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Liu H, Wang X, Yang W, Liu W, Wang Y, Wang Q, Zhao Y. Identification of Whirly transcription factors in Triticeae species and functional analysis of TaWHY1-7D in response to osmotic stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1297228. [PMID: 38116153 PMCID: PMC10728677 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1297228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Osmotic stress poses a threat to the production and quality of crops. Whirly transcription factors have been investigated to enhance stress tolerance. In this study, a total of 18 Whirly genes were identified from six Triticeae species, which were classified into Whirly1 and Whirly2. The exon-intron structure, conserved motif, chromosomal location, collinearity, and regulatory network of Whirly genes were also analyzed. Real-time PCR results indicated that TaWHY1 genes exhibited higher expression levels in leaf sheaths and leaves during the seedling stage, while TaWHY2 genes were predominantly expressed in roots. Under PEG stress, the expression levels of TaWHY1-7A, TaWHY2-6A, TaWHY2-6B, and TaWHY2-6D were increased, TaWHY1-7D was reduced, and TaWHY1-4A had no significant change. All TaWHY genes were significantly up-regulated in response to NaCl stress treatment. In addition, TaWHY1-7A and TaWHY1-7D mainly enhanced the tolerance to oxidative stress in yeast cells. TaWHY2s mainly improved NaCl stress tolerance and were sensitive to oxidative stress in yeast cells. All TaWHYs slightly improved the yeast tolerance to d-sorbitol stress. The heterologous expression of TaWHY1-7D greatly improved drought and salt tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. In conclusion, these results provide the foundation for further functional study of Whirly genes aimed at improving osmotic stress tolerance in wheat.
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- Hao Liu
- College of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Cereal Crops, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- College of Life Science, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- College of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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Aarabi F, Ghigi A, Ahchige MW, Bulut M, Geigenberger P, Neuhaus HE, Sampathkumar A, Alseekh S, Fernie AR. Genome-wide association study unveils ascorbate regulation by PAS/LOV PROTEIN during high light acclimation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:2037-2054. [PMID: 37265123 PMCID: PMC10602610 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Varying light conditions elicit metabolic responses as part of acclimation with changes in ascorbate levels being an important component. Here, we adopted a genome-wide association-based approach to characterize the response in ascorbate levels on high light (HL) acclimation in a panel of 315 Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) accessions. These studies revealed statistically significant SNPs for total and reduced ascorbate under HL conditions at a locus in chromosome 2. Ascorbate levels under HL and the region upstream and within PAS/LOV PROTEIN (PLP) were strongly associated. Intriguingly, subcellular localization analyses revealed that the PLPA and PLPB splice variants co-localized with VITAMIN C DEFECTIVE2 (VTC2) and VTC5 in both the cytosol and nucleus. Yeast 2-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation analyses revealed that PLPA and PLPB interact with VTC2 and that blue light diminishes this interaction. Furthermore, PLPB knockout mutants were characterized by 1.5- to 1.7-fold elevations in their ascorbate levels, whereas knockout mutants of the cry2 cryptochromes displayed 1.2- to 1.3-fold elevations compared to WT. Our results collectively indicate that PLP plays a critical role in the elevation of ascorbate levels, which is a signature response of HL acclimation. The results strongly suggest that this is achieved via the release of the inhibitory effect of PLP on VTC2 upon blue light illumination, as the VTC2-PLPB interaction is stronger under darkness. The conditional importance of the cryptochrome receptors under different environmental conditions suggests a complex hierarchy underpinning the environmental control of ascorbate levels. However, the data we present here clearly demonstrate that PLP dominates during HL acclimation.
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- Fayezeh Aarabi
- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
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- Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Planegg-Martinsried 82152, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern D-67653, Germany
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
- Crop Quantitative Genetics, Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
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- Central Metabolism, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
- Crop Quantitative Genetics, Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
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Redox Signaling in Plant Heat Stress Response. Antioxidants (Basel) 2023; 12:antiox12030605. [PMID: 36978852 PMCID: PMC10045013 DOI: 10.3390/antiox12030605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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The increase in environmental temperature due to global warming is a critical threat to plant growth and productivity. Heat stress can cause impairment in several biochemical and physiological processes. Plants sense and respond to this adverse environmental condition by activating a plethora of defense systems. Among them, the heat stress response (HSR) involves an intricate network of heat shock factors (HSFs) and heat shock proteins (HSPs). However, a growing amount of evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS), besides potentially being responsible for cellular oxidative damage, can act as signal molecules in HSR, leading to adaptative responses. The role of ROS as toxic or signal molecules depends on the fine balance between their production and scavenging. Enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants represent the first line of defense against oxidative damage and their activity is critical to maintaining an optimal redox environment. However, the HS-dependent ROS burst temporarily oxidizes the cellular environment, triggering redox-dependent signaling cascades. This review provides an overview of the redox-activated mechanisms that participate in the HSR.
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Taylor RE, West CE, Foyer CH. WHIRLY protein functions in plants. Food Energy Secur 2023; 12:e379. [PMID: 38440693 PMCID: PMC10909546 DOI: 10.1002/fes3.379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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Environmental stresses pose a significant threat to food security. Understanding the function of proteins that regulate plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses is therefore pivotal in developing strategies for crop improvement. The WHIRLY (WHY) family of DNA-binding proteins are important in this regard because they fulfil a portfolio of important functions in organelles and nuclei. The WHY1 and WHY2 proteins function as transcription factors in the nucleus regulating phytohormone synthesis and associated growth and stress responses, as well as fulfilling crucial roles in DNA and RNA metabolism in plastids and mitochondria. WHY1, WHY2 (and WHY3 proteins in Arabidopsis) maintain organelle genome stability and serve as auxiliary factors for homologous recombination and double-strand break repair. Our understanding of WHY protein functions has greatly increased in recent years, as has our knowledge of the flexibility of their localization and overlap of functions but there is no review of the topic in the literature. Our aim in this review was therefore to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, discussing WHY protein functions in nuclei and organelles and highlighting roles in plant development and stress responses. In particular, we consider areas of uncertainty such as the flexible localization of WHY proteins in terms of retrograde signalling connecting mitochondria, plastids, and the nucleus. Moreover, we identify WHY proteins as important targets in plant breeding programmes designed to increase stress tolerance and the sustainability of crop yield in a changing climate.
