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Cifuentes M, Jolivet S, Cromer L, Harashima H, Bulankova P, Renne C, Crismani W, Nomura Y, Nakagami H, Sugimoto K, Schnittger A, Riha K, Mercier R. TDM1 Regulation Determines the Number of Meiotic Divisions. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005856. [PMID: 26871453 PMCID: PMC4752240 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cell cycle control must be modified at meiosis to allow two divisions to follow a single round of DNA replication, resulting in ploidy reduction. The mechanisms that ensure meiosis termination at the end of the second and not at the end of first division are poorly understood. We show here that Arabidopsis thaliana TDM1, which has been previously shown to be essential for meiotic termination, interacts directly with the Anaphase-Promoting Complex. Further, mutations in TDM1 in a conserved putative Cyclin-Dependant Kinase (CDK) phosphorylation site (T16-P17) dominantly provoked premature meiosis termination after the first division, and the production of diploid spores and gametes. The CDKA;1-CYCA1.2/TAM complex, which is required to prevent premature meiotic exit, phosphorylated TDM1 at T16 in vitro. Finally, while CYCA1;2/TAM was previously shown to be expressed only at meiosis I, TDM1 is present throughout meiosis. These data, together with epistasis analysis, lead us to propose that TDM1 is an APC/C component whose function is to ensure meiosis termination at the end of meiosis II, and whose activity is inhibited at meiosis I by CDKA;1-TAM-mediated phosphorylation to prevent premature meiotic exit. This provides a molecular mechanism for the differential decision of performing an additional round of division, or not, at the end of meiosis I and II, respectively. Meiosis is a fundamental process for sexually reproducing organisms that creates genetic diversity within populations. A key feature of meiosis is the reduction of the number of chromosomes, from two sets to one set, prior to fertilization. This reduction in chromosome number is due to two cell divisions following a single round of DNA replication. In this study, we analysed the mechanism which controls the number of cell divisions, ensuring that meiotic termination occurs after the second meiotic division, and not at the end of the first division. We used the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to show that the gene TDM1 has a central role in regulating meiotic cell divisions. The integrity of the gene affects whether one, two or three meiotic divisions will occur. We further explain the relationship between TDM1 and its regulator the cyclin TAM, and how they work together to produce reproductive cells with a reduced number of chromosomes. This tightly controlled mechanism ensures the transmission of the correct number of chromosomes from one generation to the next.
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- Marta Cifuentes
- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan
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- University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Department of Developmental Biology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kamenice, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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Hug N, Longman D, Cáceres JF. Mechanism and regulation of the nonsense-mediated decay pathway. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:1483-95. [PMID: 26773057 PMCID: PMC4770240 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 322] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 12/31/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway selectively degrades mRNAs harboring premature termination codons (PTCs) but also regulates the abundance of a large number of cellular RNAs. The central role of NMD in the control of gene expression requires the existence of buffering mechanisms that tightly regulate the magnitude of this pathway. Here, we will focus on the mechanism of NMD with an emphasis on the role of RNA helicases in the transition from NMD complexes that recognize a PTC to those that promote mRNA decay. We will also review recent strategies aimed at uncovering novel trans-acting factors and their functional role in the NMD pathway. Finally, we will describe recent progress in the study of the physiological role of the NMD response.
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- Nele Hug
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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Maize pan-transcriptome provides novel insights into genome complexity and quantitative trait variation. Sci Rep 2016; 6:18936. [PMID: 26729541 PMCID: PMC4733048 DOI: 10.1038/srep18936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Gene expression variation largely contributes to phenotypic diversity and constructing pan-transcriptome is considered necessary for species with complex genomes. However, the regulation mechanisms and functional consequences of pan-transcriptome is unexplored systematically. By analyzing RNA-seq data from 368 maize diverse inbred lines, we identified almost one-third nuclear genes under expression presence and absence variation, which tend to play regulatory roles and are likely regulated by distant eQTLs. The ePAV was directly used as “genotype” to perform GWAS for 15 agronomic phenotypes and 526 metabolic traits to efficiently explore the associations between transcriptomic and phenomic variations. Through a modified assembly strategy, 2,355 high-confidence novel sequences with total 1.9 Mb lengths were found absent within reference genome. Ten randomly selected novel sequences were fully validated with genomic PCR, including another two NBS_LRR candidates potentially affect flavonoids and disease-resistance. A simulation analysis suggested that the pan-transcriptome of the maize whole kernel is approaching a maximum value of 63,000 genes, and through developing two test-cross populations and surveying several most important yield traits, the dispensable genes were shown to contribute to heterosis. Novel perspectives and resources to discover maize quantitative trait variations were provided to better understand the kernel regulation networks and to enhance maize breeding.
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Dai Y, Li W, An L. NMD mechanism and the functions of Upf proteins in plant. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2016; 35:5-15. [PMID: 26400685 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1867-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Revised: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) mechanism, also called mRNA surveillance, is a universal mRNA degradation pathway in eukaryotes. Hundreds of genes can be regulated by NMD whether in single-celled or higher organisms. There have been many studies on NMD and NMD factors (Upf proteins) with regard to their crucial roles in mRNA decay, especially in mammals and yeast. However, research focusing on NMD in plant is still lacking compared to the research that has been dedicated to NMD in mammals and yeast. Even so, recent study has shown that NMD factors in Arabidopsis can provide resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses. This discovery and its associated developments have given plant NMD mechanism a new outlook and since then, more and more research has focused on this area. In this review, we focused mainly on the distinctive NMD micromechanism and functions of Upf proteins in plant with references to the role of mRNA surveillance in mammals and yeast. We also highlighted recent insights into the roles of premature termination codon location, trans-elements and functions of other NMD factors to emphasize the particularity of plant NMD. Furthermore, we also discussed conventional approaches and neoteric methods used in plant NMD researches.
