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Hématy K, Bellec Y, Podicheti R, Bouteiller N, Anne P, Morineau C, Haslam RP, Beaudoin F, Napier JA, Mockaitis K, Gagliardi D, Vaucheret H, Lange H, Faure JD. The Zinc-Finger Protein SOP1 Is Required for a Subset of the Nuclear Exosome Functions in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005817. [PMID: 26828932 PMCID: PMC4735120 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 12/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Correct gene expression requires tight RNA quality control both at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Using a splicing-defective allele of PASTICCINO2 (PAS2), a gene essential for plant development, we isolated suppressor mutations modifying pas2-1 mRNA profiles and restoring wild-type growth. Three suppressor of pas2 (sop) mutations modified the degradation of mis-spliced pas2-1 mRNA species, allowing the synthesis of a functional protein. Cloning of the suppressor mutations identified the core subunit of the exosome SOP2/RRP4, the exosome nucleoplasmic cofactor SOP3/HEN2 and a novel zinc-finger protein SOP1 that colocalizes with HEN2 in nucleoplasmic foci. The three SOP proteins counteract post-transcriptional (trans)gene silencing (PTGS), which suggests that they all act in RNA quality control. In addition, sop1 mutants accumulate some, but not all of the misprocessed mRNAs and other types of RNAs that are observed in exosome mutants. Taken together, our data show that SOP1 is a new component of nuclear RNA surveillance that is required for the degradation of a specific subset of nuclear exosome targets.
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- Kian Hématy
- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
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- Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
- Univ Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
- Univ Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
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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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Post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants: a double-edged sword. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2015; 59:271-6. [PMID: 26718356 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-015-4972-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In plants, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) protects the genome from foreign genes and restricts the expression of certain endogenous genes for proper development. Here, we review the recent progress about how the unwanted PTGS is avoided in plants. As a decision-making step of PTGS, aberrant transcripts from most endogenous coding genes are strictly sorted to the bidirectional RNA decay pathways in cytoplasm but not to the short interference RNA (siRNA)-mediated PTGS, with the exception of a few development-relevant endogenous siRNA-producing genes. We also discuss a finely balanced PTGS threshold model that plants fully take advantage of the power of PTGS without self-harm.
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Plant genomes encode various small RNAs that function in distinct, yet overlapping, genetic and epigenetic silencing pathways. However, the abundance and diversity of small-RNA classes varies among plant species, suggesting coevolution between environmental adaptations and gene-silencing mechanisms. Biogenesis of small RNAs in plants is well understood, but we are just beginning to uncover their intricate regulation and activity. Here, we discuss the biogenesis of plant small RNAs, such as microRNAs, secondary siRNAs and heterochromatic siRNAs, and their diverse cellular and developmental functions, including in reproductive transitions, genomic imprinting and paramutation. We also discuss the diversification of small-RNA-directed silencing pathways through the expansion of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, DICER proteins and ARGONAUTE proteins.
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Branscheid A, Marchais A, Schott G, Lange H, Gagliardi D, Andersen SU, Voinnet O, Brodersen P. SKI2 mediates degradation of RISC 5'-cleavage fragments and prevents secondary siRNA production from miRNA targets in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:10975-88. [PMID: 26464441 PMCID: PMC4678812 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Small regulatory RNAs are fundamental in eukaryotic and prokaryotic gene regulation. In plants, an important element of post-transcriptional control is effected by 20–24 nt microRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) bound to the ARGONAUTE1 (AGO1) protein in an RNA induced silencing complex (RISC). AGO1 may cleave target mRNAs with small RNA complementarity, but the fate of the resulting cleavage fragments remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that SKI2, SKI3 and SKI8, subunits of a cytoplasmic cofactor of the RNA exosome, are required for degradation of RISC 5′, but not 3′-cleavage fragments in Arabidopsis. In the absence of SKI2 activity, many miRNA targets produce siRNAs via the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 (RDR6) pathway. These siRNAs are low-abundant, and map close to the cleavage site. In most cases, siRNAs were produced 5′ to the cleavage site, but several examples of 3′-spreading were also identified. These observations suggest that siRNAs do not simply derive from RDR6 action on stable 5′-cleavage fragments and hence that SKI2 has a direct role in limiting secondary siRNA production in addition to its function in mediating degradation of 5′-cleavage fragments.