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- Rachel E. Taylor
- Faculty of Biological SciencesThe Centre for Plant SciencesUniversity of LeedsLeedsUK
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- Faculty of Biological SciencesThe Centre for Plant SciencesUniversity of LeedsLeedsUK
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- School of BiosciencesCollege of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUK
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Liebers M, Cozzi C, Uecker F, Chambon L, Blanvillain R, Pfannschmidt T. Biogenic signals from plastids and their role in chloroplast development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2022; 73:7105-7125. [PMID: 36002302 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Plant seeds do not contain differentiated chloroplasts. Upon germination, the seedlings thus need to gain photoautotrophy before storage energies are depleted. This requires the coordinated expression of photosynthesis genes encoded in nuclear and plastid genomes. Chloroplast biogenesis needs to be additionally coordinated with the light regulation network that controls seedling development. This coordination is achieved by nucleus to plastid signals called anterograde and plastid to nucleus signals termed retrograde. Retrograde signals sent from plastids during initial chloroplast biogenesis are also called biogenic signals. They have been recognized as highly important for proper chloroplast biogenesis and for seedling development. The molecular nature, transport, targets, and signalling function of biogenic signals are, however, under debate. Several studies disproved the involvement of a number of key components that were at the base of initial models of retrograde signalling. New models now propose major roles for a functional feedback between plastid and cytosolic protein homeostasis in signalling plastid dysfunction as well as the action of dually localized nucleo-plastidic proteins that coordinate chloroplast biogenesis with light-dependent control of seedling development. This review provides a survey of the developments in this research field, summarizes the unsolved questions, highlights several recent advances, and discusses potential new working modes.
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- Monique Liebers
- Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Botanik, Pflanzenphysiologie, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany
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- Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Botanik, Pflanzenphysiologie, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany
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- Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Botanik, Pflanzenphysiologie, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany
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- Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS, CEA, INRA, IRIG-LPCV, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS, CEA, INRA, IRIG-LPCV, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Botanik, Pflanzenphysiologie, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany
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Huang D, Lan W, Ma W, Huang R, Lin W, Li M, Chen CY, Wu K, Miao Y. WHIRLY1 recruits the histone deacetylase HDA15 repressing leaf senescence and flowering in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 64:1411-1429. [PMID: 35510566 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Leaf senescence is controlled by a complex regulatory network in which robustness is ensured by the activity of transcription factors and epigenetic regulators. However, how these coordinate the process of leaf senescence remains poorly understood. We found that WHIRLY1 interacts with Histone Deacetylase (HDA)15, a Reduced Potassium Dependence3 (RPD3)/HDA1-type HDA, by using green fluorescent protein-nanotrap-mass spectrum assays. The development-dependent interaction between WHIRLY1 and HDA15 was further confirmed by bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays and co-immunoprecipitation assays in Arabidopsis. Multi-omics genome-wide transcriptome and H3K9 acetylome enrichment analysis showed that HDA15 delays leaf senescence and flowering by repressing the expression of the positive regulators of leaf senescence and flowering, such as LOX2 and LARP1C, and reducing H3K9ac levels at these loci; WHIRLY1 and HDA15 co-target to the region near the transcription start site of a subset of nutrient recycling-related genes (e.g., Glutathione S-transferases 10, non-coding RNA, and photosystem II protein D1 synthesizer attenuator PDIL1-2), as well as WRKY53 and ELF4, and co-repress their expression by removing H3K9 acetylation. Our study revealed a key transcription regulatory node of nutrient recycling and senescence-associated genes involved in leaf senescence and flowering via the recruitment of HDA15 by the single-stranded DNA/RNA-binding protein WHIRLY1.
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- Dongmei Huang
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Institute of Botany, College of Life Sciences, Taiwan University, Taibei, 106, China
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- Institute of Botany, College of Life Sciences, Taiwan University, Taibei, 106, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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Krupinska K, Desel C, Frank S, Hensel G. WHIRLIES Are Multifunctional DNA-Binding Proteins With Impact on Plant Development and Stress Resistance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:880423. [PMID: 35528945 PMCID: PMC9070903 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.880423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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WHIRLIES are plant-specific proteins binding to DNA in plastids, mitochondria, and nucleus. They have been identified as significant components of nucleoids in the organelles where they regulate the structure of the nucleoids and diverse DNA-associated processes. WHIRLIES also fulfil roles in the nucleus by interacting with telomers and various transcription factors, among them members of the WRKY family. While most plants have two WHIRLY proteins, additional WHIRLY proteins evolved by gene duplication in some dicot families. All WHIRLY proteins share a conserved WHIRLY domain responsible for ssDNA binding. Structural analyses revealed that WHIRLY proteins form tetramers and higher-order complexes upon binding to DNA. An outstanding feature is the parallel localization of WHIRLY proteins in two or three cell compartments. Because they translocate from organelles to the nucleus, WHIRLY proteins are excellent candidates for transducing signals between organelles and nucleus to allow for coordinated activities of the different genomes. Developmental cues and environmental factors control the expression of WHIRLY genes. Mutants and plants with a reduced abundance of WHIRLY proteins gave insight into their multiple functionalities. In chloroplasts, a reduction of the WHIRLY level leads to changes in replication, transcription, RNA processing, and DNA repair. Furthermore, chloroplast development, ribosome formation, and photosynthesis are impaired in monocots. In mitochondria, a low level of WHIRLIES coincides with a reduced number of cristae and a low rate of respiration. The WHIRLY proteins are involved in the plants' resistance toward abiotic and biotic stress. Plants with low levels of WHIRLIES show reduced responsiveness toward diverse environmental factors, such as light and drought. Consequently, because such plants are impaired in acclimation, they accumulate reactive oxygen species under stress conditions. In contrast, several plant species overexpressing WHIRLIES were shown to have a higher resistance toward stress and pathogen attacks. By their multiple interactions with organelle proteins and nuclear transcription factors maybe a comma can be inserted here? and their participation in organelle-nucleus communication, WHIRLY proteins are proposed to serve plant development and stress resistance by coordinating processes at different levels. It is proposed that the multifunctionality of WHIRLY proteins is linked to the plasticity of land plants that develop and function in a continuously changing environment.