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- Yiming Dai
- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
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Vexler K, Cymerman MA, Berezin I, Fridman A, Golani L, Lasnoy M, Saul H, Shaul O. The Arabidopsis NMD Factor UPF3 Is Feedback-Regulated at Multiple Levels and Plays a Role in Plant Response to Salt Stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1376. [PMID: 27746786 PMCID: PMC5040709 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic RNA surveillance mechanism that degrades aberrant transcripts and controls the levels of many normal mRNAs. It was shown that balanced expression of the NMD factor UPF3 is essential for the maintenance of proper NMD homeostasis in Arabidopsis. UPF3 expression is controlled by a negative feedback loop that exposes UPF3 transcript to NMD. It was shown that the long 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) of UPF3 exposes its transcript to NMD. Long 3' UTRs that subject their transcripts to NMD were identified in several eukaryotic NMD factors. Interestingly, we show here that a construct that contains all the regulatory regions of the UPF3 gene except this long 3' UTR is also feedback-regulated by NMD. This indicates that UPF3 expression is feedback-regulated at multiple levels. UPF3 is constitutively expressed in different plant tissues, and its expression is equal in leaves of plants of different ages. This finding is in agreement with the possibility that UPF3 is ubiquitously operative in the Arabidopsis NMD pathway. Expression mediated by the regulatory regions of UPF3 is significantly induced by salt stress. We found that both a deficiency and a strong excess of UPF3 expression are detrimental to plant resistance to salt stress. This indicates that UPF3 plays a role in plant response to salt stress, and that balanced expression of the UPF3 gene is essential for coping with this stress.
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Rodriguez E, El Ghoul H, Mundy J, Petersen M. Making sense of plant autoimmunity and ‘negative regulators’. FEBS J 2015; 283:1385-91. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.13613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Revised: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Department of Biology; University of Copenhagen; Denmark
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Li S, Chen L, Zhang L, Li X, Liu Y, Wu Z, Dong F, Wan L, Liu K, Hong D, Yang G. BnaC9.SMG7b Functions as a Positive Regulator of the Number of Seeds per Silique in Brassica napus by Regulating the Formation of Functional Female Gametophytes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:2744-60. [PMID: 26494121 PMCID: PMC4677898 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Number of seeds per silique (NSS) is an important determinant of seed yield potential in Brassicaceae crops, and it is controlled by naturally occurring quantitative trait loci. We previously mapped a major quantitative trait locus, qSS.C9, on the C9 chromosome that controls NSS in Brassica napus. To gain a better understanding of how qSS.C9 controls NSS in B. napus, we isolated this locus through a map-based cloning strategy. qSS.C9 encodes a predicted small protein with 119 amino acids, designated as BnaC9.SMG7b, that shows homology with the Ever ShorterTelomere1 tertratricopeptide repeats and Ever Shorter Telomere central domains of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) SUPPRESSOR WITH MORPHOGENETIC EFFECTS ON GENITALIA7 (SMG7). BnaC9.SMG7b plays a role in regulating the formation of functional female gametophyte, thus determining the formation of functional megaspores and then mature ovules. Natural loss or artificial knockdown of BnaC9.SMG7b significantly reduces the number of functional ovules per silique and thus, results in decreased seed number, indicating that qSS.C9 is a positive regulator of NSS in B. napus. Sequence and function analyses show that BnaC9.SMG7b experiences a subfunctionalization process that causes loss of function in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, such as in Arabidopsis SMG7. Haplotype analysis in 84 accessions showed that the favorable BnaC9.SMG7b alleles are prevalent in modern B. napus germplasms, suggesting that this locus has been a major selection target of B. napus improvement. Our results represent the first step toward unraveling the molecular mechanism that controls the natural variation of NSS in B. napus.
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- Shipeng Li
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.L., L.C., L.Z., X.L., Y.L., Z.W., F.D., L.W., K.L., D.H., G.Y.); andCollege of Crop Science, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China (L.Z.)
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Fatscher T, Boehm V, Gehring NH. Mechanism, factors, and physiological role of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Cell Mol Life Sci 2015; 72:4523-44. [PMID: 26283621 PMCID: PMC11113733 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-2017-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Revised: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-dependent, multistep process that degrades irregular or faulty messenger RNAs (mRNAs). NMD mainly targets mRNAs with a truncated open reading frame (ORF) due to premature termination codons (PTCs). In addition, NMD also regulates the expression of different types of endogenous mRNA substrates. A multitude of factors are involved in the tight regulation of the NMD mechanism. In this review, we focus on the molecular mechanism of mammalian NMD. Based on the published data, we discuss the involvement of translation termination in NMD initiation. Furthermore, we provide a detailed overview of the core NMD machinery, as well as several peripheral NMD factors, and discuss their function. Finally, we present an overview of diseases associated with NMD factor mutations and summarize the current state of treatment for genetic disorders caused by nonsense mutations.
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- Tobias Fatscher
- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
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Shaul O. Unique Aspects of Plant Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 20:767-779. [PMID: 26442679 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2015] [Revised: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality-control mechanism that governs the stability of both aberrant and normal transcripts. Although plant and mammalian NMD share great similarity, they differ in certain mechanistic and regulatory aspects. Whereas SMG6 (from Caenorhabditis elegans 'suppressor with morphogenetic effect on genitalia')-catalyzed endonucleolytic cleavage is a prominent step in mammalian NMD, plant NMD targets are degraded by an SMG7-induced exonucleolytic pathway. Both mammalian and plant NMD are downregulated by stress, thereby enhancing the expression of defense response genes. However, the target genes and processes affected differ. Several plant and mammalian NMD factors are regulated by negative feedback-loops. However, while the loop regulating UPF3 (up-frameshift 3) expression in not vital for mammalian NMD, the sensitivity of UPF3 to NMD is crucial for the overall regulation of plant NMD.
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- Orit Shaul
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel.
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Siwaszek A, Ukleja M, Dziembowski A. Proteins involved in the degradation of cytoplasmic mRNA in the major eukaryotic model systems. RNA Biol 2015; 11:1122-36. [PMID: 25483043 DOI: 10.4161/rna.34406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The process of mRNA decay and surveillance is considered to be one of the main posttranscriptional gene expression regulation platforms in eukaryotes. The degradation of stable, protein-coding transcripts is normally initiated by removal of the poly(A) tail followed by 5'-cap hydrolysis and degradation of the remaining mRNA body by Xrn1. Alternatively, the exosome complex degrades mRNA in the 3'>5'direction. The newly discovered uridinylation-dependent pathway, which is present in many different organisms, also seems to play a role in bulk mRNA degradation. Simultaneously, to avoid the synthesis of incorrect proteins, special cellular machinery is responsible for the removal of faulty transcripts via nonsense-mediated, no-go, non-stop or non-functional 18S rRNA decay. This review is focused on the major eukaryotic cytoplasmic mRNA degradation pathways showing many similarities and pointing out main differences between the main model-species: yeast, Drosophila, plants and mammals.