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- Anja Branscheid
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Biology, LFW D17/D18, Universitätsstrasse 2, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Biology, LFW D17/D18, Universitätsstrasse 2, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, 12 Rue du Général Zimmer, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, 12 Rue du Général Zimmer, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Gustav Wieds Vej 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Biology, LFW D17/D18, Universitätsstrasse 2, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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Geminivirus Activates ASYMMETRIC LEAVES 2 to Accelerate Cytoplasmic DCP2-Mediated mRNA Turnover and Weakens RNA Silencing in Arabidopsis. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1005196. [PMID: 26431425 PMCID: PMC4592220 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Aberrant viral RNAs produced in infected plant cells serve as templates for the synthesis of dsRNAs. The derived virus-related small interfering RNAs (siRNA) mediate cleavage of viral RNAs by post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), thus blocking virus multiplication. Here, we identified ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2) as a new component of plant P body complex which mediates mRNA decapping and degradation. We found that AS2 promotes DCP2 decapping activity, accelerates mRNA turnover rate, inhibits siRNA accumulation and functions as an endogenous suppressor of PTGS. Consistent with these findings, as2 mutant plants are resistant to virus infection whereas AS2 over-expression plants are hypersensitive. The geminivirus nuclear shuttle protein BV1 protein, which shuttles between nuclei and cytoplasm, induces AS2 expression, causes nuclear exit of AS2 to activate DCP2 decapping activity and renders infected plants more sensitive to viruses. These principles of gene induction and shuttling of induced proteins to promote mRNA decapping in the cytosol may be used by viral pathogens to weaken antiviral defenses in host plants. In higher plants, aberrant RNAs generated during virus replication serve as templates to make small interfering RNAs. These small RNAs are used by host as a defense mechanism to cleave viral RNAs thereby blocking virus replication. The anti-virus defense is attenuated by the host cellular mRNA turnover machinery which clears aberrant RNAs. Viruses may use encoded component(s) to activate host cellular mRNA turnover for their own benefits. In this study, we identified ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2) as an activator of mRNA decapping and degradation and an endogenous suppressor of virus silencing. We showed that the geminivirus BV1 protein induces AS2 expression, causes nuclear exit of AS2 to activate mRNA decapping activity and renders infected plants more sensitive to viruses. Similar mechanisms may be used by other viral pathogens to weaken antiviral defenses in host plants and also mammals.
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Yu A, Saudemont B, Bouteiller N, Elvira-Matelot E, Lepère G, Parent JS, Morel JB, Cao J, Elmayan T, Vaucheret H. Second-Site Mutagenesis of a Hypomorphic argonaute1 Allele Identifies SUPERKILLER3 as an Endogenous Suppressor of Transgene Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:1266-74. [PMID: 26286717 PMCID: PMC4587451 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Second-site mutagenesis was performed on the argonaute1-33 (ago1-33) hypomorphic mutant, which exhibits reduced sense transgene posttranscriptional gene silencing (S-PTGS). Mutations in FIERY1, a positive regulator of the cytoplasmic 5'-to-3' EXORIBONUCLEASE4 (XRN4), and in SUPERKILLER3 (SKI3), a member of the SKI complex that threads RNAs directly to the 3'-to-5' exoribonuclease of the cytoplasmic exosome, compensated AGO1 partial deficiency and restored S-PTGS with 100% efficiency. Moreover, xrn4 and ski3 single mutations provoked the entry of nonsilenced transgenes into S-PTGS and enhanced S-PTGS on partially silenced transgenes, indicating that cytoplasmic 5'-to-3' and 3'-to-5' RNA degradation generally counteract S-PTGS, likely by reducing the amount of transgene aberrant RNAs that are used by the S-PTGS pathway to build up small interfering RNAs that guide transgene RNA cleavage by AGO1. Constructs generating improperly terminated transgene messenger RNAs (mRNAs) were not more sensitive to ski3 or xrn4 than regular constructs, suggesting that improperly terminated transgene mRNAs not only are degraded from both the 3' end but also from the 5' end, likely after decapping. The facts that impairment of either 5'-to-3' or 3'-to-5' RNA degradation is sufficient to provoke the entry of transgene RNA into the S-PTGS pathway, whereas simultaneous impairment of both pathways is necessary to provoke the entry of endogenous mRNA into the S-PTGS pathway, suggest poor RNA quality upon the transcription of transgenes integrated at random genomic locations.
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- Agnès Yu
- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78000 Versailles, France (A.Y., B.S., N.B., E.E.-M., G.L., J.-S.P., J.-B.M., T.E., H.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany (J.C.)
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Virus diseases greatly affect oilseed rape (Brassica napus) production. Investigating antiviral genes may lead to the development of disease-resistant varieties of oilseed rape. In this study, we examined the effects of the suppressor of gene silencing 3 in Brassica napus (BnSGS3, a putative antiviral gene) with different genus viruses by constructing BnSGS3-overexpressing (BnSGS3-Ov) and BnSGS3-silenced (BnSGS3-Si) oilseed rape (cv. Zhongshuang No. 6) plants. These three viruses are Oilseed rape mosaic virus (ORMV), Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) and Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). The native BnSGS3 expressed in all examined tissues with the highest expression in siliques. All three viruses induced BnSGS3 expression, but ORMV induced a dramatic increase in the BnSGS3-Ov plants, followed by TuMV and CMV. Upon inoculation with three different viruses, transcript abundance of BnSGS3 gene follows: BnSGS3-Ov > non-transgenic plants > BnSGS3-Si. The accumulation quantities of ORMV and TuMV exhibited a similar trend. However, CMV accumulation showed an opposite trend where virus accumulations were negatively correlated with BnSGS3 expression. The results suggest that BnSGS3 selectively inhibits CMV accumulation but promotes ORMV and TuMV accumulation. BnSGS3 should be used in different ways (up- and down-regulation) for breeding virus-resistant oilseed rape varieties.