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- Karin Krupinska
- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Centre for Plant Genome Engineering, Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Centre of Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia
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Oetke S, Scheidig AJ, Krupinska K. WHIRLY1 of Barley and Maize Share a PRAPP Motif Conferring Nucleoid Compaction. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 63:234-247. [PMID: 34792609 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcab164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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WHIRLY1 in barley was shown to be a major architect of plastid nucleoids. Its accumulation in cells of Escherichia coli coincided with an induction of nucleoid compaction and growth retardation. While WHIRLY1 of maize had similar effects on E. coli cells, WHIRLY1 proteins of Arabidopsis and potato as well as WHIRLY2 proteins had no impact on nucleoid compaction in E. coli. By mutagenesis of HvWHIRLY1 the PRAPP motif at the N-terminus preceding the highly conserved WHIRLY domain was identified to be responsible for the nucleoid compacting activity of HvWHIRLY1 in bacteria. This motif is found in WHIRLY1 proteins of most members of the Poaceae family, but neither in the WHIRLY2 proteins of the family nor in any WHIRLY protein of eudicot species such as Arabidopsis thaliana. This finding indicates that a subset of the monocot WHIRLY1 proteins has acquired a specific function as nucleoid compacters by sequence variation in the N-terminal part preceding the conserved WHIRLY domain and that in different groups of higher plants the compaction of nucleoids is mediated by other proteins.
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- Svenja Oetke
- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 7, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 7, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 7, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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The plastid genome (plastome ) has proved a valuable source of data for evaluating evolutionary relationships among angiosperms. Through basic and applied approaches, plastid transformation technology offers the potential to understand and improve plant productivity, providing food, fiber, energy, and medicines to meet the needs of a burgeoning global population. The growing genomic resources available to both phylogenetic and biotechnological investigations is allowing novel insights and expanding the scope of plastome research to encompass new species. In this chapter, we present an overview of some of the seminal and contemporary research that has contributed to our current understanding of plastome evolution and attempt to highlight the relationship between evolutionary mechanisms and the tools of plastid genetic engineering.
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- Tracey A Ruhlman
- Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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- Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Lin W, Zhang H, Huang D, Schenke D, Cai D, Wu B, Miao Y. Dual-Localized WHIRLY1 Affects Salicylic Acid Biosynthesis via Coordination of ISOCHORISMATE SYNTHASE1, PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE1, and S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE-DEPENDENT METHYLTRANSFERASE1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 184:1884-1899. [PMID: 32900979 PMCID: PMC7723104 DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Salicylic acid (SA) influences developmental senescence and is spatiotemporally controlled by various mechanisms, including biosynthesis, transport, and conjugate formation. Altered localization of Arabidopsis WHIRLY1 (WHY1), a repressor of leaf natural senescence, in the nucleus or chloroplast causes a perturbation in SA homeostasis, resulting in adverse plant senescence phenotypes. WHY1 loss-of-function mutation resulted in SA peaking 5 d earlier compared to wild-type plants, which accumulated SA at 42 d after germination. SA accumulation coincided with an early leaf-senescence phenotype, which could be prevented by ectopic expression of the nuclear WHY1 isoform (nWHY1). However, expressing the plastid WHY1 isoform (pWHY1) greatly enhanced cellular SA levels. Transcriptome analysis in the WHY1 loss-of-function mutant background following expression of either pWHY1 or nWHY1 indicated that hormone metabolism-related genes were most significantly altered. The pWHY1 isoform predominantly affected stress-related gene expression, whereas nWHY1 primarily controlled developmental gene expression. Chromatin immunoprecipitation-quantitative PCR assays indicated that nWHY1 directly binds to the promoter region of isochorismate synthase1 (ICS1), thus activating its expression at later developmental stages, but that it indirectly activates S-adenosyl- l -Met-dependent methyltransferase1 (BSMT1) expression via ethylene response factor 109 (ERF109). Moreover, nWHY1 repressed expression of Phe ammonia lyase-encoding gene (PAL1) via R2R3-MYB member 15 (MYB15) during the early stages of development. Interestingly, rising SA levels exerted a feedback effect by inducing nWHY1 modification and pWHY1 accumulation. Thus, the alteration of WHY1 organelle isoforms and the feedback of SA are involved in a circularly integrated regulatory network during developmental or stress-induced senescence in Arabidopsis.
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- Wenfang Lin
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002 Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002 Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002 Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Molecular Phytopathology, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Phytopathology, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- College of Horticulture Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002 Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002 Fuzhou, China
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Janowski R, Niessing D. The large family of PC4-like domains - similar folds and functions throughout all kingdoms of life. RNA Biol 2020; 17:1228-1238. [PMID: 32476604 PMCID: PMC7549692 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1761639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RNA- and DNA-binding domains are essential building blocks for specific regulation of gene expression. While a number of canonical nucleic acid binding domains share sequence and structural conservation, others are less obviously linked by evolutionary traits. In this review, we describe a protein fold of about 150 aa in length, bearing a conserved β-β-β-β-α-linker-β-β-β-β-α topology and similar nucleic acid binding properties but no apparent sequence conservation. The same overall fold can also be achieved by dimerization of two proteins, each bearing a β-β-β-β-α topology. These proteins include but are not limited to the transcription factors PC4 and P24 from humans and plants, respectively, the human RNA-transport factor Pur-α (also termed PURA), as well as the ssDNA-binding SP_0782 protein from Streptococcus pneumonia and the bacteriophage coat proteins PP7 and MS2. Besides their common overall topology, these proteins share common nucleic acids binding surfaces and thus functional similarity. We conclude that these PC4-like domains include proteins from all kingdoms of life and are much more abundant than previously known.
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- Robert Janowski
- Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health , Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health , Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ulm University , Ulm, Germany
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Graña E, Díaz-Tielas C, Sánchez-Moreiras AM, Reigosa MJ, Celeiro M, Abagyan R, Teijeira M, Duke MV, Clerk T, Pan Z, Duke SO. Transcriptome and binding data indicate that citral inhibits single strand DNA-binding proteins. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2020; 169:99-109. [PMID: 31828797 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The mechanism of phytotoxicity of citral was probed in Arabidopsis thaliana using RNA-Seq and in silico binding analyses. Inhibition of growth by 50% by citral downregulated transcription of 9156 and 5541 genes in roots and shoots, respectively, after 1 h. Only 56 and 62 genes in roots and shoots, respectively, were upregulated. In the shoots, the downregulation increased at 3 h (6239 genes downregulated, vs 66 upregulated). Of all genes affected in roots at 1 h (time of greatest effect), 7.69% of affected genes were for nucleic acid binding functions. Genes for single strand DNA binding proteins (SSBP) WHY1, WHY 2 and WHY3 were strongly downregulated in the shoot up until 12 h after citral exposure. Effects were strong in the root at just 1 h after the treatment and then at 12 and 24 h. Similar effects occurred with the transcription factors MYC-2, ANAC and SCR-SHR, which were also significantly downregulated for the first hour of treatment, and downregulation occurred again after 12 and 24 h treatment. Downregulation of ANAC in the first hour of treatment was significantly (P < 0.0001) decreased more than eight times compared to the control. In silico molecular docking analysis suggests binding of citral isomers to the SSBPs WHY1, WHY2, and WHY3, as well as with other transcription factors such as MYC-2, ANAC and SCR-SHR. Such effects could account for the profound and unusual effects of citral on downregulation of gene transcription.