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- Aleksandra Siwaszek
- a Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics ; Polish Academy of Sciences ; Warsaw , Poland
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Gloggnitzer J, Akimcheva S, Srinivasan A, Kusenda B, Riehs N, Stampfl H, Bautor J, Dekrout B, Jonak C, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Parker JE, Riha K. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay modulates immune receptor levels to regulate plant antibacterial defense. Cell Host Microbe 2015; 16:376-90. [PMID: 25211079 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Revised: 07/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a conserved eukaryotic RNA surveillance mechanism that degrades aberrant mRNAs. NMD impairment in Arabidopsis is linked to constitutive immune response activation and enhanced antibacterial resistance, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here we show that NMD contributes to innate immunity in Arabidopsis by controlling the turnover of numerous TIR domain-containing, nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (TNL) immune receptor-encoding mRNAs. Autoimmunity resulting from NMD impairment depends on TNL signaling pathway components and can be triggered through deregulation of a single TNL gene, RPS6. Bacterial infection of plants causes host-programmed inhibition of NMD, leading to stabilization of NMD-regulated TNL transcripts. Conversely, constitutive NMD activity prevents TNL stabilization and impairs plant defense, demonstrating that host-regulated NMD contributes to disease resistance. Thus, NMD shapes plant innate immunity by controlling the threshold for activation of TNL resistance pathways.
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- Jiradet Gloggnitzer
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR1318, INRA-AgroParisTech, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria; CEITEC, Masaryk University, Kamenice 753/5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Initially described as an RNA surveillance pathway, nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is also recognized to function in the regulation of host gene expression. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, three studies describe NMD-mediated defense strategies of plants and mammalian cells in response to pathogen infection.
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- Andreas Wachter
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Shin KH, Yang SH, Lee JY, Lim CW, Lee SC, Brown JWS, Kim SH. Alternative splicing of mini-exons in the Arabidopsis leaf rust receptor-like kinase LRK10 genes affects subcellular localisation. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2015; 34:495-505. [PMID: 25510357 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-014-1729-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE AtLRK10L1.2 produces a variety of alternatively spliced variants in the region a mini-exon and skipping of the mini-exon alters the subcellular localization of the protein. We have examined expression and alternative splicing in the gene encoding Arabidopsis LRK10-like 1 (AtLRK10L1) which is most closely related to wheat leaf rust 10 disease-resistance locus receptor-like protein kinase (LRK10). AtLRK10L1 produces two different transcripts, LRK10L1.1 and 1.2 through the use of two different promoters. We found no evidence of alternative splicing for the AtLRK10L1.1 transcript but identified numerous alternative splicing variants of AtLRK10L1.2 by sequencing of cloned cDNAs prepared from RNA isolated from whole cell, nucleolar and nucleoplasmic fractions. Many of these transcripts contained unspliced introns and accumulated differentially in the nucleolus and the nucleoplasm consistent with intron retention transcripts being retained in the nucleus (Göhring et al., Plant Cell 26:754-764, 2014). We examined the fate of different alternatively spliced transcripts by fusing variants to YFP and expressing them by agroinfiltration in Nicotiana benthamiana. AtLRK10L1 contains a 45 nt mini-exon which encodes part of a putative transmembrane domain. Full-length cDNA of LRK10L1.2 fused to YFP targeted the fusion protein to the plasma membrane while expression of transcripts where the mini-exon had been deleted, altered the localization of the fusion protein to the endoplasmic reticulum. Similarly, expression of full-length and mini-exon deleted versions of three other members of the LRK10 receptor-like kinase (RLK) gene family also showed the switch in localization. Thus, the mini-exons in Arabidopsis LRK10 genes are required for localization to the plasma membrane.
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- Ki Hun Shin
- Division of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, College of Natural Science, Myongji University, Yongin, Kyeonggi-Do, 449-728, Korea
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Rigby RE, Rehwinkel J. RNA degradation in antiviral immunity and autoimmunity. Trends Immunol 2015; 36:179-88. [PMID: 25709093 PMCID: PMC4358841 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2015.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway defends cells against RNA virus invasion. NMD targets viral RNAs for degradation, including by the RNA exosome. Genetic deficiencies in NMD and RNA exosome components cause autoimmunity. NMD and the RNA exosome prevent aberrant activation of innate immune responses.
Post-transcriptional control determines the fate of cellular RNA molecules. Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) provides quality control of mRNA, targeting faulty cellular transcripts for degradation by multiple nucleases including the RNA exosome. Recent findings have revealed a role for NMD in targeting viral RNA molecules, thereby restricting virus infection. Interestingly, NMD is also linked to immune responses at another level: mutations affecting the NMD or RNA exosome machineries cause chronic activation of defence programmes, resulting in autoimmune phenotypes. Here we place these observations in the context of other links between innate antiviral immunity and type I interferon mediated disease and examine two models: one in which expression or function of pathogen sensors is perturbed and one wherein host-derived RNA molecules with a propensity to activate such sensors accumulate.
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- Rachel E Rigby
- Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
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- Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
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Filichkin SA, Cumbie JS, Dharmawardhana P, Jaiswal P, Chang JH, Palusa SG, Reddy ASN, Megraw M, Mockler TC. Environmental stresses modulate abundance and timing of alternatively spliced circadian transcripts in Arabidopsis. MOLECULAR PLANT 2015; 8:207-27. [PMID: 25680774 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 10/10/2014] [Accepted: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Environmental stresses profoundly altered accumulation of nonsense mRNAs including intron-retaining (IR) transcripts in Arabidopsis. Temporal patterns of stress-induced IR mRNAs were dissected using both oscillating and non-oscillating transcripts. Broad-range thermal cycles triggered a sharp increase in the long IR CCA1 isoforms and altered their phasing to different times of day. Both abiotic and biotic stresses such as drought or Pseudomonas syringae infection induced a similar increase. Thermal stress induced a time delay in accumulation of CCA1 I4Rb transcripts, whereas functional mRNA showed steady oscillations. Our data favor a hypothesis that stress-induced instabilities of the central oscillator can be in part compensated through fluctuations in abundance and out-of-phase oscillations of CCA1 IR transcripts. Taken together, our results support a concept that mRNA abundance can be modulated through altering ratios between functional and nonsense/IR transcripts. SR45 protein specifically bound to the retained CCA1 intron in vitro, suggesting that this splicing factor could be involved in regulation of intron retention. Transcriptomes of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD)-impaired and heat-stressed plants shared a set of retained introns associated with stress- and defense-inducible transcripts. Constitutive activation of certain stress response networks in an NMD mutant could be linked to disequilibrium between functional and nonsense mRNAs.
