pathways 97
have been suggested (Woodson et al., 2013). One of the proposed signalling pathways involves 98
PEP-transcribed tRNAGlu, the starting and limiting substrate of TBP, thus, linking PGE to TBP-99
mediated signalling with the regulation of PhANG expression during chloroplast biogenesis 100
(Woodson et al., 2013). 101
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In the mature chloroplast, ROS generated by photosynthesis and changes to the redox state of 103
PET act as indicators of environmental fluctuations, and generate signals in the context of 104
operational control (Chan et al., 2016). However, there are also reports where an imbalance of 105
PET is perceived in the frame of biogenic control during the initial stages of plastid 106
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development. IMMUTANS (IM) encodes a plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) required for 107
chloroplast biogenesis, both in seedlings and in adult leaves. PTOX functions as a versatile 108
plastoquinol terminal oxidase in plastid membranes, transferring electrons from the 109
plastoquinone (PQ) pool to molecular oxygen. IM is a component of a redox pathway that 110
desaturates phytoene, where electrons are transferred from phytoene to PQ via phytoene 111
desaturase, and from PQ to oxygen via IM. Thus, in the ptox mutant this pathway is inhibited 112
and carotene biosynthesis is blocked at the phytoene desaturase step. The lack of protective 113
carotenoids results in photo-oxidation of plastid components, which halts plastid development 114
(Kambakam et al., 2016; Pogorelko et al., 2016). Transcriptomic analyses of etiolated and de-115
etiolating im seedlings revealed altered expression of nuclear transcription factors that control 116
PhANG expression (Kambakam et al., 2016). The retrograde signal or signals triggered by the 117
imbalance of PET during chloroplast development could potentially coordinate chlorophyll with 118
carotenoid biosynthesis during the early light response. 119
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3. FROM THE CHLOROPLAST TO THE NUCLEUS: TRANSDUCERS OF PLASTID 122
SIGNALS 123
The different signals originating in the plastids need to be transduced to the nucleus and 124
connected to transcriptional regulators that control the transcription of PhANGs. GENOMES 125
UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1) seems to act as a central hub in the chloroplast, integrating different 126
retrograde signals. Similar to GUN5, GUN1 plays a role in the tetrapyrrole-mediated pathway 127
(Koussevitzky et al., 2007) and genetic analyses revealed that GUN1 is also implicated in the 128
PGE-triggered retrograde signal, as supported by the gun1 mutation reverting the altered 129
PhANG expression phenotype caused by mutations in SIG2, SIG6 and PRIN2 (Kindgren et al., 130
2012; Woodson et al., 2013). GUN1 is a nuclear-encoded, plastid-localized protein with 131
homology to pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) domain-containing proteins but the exact molecular 132
role(s) of GUN1 remains unknown. PPR proteins are involved in RNA processing and initially a 133
fragment of GUN1 including the PPR domain was shown to bind DNA. However, no 134
interaction was detected between GUN1 and nucleic acids when the entire GUN1 protein was 135
used (Koussevitzky et al., 2007; Tadini et al., 2016). Proteomic analyses have identified a large 136
number of GUN1-interacting proteins representing a wide range of functions, including 137
ribosomal proteins and factors involved in ribosome biogenesis, enzymes in tetrapyrrole 138
biosynthesis, and protein chaperones involved in protein import to the chloroplast, assembly of 139
proteins and protein degradation (Tadini et al., 2016). However, the identified interactions were 140
weak, suggesting that GUN1 could transiently associate with different protein complexes 141
(Tadini et al., 2016). In addition, given the diversity of proteins identified, the proteomic efforts 142
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have so far generated few clues about the true function(s) of GUN1. Possibly, in vivo interaction 143
studies would generate more relevant results. 144
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A plant homeodomain transcription factor with transmembrane domains located to the 146
chloroplast envelope, named PTM, was identified as a potential transduction component of the 147
GUN1-mediated signalling pathway (Sun et al., 2011). Following treatments with lincomycin or 148
NF a truncated form of PTM (N-PTM) accumulated in the nucleus in a serine protease-149
dependent manner. Furthermore, the cleaved N-PTM form was shown to directly control the 150
expression of transcription factors, such as Abscisic Acid Insensitive4 (ABI4), in the nucleus 151
(Sun et al., 2011). The gun phenotype of the ptm mutant was recently challenged after analysis 152