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- Elisa Graña
- Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Agri-Food Research and Transfer Centre of the Water Campus (CITACA), University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Agri-Food Research and Transfer Centre of the Water Campus (CITACA), University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Institute of Health of Southern Galicia, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Institute of Health of Southern Galicia, University of Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- USDA, ARS, Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit, Stoneville, MS, 38776, USA
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- USDA, ARS, Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit, Stoneville, MS, 38776, USA
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- USDA, ARS, Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, Oxford, MS, 38677, USA
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- USDA, ARS, Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, Oxford, MS, 38677, USA
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Fuchs P, Rugen N, Carrie C, Elsässer M, Finkemeier I, Giese J, Hildebrandt TM, Kühn K, Maurino VG, Ruberti C, Schallenberg-Rüdinger M, Steinbeck J, Braun HP, Eubel H, Meyer EH, Müller-Schüssele SJ, Schwarzländer M. Single organelle function and organization as estimated from Arabidopsis mitochondrial proteomics. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 101:420-441. [PMID: 31520498 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Mitochondria host vital cellular functions, including oxidative phosphorylation and co-factor biosynthesis, which are reflected in their proteome. At the cellular level plant mitochondria are organized into hundreds of discrete functional entities, which undergo dynamic fission and fusion. It is the individual organelle that operates in the living cell, yet biochemical and physiological assessments have exclusively focused on the characteristics of large populations of mitochondria. Here, we explore the protein composition of an individual average plant mitochondrion to deduce principles of functional and structural organisation. We perform proteomics on purified mitochondria from cultured heterotrophic Arabidopsis cells with intensity-based absolute quantification and scale the dataset to the single organelle based on criteria that are justified by experimental evidence and theoretical considerations. We estimate that a total of 1.4 million protein molecules make up a single Arabidopsis mitochondrion on average. Copy numbers of the individual proteins span five orders of magnitude, ranging from >40 000 for Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel 1 to sub-stoichiometric copy numbers, i.e. less than a single copy per single mitochondrion, for several pentatricopeptide repeat proteins that modify mitochondrial transcripts. For our analysis, we consider the physical and chemical constraints of the single organelle and discuss prominent features of mitochondrial architecture, protein biogenesis, oxidative phosphorylation, metabolism, antioxidant defence, genome maintenance, gene expression, and dynamics. While assessing the limitations of our considerations, we exemplify how our understanding of biochemical function and structural organization of plant mitochondria can be connected in order to obtain global and specific insights into how organelles work.
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- Philippe Fuchs
- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
- Institut für Nutzpflanzenforschung und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Department Biologie I - Botanik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshadernerstr. 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
- Institut für Nutzpflanzenforschung und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 53113, Bonn, Germany
- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 10, 06120, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 10, 06120, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institut für Nutzpflanzenforschung und Ressourcenschutz (INRES), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IBBP), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Schlossplatz 7-8, 48143, Münster, Germany
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Zhuang K, Gao Y, Liu Z, Diao P, Sui N, Meng Q, Meng C, Kong F. WHIRLY1 Regulates HSP21.5A Expression to Promote Thermotolerance in Tomato. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 61:169-177. [PMID: 31596474 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Heat stress poses a major threat to plant productivity and crop yields. The induction of heat shock proteins (HSPs) by heat shock factors is a principal defense response of plants exposed to heat stress. In this study, we identified and analyzed the heat stress-induced Whirly1 (SlWHY1) gene in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). We generated various SlWHY1-overexpressing (OE) and SlWHY1-RNA interference (RNAi) lines to investigate the role of WHIRLY1 in thermotolerance. Compared with the wild type (WT), the OE lines showed less wilting, as reflected by their increased membrane stability and soluble sugar content and reduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation under heat stress. By contrast, RNAi lines with inhibited SlWHY1 expression showed the opposite phenotype and corresponding physiological indices under heat stress. The heat-induced gene SlHSP21.5A, encoding an endoplasmic reticulum-localized HSP, was upregulated in the OE lines and downregulated in the RNAi lines compared with the WT. RNAi-mediated inhibition of SlHSP21.5A expression also resulted in reduced membrane stability and soluble sugar content and increased ROS accumulation under heat stress compared with the WT. SlWHY1 binds to the elicitor response element-like element in the promoter of SlHSP21.5A to activate its transcription. These findings suggest that SlWHY1 promotes thermotolerance in tomato by regulating SlHSP21.5A expression.
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- Kunyang Zhuang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, China
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Lin W, Huang D, Shi X, Deng B, Ren Y, Lin W, Miao Y. H 2O 2 as a Feedback Signal on Dual-Located WHIRLY1 Associates with Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis. Cells 2019; 8:cells8121585. [PMID: 31817716 PMCID: PMC6952816 DOI: 10.3390/cells8121585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Leaf senescence, either as a natural stage of development or as an induced process under stress conditions, incorporates multiple intricate signaling pathways. At the cellular level, retrograde signals have been considered as important players during the initiation and progression of senescence in both animals and plants. The plant-specific single-strand DNA-binding protein WHIRLY1 (WHY1), a repressor of leaf natural senescence, is dually located in both nucleus and plastids. Despite many years of studies, the myth about its dual location and the underlying functional implications remain elusive. Here, we provide further evidence in Arabidopsis showing that alteration in WHY1 allocation between the nucleus and chloroplast causes perturbation in H2O2 homeostasis, resulting in adverse plant senescence phenotypes. The knockout of WHY1 increased H2O2 content at 37 days post-germination, coincident with an early leaf senescence phenotype, which can be rescued by ectopic expression of the nuclear isoform (nWHY1), but not by the plastid isoform (pWHY1). Instead, accumulated pWHY1 greatly provoked H2O2 in cells. On the other hand, exogenous H2O2 treatment induced a substantial plastid accumulation of WHY1 proteins and at the same time reduced the nuclear isoforms. This H2O2-induced loss of nucleus WHY1 isoform was accompanied by enhanced enrichments of histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation (H3K9ac) and recruitment of RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) globally, and specifically at the promoter of the senescence-related transcription factor WRKY53, which in turn activated WRKY53 transcription and led to a senescence phenotype. Thus, the distribution of WHY1 organelle isoforms and the feedback of H2O2 intervene in a circularly integrated regulatory network during plant senescence in Arabidopsis.
