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The involvement of an HMG-box gene in germ cell genesis in Pyropia haitanensis. ALGAL RES 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2023.102978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Zhou P, Chen H, Dang J, Shi Z, Shao Y, Liu C, Fan L, Wu Q. Single-cell transcriptome of Nepeta tenuifolia leaves reveal differentiation trajectories in glandular trichomes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:988594. [PMID: 36340347 PMCID: PMC9627484 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.988594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The peltate glandular trichomes (PGTs) on Nepeta tenuifolia leaves can secrete and store bioactive essential oils. ScRNA-seq is a powerful tool for uncovering heterogeneous cells and exploring the development and differentiation of specific cells. Due to leaves rich in PGTs, the young leaves were used to isolated protoplasts and successfully captured 33,254 protoplasts for sequencing purposes. After cell type annotation, all the cells were partitioned into six broad populations with 19 clusters. Cells from PGTs were identified based on the expression patterns of trichome-specific genes, monoterpene biosynthetic genes, and metabolic analysis of PGT secretions. The developmental trajectories of PGTs were delineated by pseudotime analysis. Integrative analysis of scRNA-seq data from N. tenuifolia leaves and Arabidopsis thaliana shoot revealed that PGTs were specific to N. tenuifolia. Thus, our results provide a promising basis for exploring cell development and differentiation in plants, especially glandular trichome initiation and development.
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- Peina Zhou
- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing, China
- National and Local Collaborative Engineering Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization and Formulae Innovative Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Kominami S, Mizuta H, Uji T. Transcriptome Profiling in the Marine Red Alga Neopyropia yezoensis Under Light/Dark Cycle. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2022; 24:393-407. [PMID: 35377066 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-022-10121-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Many organisms are subjected to a daily cycle of light and darkness, which significantly influences metabolic and physiological processes. In the present study, Neopyropia yezoensis, one of the major cultivated seaweeds used in "nori," was harvested in the morning and evening during light/dark treatments to investigate daily changes in gene expression using RNA-sequencing. A high abundance of transcripts in the morning includes the genes associated with carbon-nitrogen assimilations, polyunsaturated fatty acid, and starch synthesis. In contrast, the upregulation of a subset of the genes associated with the pentose phosphate pathway, cell cycle, and DNA replication at evening is necessary for the tight control of light-sensitive processes, such as DNA replication. Additionally, a high abundance of transcripts at dusk encoding asparaginase and glutamate dehydrogenase imply that regulation of asparagine catabolism and tricarboxylic acid cycle possibly contributes to supply nitrogen and carbon, respectively, for growth during the dark. In addition, genes encoding cryptochrome/photolyase family and histone modification proteins were identified as potential key players for regulating diurnal rhythmic genes.
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- Sayaka Kominami
- Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Division of Marine Life Science, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan
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- Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Division of Marine Life Science, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan
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- Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Division of Marine Life Science, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 041-8611, Japan.
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Alabdullah AK, Borrill P, Martin AC, Ramirez-Gonzalez RH, Hassani-Pak K, Uauy C, Shaw P, Moore G. A Co-Expression Network in Hexaploid Wheat Reveals Mostly Balanced Expression and Lack of Significant Gene Loss of Homeologous Meiotic Genes Upon Polyploidization. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1325. [PMID: 31681395 PMCID: PMC6813927 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Polyploidization has played an important role in plant evolution. However, upon polyploidization, the process of meiosis must adapt to ensure the proper segregation of increased numbers of chromosomes to produce balanced gametes. It has been suggested that meiotic gene (MG) duplicates return to a single copy following whole genome duplication to stabilize the polyploid genome. Therefore, upon the polyploidization of wheat, a hexaploid species with three related (homeologous) genomes, the stabilization process may have involved rapid changes in content and expression of MGs on homeologous chromosomes (homeologs). To examine this hypothesis, sets of candidate MGs were identified in wheat using co-expression network analysis and orthology informed approaches. In total, 130 RNA-Seq samples from a range of tissues including wheat meiotic anthers were used to define co-expressed modules of genes. Three modules were significantly correlated with meiotic tissue samples but