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- Sergei A Filichkin
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, MO 63132, USA.
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Roux ME, Rasmussen MW, Palma K, Lolle S, Regué ÀM, Bethke G, Glazebrook J, Zhang W, Sieburth L, Larsen MR, Mundy J, Petersen M. The mRNA decay factor PAT1 functions in a pathway including MAP kinase 4 and immune receptor SUMM2. EMBO J 2015; 34:593-608. [PMID: 25603932 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201488645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Multi-layered defense responses are activated in plants upon recognition of invading pathogens. Transmembrane receptors recognize conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and activate MAP kinase cascades, which regulate changes in gene expression to produce appropriate immune responses. For example, Arabidopsis MAP kinase 4 (MPK4) regulates the expression of a subset of defense genes via at least one WRKY transcription factor. We report here that MPK4 is found in complexes in vivo with PAT1, a component of the mRNA decapping machinery. PAT1 is also phosphorylated by MPK4 and, upon flagellin PAMP treatment, PAT1 accumulates and localizes to cytoplasmic processing (P) bodies which are sites for mRNA decay. Pat1 mutants exhibit dwarfism and de-repressed immunity dependent on the immune receptor SUMM2. Since mRNA decapping is a critical step in mRNA turnover, linking MPK4 to mRNA decay via PAT1 provides another mechanism by which MPK4 may rapidly instigate immune responses.
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- Milena Edna Roux
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Southern Denmark Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Motomura K, Le QTN, Hamada T, Kutsuna N, Mano S, Nishimura M, Watanabe Y. Diffuse decapping enzyme DCP2 accumulates in DCP1 foci under heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 56:107-15. [PMID: 25339350 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The decapping enzymes DCP1 and DCP2 are components of a decapping complex that degrades mRNAs. DCP2 is the catalytic core and DCP1 is an auxiliary subunit. It has been assumed that DCP1 and DCP2 are consistently co-localized in cytoplasmic RNA granules called processing bodies (P-bodies). However, it has not been confirmed whether DCP1 and DCP2 co-localize in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this study, we generated DCP1-green fluorescent protein (GFP) and DCP2-GFP transgenic plants that complemented dcp1 and dcp2 mutants, respectively, to see whether localization of DCP2 is identical to that of DCP1. DCP2 was present throughout the cytoplasm, whereas DCP1 formed P-body-like foci. Use of DCP1-GFP/DCP2-red fluorescent protein (RFP) or DCP1-RFP/DCP2-GFP plants showed that heat treatment induced DCP2 assembly into DCP1 foci. In contrast, cold treatment did not induce DCP2 assembly, while the number of DCP1 foci increased. These changes in DCP1 and DCP2 localization during heat and cold treatments occurred without changes in DCP1 and DCP2 protein abundance. Our results show that DCP1 and DCP2 respond differently to environmental changes, indicating that P-bodies have diverse DCP1 and DCP2 proportions depending on environmental conditions. The localization changes of DCP1 and DCP2 may explain how specific mRNAs are degraded during changes in environmental conditions.
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- Kazuki Motomura
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8562 Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, 444-8585 Japan Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, 444-8585 Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, 444-8585 Japan Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, 444-8585 Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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Romanowski A, Yanovsky MJ. Circadian rhythms and post-transcriptional regulation in higher plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:437. [PMID: 26124767 PMCID: PMC4464108 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The circadian clock of plants allows them to cope with daily changes in their environment. This is accomplished by the rhythmic regulation of gene expression, in a process that involves many regulatory steps. One of the key steps involved at the RNA level is post-transcriptional regulation, which ensures a correct control on the different amounts and types of mRNA that will ultimately define the current physiological state of the plant cell. Recent advances in the study of the processes of regulation of pre-mRNA processing, RNA turn-over and surveillance, regulation of translation, function of lncRNAs, biogenesis and function of small RNAs, and the development of bioinformatics tools have helped to vastly expand our understanding of how this regulatory step performs its role. In this work we review the current progress in circadian regulation at the post-transcriptional level research in plants. It is the continuous interaction of all the information flow control post-transcriptional processes that allow a plant to precisely time and predict daily environmental changes.
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- *Correspondence: Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Laboratorio de Genómica Comparativa del Desarrollo Vegetal, Fundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA-CONICET, Avenida Patricias Argentinas 435, Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina,
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Bruggeman Q, Raynaud C, Benhamed M, Delarue M. To die or not to die? Lessons from lesion mimic mutants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:24. [PMID: 25688254 PMCID: PMC4311611 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/12/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Programmed cell death (PCD) is a ubiquitous genetically regulated process consisting in an activation of finely controlled signaling pathways that lead to cellular suicide. Although some aspects of PCD control appear evolutionary conserved between plants, animals and fungi, the extent of conservation remains controversial. Over the last decades, identification and characterization of several lesion mimic mutants (LMM) has been a powerful tool in the quest to unravel PCD pathways in plants. Thanks to progress in molecular genetics, mutations causing the phenotype of a large number of LMM and their related suppressors were mapped, and the identification of the mutated genes shed light on major pathways in the onset of plant PCD such as (i) the involvements of chloroplasts and light energy, (ii) the roles of sphingolipids and fatty acids, (iii) a signal perception at the plasma membrane that requires efficient membrane trafficking, (iv) secondary messengers such as ion fluxes and ROS and (v) the control of gene expression as the last integrator of the signaling pathways.