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- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-0591-86392987
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Brieba LG. Structure-Function Analysis Reveals the Singularity of Plant Mitochondrial DNA Replication Components: A Mosaic and Redundant System. PLANTS 2019; 8:plants8120533. [PMID: 31766564 PMCID: PMC6963530 DOI: 10.3390/plants8120533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Plants are sessile organisms, and their DNA is particularly exposed to damaging agents. The integrity of plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes is necessary for cell survival. During evolution, plants have evolved mechanisms to replicate their mitochondrial genomes while minimizing the effects of DNA damaging agents. The recombinogenic character of plant mitochondrial DNA, absence of defined origins of replication, and its linear structure suggest that mitochondrial DNA replication is achieved by a recombination-dependent replication mechanism. Here, I review the mitochondrial proteins possibly involved in mitochondrial DNA replication from a structural point of view. A revision of these proteins supports the idea that mitochondrial DNA replication could be replicated by several processes. The analysis indicates that DNA replication in plant mitochondria could be achieved by a recombination-dependent replication mechanism, but also by a replisome in which primers are synthesized by three different enzymes: Mitochondrial RNA polymerase, Primase-Helicase, and Primase-Polymerase. The recombination-dependent replication model and primers synthesized by the Primase-Polymerase may be responsible for the presence of genomic rearrangements in plant mitochondria.
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- Luis Gabriel Brieba
- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato C.P. 36821, Mexico
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García-Medel PL, Baruch-Torres N, Peralta-Castro A, Trasviña-Arenas CH, Torres-Larios A, Brieba LG. Plant organellar DNA polymerases repair double-stranded breaks by microhomology-mediated end-joining. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:3028-3044. [PMID: 30698803 PMCID: PMC6451138 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Revised: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Double-stranded breaks (DSBs) in plant organelles are repaired via genomic rearrangements characterized by microhomologous repeats. These microhomologous signatures predict the existence of an unidentified enzymatic machinery capable of repairing of DSBs via microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ) in plant organelles. Here, we show that organellar DNA polymerases from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtPolIA and AtPolIB) perform MMEJ using microhomologous sequences as short as six nucleotides. AtPolIs execute MMEJ by virtue of two specialized amino acid insertions located in their thumb subdomains. Single-stranded binding proteins (SSBs) unique to plants, AtWhirly2 and organellar single-stranded binding proteins (AtOSBs), hinder MMEJ, whereas canonical mitochondrial SSBs (AtmtSSB1 and AtmtSSB2) do not interfere with MMEJ. Our data predict that organellar DNA rearrangements by MMEJ are a consequence of a competition for the 3'-OH of a DSBs. If AtWhirlies or AtOSBs gain access to the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) region of a DSB, the reaction will shift towards high-fidelity routes like homologous recombination. Conversely MMEJ would be favored if AtPolIs or AtmtSSBs interact with the DSB. AtPolIs are not phylogenetically related to metazoan mitochondrial DNA polymerases, and the ability of AtPolIs to execute MMEJ may explain the abundance of DNA rearrangements in plant organelles in comparison to animal mitochondria.
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- Paola L García-Medel
- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, CP 36821, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, CP 36821, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, CP 36821, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, CP 36821, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Estructural, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado postal 70-243, Mexico City 04510, México
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, CP 36821, México
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Krupinska K, Braun S, Nia MS, Schäfer A, Hensel G, Bilger W. The nucleoid-associated protein WHIRLY1 is required for the coordinate assembly of plastid and nucleus-encoded proteins during chloroplast development. PLANTA 2019; 249:1337-1347. [PMID: 30631956 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-018-03085-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Chloroplasts deficient in the major chloroplast nucleoid-associated protein WHIRLY1 have an enhanced ratio of LHCs to reaction centers, indicating that WHIRLY1 is required for a coordinate assembly of the photosynthetic apparatus during chloroplast development. Chloroplast development was found to be delayed in barley plants with an RNAi-mediated knockdown of WHIRLY1 encoding a major nucleoid-associated protein of chloroplasts. The plastids of WHIRLY1 deficient plants had a reduced ribosome content. Accordingly, plastid-encoded proteins of the photosynthetic apparatus showed delayed accumulation during chloroplast development coinciding with a delayed increase in photosystem II efficiency measured by chlorophyll fluorescence. In contrast, light harvesting complex proteins being encoded in the nucleus had a high abundance as in the wild type. The unbalanced assembly of the proteins of the photosynthetic apparatus in WHIRLY1-deficient plants coincided with the enhanced contents of chlorophyll b and xanthophylls. The lack of coordination was most obvious at the early stages of development. Overaccumulation of LHC proteins in comparison to reaction center proteins at the early stages of chloroplast development did not correlate with enhanced expression levels of the corresponding genes in the nucleus. This work revealed that WHIRLY1 does not influence LHC abundance at the transcriptional level. Rather, WHIRLY1 in association with nucleoids might play a structural role for both the assembly of ribosomes and the complexes of the photosynthetic apparatus.
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- Karin Krupinska
- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Zhuang K, Kong F, Zhang S, Meng C, Yang M, Liu Z, Wang Y, Ma N, Meng Q. Whirly1 enhances tolerance to chilling stress in tomato via protection of photosystem II and regulation of starch degradation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 221:1998-2012. [PMID: 30307037 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In plants, the chilling response involves decreased photosynthetic capacity and increased starch accumulation in chloroplasts. However, the mechanisms that modulate these processes remain unclear. We found that the SlWHY1 gene is significantly induced by chilling stress (4°C) in tomato. Three SlWHY1 overexpression (OE) lines grew better than the wild type (WT) under chilling stress; the OE plants retained intact photosynthetic grana lamellae and showed enhanced hydrolysis of starch. By contrast, RNAi lines that inhibited SlWHY1 were more affected than the corresponding WT cultivar. Their grana lamellae were damaged and starch content increased. The psbA gene encodes the key photosystem II (PSII) protein D1. We show that SlWHY1 binds to the upstream region (A/GTTACCCT/A) of SlpsbA and enhances the de novo synthesis of D1 in chloroplasts. Additionally, SlWHY1 regulates the expression of the starch-degrading enzyme α-amylase (SlAMY3-L) and the starch synthesis-related enzyme isoamylase gene (SlISA2) in the nucleus, thus modulating the starch content in chloroplasts. We demonstrate that SlWHY1 enhances the resistance of tomato to chilling stress by maintaining the function of PSII and degrading starch. Thus, overexpression of WHY1 may be an effective strategy for enhancing resistance to chilling stress of chilling-sensitive crops in agricultural production.