of three ptm mutant alleles (Page et al., 2017a), and alternative pathways for the transduction of 153
the plastid signal to the nucleus were suggested. An alternative for the control of ABI4 activity 154
in response to a retrograde signal is a calcium-dependent, three-component mitogen-activated 155
protein kinase (MAPK) system. Perturbations of chloroplast function, following NF and/or 156
lincomycin treatments, cause transient increases in cytosolic Ca2+ that activates the MAPK 157
cascade involving the calcium-binding protein 14-3-3. The activated MPK3 or MPK6 158
phosphorylates and activates ABI4 in the nucleus (Guo et al., 2016). In addition, an as yet-159
unknown mechanism transduces retrograde signals to control the protein levels of the nuclear 160
transcription factor Golden2-like1 (GLK1), in a GUN1-independent way (Tokumaru et al., 161
2017). 162
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Overall, very few transcriptional regulators have been assigned a role in retrograde signalling 164
during the process of chloroplast development. ABI4 acts downstream of GUN1 and the 165
calcium signal, and in response to chloroplast dysfunction the GUN1-PTM module activates the 166
transcription of ABI4, whereas the Ca2+-activated MPK3/MPK6 phosphorylates ABI4 which 167
will then bind the promoters of PhANGs, repressing their transcription (Koussevitzky et al., 168
2007; Sun et al., 2011; Guo et al., 2016). The GLK1 and GLK2 transcription factors are major 169
players in chloroplast biogenesis, integrating retrograde and light signals (Waters et al., 2009; 170
Martín et al., 2016). GLK1 and GLK2 promote chloroplast development by directly activating 171
the expression of nuclear genes encoding proteins involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis, light 172
harvesting, and electron transport (Waters et al., 2009). The important role of the GLKs is 173
reinforced by the pale glk1glk2 double mutant with partially developed chloroplasts and a, albeit 174
weak, gun phenotype (Fitter et al., 2002; Waters et al., 2009). Although genetic analyses 175
indicated that GLK1 and GLK2 are redundant, recent work has revealed specificity that is 176
regulated at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels (Powell et al., 2012; Kobayashi et al., 177
2013; Wang et al., 2013; Martín et al., 2016; Tokumaru et al., 2017). 178
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4. INTERACTION OF PLASTID AND LIGHT SIGNALS DURING CHLOROPLAST 180
DEVELOPMENT 181
Chloroplast biogenesis is a complex process and the mechanisms involved differ not only 182
between different plant species but also between different organs within the individual plant. 183
Numerous studies have revealed the significance of proper chloroplast development during all 184
stages of plant growth and the necessity for co-ordination between growth and chloroplast 185
development (Pogson et al., 2015; Chan et al., 2016). Much of our current knowledge of the 186
molecular mechanisms controlling chloroplast biogenesis comes from studies using the 187
angiosperm model species Arabidopsis thaliana. Angiosperms germinate in darkness (e.g. 188
covered by soil) and develop following a dark-adapted program named skotomorphogenesis, 189
which is characterized by long hypocotyls and etiolated cotyledons that contain a form of 190
plastid referred to as etioplasts. Following light exposure, the developmental program changes 191
into photomorphogenesis, hypocotyl elongation is inhibited and the cotyledons turn green and 192
develop functional chloroplasts (Pogson et al., 2015). In adult leaves, mature chloroplasts 193
develop from proplastids in the stem cells of the apical meristem. Proplastids start to 194
differentiate and form the first extended thylakoid membranes in specific layers of the meristem 195
and in the leaf primordia. Developmental gradients can be observed from the base to the tip 196
(most matured chloroplasts), and from the margin to the midrib, within a given leaf in 197
Arabidopsis (Pogson et al., 2015; Gügel and Soll, 2016). However, the spatial (base-to-tip) 198
developmental gradient is more easily detected in monocotyledonous leaves (Pogson et al., 199
2015). 200
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In angiosperms chloroplast biogenesis is dependent on light. Exposure to light leads to 202
extensive transcriptional reprograming, involving up to one third of the nuclear-encoded genes 203
that are either induced or repressed in response to light signals (Ma et al., 2001; Jiao et al., 204
2005; Dubreuil et al., 2017b). A significant number of the induced genes encode PhANGs. Light 205
and plastid signals regulate expression of the same group of photosynthesis-related genes and it 206
has been reported that light and retrograde signals are also mediated by cis elements found in 207
close proximity (Koussevitzky et al., 2007; Chi et al., 2013). Recent studies revealed that 208