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Csorba T, Kontra L, Burgyán J. viral silencing suppressors: Tools forged to fine-tune host-pathogen coexistence. Virology 2015; 479-480:85-103. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 368] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 01/31/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Zhang X, Zhu Y, Liu X, Hong X, Xu Y, Zhu P, Shen Y, Wu H, Ji Y, Wen X, Zhang C, Zhao Q, Wang Y, Lu J, Guo H. Plant biology. Suppression of endogenous gene silencing by bidirectional cytoplasmic RNA decay in Arabidopsis. Science 2015; 348:120-3. [PMID: 25838384 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa2618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Plant immunity against foreign gene invasion takes advantage of posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS). How plants elaborately avert inappropriate PTGS of endogenous coding genes remains unclear. We demonstrate in Arabidopsis that both 5'-3' and 3'-5' cytoplasmic RNA decay pathways act as repressors of transgene and endogenous PTGS. Disruption of bidirectional cytoplasmic RNA decay leads to pleiotropic developmental defects and drastic transcriptomic alterations, which are substantially rescued by PTGS mutants. Upon dysfunction of bidirectional RNA decay, a large number of 21- to 22-nucleotide endogenous small interfering RNAs are produced from coding transcripts, including multiple microRNA targets, which could interfere with their cognate gene expression and functions. This study highlights the risk of unwanted PTGS and identifies cytoplasmic RNA decay pathways as safeguards of plant transcriptome and development.
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- Xinyan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Degtiar E, Fridman A, Gottlieb D, Vexler K, Berezin I, Farhi R, Golani L, Shaul O. The feedback control of UPF3 is crucial for RNA surveillance in plants. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:4219-35. [PMID: 25820429 PMCID: PMC4417159 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Nonsense-mediated-decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic RNA surveillance mechanism that controls the levels of both aberrant and normal transcripts. The regulation of this process is not well understood. The Arabidopsis NMD factor UPF3 is regulated by a negative feedback-loop that targets its own transcript for NMD. We investigated the functional significance of this control for the overall regulation of NMD in Arabidopsis. For this, we tested the ability of NMD-sensitive and -insensitive forms of UPF3, expressed under the control of UPF3 promoter, to complement NMD functionality in NMD-mutant plants and investigated their impact in wild-type (WT) plants. The sensitivity of UPF3 transcript to NMD was essential for efficient complementation of NMD in upf3 mutants. Upregulated UPF3 expression in WT plants resulted in over-degradation of certain transcripts and inhibited degradation of other transcripts. Our results demonstrate that, in contrast to mammalian cells, a delicate balance of UPF3 transcript levels by its feedback loop and by restriction of its transcription, are crucial for proper NMD regulation in Arabidopsis. Interestingly, the levels of many small-nucleolar-RNAs (snoRNAs) were decreased in upf1 and upf3 mutants and increased upon enhanced UPF3 expression. This suggests that proper snoRNA homeostasis in Arabidopsis depends on the integrity of the NMD pathway.
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- Evgeniya Degtiar
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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Martínez de Alba AE, Moreno AB, Gabriel M, Mallory AC, Christ A, Bounon R, Balzergue S, Aubourg S, Gautheret D, Crespi MD, Vaucheret H, Maizel A. In plants, decapping prevents RDR6-dependent production of small interfering RNAs from endogenous mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:2902-13. [PMID: 25694514 PMCID: PMC4357720 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Revised: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Cytoplasmic degradation of endogenous RNAs is an integral part of RNA quality control (RQC) and often relies on the removal of the 5' cap structure and their subsequent 5' to 3' degradation in cytoplasmic processing (P-)bodies. In parallel, many eukaryotes degrade exogenous and selected endogenous RNAs through post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS). In plants, PTGS depends on small interfering (si)RNAs produced after the conversion of single-stranded RNAs to double-stranded RNAs by the cellular RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 (RDR6) in cytoplasmic siRNA-bodies. PTGS and RQC compete for transgene-derived RNAs, but it is unknown whether this competition also occurs for endogenous transcripts. We show that the lethality of decapping mutants is suppressed by impairing RDR6 activity. We establish that upon decapping impairment hundreds of endogenous mRNAs give rise to a new class of rqc-siRNAs, that over-accumulate when RQC processes are impaired, a subset of which depending on RDR6 for their production. We observe that P- and siRNA-bodies often are dynamically juxtaposed, potentially allowing for cross-talk of the two machineries. Our results suggest that the decapping of endogenous RNA limits their entry into the PTGS pathway. We anticipate that the rqc-siRNAs identified in decapping mutants represent a subset of a larger ensemble of endogenous siRNAs.