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- Kunyang Zhuang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, China
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Huang D, Lan W, Li D, Deng B, Lin W, Ren Y, Miao Y. WHIRLY1 Occupancy Affects Histone Lysine Modification and WRKY53 Transcription in Arabidopsis Developmental Manner. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1503. [PMID: 30405658 PMCID: PMC6202938 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) are assumed to involve in DNA replication, DNA repairmen, and gene transcription. Here, we provide the direct evidence on the functionality of an Arabidopsis SSB, WHIRLY1, by using loss- or gain-of-function lines. We show that WHIRLY1 binding to the promoter of WRKY53 represses the enrichment of H3K4me3, but enhances the enrichment of H3K9ac at the region contained WHIRLY1-binding sequences and TATA box or the translation start region of WRKY53, coincided with a recruitment of RNAPII. In vitro ChIP assays confirm that WHIRLY1 inhibits H3K4me3 enrichment at the preinitiation complex formation stage, while promotes H3K9ac enrichment and RNAPII recruitment at the elongation stage, consequently affecting the transcription of WRKY53. These results further explore the molecular actions underlying SSB-mediated gene transcription through epigenetic regulation in plant senescence.
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Ren Y, Li Y, Jiang Y, Wu B, Miao Y. Phosphorylation of WHIRLY1 by CIPK14 Shifts Its Localization and Dual Functions in Arabidopsis. MOLECULAR PLANT 2017; 10:749-763. [PMID: 28412544 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling is critical for normal growth and development in plants. The dual-function and dual-located ssDNA binding protein WHIRLY1 (WHY1) has been proposed to coordinate the retrograde signaling from plastids to the nucleus. However, the regulatory mechanism governing the functional switch of WHY1 for mediating plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling remains unknown. Here, we report that the Calcineurin B-Like-Interacting Protein Kinase14 (CIPK14) interacts with and phosphorylates WHY1 in Arabidopsis. Phosphorylation of WHY1 results in increased accumulation in the nucleus and enhanced binding with the promoter of WRKY53, which encodes a key transcription factor regulating leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. Transgenic plants overexpressing CIPK14 showed an increased nuclear isoform but decreased plastid isoform of WHY1, among which 95% of transgenic lines showed the stay-green phenotype and 5% of lines showed the variegated pale-green phenotype. Interestingly, the phenotypes of both types of transgenic plants could be recovered by overexpression of plastid-form WHY1. In contrast, knockdown of CIPK14 caused early senescence and even seedling-lethal phenotypes along with elevated expression of senescence-related genes such as WRKY53, SAG12, and NDHF but decreased expression of MER11, RAD50, and POR genes, which could be rescued by overexpression of CIPK14 but not by overexpressing plastid-form or nuclear-form WHY1; the stay-green plants overexpressing CIPK14 showed reduced expression of WRKY53, SAG12, NDHF, and large plastid rRNA. Consistently, the accumulation of nuclear-form WHY1 was significantly reduced in the CIPK14 knockdown lines, resulting in a low ratio of nuclear-/plastid-form WHY1. Taken together, our results demonstrate that CIPK14 regulates the phosphorylation and organellar distributions of WHY1 and pinpoint that CIPK14 may function as a cellular switch between leaf senescence and plastid development for coordinating the intercellular signaling in Arabidopsis.
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- Yujun Ren
- Center for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Center for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Center for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Center for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Center for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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Gualberto JM, Newton KJ. Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Dynamics and Mechanisms of Mutation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 68:225-252. [PMID: 28226235 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-112232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The large mitochondrial genomes of angiosperms are unusually dynamic because of recombination activities involving repeated sequences. These activities generate subgenomic forms and extensive genomic variation even within the same species. Such changes in genome structure are responsible for the rapid evolution of plant mitochondrial DNA and for the variants associated with cytoplasmic male sterility and abnormal growth phenotypes. Nuclear genes modulate these processes, and over the past decade, several of these genes have been identified. They are involved mainly in pathways of DNA repair by homologous recombination and mismatch repair, which appear to be essential for the faithful replication of the mitogenome. Mutations leading to the loss of any of these activities release error-prone repair pathways, resulting in increased ectopic recombination, genome instability, and heteroplasmy. We review the present state of knowledge of the genes and pathways underlying mitochondrial genome stability.
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- José M Gualberto
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS UPR2357, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France;
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211;
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Nevarez PA, Qiu Y, Inoue H, Yoo CY, Benfey PN, Schnell DJ, Chen M. Mechanism of Dual Targeting of the Phytochrome Signaling Component HEMERA/pTAC12 to Plastids and the Nucleus. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 173:1953-1966. [PMID: 28232584 PMCID: PMC5373053 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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HEMERA (HMR) is a nuclear and plastidial dual-targeted protein. While it functions in the nucleus as a transcriptional coactivator in phytochrome signaling to regulate a distinct set of light-responsive, growth-relevant genes, in plastids it is known as pTAC12, which associates with the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase, and is essential for inducing the plastomic photosynthetic genes and initiating chloroplast biogenesis. However, the mechanism of targeting HMR to the nucleus and plastids is still poorly understood. Here, we show that HMR can be directly imported into chloroplasts through a transit peptide residing in the N-terminal 50 amino acids. Upon cleavage of the transit peptide and additional proteolytic processing, mature HMR, which begins from Lys-58, retains its biochemical properties in phytochrome signaling. Unexpectedly, expression of mature HMR failed to rescue not only the plastidial but also the nuclear defects of the hmr mutant. This is because the predicted nuclear localization signals of HMR are nonfunctional, and therefore mature HMR is unable to accumulate in either plastids or the nucleus. Surprisingly, fusing the transit peptide of the small subunit of Rubisco with mature HMR rescues both its plastidial and nuclear localization and functions. These results, combined with the observation that the nuclear form of HMR has the same reduced molecular mass as plastidial HMR, support a retrograde protein translocation mechanism in which HMR is targeted first to plastids, processed to the mature form, and then relocated to the nucleus.