nuclear genes encoding photosynthesis-associated genes, such as genes encoding light 209
harvesting antenna proteins and TBP enzymes, are enriched in G-box elements in their 210
promoters and could be regulated directly by HY5 and indirectly by GLKs, which are central 211
regulators of light and chloroplast development signalling, respectively (Lee et al., 2007; Waters 212
et al., 2009). This suggests a close interaction between these two signalling pathways that we 213
have recently begun to untangle. However, these two pathways can also act independently, as 214
retrograde signals from the plastid were also shown regulate PhANG expression in the dark 215
(Sullivan and Gray, 1999; Larkin, 2014). Interestingly, this specific feature of plastid signalling 216
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is observed in many gymnosperms where the seedlings green in the dark, and recent work from 217
pine suggested that activation of gymnosperm PhANGs in the dark may be regulated by a 218
plastid-to-nucleus signal (Hills et al., 2015). 219
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The first regulatory step leading to the development of functional chloroplasts is the perception 221
of light by a set of photoreceptors, phytochromes (PHY) and cryptochromes (CRY), which 222
undergo conformational changes in order to interact with downstream proteins and initiate 223
intracellular signalling pathways (Jiao et al., 2007; Waters and Langdale, 2009). Genetic data 224
revealed that the blue light receptor CRY1 is involved in chloroplast development during blue 225
light induction and that the transcription factor HY5 is also involved in this pathway (Ruckle et 226
al., 2007) (Fig. 1). The red and far-red light receptors, the phytochromes, also regulate HY5 227
upon light activation but phytochrome signalling mainly proceeds through the Phytochrome-228
Interacting Proteins (PIFs), which are transcriptional repressors of chloroplast biogenesis (Jiao 229
et al., 2007). A recent quantitative mathematical model, validated in vivo, established a direct 230
link between light input via PHYB-PIF3 and the initiation of chloroplast development. The light 231
activated form of PHYB degrades PIF3, which represses the nuclear-encoded components of the 232
plastid transcriptional machinery required for transcription of the plastid-encoded 233
photosynthesis genes (Dubreuil et al., 2017a) (Fig. 1). pTAC12/HMR, one of the components 234
associated with the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP), was shown to be dually targeted to 235
the plastid and the nucleus. In the nucleus, pTAC12/HMR interacts with the photoactivated 236
PHYs, and PHY-pTAC12/HMR participates in the degradation of PIFs in the light, thereby 237
promoting photomorphogenesis (Chen et al., 2010; Galvão et al., 2012) (Fig. 1). The newly 238
synthetized pTAC12/HMR has a plastid transit peptide and is transported to the plastids where 239
it is processed for the subsequent nuclear localization. However, the mechanisms and regulation 240
of this translocation from the plastids to the nucleus is unknown (Nevarez et al., 2017). Detailed 241
investigations of the timing of pTAC12/HMR localisation during early light response and 242
chloroplast development could confirm the exciting proposition that pTAC12/HMR might be 243
involved in the co-ordination of photosynthetic gene expression in both the nucleus and the 244
chloroplast in response to light. 245
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Two molecular pathways for the interaction of light and retrograde signals have recently been 247
described during the transition from skotomorphogenesis to photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis 248
seedlings (Fig. 1). One of the pathways involves the GUN1-PTM-ABI4 retrograde signalling 249
module, which in this model antagonizes the COP1-HY5 light signal. During de-etiolation of 250
seedlings, ABI4 and HY5 integrate both signals by directly controlling the expression of a set of 251
genes involved in hypocotyl elongation and chloroplast development (Xu et al., 2016). 252
Moreover, the proposed pathway involves HY5 or ABI4 degradation by COP1. Conversely, 253
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HY5 and ABI4 both regulate the expression of COP1: ABI4 stimulates and HY5 inhibits 254
expression (Fig. 1). Thus, the balance between these three components provides the means to 255
fine-tune the response to light (Xu et al., 2016). 256
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The second pathway describes the convergence of PHY-PIF-dependent light signal and the 258
GUN1-dependent retrograde signal. The interaction point is downstream of the PIFs and 259
antagonistically regulates the transcriptional photomorphogenic network (Martín et al., 2016). 260
This pathway is independent of ABI4; instead, the GUN1- and the PIF-dependent signals 261
converge on GLK1, repressing or inducing its expression, respectively. This transcriptional 262