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- Quentin Bruggeman
- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Saclay Plant SciencesOrsay, France
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- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Saclay Plant SciencesOrsay, France
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- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Saclay Plant SciencesOrsay, France
- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Saclay Plant SciencesOrsay, France
- *Correspondence: Marianne Delarue, Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Saclay Plant Sciences, Bâtiment 630, Route de Noetzlin, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France e-mail:
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Garcia D, Garcia S, Voinnet O. Nonsense-mediated decay serves as a general viral restriction mechanism in plants. Cell Host Microbe 2014; 16:391-402. [PMID: 25155460 PMCID: PMC7185767 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2014] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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(+)strand RNA viruses have to overcome various points of restriction in the host to establish successful infection. In plants, this includes RNA silencing. To uncover additional bottlenecks to RNA virus infection, we genetically attenuated the impact of RNA silencing on transgenically expressed Potato virus X (PVX), a (+)strand RNA virus that replicates in Arabidopsis. A genetic screen in this sensitized background uncovered how nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), a host RNA quality control mechanism, recognizes and eliminates PVX RNAs with internal termination codons and long 3′ UTRs. NMD also operates in natural infection contexts, and while some viruses have evolved genome expression strategies to overcome this process altogether, the virulence of NMD-activating viruses entails their ability to directly suppress NMD or to promote an NMD-unfavorable cellular state. These principles of induction, evasion, and suppression define NMD as a general viral restriction mechanism in plants that also likely operates in animals. A sensitized genetic screen for modifiers of (+)strand RNA virus accumulation in Arabidopsis The host nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway restricts PVX during natural infection NMD targets viral RNAs containing internal termination codons and long 3′ UTRs Some viruses have evolved to evade NMD altogether, while others may suppress NMD actively
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- Damien Garcia
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, 67084 Strasbourg, France; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Universitätstrasse 2, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Kwon YJ, Park MJ, Kim SG, Baldwin IT, Park CM. Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated decay of circadian clock genes under environmental stress conditions in Arabidopsis. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:136. [PMID: 24885185 PMCID: PMC4035800 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The circadian clock enables living organisms to anticipate recurring daily and seasonal fluctuations in their growth habitats and synchronize their biology to the environmental cycle. The plant circadian clock consists of multiple transcription-translation feedback loops that are entrained by environmental signals, such as light and temperature. In recent years, alternative splicing emerges as an important molecular mechanism that modulates the clock function in plants. Several clock genes are known to undergo alternative splicing in response to changes in environmental conditions, suggesting that the clock function is intimately associated with environmental responses via the alternative splicing of the clock genes. However, the alternative splicing events of the clock genes have not been studied at the molecular level. RESULTS We systematically examined whether major clock genes undergo alternative splicing under various environmental conditions in Arabidopsis. We also investigated the fates of the RNA splice variants of the clock genes. It was found that the clock genes, including EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) and ZEITLUPE (ZTL) that have not been studied in terms of alternative splicing, undergo extensive alternative splicing through diverse modes of splicing events, such as intron retention, exon skipping, and selection of alternative 5' splice site. Their alternative splicing patterns were differentially influenced by changes in photoperiod, temperature extremes, and salt stress. Notably, the RNA splice variants of TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1 (TOC1) and ELF3 were degraded through the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway, whereas those of other clock genes were insensitive to NMD. CONCLUSION Taken together, our observations demonstrate that the major clock genes examined undergo extensive alternative splicing under various environmental conditions, suggesting that alternative splicing is a molecular scheme that underlies the linkage between the clock and environmental stress adaptation in plants. It is also envisioned that alternative splicing of the clock genes plays more complex roles than previously expected.
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- Young-Ju Kwon
- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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Hackmann C, Korneli C, Kutyniok M, Köster T, Wiedenlübbert M, Müller C, Staiger D. Salicylic acid-dependent and -independent impact of an RNA-binding protein on plant immunity. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2014; 37:696-706. [PMID: 23961939 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2012] [Revised: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2013] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plants overexpressing the RNA-binding protein AtGRP7 (AtGRP7-ox plants) constitutively express the PR-1 (PATHOGENESIS-RELATED-1), PR-2 and PR-5 transcripts associated with salicylic acid (SA)-mediated immunity and show enhanced resistance against Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pto) DC3000. Here, we investigated whether the function of AtGRP7 in plant immunity depends on SA. Endogenous SA was elevated fivefold in AtGRP7-ox plants. The elevated PR-1, PR-2 and PR-5 levels were eliminated upon expression of the salicylate hydroxylase nahG in AtGRP7-ox plants and elevated PR-1 levels were suppressed by sid (salicylic acid deficient) 2-1 that is impaired in SA biosynthesis. RNA immunoprecipitation showed that AtGRP7 does not bind the PR-1 transcript in vivo, whereas it binds PDF1.2. Constitutive or inducible AtGRP7 overexpression increases PR-1 promoter activity, indicating that AtGRP7 affects PR-1 transcription. In line with this, the effect of AtGRP7 on PR-1 is suppressed by npr (non-expressor of PR genes) 1. Whereas AtGRP7-ox plants restricted growth of Pto DC3000 compared with wild type (wt), sid2-1 AtGRP7-ox plants allowed more growth than AtGRP7-ox plants. Furthermore, we show an enhanced hypersensitive response triggered by avirulent Pto DC3000 (AvrRpt2) in AtGRP7-ox compared with wt. In sid2-1 AtGRP7-ox, an intermediate phenotype was observed. Thus, AtGRP7 has both SA-dependent and SA-independent effects on plant immunity.
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- Christian Hackmann
- Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany; Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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Maldonado-Bonilla LD. Composition and function of P bodies in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:201. [PMID: 24860588 PMCID: PMC4030149 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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mRNA accumulation is tightly regulated by diverse molecular pathways. The identification and characterization of enzymes and regulatory proteins involved in controlling the fate of mRNA offers the possibility to broaden our understanding of posttranscriptional gene regulation. Processing bodies (P bodies, PB) are cytoplasmic protein complexes involved in degradation and translational arrest of mRNA. Composition and dynamics of these subcellular structures have been studied in animal systems, yeasts and in the model plant Arabidopsis. Their assembly implies the aggregation of specific factors related to decapping, deadenylation, and exoribonucleases that operate synchronously to regulate certain mRNA targets during development and adaptation to stress. Although the general function of PB along with the flow of genetic information is understood, several questions still remain open. This review summarizes data on the composition, potential molecular roles, and biological significance of PB and potentially related proteins in Arabidopsis.