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- P Andrew Nevarez
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.)
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (Y.Q., C.Y., M.C.);
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (P.A.N., Y.Q., C.Y., P.N.B., M.C.); and
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (H.I., D.J.S.)
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Oldenburg DJ, Bendich AJ. DNA maintenance in plastids and mitochondria of plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:883. [PMID: 26579143 PMCID: PMC4624840 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The DNA molecules in plastids and mitochondria of plants have been studied for over 40 years. Here, we review the data on the circular or linear form, replication, repair, and persistence of the organellar DNA (orgDNA) in plants. The bacterial origin of orgDNA appears to have profoundly influenced ideas about the properties of chromosomal DNA molecules in these organelles to the point of dismissing data inconsistent with ideas from the 1970s. When found at all, circular genome-sized molecules comprise a few percent of orgDNA. In cells active in orgDNA replication, most orgDNA is found as linear and branched-linear forms larger than the size of the genome, likely a consequence of a virus-like DNA replication mechanism. In contrast to the stable chromosomal DNA molecules in bacteria and the plant nucleus, the molecular integrity of orgDNA declines during leaf development at a rate that varies among plant species. This decline is attributed to degradation of damaged-but-not-repaired molecules, with a proposed repair cost-saving benefit most evident in grasses. All orgDNA maintenance activities are proposed to occur on the nucleoid tethered to organellar membranes by developmentally-regulated proteins.
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Liu S, Su T, Zhang C, Zhang WM, Zhu D, Su J, Wei T, Wang K, Huang Y, Guo L, Xu S, Zhou NY, Gu L. Crystal structure of PnpCD, a two-subunit hydroquinone 1,2-dioxygenase, reveals a novel structural class of Fe2+-dependent dioxygenases. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:24547-60. [PMID: 26304122 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.673558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Aerobic microorganisms have evolved a variety of pathways to degrade aromatic and heterocyclic compounds. However, only several classes of oxygenolytic fission reaction have been identified for the critical ring cleavage dioxygenases. Among them, the most well studied dioxygenases proceed via catecholic intermediates, followed by noncatecholic hydroxy-substituted aromatic carboxylic acids. Therefore, the recently reported hydroquinone 1,2-dioxygenases add to the diversity of ring cleavage reactions. Two-subunit hydroquinone 1,2-dioxygenase PnpCD, the key enzyme in the hydroquinone pathway of para-nitrophenol degradation, catalyzes the ring cleavage of hydroquinone to γ-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde. Here, we report three PnpCD structures, named apo-PnpCD, PnpCD-Fe(3+), and PnpCD-Cd(2+)-HBN (substrate analog hydroxyenzonitrile), respectively. Structural analysis showed that both the PnpC and the C-terminal domains of PnpD comprise a conserved cupin fold, whereas PnpC cannot form a competent metal binding pocket as can PnpD cupin. Four residues of PnpD (His-256, Asn-258, Glu-262, and His-303) were observed to coordinate the iron ion. The Asn-258 coordination is particularly interesting because this coordinating residue has never been observed in the homologous cupin structures of PnpCD. Asn-258 is proposed to play a pivotal role in binding the iron prior to the enzymatic reaction, but it might lose coordination to the iron when the reaction begins. PnpD also consists of an intriguing N-terminal domain that might have functions other than nucleic acid binding in its structural homologs. In summary, PnpCD has no apparent evolutionary relationship with other iron-dependent dioxygenases and therefore defines a new structural class. The study of PnpCD might add to the understanding of the ring cleavage of dioxygenases.
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- Shiheng Liu
- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- the Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- the College of Food Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, Shandong 250353, and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- the Rizhao Center for Diseases Prevention and Control, Rizhao Health Bureau, Rizhao, Shandong 276826, China
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
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- the Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240,
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100,
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Segar MW, Sakofsky CJ, Malkova A, Liu Y. MMBIRFinder: A Tool to Detect Microhomology-Mediated Break-Induced Replication. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2015; 12:799-806. [PMID: 26357319 PMCID: PMC4857593 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2014.2359450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The introduction of next-generation sequencing technologies has radically changed the way we view structural genetic events. Microhomology-mediated break-induced replication (MMBIR) is just one of the many mechanisms that can cause genomic destabilization that may lead to cancer. Although the mechanism for MMBIR remains unclear, it has been shown that MMBIR is typically associated with template-switching events. Currently, to our knowledge, there is no existing bioinformatics tool to detect these template-switching events. We have developed MMBIRFinder, a method that detects template-switching events associated with MMBIR from whole-genome sequenced data. MMBIRFinder uses a half-read alignment approach to identify potential regions of interest. Clustering of these potential regions helps narrow the search space to regions with strong evidence. Subsequent local alignments identify the template-switching events with single-nucleotide accuracy. Using simulated data, MMBIRFinder identified 83 percent of the MMBIR regions within a five nucleotide tolerance. Using real data, MMBIRFinder identified 16 MMBIR regions on a normal breast tissue data sample and 51 MMBIR regions on a triple-negative breast cancer tumor sample resulting in detection of 37 novel template-switching events. Finally, we identified template-switching events residing in the promoter region of seven genes that have been implicated in breast cancer.
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- Matthew W. Segar
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, IN.
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 55242-1324, IA
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, IN
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Cheng H, Liao Y, Schaeffer RD, Grishin NV. Manual classification strategies in the ECOD database. Proteins 2015; 83:1238-51. [PMID: 25917548 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 04/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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ECOD (Evolutionary Classification Of protein Domains) is a comprehensive and up-to-date protein structure classification database. The majority of new structures released from the PDB (Protein Data Bank) each week already have close homologs in the ECOD hierarchy and thus can be reliably partitioned into domains and classified by software without manual intervention. However, those proteins that lack confidently detectable homologs require careful analysis by experts. Although many bioinformatics resources rely on expert curation to some degree, specific examples of how this curation occurs and in what cases it is necessary are not always described. Here, we illustrate the manual classification strategy in ECOD by example, focusing on two major issues in protein classification: domain partitioning and the relationship between homology and similarity scores. Most examples show recently released and manually classified PDB structures. We discuss multi-domain proteins, discordance between sequence and structural similarities, difficulties with assessing homology with scores, and integral membrane proteins homologous to soluble proteins. By timely assimilation of newly available structures into its hierarchy, ECOD strives to provide a most accurate and updated view of the protein structure world as a result of combined computational and expert-driven analysis.