control over GLK1 is both ABI4- and HY5-independent and the existing evidence suggests that 263
GLK1 is a direct target of PIF-mediated repression in the dark (Oh et al., 2012; Leivar and 264
Monte, 2014; Martín et al., 2016). In the model that has been proposed PIFs directly inhibit 265
GLK1 expression in the dark to support skotomorphogenesis. In the light, GLK1 expression is 266
released and allows photomorphogenesis to proceed. When the plastid is dysfunctional or 267
damaged, a GUN1-mediated retrograde signal represses GLK1 and attenuates 268
photomorphogenesis (Martín et al., 2016) (Fig. 1). 269
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Clearly there is a close interaction between light and plastid signals but the timing of these two 271
signals during the normal progression of chloroplast biogenesis has been unclear. Early research 272
provided strong indications that a plastid retrograde signal is required for full expression of the 273
nuclear-encoded photosynthetic genes (Sullivan and Gray, 1999). Blocking PEP-driven plastid 274
transcription with rifampicin or using mutants of various PEP components blocked PhANG 275
expression in a light-independent way (Woodson et al., 2013). However, a recent comparative 276
transcriptomic analysis of seedlings grown in light or dark, and the albino pap7 mutant, 277
revealed that altered PGE and blocked plastid development does not affect global PhANG 278
expression (Grübler et al., 2017). On the other hand, a new model where the light response has 279
been investigated in an Arabidopsis cell culture with very high temporal resolution of the 280
chloroplast developmental process, suggests that the light signal precedes a plastid signal 281
(Dubreuil et al., 2017b). Two phases were clearly observed in the expression profile of the 282
PhANGs in the cell culture. The first phase is dependent on light and triggers changes that will 283
initiate chloroplast development, and more importantly initiates expression of the PEP 284
components. The second phase is dependent on the activation of the chloroplast as the second 285
phase of PhANG induction was absent when chloroplast development was blocked (Dubreuil et 286
al., 2017b). 287
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The nature of the plastid signal, whether is it a negative or a positive signal, is another open 289
question and different hypotheses have been proposed over the years (Pfannschmidt, 2010; 290
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Terry and Smith, 2013). However, recent experimental work goes some way to clarifying this 291
question. Supporting the early study by Sullivan and Gray (Sullivan and Gray, 1999) the work 292
of Martín et al. (2016) demonstrated that the inhibitory effect of lincomycin blocks the 293
photomorphogenic responses early and rapidly, indicating that the retrograde signal is already 294
present in the proplastids/etioplasts, or is developed rapidly in response to defective chloroplasts 295
in order to prevent normal development in light. The results from the experiments by Martín et 296
al. (2016) can be interpreted in two ways: (1) a positive signal from intact plastids that is 297
necessary for GLK1 expression is interrupted by plastid dysfunction in a GUN1-dependent 298
manner, or (2) functional chloroplasts do not emit signals, whereas dysfunctional chloroplasts 299
generate a GUN1-dependent negative signal that represses GLK1 expression. Support for the 300
positive nature of the plastid signal comes from analyses of LHCB expression in pine, where 301
LHCBs are expressed in the dark and thus PhANG expression was shown to be independent of 302
light but dependent on plastid-to-nucleus signals (Hills et al., 2015). These authors proposed an 303
evolutionary model in which angiosperms recruited light signalling repressors to supress the 304
response of PhANGs to a positive plastid signal present also in the dark (Hills et al., 2015). 305
Furthermore, modelling of expression data from the plastid and the nuclear genomes strongly 306
suggests that the plastid signal required for full PhANG induction is positive in nature (Dubreuil 307
et al., 2017b). In addition, it was recently shown using the prin2 mutant that LHCB expression 308
was directly correlated with the recovery of PEP activity in the prin2 mutant complemented 309
with differet PRIN2 variants. It was further suggested that a positive signal is generated by PEP 310
activity in the plastids that stimulates LHCB expression in the nucleus (Diaz et al., in press). On 311
the other hand, the transcriptomic results using pap7 seedlings have identified different sets of 312
genes regulated either by healthy chloroplast or arrested plastids, respectively, suggesting the 313
existence of both positive and negative signals (Grübler et al., 2017). 314
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5. HIGHER ORDER RESPONSES IN THE NUCLEUS TO RETROGRADE SIGNALS 316