not with other tissue types. These modules were enriched for GO terms related to cell cycle, DNA replication, and chromatin modification and contained orthologs of known MGs. Overall, 74.4% of genes within these meiosis-related modules had three homeologous copies which was similar to other tissue-related modules. Amongst wheat MGs identified by orthology, rather than co-expression, the majority (93.7%) were either retained in hexaploid wheat at the same number of copies (78.4%) or increased in copy number (15.3%) compared to ancestral wheat species. Furthermore, genes within meiosis-related modules showed more balanced expression levels between homeologs than genes in non-meiosis-related modules. Taken together, our results do not support extensive gene loss nor changes in homeolog expression of MGs upon wheat polyploidization. The construction of the MG co-expression network allowed identification of hub genes and provided key targets for future studies.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Vavrdová T, Šamajová O, Křenek P, Ovečka M, Floková P, Šnaurová R, Šamaj J, Komis G. Multicolour three dimensional structured illumination microscopy of immunolabeled plant microtubules and associated proteins. PLANT METHODS 2019; 15:22. [PMID: 30899319 PMCID: PMC6408805 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-019-0406-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND In the present work, we provide an account of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) imaging of fixed and immunolabeled plant probes. We take advantage of SIM, to superresolve intracellular structures at a considerable z-range and circumvent its low temporal resolution capacity during the study of living samples. Further, we validate the protocol for the imaging of fixed transgenic material expressing fluorescent protein-based markers of different subcellular structures. RESULTS Focus is given on 3D imaging of bulky subcellular structures, such as mitotic and cytokinetic microtubule arrays as well as on the performance of SIM using multichannel imaging and the quantitative correlations that can be deduced. As a proof of concept, we provide a superresolution output on the organization of cortical microtubules in wild-type and mutant Arabidopsis cells, including aberrant preprophase microtubule bands and phragmoplasts in a cytoskeletal mutant devoid of the p60 subunit of the microtubule severing protein KATANIN and refined details of cytoskeletal aberrations in the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) mutant mpk4. We further demonstrate, in a qualitative and quantitative manner, colocalizations between MPK6 and unknown dually phosphorylated and activated MAPK species and we follow the localization of the microtubule associated protein 65-3 (MAP65-3) in telophase and cytokinetic microtubular arrays. CONCLUSIONS 3D SIM is a powerful, versatile and adaptable microscopy method for elucidating spatial relationships between subcellular compartments. Improved methods of sample preparation aiming to the compensation of refractive index mismatches, allow the use of 3D SIM in the documentation of complex plant cell structures, such as microtubule arrays and the elucidation of their interactions with microtubule associated proteins.
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- T. Vavrdová
- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cell Biology, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Pfab A, Grønlund JT, Holzinger P, Längst G, Grasser KD. The Arabidopsis Histone Chaperone FACT: Role of the HMG-Box Domain of SSRP1. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:2747-2759. [PMID: 29966609 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.06.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Histone chaperones play critical roles in regulated structural transitions of chromatin in eukaryotic cells that involve nucleosome disassembly and reassembly. The histone chaperone FACT is a heterodimeric complex consisting in plants and metazoa of SSRP1/SPT16 and is involved in dynamic nucleosome reorganization during various DNA-dependent processes including transcription, replication and repair. The C-terminal HMG-box domain of the SSRP1 subunit mediates interactions with DNA and nucleosomes in vitro, but its relevance in vivo is unclear. Here, we demonstrate that Arabidopsis ssrp1-2 mutant plants express a C-terminally truncated SSRP1 protein. Although the structure of the truncated HMG-box domain is distinctly disturbed, it still exhibits residual DNA-binding activity, but has lost DNA-bending activity. Since ssrp1-2 plants are phenotypically affected but viable, the HMG-box domain may be functionally non-essential. To examine this possibility, SSRP1∆HMG completely lacking the HMG-box domain was studied. SSRP1∆HMG in vitro did not bind to DNA and its interactions with nucleosomes were severely reduced. Nevertheless, the protein showed a nuclear mobility and protein interactions similar to SSRP1. Interestingly, expression of SSRP1∆HMG is almost as efficient as that of full-length SSRP1 in supporting normal growth and development of the otherwise non-viable Arabidopsis ssrp1-1 mutant. SSRP1∆HMG is structurally similar to the fungal ortholog termed Pob3 that shares clear similarity with SSRP1, but it lacks the C-terminal HMG-box. Therefore, our findings indicate that the HMG-box domain conserved among SSRP1 proteins is not critical in Arabidopsis, and thus, the functionality of SSRP1/SPT16 in plants/metazoa and Pob3/Spt16 in fungi is perhaps more similar than anticipated.