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MESH Headings
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Arabidopsis/metabolism
- Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics
- Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism
- Endoribonucleases/genetics
- Endoribonucleases/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- RNA Caps/genetics
- RNA Caps/metabolism
- RNA Interference
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- RNA, Plant/metabolism
- RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
- RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism
- RNA, Small Untranslated/genetics
- RNA, Small Untranslated/metabolism
- RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/genetics
- RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/metabolism
- Transcriptome
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, UMR 9198 - Universite Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin UMR 1318, INRA, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Versailles, France
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, UMR INRA 1165-CNRS 8114-UEVE, Evry, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, UMR INRA 1165-CNRS 8114-UEVE, Evry, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, UMR INRA 1165-CNRS 8114-UEVE, Evry, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, UMR 9198 - Universite Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin UMR 1318, INRA, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Versailles, France
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR 2355, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Center for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Ma X, Nicole MC, Meteignier LV, Hong N, Wang G, Moffett P. Different roles for RNA silencing and RNA processing components in virus recovery and virus-induced gene silencing in plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:919-32. [PMID: 25385769 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
Abstract
A major antiviral mechanism in plants is mediated by RNA silencing, which relies on the cleavage of viral dsRNA into virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) by DICER-like enzymes. Members of the Argonaute (AGO) family of endonucleases then use these vsiRNA as guides to target viral RNA. This can result in a phenomenon known as recovery, whereby the plant silences viral gene expression and recovers from viral symptoms. Endogenous mRNAs can also be targeted by vsiRNAs in a phenomenon known as virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). Although related to other RNA silencing mechanisms, it has not been established if recovery and VIGS are mediated by the same molecular mechanisms. We used tobacco rattle virus (TRV) carrying a fragment of the phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene (TRV-PDS) or expressing green fluorescent protein (TRV-GFP) as readouts for VIGS and recovery, respectively, in Arabidopsis ago mutants. Our results demonstrated roles for AGO2 and AGO4 in susceptibility to TRV, whereas VIGS of endogenous genes appeared to be largely mediated by AGO1. However, recovery appeared to be mediated by different components, as all the aforementioned mutants were able to recover from TRV-GFP inoculation. TRV RNAs from recovered plants associated less with ribosomes, suggesting that recovery involves translational repression of viral transcripts. Translationally repressed RNAs often accumulate in RNA processing bodies (PBs), where they are eventually processed by decapping enzymes. Consistent with this, we found that viral recovery induced increased PB formation and that a decapping mutant (DCP2) showed increased VIGS and virus RNA accumulation, indicating an important role for PBs in eliminating viral RNA.
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- Xiaofang Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China Université de Sherbrooke, Département de Biologie, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke J1K 2R1, QC, Canada
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- Université de Sherbrooke, Département de Biologie, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke J1K 2R1, QC, Canada
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- Université de Sherbrooke, Département de Biologie, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke J1K 2R1, QC, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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- Université de Sherbrooke, Département de Biologie, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke J1K 2R1, QC, Canada
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Bustos-Sanmamed P, Hudik E, Laffont C, Reynes C, Sallet E, Wen J, Mysore KS, Camproux AC, Hartmann C, Gouzy J, Frugier F, Crespi M, Lelandais-Brière C. A Medicago truncatula rdr6 allele impairs transgene silencing and endogenous phased siRNA production but not development. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2014; 12:1308-1318. [PMID: 25060922 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 06/02/2014] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 (RDR6) and suppressor of gene silencing 3 (SGS3) act together in post-transcriptional transgene silencing mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and in biogenesis of various endogenous siRNAs including the tasiARFs, known regulators of auxin responses and plant development. Legumes, the third major crop family worldwide, has been widely improved through transgenic approaches. Here, we isolated rdr6 and sgs3 mutants in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Two sgs3 and one rdr6 alleles led to strong developmental defects and impaired biogenesis of tasiARFs. In contrast, the rdr6.1 homozygous plants produced sufficient amounts of tasiARFs to ensure proper development. High throughput sequencing of small RNAs from this specific mutant identified 354 potential MtRDR6 substrates, for which siRNA production was significantly reduced in the mutant. Among them, we found a large variety of novel phased loci corresponding to protein-encoding genes or transposable elements. Interestingly, measurement of GFP expression revealed that post-transcriptional transgene silencing was reduced in rdr6.1 roots. Hence, this novel mis-sense mutation, affecting a highly conserved amino acid residue in plant RDR6s, may be an interesting tool both to analyse endogenous pha-siRNA functions and to improve transgene expression, at least in legume species.