Light has been shown to induce changes in splicing activity (Petrillo et al., 2014; Shikata et al., 317
2014; Hernando et al., 2017) and the splicing pattern of specific splicing factors involved in 318
dark-to-light shifts is regulated in response to the redox status of PET. Proper splicing of these 319
factors was proposed to play a role in the adaptation of the photosynthetic machinery to changes 320
in the light conditions (Petrillo et al., 2014). However, more experimental work is required to 321
identify the components that regulate splicing in response to retrograde signals, the genes 322
affected, and how those changes affect plant development and photosynthetic activity. 323
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Light has been shown to induce changes to nuclear size and architecture that correlate with 325
transcriptional changes (Bourbousse et al., 2015; Perrella and Kaiserli, 2016). A specific light-326
regulated loci, CAB, was shown to relocate to the nuclear periphery just before transcriptional 327
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induction in a PHYA, PHYB, PIFs, COP1 and DET1-dependent manner (Feng et al., 2014). A 328
change to the nuclear position was also observed for the photosynthesis-related genes RBCS1A, 329
GUN5, and PC, supporting the model of repositioning of loci to the nuclear periphery as a 330
mechanism to activate gene expression in response to light (Feng et al., 2014). So far, neither 331
the repositioning of the gene loci nor the changes to nuclear architecture have been linked to 332
retrograde signals but due to the close relationship between light and plastid signals, a detailed 333
analysis of a potential contribution of plastid signals to those interesting features would be 334
worth pursuing. 335
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In addition, the proportion of heterochromatin was shown to change in light exposed cotyledons 337
in a CRY1/CRY2-DET1/COP1-HY5 dependent manner (Bourbousse et al., 2015) and RNA-338
seq, in combination with DNase I hypersensitive site sequencing, revealed that the level of 339
chromatin condensation in darkness is correlated with blocked expression of light and 340
photosynthesis related genes. The genes affected by changes in chromatin condensation are 341
enriched in plastid signalling-related genes and their promoters frequently contain the GLK1 342
binding elements (Liu et al., 2017), but at this point no clear link between retrograde signal(s) 343
and chromatin changes has been established. Currently much research attention is directed 344
towards the connection between metabolism and chromatin dynamics in animal systems. Thus, 345
exploring the dynamics of global chromatin organization during chloroplast development is a 346
critical future direction for plant sciences. 347
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6. THE IMPACT OF RETROGRADE SIGNALS ON WHOLE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 350
AND DEVELOPMENT 351
Chloroplast function and integrity are important not only for seedling development during the 352
transition to photomorphogenesis but also for leaf and plant development throughout the entire 353
plant life cycle. The importance of chloroplast activity during seed and embryo development is 354
reflected in the large number of essential proteins localized to the chloroplast, many of them 355
involved in plastid gene expression. The complete loss of SIG5 or RUG2/BSM results in 356
embryo-lethal phenotypes (Hsu et al., 2010; Babiychuk et al., 2011; seedgene.org). The 357
significant role of PEP activity and therefore PGE-triggered retrograde signalling during 358
embryo development was further supported by the embryo pigment defective phenotype of 359
mutants in PEP components, like pTAC3 or MurE, or with altered PEP activity, like PRIN2 360
(Garcia et al., 2008; Kremnev and Strand, 2014; seedgene.org). Similarly, the complete loss of 361
essential components of the plastid ribosomal complex, like ClpP proteins or Plastid Ribosomal 362
Protein S5 (PRPS5, Scabra1), also results in embryo-lethality (Pogson and Albrecht, 2011; 363
Mateo-Bonmatí et al., 2015). Furthermore, the NEP-defective sca3 mutant demonstrated 364
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reticulate patterns with perturbed mesophyll cell differentiation (Hricová et al., 2006). In 365
addition, several anu (angulata) mutants with abnormal leaf development are affected in genes 366
encoding chloroplast proteins (Casanova-Saez et al, 2014, Muñoz-Nortes et al, 2017). ANU7 is 367
involved in the regulation of PGE and PhANG expression and interacts genetically with GUN1, 368
indicating a role for retrograde signals in the development of leaf lamina and mesophyll cells 369
(Muñoz-Nortes et al, 2017). PGE was specifically shown to regulate leaf abaxial-adaxial pattern 370