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- Luis D. Maldonado-Bonilla
- *Correspondence: Luis D. Maldonado-Bonilla, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, San Luis Potosí 78216, Mexico e-mail:
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Lloyd JPB, Davies B. SMG1 is an ancient nonsense-mediated mRNA decay effector. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:800-10. [PMID: 24103012 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 09/02/2013] [Accepted: 09/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic process that targets selected mRNAs for destruction, for both quality control and gene regulatory purposes. SMG1, the core kinase of the NMD machinery in animals, phosphorylates the highly conserved UPF1 effector protein to activate NMD. However, SMG1 is missing from the genomes of fungi and the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana, leading to the conclusion that SMG1 is animal-specific and questioning the mechanistic conservation of the pathway. Here we show that SMG1 is not animal-specific, by identifying SMG1 in a range of eukaryotes, including all examined green plants with the exception of A. thaliana. Knockout of SMG1 by homologous recombination in the basal land plant Physcomitrella patens reveals that SMG1 has a conserved role in the NMD pathway across kingdoms. SMG1 has been lost at various points during the evolution of eukaryotes from multiple lineages, including an early loss in the fungal lineage and a very recent observable gene loss in A. thaliana. These findings suggest that the SMG1 kinase functioned in the NMD pathway of the last common eukaryotic ancestor.
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- James P B Lloyd
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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Kerényi F, Wawer I, Sikorski PJ, Kufel J, Silhavy D. Phosphorylation of the N- and C-terminal UPF1 domains plays a critical role in plant nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:836-48. [PMID: 24118551 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2013] [Revised: 09/10/2013] [Accepted: 09/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an essential quality control system that degrades aberrant transcripts containing premature termination codons and regulates the expression of several normal transcripts. Targets for NMD are selected during translational termination. If termination is slow, the UPF1 NMD factor binds the eRF3 protein of the termination complex and then recruits UPF2 and UPF3. Consequently, the UPF1-2-3 NMD complex induces SMG7-mediated degradation of the target mRNA. It is unknown how formation of the NMD complex and transcript degradation are linked in plants. Previously we have shown that the N- and C-terminal domains of UPF1 act redundantly and that the N-terminal domain is phosphorylated. To clarify the role of UPF1 phosphorylation in plant NMD, we generated UPF1 mutants and analyzed their phosphorylation status and the NMD competency of the mutants. We show that although several residues in the N-terminal domain of UPF1 are phosphorylated, only three phosphorylated amino acids, S3, S13 and T29, play a role in NMD. Moreover, we found that the C-terminal domain consists of redundant S/TQ-rich segments and that S1076 is involved in NMD. All NMD-relevant phosphorylation sites were in the S/TQ context. Co-localization and fluorescence resonance energy transfer-fluorescence lifetime imaging assays suggest that N-terminal and probably also C-terminal phosphorylated S/TQ residues are the binding platform for SMG7. Our data support the hypothesis that phosphorylation of UPF1 connects NMD complex formation and the SMG7-mediated target transcript degradation steps of NMD. SMG7 binds the phosphorylated S/TQ sites of the UPF1 component of the NMD complex, and then it induces the degradation of the NMD target.
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- Farkas Kerényi
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllõ, Hungary
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Staiger D, Brown JWS. Alternative splicing at the intersection of biological timing, development, and stress responses. THE PLANT CELL 2013. [PMID: 24179132 DOI: 10.1105/tcp.113.117523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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High-throughput sequencing for transcript profiling in plants has revealed that alternative splicing (AS) affects a much higher proportion of the transcriptome than was previously assumed. AS is involved in most plant processes and is particularly prevalent in plants exposed to environmental stress. The identification of mutations in predicted splicing factors and spliceosomal proteins that affect cell fate, the circadian clock, plant defense, and tolerance/sensitivity to abiotic stress all point to a fundamental role of splicing/AS in plant growth, development, and responses to external cues. Splicing factors affect the AS of multiple downstream target genes, thereby transferring signals to alter gene expression via splicing factor/AS networks. The last two to three years have seen an ever-increasing number of examples of functional AS. At a time when the identification of AS in individual genes and at a global level is exploding, this review aims to bring together such examples to illustrate the extent and importance of AS, which are not always obvious from individual publications. It also aims to ensure that plant scientists are aware that AS is likely to occur in the genes that they study and that dynamic changes in AS and its consequences need to be considered routinely.
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- Dorothee Staiger
- Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, D33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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Drechsel G, Kahles A, Kesarwani AK, Stauffer E, Behr J, Drewe P, Rätsch G, Wachter A. Nonsense-mediated decay of alternative precursor mRNA splicing variants is a major determinant of the Arabidopsis steady state transcriptome. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:3726-42. [PMID: 24163313 PMCID: PMC3877825 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.115485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2013] [Revised: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) surveillance pathway can recognize erroneous transcripts and physiological mRNAs, such as precursor mRNA alternative splicing (AS) variants. Currently, information on the global extent of coupled AS and NMD remains scarce and even absent for any plant species. To address this, we conducted transcriptome-wide splicing studies using Arabidopsis thaliana mutants in the NMD factor homologs UP FRAMESHIFT1 (UPF1) and UPF3 as well as wild-type samples treated with the translation inhibitor cycloheximide. Our analyses revealed that at least 17.4% of all multi-exon, protein-coding genes produce splicing variants that are targeted by NMD. Moreover, we provide evidence that UPF1 and UPF3 act in a translation-independent mRNA decay pathway. Importantly, 92.3% of the NMD-responsive mRNAs exhibit classical NMD-eliciting features, supporting their authenticity as direct targets. Genes generating NMD-sensitive AS variants function in diverse biological processes, including signaling and protein modification, for which NaCl stress-modulated AS-NMD was found. Besides mRNAs, numerous noncoding RNAs and transcripts derived from intergenic regions were shown to be NMD responsive. In summary, we provide evidence for a major function of AS-coupled NMD in shaping the Arabidopsis transcriptome, having fundamental implications in gene regulation and quality control of transcript processing.
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- Gabriele Drechsel
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Computational Biology Center, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10065
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Computational Biology Center, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10065
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- Computational Biology Center, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10065
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- Computational Biology Center, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10065
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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Identification of a PTC-containing DlRan transcript and its differential expression during somatic embryogenesis in Dimocarpus longan. Gene 2013; 529:37-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.07.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2013] [Revised: 05/19/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Staiger D, Brown JW. Alternative splicing at the intersection of biological timing, development, and stress responses. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:3640-56. [PMID: 24179132 PMCID: PMC3877812 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.113803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 425] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Revised: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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High-throughput sequencing for transcript profiling in plants has revealed that alternative splicing (AS) affects a much higher proportion of the transcriptome than was previously assumed. AS is involved in most plant processes and is particularly prevalent in plants exposed to environmental stress. The identification of mutations in predicted splicing factors and spliceosomal proteins that affect cell fate, the circadian clock, plant defense, and tolerance/sensitivity to abiotic stress all point to a fundamental role of splicing/AS in plant growth, development, and responses to external cues. Splicing factors affect the AS of multiple downstream target genes, thereby transferring signals to alter gene expression via splicing factor/AS networks. The last two to three years have seen an ever-increasing number of examples of functional AS. At a time when the identification of AS in individual genes and at a global level is exploding, this review aims to bring together such examples to illustrate the extent and importance of AS, which are not always obvious from individual publications. It also aims to ensure that plant scientists are aware that AS is likely to occur in the genes that they study and that dynamic changes in AS and its consequences need to be considered routinely.
