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. 2021 Jan 1;8:7. doi: 10.1038/s41438-020-00437-3

Fig. 7. OpWRKY2 binds and activates the promoter of OpTDC in vitro and in vivo.

Fig. 7

a Diagram of the OpTDC promoter fragment and the sequence of a subfragment containing a W-box motif or mutant W-box motif. b Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) indicating that OpWRKY2 binds to the W-box in the OpTDC promoter. pCold-HIS protein without OpWRKY2 was used as the control. c Dual-luciferase (Dual-LUC) assays showed the activation effect of OpWRKY2 on the OpTDC promoter. The OpTDC promoter and OpTDC promoter containing a mutant W-box motif were fused to the firefly luciferase reporter gene, and the promoter activity was determined by a transient Dual-LUC assay in N. benthamiana. The relative LUC activity was normalized to that of the reference Renilla (REN) luciferase. Error bars indicate the SD (n = 3). Student’s t-test: **P < 0.01; NS no significance. d Yeast one-hybrid (Y1H) assay indicating that OpWRKY2 binds to the W-box in the OpTDC promoter. Yeast cells transformed with different combinations of constructs were grown on SD/-Ura/-Trp/+X-gal medium. Pictures were taken after 4 days of incubation at 30 °C. Y1H assays were repeated three times.