in a GUN1-dependent manner, affecting the expression of specific genes that control 371
asymmetric abaxial-adaxial differentiation (Tameshige et al., 2013). Thus, mutants with 372
impaired plastid development have revealed the close relationship between plastid integrity and 373
leaf development (Aluru et al., 2006; Casanova-Sáez et al., 2014; Lundquist et al., 2014; Van 374
Dingenen et al., 2016; Muñoz-Nortes et al., 2017). 375
376
The classic variegated Arabidopsis mutant immutans, is defective in PTOX and the hypothesis 377
for the formation of the white and green sectors is based on a threshold model where the 378
variegation is dependent on the redox and excitation pressures during the early stages of 379
chloroplast biogenesis when the thylakoid membranes are being formed. The green sectors in 380
the im mutants emerge from plastids that managed to escape the over-reduction of the 381
membrane by the action of compensating factors that affect the excitation pressure threshold 382
(Kambakam et al., 2016; Pogorelko et al., 2016). Using detailed kinematic and gene expression 383
studies, it was shown that the leaf becomes photosynthetically active at the same time as it shifts 384
from primary to secondary morphogenesis (Andriankaja et al., 2012). Thus, chloroplast 385
differentiation is an important regulator of the simultaneous onset of cell expansion and 386
photosynthesis. Furthermore, it was suggested that retrograde signalling through tetrapyrroles 387
plays a role in the shift to cell expansion and activation of photosynthesis (Andriankaja et al., 388
2012). 389
390
Regulation of flowering time in response to plastid signals was indicated by the flowering 391
phenotypes of mutants like crd (which over-accumulates MgProto-IX and MgProto-IX-ME), 392
mutants with impaired NEP activity, and the sco1 mutant that is defective in the plastid 393
elongation factor G (Baba et al., 2004; Albrecht et al., 2006; Barajas-López et al., 2013). A 394
model has been proposed where chloroplasts act as stress sensors that transmit information to 395
the nucleus to regulate flowering-related gene expression and thereby also the timing of the 396
plant life cycle. MEcPP, a plastid metabolite that plays a role in a stress induced retrograde 397
signalling pathway, also regulates flowering time through the regulation of the transcription 398
factor BBX19, which interacts with CO to regulate FT expression (Wang et al., 2014). In 399
addition, the cleaved N-PTM transcription factor was shown to be involved in the repression of 400
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the flowering time regulator FLC by recruiting FVE and interacting with the promoter of FLC 401
(Feng et al., 2016). 402
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The GLK transcription factors have been shown to be implicated in fruit development, for 404
example through the pale siliques of the Arabidopsis glk2 mutant or the identification of GLK2 405
as the locus affected in the uniform ripening (u) mutation that results in uniformly green 406
tomatoes (Waters et al., 2008; Powell et al., 2012; Nguyen et al., 2014). Similarly, a correlation 407
was reported between CaGLK2 and variation in chlorophyll content and colour in pepper fruit 408
(Brand et al., 2014). However, a clear involvement of a retrograde signal controlling GLK2 409
expression and/or activity during fruit development remains to be demonstrated. A theoretical 410
model referred to as “degradational control” has been proposed where the degradation of 411
Rubisco during senescence, as a source of nitrogen, and its export out of the chloroplast 412
constitute a potential retrograde signal (Pfannschmidt, 2010). Senescence is a highly-controlled 413
light- and/or age-dependent program that is accompanied by a transcriptional reprograming. The 414
light-dependent signalling pathway (PHYB-PIFs-GLKs) involved in senescence is equivalent to 415
the light-signalling pathway regulating chloroplast biogenesis, but the outcome is repression 416
rather than induction of the GLKs and PhANGs (Liebsch and Keech, 2016). However, as is the 417
case for fruit development, the involvement and nature of a plastid retrograde signal in the 418
senescence process has yet to be experimentally demonstrated. 419
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7. CONCLUDING REMARKS 421
The field of plastid-to-nucleus signaling has been very dynamic over the last few years and 422
there have been several major breakthroughs leading to a much more advanced understanding of 423
the mechanisms involved in the communication between the plastids and the nucleus. These 424
recent findings, as highlighted in this review, have made it clear that chloroplast development is 425
controlled by a delicate interplay between light and plastid signalling pathways. In addition, a 426
number of key players involved in this interplay are now identified (Advances box). Critical 427
