Advances in primary auxin-responsive Aux/IAA gene family: a review
Members of Aux/IAA gene family are responsive to primary auxin induction.ARF is a kind of regulating auxin response gene expression to regulate auxin primary function of gene transcription.By combining its response elements with the specificity of ARF,Aux/IAA is a transcription function to regulate primary auxinresponsive gene.This paper reviewed the recent advances in the structural characteristics,regulation mechanism and biological functions of Aux/IAAs.Aux/IAAs consisted of four conserved domains:Domains Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ.Domain Ⅰ was responsible for the protein inhibition of Aux/IAAs.With a leucine motif,Domain Ⅱ was capable of rapid protein stability.Domains Ⅲ and Ⅳ were responsible for protein dimerization (homo-and hetero-dimerization).Aux/IAAs promoted the transcription of early genes by combining auxin response factors,and they regulated the expression of downstream genes in the process of auxin signal transduction.Different Aux/IAAs were expressed in different tissues and organisms.Also,the study of Aux/IAA mutants indicated that different Aux/IAAs had different functions due to differences in temporal and spatial expression and affinities with promoters of Aux/IAA genes to the ARF gene.Plant hormones and environmental factors also had important roles in regulating Aux/IAAs.