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- Alexander Pfab
- Department of Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Aalborg University, Sohngaardsholmsvej 49, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry III, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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Shiri Y, Solouki M, Ebrahimie E, Emamjomeh A, Zahiri J. Unraveling the transcriptional complexity of compactness in sistan grape cluster. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 270:198-208. [PMID: 29576073 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2017] [Revised: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 02/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Yaghooti grape of Sistan is the earliest ripening grape in Iran, harvested every May annually. It is adapted to dry conditions in Sistan region and its water requirement is less than the other grape cultivars. The transcriptional complexity of this grape was studied in three stages of cluster development. Totally, 24121 genes were expressed in different cluster development steps (step 1: cluster formation, step 2: berry formation, step 3: final size of cluster) of which 3040 genes in the first stage, 2381 genes in the second stage and 2400 genes in the third stage showed a significant increase in expression. GO analysis showed that when the clusters are ripening, the activity of the nucleus, cytoplasmic, cytosol, membrane and chloroplast genes in the cluster architecture cells decreases. In contrast, the activity of the endoplasmic reticulum, vacuole and extracellular region genes enhances. When Yaghooti grape is growing and developing, some of metabolic pathways were activated in the response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Gene co-expression network reconstruction showed that AGAMOUS is a key gene in compactness of Sistan grape cluster, because it influences on expression of GA gene which leads to increase cluster length and berries size.
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- Yasoub Shiri
- PhD student of biotechnology, Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (PBB), Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
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- Laboratory of Computational Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (PBB), Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
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- School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Institute of Biotechnology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran; School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Laboratory of Computational Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (PBB), Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Omics Lab (BioCOOL), Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Pfab A, Bruckmann A, Nazet J, Merkl R, Grasser KD. The Adaptor Protein ENY2 Is a Component of the Deubiquitination Module of the Arabidopsis SAGA Transcriptional Co-activator Complex but not of the TREX-2 Complex. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:1479-1494. [PMID: 29588169 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The conserved nuclear protein ENY2 (Sus1 in yeast) is involved in coupling transcription and mRNA export in yeast and metazoa, as it is a component both of the transcriptional co-activator complex SAGA and of the mRNA export complex TREX-2. Arabidopsis thaliana ENY2 is widely expressed in the plant and it localizes to the nucleoplasm, but unlike its yeast/metazoan orthologs, it is not enriched in the nuclear envelope. Affinity purification of ENY2 in combination with mass spectrometry revealed that it co-purified with SAGA components, but not with the nuclear pore-associated TREX-2. In addition, further targeted proteomics analyses by reciprocal tagging established the composition of the Arabidopsis SAGA complex consisting of the four modules HATm, SPTm, TAFm and DUBm, and that several SAGA subunits occur in alternative variants. While the HATm, SPTm and TAFm robustly co-purified with each other, the deubiquitination module (DUBm) appears to associate with the other SAGA modules more weakly/dynamically. Consistent with a homology model of the Arabidopsis DUBm, the SGF11 protein interacts directly with ENY2 and UBP22. Plants depleted in the DUBm components, SGF11 or ENY2, are phenotypically only mildly affected, but they contain increased levels of ubiquitinated histone H2B, indicating that the SAGA-DUBm has histone deubiquitination activity in plants. In addition to transcription-related proteins (i.e., transcript elongation factors, Mediator), many splicing factors were found to associate with SAGA, linking the SAGA complex and ongoing transcription with mRNA processing.