future directions for this field of plant sciences include efforts to finally understand the 428
mechanism of the elusive key signaling component GUN1, to identify cytosolic components 429
acting as signal transducers from the chloroplast to the nucleus, and to explore the dynamics of 430
global chromatin organization in response to retrograde signals and the establishment of 431
photosynthesis (Outstanding questions box). 432
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8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 435
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We apologize to the authors who did not get their work discussed in this review due to space 436
limitations. Funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) is acknowledged. 437
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443 Figure 1. Model of retrograde signalling during chloroplast biogenesis. Chloroplasts 444
develop from etioplast or proplastids in response to light. In the dark, and in the 445
etioplasts/proplastids the plastid encoded genes are mainly transcribed by NEP, and PET and 446
TBP are not functional (dashed line boxes). During the greening process, activation of PEP 447
plays a major role. PEP activity requires the rpo core components, SIGMA factors (SIG), PEP-448
associated proteins (PAPs, like pTAC12), and other proteins located in the nucleoid, like 449
PRIN2. PRIN2 is involved in the light regulation of PEP activity. The disruption of PET, TBP, 450
or PGE, generates a signal that is transduced by GUN1. It is to date unknown if the retrograde 451
signal is of a positive nature that is interrupted in case of chloroplast disruption (for example by 452
GUN1), or if the disrupted chloroplasts emit a negative signal (that can be mediated by GUN1). 453
In response to chloroplast signals, PTM is cleaved, and the N-PTM form is translocated to the 454
nucleus where it activates ABI4 expression, inhibiting LHCBs expression and promoting the 455
expression of COP1 and genes involved in hypocotyl elongation. In the dark, HY5 is degraded 456
by COP1, that also degrades ABI4. The PIFs repress a set of PhANGs, the GLKs and genes 457
encoding the nuclear encoded PEP components. In the light, the light perception by the 458
photoreceptors, CRY1 and PHYs, causes exclusion of COP1 from the nucleus and degradation 459
of the PIFs. The chloroplast-localized pTAC12 is an essential part of the PEP complex, but is 460
also processed and translocated to the nucleus. The nuclear pTAC12 interacts with the active 461
form of PHYs (Pfr) and contributes to PIF degradation. The exclusion of COP1 allows for 462
accumulation of HY5. Degradation of PIFs releases the transcription of the GLKs and other set 463
of genes like the genes encoding the PEP component. HY5 and GLKs induce PhANGs (LHCBs 464
and genes coding TBP enzymes, among others) expression, represses COP1 and the elongation-465
related genes. (Figure by Daria Chrobok). 466
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PhANGs
COP1 TBPLHCBs
TBP
rpoPGE
CRY1
PTM
PGE
PTM
Pfr
PIFs
Blue Light
CRY1
Light PHYs
PrPHYs
GUN1GUN1
Pfr
COP1 ELONGATION ELONGATIONLHCBs
N-PTM
TF
TFPIFs
PIFs
PIFs
TBP
ABI4 GLKsHY5
ABI4
GLKs
PEP components
ABI4
GLKs
PEP components
NEPhousekeeping
genes
PET
PRIN2
pTAC12
rpoSIGPAPs photosynthesis
genes
nucleus nucleus
etioplast/proplastidchloroplast
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NEPplastid genes
TBP
PET
pTAC12
pTAC12
Dark Light
pTAC12
HY5
COP1
COP1
COP1
positive regulation
negative regulation
protein degradation
established pathways
putative pathways
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ADVANCES
• Chloroplast function and integrity impacts leaf and plant development throughout the entire plant life cycle.
• During leaf development, chloroplast differentiation is an important regulator of the simultaneous onset of cell expansion and photosynthesis.
• The light induction of PhANGs during chloroplast development occurs in two essential regulatory phases: a photoreceptor-mediated phase and a phase controlled by a plastid signal, where the light signal precedes the plastid signal.
• Two mechanistic modules have been shown to control chloroplast development: the convergence of the PHY-PIFs-dependent light signal and the GUN1-dependent retrograde signal, and the GUN1-PTM-ABI4 retrograde signaling module which antagonize the COP1-HY5 light signal.
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OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS
• What is the nature of the retrograde signal(s) during seedling establishment? Is it a positive signal from functional chloroplasts or a negative signal from disrupted chloroplasts, or both?
• What is the molecular mechanism behind the function of the key player GUN1 and what is the timing of GUN1 action?
• Which are the cytosolic transducers of plastid signals to the nucleus?
• What is the impact of retrograde signals on chromatin modifications and nuclear architecture?