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- Dorothee Staiger
- Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, D33615 Bielefeld, Germany
- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, D33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee at The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Cell and Molecular Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Address correspondence to
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Wijnker E, Schnittger A. Control of the meiotic cell division program in plants. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2013; 26:143-58. [PMID: 23852379 PMCID: PMC3747318 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-013-0223-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/23/2013] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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While the question of why organisms reproduce sexually is still a matter of controversy, it is clear that the foundation of sexual reproduction is the formation of gametes with half the genomic DNA content of a somatic cell. This reduction in genomic content is accomplished through meiosis that, in contrast to mitosis, comprises two subsequent chromosome segregation steps without an intervening S phase. In addition, meiosis generates new allele combinations through the compilation of new sets of homologous chromosomes and the reciprocal exchange of chromatid segments between homologues. Progression through meiosis relies on many of the same, or at least homologous, cell cycle regulators that act in mitosis, e.g., cyclin-dependent kinases and the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome. However, these mitotic control factors are often differentially regulated in meiosis. In addition, several meiosis-specific cell cycle genes have been identified. We here review the increasing knowledge on meiotic cell cycle control in plants. Interestingly, plants appear to have relaxed cell cycle checkpoints in meiosis in comparison with animals and yeast and many cell cycle mutants are viable. This makes plants powerful models to study meiotic progression and allows unique modifications to their meiotic program to develop new plant-breeding strategies.
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- Erik Wijnker
- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France
- Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France
- Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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Tsalikis J, Croitoru DO, Philpott DJ, Girardin SE. Nutrient sensing and metabolic stress pathways in innate immunity. Cell Microbiol 2013; 15:1632-41. [PMID: 23834352 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Revised: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Cells monitor nutrient availability through several highly conserved pathways that include the mTOR signalling axis regulated by AKT/PI3K, HIF and AMPK, as well as the GCN2/eIF2α integrated stress response pathway that provides cellular adaptation to amino acid starvation. Recent evidence has identified a critical interplay between these nutrient sensing pathways and innate immunity to bacterial pathogens, viruses and parasites. These observations suggest that, in addition to the well-characterized pro-inflammatory signalling mediated by pattern recognition molecules, a metabolic stress programme contributes to shape the global response to pathogens.
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- Jessica Tsalikis
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiologyy, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8, Canada
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Translation-dependent displacement of UPF1 from coding sequences causes its enrichment in 3' UTRs. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:936-43. [PMID: 23832275 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Recruitment of the UPF1 nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) factor to target mRNAs was initially proposed to occur through interaction with release factors at terminating ribosomes. However, recently emerging evidence points toward translation-independent interaction with the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of mRNAs. We mapped transcriptome-wide UPF1-binding sites by individual-nucleotide-resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation in human cells and found that UPF1 preferentially associated with 3' UTRs in translationally active cells but underwent significant redistribution toward coding regions (CDS) upon translation inhibition, thus indicating that UPF1 binds RNA before translation and gets displaced from the CDS by translating ribosomes. Corroborated by RNA immunoprecipitation and by UPF1 cross-linking to long noncoding RNAs, our evidence for translation-independent UPF1-RNA interaction suggests that the triggering of NMD occurs after UPF1 binding to mRNA, presumably through activation of RNA-bound UPF1 by aberrant translation termination.
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Nyikó T, Kerényi F, Szabadkai L, Benkovics AH, Major P, Sonkoly B, Mérai Z, Barta E, Niemiec E, Kufel J, Silhavy D. Plant nonsense-mediated mRNA decay is controlled by different autoregulatory circuits and can be induced by an EJC-like complex. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:6715-28. [PMID: 23666629 PMCID: PMC3711448 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality control system that recognizes and degrades transcripts containing NMD cis elements in their 3′untranslated region (UTR). In yeasts, unusually long 3′UTRs act as NMD cis elements, whereas in vertebrates, NMD is induced by introns located >50 nt downstream from the stop codon. In vertebrates, splicing leads to deposition of exon junction complex (EJC) onto the mRNA, and then 3′UTR-bound EJCs trigger NMD. It is proposed that this intron-based NMD is vertebrate specific, and it evolved to eliminate the misproducts of alternative splicing. Here, we provide evidence that similar EJC-mediated intron-based NMD functions in plants, suggesting that this type of NMD is evolutionary conserved. We demonstrate that in plants, like in vertebrates, introns located >50 nt from the stop induces NMD. We show that orthologs of all core EJC components are essential for intron-based plant NMD and that plant Partner of Y14 and mago (PYM) also acts as EJC disassembly factor. Moreover, we found that complex autoregulatory circuits control the activity of plant NMD. We demonstrate that expression of suppressor with morphogenic effect on genitalia (SMG)7, which is essential for long 3′UTR- and intron-based NMD, is regulated by both types of NMD, whereas expression of Barentsz EJC component is downregulated by intron-based NMD.
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- Tünde Nyikó
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Institute for Genetics, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Institut fur Biologie II/Botanik, Schanzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany and Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +36 28 526 194; Fax: +36 28 526 145;
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Staiger D, Korneli C, Lummer M, Navarro L. Emerging role for RNA-based regulation in plant immunity. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 197:394-404. [PMID: 23163405 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Infection by phytopathogenic bacteria triggers massive changes in plant gene expression, which are thought to be mostly a result of transcriptional reprogramming. However, evidence is accumulating that plants additionally use post-transcriptional regulation of immune-responsive mRNAs as a strategic weapon to shape the defense-related transcriptome. Cellular RNA-binding proteins regulate RNA stability, splicing or mRNA export of immune-response transcripts. In particular, mutants defective in alternative splicing of resistance genes exhibit compromised disease resistance. Furthermore, detection of bacterial pathogens induces the differential expression of small non-coding RNAs including microRNAs that impact the host defense transcriptome. Phytopathogenic bacteria in turn have evolved effector proteins to inhibit biogenesis and/or activity of cellular microRNAs. Whereas RNA silencing has long been known as an antiviral defense response, recent findings also reveal a major role of this process in antibacterial defense. Here we review the function of RNA-binding proteins and small RNA-directed post-transcriptional regulation in antibacterial defense. We mainly focus on studies that used the model system Arabidopsis thaliana and also discuss selected examples from other plants.