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- Pilar Bustos-Sanmamed
- CNRS, Institut des Sciences du Végétal (ISV), UPR2355, Labex SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Rajamäki ML, Streng J, Valkonen JPT. Silencing suppressor protein VPg of a potyvirus interacts with the plant silencing-related protein SGS3. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2014; 27:1199-210. [PMID: 25099340 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-04-14-0109-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Viral genome-linked protein (VPg) of potyviruses is involved in multiple steps of the potyvirus infection cycle, including viral multiplication and movement in plants. Recently, we showed that VPg of Potato virus A (PVA; genus Potyvirus) suppresses sense-mediated RNA silencing, which is linked to one or both nuclear or nucleolar localization. Here, we studied interactions between VPg and components of the plant RNA silencing pathway. Results showed that VPg interacts with the SGS3 protein of Solanum tuberosum and Arabidopsis thaliana, as shown by yeast two-hybrid analysis and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays. VPg-SGS3 interactions co-localized with small cytoplasmic bodies that contained plant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 (RDR6) (likely SGS3/RDR6 bodies). The N-terminal zinc finger (ZF) domain of SGS3 was the main determinant of the VPg interaction. Our data also suggest that the ZF domain controls SGS3 localization. SGS3 homodimerization was controlled by multiple protein regions. The VPg-SGS3 interaction appeared beneficial for PVA, as viral RNA levels correlated positively with sgs3 mRNA levels in the SGS3-silenced and SGS3-overexpressing leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana. The data support the idea that VPg acts as a suppressor of RNA silencing and suggest that an interaction with SGS3 may be important, especially in suppression of sense-mediated RNA silencing.
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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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Lange H, Zuber H, Sement FM, Chicher J, Kuhn L, Hammann P, Brunaud V, Bérard C, Bouteiller N, Balzergue S, Aubourg S, Martin-Magniette ML, Vaucheret H, Gagliardi D. The RNA helicases AtMTR4 and HEN2 target specific subsets of nuclear transcripts for degradation by the nuclear exosome in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004564. [PMID: 25144737 PMCID: PMC4140647 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The RNA exosome is the major 3'-5' RNA degradation machine of eukaryotic cells and participates in processing, surveillance and turnover of both nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA. In both yeast and human, all nuclear functions of the exosome require the RNA helicase MTR4. We show that the Arabidopsis core exosome can associate with two related RNA helicases, AtMTR4 and HEN2. Reciprocal co-immunoprecipitation shows that each of the RNA helicases co-purifies with the exosome core complex and with distinct sets of specific proteins. While AtMTR4 is a predominantly nucleolar protein, HEN2 is located in the nucleoplasm and appears to be excluded from nucleoli. We have previously shown that the major role of AtMTR4 is the degradation of rRNA precursors and rRNA maturation by-products. Here, we demonstrate that HEN2 is involved in the degradation of a large number of polyadenylated nuclear exosome substrates such as snoRNA and miRNA precursors, incompletely spliced mRNAs, and spurious transcripts produced from pseudogenes and intergenic regions. Only a weak accumulation of these exosome substrate targets is observed in mtr4 mutants, suggesting that MTR4 can contribute, but plays rather a minor role for the degradation of non-ribosomal RNAs and cryptic transcripts in Arabidopsis. Consistently, transgene post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is marginally affected in mtr4 mutants, but increased in hen2 mutants, suggesting that it is mostly the nucleoplasmic exosome that degrades aberrant transgene RNAs to limit their entry in the PTGS pathway. Interestingly, HEN2 is conserved throughout green algae, mosses and land plants but absent from metazoans and other eukaryotic lineages. Our data indicate that, in contrast to human and yeast, plants have two functionally specialized RNA helicases that assist the exosome in the degradation of specific nucleolar and nucleoplasmic RNA populations, respectively.