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BOX 1. The genomes uncoupled Mutants
The Arabidopsis genomes uncoupled mutants were identified in a forward genetic screen using the herbicide Norflurazon that inhibits carotenoid biosynthesis and thereby blocks chloroplast biogenesis. The expression of two transgenes under the control of the chlorophyll a/b-binding protein3 (CAB3) promoter was used to screen the mutagenized population for transcription of CAB3 that was uncoupled from the functional state of the chloroplast (Susek et al., 1993). The screen resulted in the isolation of several gun mutants, all of them with mutations in genes encoding chloroplasts-localized proteins:
• gun1 is defective in a pentatricopeptide-repeat protein that integrates TBP-, PGE-, and PET-derived signals. Additional gun1 alleles have been isolated in different screens using the Luciferase reporter gene under the control of CAB promoter. Of the gun mutants, gun1 is the only mutant that shows
• the gun phenotype when grown with Lincomycin, and also in response to high light, clearly indicating a role of GUN1 in the response to disturbed PGE and PET (Koussevitzky et al., 2007).
• gun2 and gun3 are defective in heme oxygenase and phytochromobilin synthase, respectively,
enzymes that convert Heme to Phytochromobilin. The gun2 and gun3 accumulate more Heme but less chlorophyll compared to wild type. The pale phenotypes were explained by a negative regulation of Heme on TBP (Mochizuki et al., 2001).
• gun4 and gun5 are defective in a novel Mg-ProtoIX-binding protein and in the H-subunit of Mg-chelatase, respectively. Mg-chelatase is the first specific TBP enzyme of chlorophyll biosynthesis, and both gun4 and gun5 accumulate lower levels of chlorophyll compared to wild type (Mochizuki et al., 2001).
In an alternative screen using activation-tagged mutagenesis, an additional gun mutant was identified, gun6:
• gun6-1D is a dominant gain-of-function mutant of Ferrochelatase 1 (FC1), the enzyme upstream of GUN2 and GUN3 in the biosynthesis pathway of Heme (Woodson et al., 2011).
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BOX 2. The Plastid Transcription Complexes, NEP and PEP. Chloroplast genes are transcribed by two types of RNA polymerases; the nuclear-encoded plastid RNA polymerase (NEP) and the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP). Essential for proper chloroplast development is a shift in the usage of the major RNA polymerase from NEP to PEP. NEP is a nuclear-encoded phage-type single subunit polymerase that is encoded by the RNA polymerase of the phage T3/T7 type (RPOT) genes, while PEP is a multisubunit RNA polymerase inherited from the cyanobacterial ancestor. The PEP core subunits are encoded by the rpo plastid genes, but PEP requires the nuclear-encoded sigma factors for promoter recognition and a large number of other proteins referred to as PEP-associated proteins (PAPs) or Transcriptionally Active Chromosome proteins (pTACs), for its function. Several mutants have been reported in NEP, PEP, or PEP-associated proteins and those mutations trigger the PGE retrograde signal:
• scabra3 (sca3) is defective in the exclusively plastid-localized RPOTp of NEP. SCA3 is essential for chloroplast biogenesis, and the mutants have pale or yellowish cotyledons and leaves (Hricová et al., 2006).
• sigma2 and sigma6 (sig2 and sig6) are defective in the SIGMA2 and -6 proteins that are essential for
the DNA sequence recognition of PEP during chloroplasts development and the mutant seedlings are pale (Woodson et al., 2013).
• ptac12/hemera is defective in the dual-localized protein pTAC12/HMR that is associated with PEP. The protein is essential for PEP activity and chloroplast development in the light, which is reflected in the albino phenotype of the mutant. In addition to the role of pTAC12/HMR in the plastids, the protein could potentially act as a plastid signal transducer as it has also been identified in the nucleus associated with Phy (Chen et al., 2010; Galvão et al., 2012; Nevarez et al., 2017).
• pap7/ptac14 is defective in PAP7 protein that is associated with PEP. pap7 mutant seedlings are albino and defective in PEP-dependent transcription (Gao et al., 2011)
• prin2 is defective in Plastid Redox Insensitive2 (PRIN2), a novel protein that interacts with TRXz and is essential for light induced activation of PEP. prin2 mutants are pale and have impaired chloroplasts (Kindgren et al., 2012; Kremnev and Strand, 2014; Díaz et al., 2017).
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