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- Alexander Pfab
- Department of Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry I, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry II, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry II, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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Pfab A, Breindl M, Grasser KD. The Arabidopsis histone chaperone FACT is required for stress-induced expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 96:367-374. [PMID: 29332189 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0701-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The histone chaperone FACT is involved in the expression of genes encoding anthocyanin biosynthetic enzymes also upon induction by moderate high-light and therefore contributes to the stress-induced plant pigmentation. The histone chaperone FACT consists of the SSRP1 and SPT16 proteins and associates with transcribing RNAPII (RNAPII) along the transcribed region of genes. FACT can promote transcriptional elongation by destabilising nucleosomes in the path of RNA polymerase II, thereby facilitating efficient transcription of chromatin templates. Transcript profiling of Arabidopsis plants depleted in SSRP1 or SPT16 demonstrates that only a small subset of genes is differentially expressed relative to wild type. The majority of these genes is either up- or down-regulated in both the ssrp1 and spt16 plants. Among the down-regulated genes, those encoding enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway of the plant secondary metabolites termed anthocyanins (but not regulators of the pathway) are overrepresented. Upon exposure to moderate high-light stress several of these genes are up-regulated to a lesser extent in ssrp1/spt16 compared to wild type plants, and accordingly the mutant plants accumulate lower amounts of anthocyanin pigments. Moreover, the expression of SSRP1 and SPT16 is induced under these conditions. Therefore, our findings indicate that FACT is a novel factor required for the accumulation of anthocyanins in response to light-induction.
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- Alexander Pfab
- Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany.
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Sørensen BB, Ehrnsberger HF, Esposito S, Pfab A, Bruckmann A, Hauptmann J, Meister G, Merkl R, Schubert T, Längst G, Melzer M, Grasser M, Grasser KD. The Arabidopsis THO/TREX component TEX1 functionally interacts with MOS11 and modulates mRNA export and alternative splicing events. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 93:283-298. [PMID: 28004241 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0561-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We identify proteins that associate with the THO core complex, and show that the TEX1 and MOS11 components functionally interact, affecting mRNA export and splicing as well as plant development. TREX (TRanscription-EXport) is a multiprotein complex that plays a central role in the coordination of synthesis, processing and nuclear export of mRNAs. Using targeted proteomics, we identified proteins that associate with the THO core complex of Arabidopsis TREX. In addition to the RNA helicase UAP56 and the mRNA export factors ALY2-4 and MOS11 we detected interactions with the mRNA export complex TREX-2 and multiple spliceosomal components. Plants defective in the THO component TEX1 or in the mRNA export factor MOS11 (orthologue of human CIP29) are mildly affected. However, tex1 mos11 double-mutant plants show marked defects in vegetative and reproductive development. In tex1 plants, the levels of tasiRNAs are reduced, while miR173 levels are decreased in mos11 mutants. In nuclei of mos11 cells increased mRNA accumulation was observed, while no mRNA export defect was detected with tex1 cells. Nevertheless, in tex1 mos11 double-mutants, the mRNA export defect was clearly enhanced relative to mos11. The subnuclear distribution of TEX1 substantially overlaps with that of splicing-related SR proteins and in tex1 plants the ratio of certain alternative splicing events is altered. Our results demonstrate that Arabidopsis TEX1 and MOS11 are involved in distinct steps of the biogenesis of mRNAs and small RNAs, and that they interact regarding some aspects, but act independently in others.
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- Brian B Sørensen
- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry I, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry I, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry I, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry II, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry III, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Biochemistry III, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstr. 3, 06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemistry Centre, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany.
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Schubert V. Super-resolution Microscopy - Applications in Plant Cell Research. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:531. [PMID: 28450874 PMCID: PMC5390026 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Most of the present knowledge about cell organization and function is based on molecular and genetic methods as well as cytological investigations. While electron microscopy allows identifying cell substructures until a resolution of ∼1 nm, the resolution of fluorescence microscopy is restricted to ∼200 nm due to the diffraction limit of light. However, the advantage of this technique is the possibility to identify and co-localize specifically labeled structures and molecules. The recently developed super-resolution microscopy techniques, such as Structured Illumination Microscopy, Photoactivated Localization Microscopy, Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy, and Stimulated Emission Depletion microscopy allow analyzing structures and molecules beyond the diffraction limit of light. Recently, there is an increasing application of these techniques in cell biology. This review evaluates and summarizes especially the data achieved until now in analyzing the organization and function of plant cells, chromosomes and interphase nuclei using super-resolution techniques.
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