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- Dorothee Staiger
- Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Physiology, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie de L'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), 46 Rue d'Ulm, 75230, Paris Cedex 05, France
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Mérai Z, Benkovics AH, Nyikó T, Debreczeny M, Hiripi L, Kerényi Z, Kondorosi É, Silhavy D. The late steps of plant nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 73:50-62. [PMID: 22974464 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2011] [Revised: 08/27/2012] [Accepted: 09/03/2012] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality control system that identifies and degrades mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). If translation terminates at a PTC, the UPF1 NMD factor binds the terminating ribosome and recruits UPF2 and UPF3 to form a functional NMD complex, which triggers the rapid decay of the PTC-containing transcript. Although NMD deficiency is seedling lethal in plants, the mechanism of plant NMD remains poorly understood. To understand how the formation of the NMD complex leads to transcript decay we functionally mapped the UPF1 and SMG7 plant NMD factors, the putative key players of NMD target degradation. Our data indicate that the cysteine-histidine-rich (CH) and helicase domains of UPF1 are only essential for the early steps of NMD, whereas the heavily phosphorylated N- and C-terminal regions play a redundant but essential role in the target transcript degradation steps of NMD. We also show that both the N- and the C-terminal regions of SMG7 are essential for NMD. The N terminus contains a phosphoserine-binding domain that is required for the early steps of NMD, whereas the C terminus is required to trigger the degradation of NMD target transcripts. Moreover, SMG7 is a P-body component that can also remobilize UPF1 from the cytoplasm into processing bodies (P bodies). We propose that the N- and C-terminal phosphorylated regions of UPF1 recruit SMG7 to the functional NMD complex, and then SMG7 transports the PTC-containing transcripts into P bodies for degradation.
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- Zsuzsanna Mérai
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Biologie II/Botanik, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
- Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Villányi 29-43, H-1118, Budapest, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, 91168, Gif sur Yvette, France
- BRC Institute of Biochemistry, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, 91168, Gif sur Yvette, France
- BRC Institute of Biochemistry, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Szent-Györgyi 4, H-2100, Gödöllő, Hungary
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Palacios IM. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: from mechanistic insights to impacts on human health. Brief Funct Genomics 2012; 12:25-36. [PMID: 23148322 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/els051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Cells are able to recognize and degrade aberrant transcripts in order to self-protect from potentially toxic proteins. Various pathways detect aberrant RNAs in the cytoplasm and are dependent on translation. One of these pathways is the nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD). NMD is a surveillance mechanism that degrades transcripts containing nonsense mutations, preventing the translation of possibly harmful truncated proteins. For example, the degradation of a nonsense harming β-globin allele renders normal phenotypes. On the other hand, regulating NMD is also important in those cases when the produced aberrant protein is better than having no protein, as it has been shown for cystic fibrosis. These findings reflect the important role for NMD in human health. In addition, NMD controls the levels of physiologic transcripts, which defines this pathway as a novel gene expression regulator, with huge impact on homeostasis, cell growth and development. While the mechanistic details of NMD are being gradually understood, the physiological role of this RNA surveillance pathway still remains largely unknown. This is a brief and simplified review on various aspects of NMD, such as the nature of the NMD targets, the mechanism of target degradation and the links between NMD and cell growth, animal development and diseases.
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- Isabel M Palacios
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
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Rayson S, Ashworth M, de Torres Zabala M, Grant M, Davies B. The salicylic acid dependent and independent effects of NMD in plants. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2012; 7:1434-7. [PMID: 22990450 PMCID: PMC3548866 DOI: 10.4161/psb.21960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
In eukaryotes, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) targets aberrant and selected non-aberrant mRNAs for destruction. A recent screen for mRNAs showing increased abundance in Arabidopsis NMD-deficient mutants revealed that most are associated with the salicylic acid (SA)-mediated defense pathway. mRNAs with conserved peptide upstream open reading frames (CpuORFs or CuORFs) are hugely overrepresented among the smaller class of NMD-regulated transcripts not associated with SA. Here we show that the common phenotypes observed in Arabidopsis NMD mutants are SA-dependent, whereas the upregulation of CpuORF-containing transcripts in NMD mutants is independent of SA. We speculate that CpuORFs could allow the conditional targeting of mRNAs for destruction using the NMD pathway.
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Affiliation(s)
- Samantha Rayson
- Centre for Plant Sciences; Faculty of Biological Sciences; University of Leeds; Leeds, UK
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- Centre for Plant Sciences; Faculty of Biological Sciences; University of Leeds; Leeds, UK
| | - Marta de Torres Zabala
- Biosciences; College of Life and Environmental Sciences; Geoffrey Pope; University of Exeter; Exeter, UK
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- Biosciences; College of Life and Environmental Sciences; Geoffrey Pope; University of Exeter; Exeter, UK
| | - Brendan Davies
- Centre for Plant Sciences; Faculty of Biological Sciences; University of Leeds; Leeds, UK
- Correspondence to: Brendan Davies,
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A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome. Nature 2012; 491:711-6. [PMID: 23075845 DOI: 10.1038/nature11543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 925] [Impact Index Per Article: 77.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is among the world's earliest domesticated and most important crop plants. It is diploid with a large haploid genome of 5.1 gigabases (Gb). Here we present an integrated and ordered physical, genetic and functional sequence resource that describes the barley gene-space in a structured whole-genome context. We developed a physical map of 4.98 Gb, with more than 3.90 Gb anchored to a high-resolution genetic map. Projecting a deep whole-genome shotgun assembly, complementary DNA and deep RNA sequence data onto this framework supports 79,379 transcript clusters, including 26,159 'high-confidence' genes with homology support from other plant genomes. Abundant alternative splicing, premature termination codons and novel transcriptionally active regions suggest that post-transcriptional processing forms an important regulatory layer. Survey sequences from diverse accessions reveal a landscape of extensive single-nucleotide variation. Our data provide a platform for both genome-assisted research and enabling contemporary crop improvement.
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