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- Heike Lange
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Platforme Protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRC 1589, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Platforme Protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRC 1589, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Platforme Protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRC 1589, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale (URGV), UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Saclay Plant Sciences, ERL CNRS 8196, Evry, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR1318 INRA-AgroParisTech, Versailles, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale (URGV), UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Saclay Plant Sciences, ERL CNRS 8196, Evry, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale (URGV), UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Saclay Plant Sciences, ERL CNRS 8196, Evry, France
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale (URGV), UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Saclay Plant Sciences, ERL CNRS 8196, Evry, France
- UMR AgroParisTech-INRA MIA 518, Paris, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR1318 INRA-AgroParisTech, Versailles, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Chou WL, Huang LF, Fang JC, Yeh CH, Hong CY, Wu SJ, Lu CA. Divergence of the expression and subcellular localization of CCR4-associated factor 1 (CAF1) deadenylase proteins in Oryza sativa. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 85:443-58. [PMID: 24805883 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-014-0196-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/25/2014] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Deadenylation, also called poly(A) tail shortening, is the first, rate-limiting step in the general cytoplasmic mRNA degradation in eukaryotic cells. The CCR4-NOT complex, containing the two key components carbon catabolite repressor 4 (CCR4) and CCR4-associated factor 1 (CAF1), is a major player in deadenylation. CAF1 belongs to the RNase D group in the DEDD superfamily, and is a protein conserved through evolution from yeast to humans and plants. Every higher plant, including Arabidopsis and rice, contains a CAF1 multigene family. In this study, we identified and cloned four OsCAF1 genes (OsCAF1A, OsCAF1B, OsCAF1G, and OsCAF1H) from rice. Four recombinant OsCAF1 proteins, rOsCAF1A, rOsCAF1B, rOsCAF1G, and rOsCAF1H, all exhibited 3'-5' exonuclease activity in vitro. Point mutations in the catalytic residues of each analyzed recombinant OsCAF1 proteins were shown to disrupt deadenylase activity. OsCAF1A and OsCAF1G mRNA were found to be abundant in the leaves of mature plants. Two types of OsCAF1B mRNA transcript were detected in an inverse expression pattern in various tissues. OsCAF1B was transient, induced by drought, cold, abscisic acid, and wounding treatments. OsCAF1H mRNA was not detected either under normal conditions or during most stress treatments, but only accumulated during heat stress. Four OsCAF1-reporter fusion proteins were localized in both the cytoplasm and nucleus. In addition, when green fluorescent protein fused with OsCAF1B, OsCAF1G, and OsCAF1H, respectively, fluorescent spots were observed in the nucleolus. OsCAF1B fluorescent fusion proteins were located in discrete cytoplasmic foci and fibers. We present evidences that OsCAF1B colocalizes with AtXRN4, a processing body marker, and AtKSS12, a microtubules maker, indicating that OsCAF1B is a component of the plant P-body and associate with microtubules. Our findings provide biochemical evidence that OsCAF1 proteins may be involved in the deadenylation in rice. The unique expression patterns of each OsCAF1 were observed in various tissues when undergoing abiotic stress treatments, implying that each CAF1 gene in rice plays a specific role in the development and stress response of a plant.
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- Wei-Lun Chou
- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, 320, Taiwan, ROC
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Mäkinen K, Hafrén A. Intracellular coordination of potyviral RNA functions in infection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:110. [PMID: 24723931 PMCID: PMC3972461 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Establishment of an infection cycle requires mechanisms to allocate the genomes of (+)-stranded RNA viruses in a balanced ratio to translation, replication, encapsidation, and movement, as well as mechanisms to prevent translocation of viral RNA (vRNA) to cellular RNA degradation pathways. The ratio of vRNA allocated to various functions is likely balanced by the availability of regulatory proteins or competition of the interaction sites within regulatory ribonucleoprotein complexes. Due to the transient nature of viral processes and the interdependency between vRNA pathways, it is technically demanding to work out the exact molecular mechanisms underlying vRNA regulation. A substantial number of viral and host proteins have been identified that facilitate the steps that lead to the assembly of a functional potyviral RNA replication complex and their fusion with chloroplasts. Simultaneously with on-going viral replication, part of the replicated potyviral RNA enters movement pathways. Although not much is known about the processes of potyviral RNA release from viral replication complexes, the molecular interactions involved in these processes determine the fate of the replicated vRNA. Some viral and host cell proteins have been described that direct replicated potyviral RNA to translation to enable potyviral gene expression and productive infection. The antiviral defense of the cell causes vRNA degradation by RNA silencing. We hypothesize that also plant pathways involved in mRNA decay may have a role in the coordination of potyviral RNA expression. In this review, we discuss the roles of different potyviral and host proteins in the coordination of various potyviral RNA functions.
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- Kristiina Mäkinen
- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
- Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsala, Sweden
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Kim YJ, Maizel A, Chen X. Traffic into silence: endomembranes and post-transcriptional RNA silencing. EMBO J 2014; 33:968-80. [PMID: 24668229 PMCID: PMC4193931 DOI: 10.1002/embj.201387262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are small RNAs that repress gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in plants and animals. Small RNAs guide Argonaute-containing RNA-induced silencing complexes to target RNAs in a sequence-specific manner, resulting in mRNA deadenylation followed by exonucleolytic decay, mRNA endonucleolytic cleavage, or translational inhibition. Although our knowledge of small RNA biogenesis, turnover, and mechanisms of action has dramatically expanded in the past decade, the subcellular location of small RNA-mediated RNA silencing still needs to be defined. In contrast to the prevalent presumption that RNA silencing occurs in the cytosol, emerging evidence reveals connections between the endomembrane system and small RNA activities in plants and animals. Here, we summarize the work that uncovered this link between small RNAs and endomembrane compartments and present an overview of the involvement of the endomembrane system in various aspects of RNA silencing. We propose that the endomembrane system is an integral component of RNA silencing that has been long overlooked and predict that a marriage between cell biology and RNA biology holds the key to a full understanding of post-transcriptional gene regulation by small RNAs.
