文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Chen, Di ¹ ; Huang, Hua ² ; Zhang, Qiaoli ¹ ; Hu, Tingting ¹ ; Sun, Zongyan ¹ ; Wang, Tingyu ¹ ; Chen, Xue ¹ ; Nie, Rongrong ¹ ; Zhou, Leilei ¹ ; Fu, Daqi ¹ ; Zhu, Hongliang ¹ ; Qin, Guozheng ⁴ ; Zhu, Benzhong ¹ ; Qu, Guiqin ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.China Agr Univ, Coll Food Sci & Nutr Engn, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China

2.Guangdong Acad Agr Sci, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Trop & Subtrop Fruit Tree R, Key Lab South Subtrop Fruit Biol & Genet Resource, Minist Agr & Rural Affairs,Inst Fruit Tree Res, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Plant Physiol & Ecol, Ctr Excellence Mol Plant Sci, CAS Key Lab Insect Dev & Evolutionary Biol, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China

4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Plant Resources, Inst Bot, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China

期刊名称：PLANT PHYSIOLOGY （ 影响因子：6.9； 五年影响因子：7.7 ）

ISSN： 0032-0889

年卷期： 2025 年 197 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Cutin serves as the foundational structure of the plant cuticle and plays a crucial role in determining fruit development and quality. However, the transcriptional regulation of cutin deposition by fruit-specific transcription factors remains largely unknown. This study delves into the regulatory role of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) SBP-box protein Colorless Non-Ripening (SlCNR), primarily expressed in fruits, in cutin formation. We found that clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated protein 9-induced slcnr mutants exhibited thicker cuticles and elevated contents in total cutin and cutin monomers compared with wild-type fruits, whereas SlCNR overexpression (OE) lines displayed the opposite tendency. Transcriptome-wide RNA sequencing identified differentially expressed genes in SlCNR OE fruits. Further validation by gene expression, DNA binding, and transcriptional activity assays revealed that SlCNR directly binds to and represses the transcription of 13 genes associated with cutin synthesis, export, and assembly, including glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 4/6, ATP-binding cassette transporter subfamily G protein 36/42, and cutin synthase. In addition, SlCNR directly bound to and repressed the transcription activities of the promoter of NON-RIPENING like-1, which encodes a positive regulator of cutin deposition. Thus, SlCNR emerged as a negative transcription regulator of cutin content and cuticle thickness, ultimately affecting fruit firmness and cuticle permeability. This study sheds light on the molecular mechanisms governing cutin deposition through transcriptional regulatory networks, highlighting the role of SlCNR as an important player in fruit cuticle development. A fruit-specific transcription factor negatively regulates tomato fruit cutin deposition through transcriptional regulatory networks.