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- Yun Ju Kim
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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A poly(A)-specific ribonuclease directly regulates the poly(A) status of mitochondrial mRNA in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun 2014; 4:2247. [PMID: 23912222 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Coordination of gene expression in the organelles and the nucleus is important for eukaryotic cell function. Transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation in mitochondria remains incompletely understood in most eukaryotes, including plants. Here we show that poly(A)-specific ribonuclease, which influences the poly(A) status of cytoplasmic mRNA in many eukaryotes, directly regulates the poly(A) tract of mitochondrial mRNA in conjunction with a bacterial-type poly(A) polymerase, AGS1, in Arabidopsis. An Arabidopsis poly(A)-specific ribonuclease-deficient mutant, ahg2-1, accumulates polyadenylated mitochondrial mRNA and shows defects in mitochondrial protein complex levels. Mutations of AGS1 suppress the ahg2-1 phenotype. Mitochondrial localizations of AHG2 and AGS1 are required for their functions in the regulation of the poly(A) tract of mitochondrial mRNA. Our findings suggest that AHG2 and AGS1 constitute a regulatory system that controls mitochondrial mRNA poly(A) status in Arabidopsis.
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Li F, Huang C, Li Z, Zhou X. Suppression of RNA silencing by a plant DNA virus satellite requires a host calmodulin-like protein to repress RDR6 expression. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1003921. [PMID: 24516387 PMCID: PMC3916407 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In plants, RNA silencing plays a key role in antiviral defense. To counteract host defense, plant viruses encode viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) that target different effector molecules in the RNA silencing pathway. Evidence has shown that plants also encode endogenous suppressors of RNA silencing (ESRs) that function in proper regulation of RNA silencing. The possibility that these cellular proteins can be subverted by viruses to thwart host defense is intriguing but has not been fully explored. Here we report that the Nicotiana benthamiana calmodulin-like protein Nbrgs-CaM is required for the functions of the VSR βC1, the sole protein encoded by the DNA satellite associated with the geminivirus Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV). Nbrgs-CaM expression is up-regulated by the βC1. Transgenic plants over-expressing Nbrgs-CaM displayed developmental abnormities reminiscent of βC1-associated morphological alterations. Nbrgs-CaM suppressed RNA silencing in an Agrobacterium infiltration assay and, when over-expressed, blocked TYLCCNV-induced gene silencing. Genetic evidence showed that Nbrgs-CaM mediated the βC1 functions in silencing suppression and symptom modulation, and was required for efficient virus infection. Moreover, the tobacco and tomato orthologs of Nbrgs-CaM also possessed ESR activity, and were induced by betasatellite to promote virus infection in these Solanaceae hosts. We further demonstrated that βC1-induced Nbrgs-CaM suppressed the production of secondary siRNAs, likely through repressing RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 6 (RDR6) expression. RDR6-deficient N. benthamiana plants were defective in antiviral response and were hypersensitive to TYLCCNV infection. More significantly, TYLCCNV could overcome host range restrictions to infect Arabidopsis thaliana when the plants carried a RDR6 mutation. These findings demonstrate a distinct mechanism of VSR for suppressing PTGS through usurpation of a host ESR, and highlight an essential role for RDR6 in RNA silencing defense response against geminivirus infection.
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- Fangfang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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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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Bologna NG, Voinnet O. The diversity, biogenesis, and activities of endogenous silencing small RNAs in Arabidopsis. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 65:473-503. [PMID: 24579988 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 379] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In eukaryotic RNA silencing, RNase-III classes of enzymes in the Dicer family process double-stranded RNA of cellular or exogenous origin into small-RNA (sRNA) molecules. sRNAs are then loaded into effector proteins known as ARGONAUTEs (AGOs), which, as part of RNA-induced silencing complexes, target complementary RNA or DNA for silencing. Plants have evolved a large variety of pathways over the Dicer-AGO consortium, which most likely underpins part of their phenotypic plasticity. Dicer-like proteins produce all known classes of plant silencing sRNAs, which are invariably stabilized via 2'-O-methylation mediated by HUA ENHANCER 1 (HEN1), potentially amplified by the action of several RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, and function through a variety of AGO proteins. Here, we review the known characteristics and biochemical properties of the core silencing factors found in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We also describe how interactions between these core factors and more specialized proteins allow the production of a plethora of silencing sRNAs involved in a large array of biological functions. We emphasize in particular the biogenesis and activities of silencing sRNAs of endogenous origin.
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- Nicolas G Bologna
- Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z), 8093 Zurich, Switzerland;
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Pumplin N, Voinnet O. RNA silencing suppression by plant pathogens: defence, counter-defence and counter-counter-defence. Nat Rev Microbiol 2013; 11:745-60. [PMID: 24129510 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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RNA silencing is a central regulator of gene expression in most eukaryotes and acts both at the transcriptional level through DNA methylation and at the post-transcriptional level through direct mRNA interference mediated by small RNAs. In plants and invertebrates, the same pathways also function directly in host defence against viruses by targeting viral RNA for degradation. Successful viruses have consequently evolved diverse mechanisms to avoid silencing, most notably through the expression of viral suppressors of RNA silencing. RNA silencing suppressors have also been recently identified in plant pathogenic bacteria and oomycetes, suggesting that disruption of host silencing is a general virulence strategy across several kingdoms of plant pathogens. There is also increasing evidence that plants have evolved specific defences against RNA-silencing suppression by pathogens, providing yet another illustration of the never-ending molecular arms race between plant pathogens and their hosts.
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- Nathan Pumplin
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH-Zurich), Department of Biology, Zurich, Switzerland
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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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Dumesic PA, Madhani HD. Recognizing the enemy within: licensing RNA-guided genome defense. Trends Biochem Sci 2013; 39:25-34. [PMID: 24280023 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Revised: 10/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/28/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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How do cells distinguish normal genes from transposons? Although much has been learned about RNAi-related RNA silencing pathways responsible for genome defense, this fundamental question remains. The literature points to several classes of mechanisms. In some cases, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) structures produced by transposon inverted repeats or antisense integration trigger endogenous small interfering RNA (siRNA) biogenesis. In other instances, DNA features associated with transposons--such as their unusual copy number, chromosomal arrangement, and/or chromatin environment--license RNA silencing. Finally, recent studies have identified improper transcript processing events, such as stalled pre-mRNA splicing, as signals for siRNA production. Thus, the suboptimal gene expression properties of selfish elements can enable their identification by RNA silencing pathways.
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- Phillip A Dumesic
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Kumakura N, Otsuki H, Tsuzuki M, Takeda A, Watanabe Y. Arabidopsis AtRRP44A is the functional homolog of Rrp44/Dis3, an exosome component, is essential for viability and is required for RNA processing and degradation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79219. [PMID: 24244451 PMCID: PMC3820695 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The RNA exosome is a multi-subunit complex that is responsible for 3ʹ to 5ʹ degradation and processing of cellular RNA. Rrp44/Dis3 is the catalytic center of the exosome in yeast and humans. However, the role of Rrp44/Dis3 homologs in plants is still unidentified. Here, we show that Arabidopsis AtRRP44A is the functional homolog of Rrp44/Dis3, is essential for plant viability and is required for RNA processing and degradation. We characterized AtRRP44A and AtRRP44B/SOV, two predicted Arabidopsis Rrp44/Dis3 homologs. AtRRP44A could functionally replace S. cerevisiae Rrp44/Dis3, but AtRRP44B/SOV could not. rrp44a knock-down mutants showed typical phenotypes of exosome function deficiency, 5.8S rRNA 3ʹ extension and rRNA maturation by-product over-accumulation, but rrp44b mutants did not. Conversely, AtRRP44B/SOV mutants showed elevated levels of a selected mRNA, on which rrp44a did not have detectable effects. Although T-DNA insertion mutants of AtRRP44B/SOV had no obvious phenotype, those of AtRRP44A showed defects in female gametophyte development and early embryogenesis. These results indicate that AtRRP44A and AtRRP44B/SOV have independent roles for RNA turnover in plants.
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- Naoyoshi Kumakura
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Ciaudo C, Jay F, Okamoto I, Chen CJ, Sarazin A, Servant N, Barillot E, Heard E, Voinnet O. RNAi-dependent and independent control of LINE1 accumulation and mobility in mouse embryonic stem cells. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003791. [PMID: 24244175 PMCID: PMC3820764 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In most mouse tissues, long-interspersed elements-1 (L1s) are silenced via methylation of their 5'-untranslated regions (5'-UTR). A gradual loss-of-methylation in pre-implantation embryos coincides with L1 retrotransposition in blastocysts, generating potentially harmful mutations. Here, we show that Dicer- and Ago2-dependent RNAi restricts L1 accumulation and retrotransposition in undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), derived from blastocysts. RNAi correlates with production of Dicer-dependent 22-nt small RNAs mapping to overlapping sense/antisense transcripts produced from the L1 5'-UTR. However, RNA-surveillance pathways simultaneously degrade these transcripts and, consequently, confound the anti-L1 RNAi response. In Dicer(-/-) mESC complementation experiments involving ectopic Dicer expression, L1 silencing was rescued in cells in which microRNAs remained strongly depleted. Furthermore, these cells proliferated and differentiated normally, unlike their non-complemented counterparts. These results shed new light on L1 biology, uncover defensive, in addition to regulatory roles for RNAi, and raise questions on the differentiation defects of Dicer(-/-) mESCs.
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- Constance Ciaudo
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland
- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland
- Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Plant Sciences program, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- INSERM U900, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
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- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- INSERM U900, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Chair of RNA biology, Zurich, Switzerland
- Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Plant Sciences program, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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