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- Hua Cheng
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 75390
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- Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 75390
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 75390
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 75390.,Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 75390
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Hao P, Zhu J, Gu A, Lv D, Ge P, Chen G, Li X, Yan Y. An integrative proteome analysis of different seedling organs in tolerant and sensitive wheat cultivars under drought stress and recovery. Proteomics 2015; 15:1544-63. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Revised: 11/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Pengchao Hao
- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
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- College of Life Science; Capital Normal University; Beijing P. R. China
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry (HCICGI); Jingzhou P. R. China
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Foyer CH, Karpinska B, Krupinska K. The functions of WHIRLY1 and REDOX-RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1 in cross tolerance responses in plants: a hypothesis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2014; 369:20130226. [PMID: 24591713 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Chloroplasts are important sensors of environment change, fulfilling key roles in the regulation of plant growth and development in relation to environmental cues. Photosynthesis produces a repertoire of reductive and oxidative (redox) signals that provide information to the nucleus facilitating appropriate acclimation to a changing light environment. Redox signals are also recognized by the cellular innate immune system allowing activation of non-specific, stress-responsive pathways that underpin cross tolerance to biotic-abiotic stresses. While these pathways have been intensively studied in recent years, little is known about the different components that mediate chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling and facilitate cross tolerance phenomena. Here, we consider the properties of the WHIRLY family of proteins and the REDOX-RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1 (RRTF1) in relation to chloroplast redox signals that facilitate the synergistic co-activation of gene expression pathways and confer cross tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses. We propose a new hypothesis for the role of WHIRLY1 as a redox sensor in chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling leading to cross tolerance, including acclimation and immunity responses. By virtue of its association with chloroplast nucleoids and with nuclear DNA, WHIRLY1 is an attractive candidate coordinator of the expression of photosynthetic genes in the nucleus and chloroplasts. We propose that the redox state of the photosynthetic electron transport chain triggers the movement of WHIRLY1 from the chloroplasts to the nucleus, and draw parallels with the regulation of NONEXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES 1 (NPR1).
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- Christine H Foyer
- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds, , Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Dickey TH, Altschuler SE, Wuttke DS. Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins: multiple domains for multiple functions. Structure 2014; 21:1074-84. [PMID: 23823326 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2013.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2013] [Revised: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The recognition of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is integral to myriad cellular functions. In eukaryotes, ssDNA is present stably at the ends of chromosomes and at some promoter elements. Furthermore, it is formed transiently by several cellular processes including telomere synthesis, transcription, and DNA replication, recombination, and repair. To coordinate these diverse activities, a variety of proteins have evolved to bind ssDNA in a manner specific to their function. Here, we review the recognition of ssDNA through the analysis of high-resolution structures of proteins in complex with ssDNA. This functionally diverse set of proteins arises from a limited set of structural motifs that can be modified and arranged to achieve distinct activities, including a range of ligand specificities. We also investigate the ways in which these domains interact in the context of large multidomain proteins/complexes. These comparisons reveal the structural features that define the range of functions exhibited by these proteins.
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- Thayne H Dickey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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The plastid genome (plastome) has proved a valuable source of data for evaluating evolutionary relationships among angiosperms. Through basic and applied approaches, plastid transformation technology offers the potential to understand and improve plant productivity, providing food, fiber, energy and medicines to meet the needs of a burgeoning global population. The growing genomic resources available to both phylogenetic and biotechnological investigations are allowing novel insights and expanding the scope of plastome research to encompass new species. In this chapter we present an overview of some of the seminal and contemporary research that has contributed to our current understanding of plastome evolution and attempt to highlight the relationship between evolutionary mechanisms and tools of plastid genetic engineering.
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- Tracey A Ruhlman
- Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Powikrowska M, Oetke S, Jensen PE, Krupinska K. Dynamic composition, shaping and organization of plastid nucleoids. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:424. [PMID: 25237313 PMCID: PMC4154389 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In this article recent progress on the elucidation of the dynamic composition and structure of plastid nucleoids is reviewed from a structural perspective. Plastid nucleoids are compact structures of multiple copies of different forms of ptDNA, RNA, enzymes for replication and gene expression as well as DNA binding proteins. Although early electron microscopy suggested that plastid DNA is almost free of proteins, it is now well established that the DNA in nucleoids similarly as in the nuclear chromatin is associated with basic proteins playing key roles in organization of the DNA architecture and in regulation of DNA associated enzymatic activities involved in transcription, replication, and recombination. This group of DNA binding proteins has been named plastid nucleoid associated proteins (ptNAPs). Plastid nucleoids are unique with respect to their variable number, genome copy content and dynamic distribution within different types of plastids. The mechanisms underlying the shaping and reorganization of plastid nucleoids during chloroplast development and in response to environmental conditions involve posttranslational modifications of ptNAPs, similarly to those changes known for histones in the eukaryotic chromatin, as well as changes in the repertoire of ptNAPs, as known for nucleoids of bacteria. Attachment of plastid nucleoids to membranes is proposed to be important not only for regulation of DNA availability for replication and transcription, but also for the coordination of photosynthesis and plastid gene expression.
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- Marta Powikrowska
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, VILLUM Research Centre for Plant Plasticity and Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark
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- Plant Cell Biology, Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of KielKiel, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, VILLUM Research Centre for Plant Plasticity and Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark
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- Plant Cell Biology, Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of KielKiel, Germany
- *Correspondence: Karin Krupinska, Plant Cell Biology, Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany e-mail:
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Miao Y, Jiang J, Ren Y, Zhao Z. The single-stranded DNA-binding protein WHIRLY1 represses WRKY53 expression and delays leaf senescence in a developmental stage-dependent manner in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 163:746-56. [PMID: 23922267 PMCID: PMC3793055 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.223412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Leaf senescence in plants involves both positive and negative transcriptional regulation. In this work, we show evidence for the single-stranded DNA-binding protein WHIRLY1 (WHY1) that functions as an upstream suppressor of WRKY53 in a developmental stage-dependent manner during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). The why1 mutant displayed an early-senescence phenotype. In this background, the expression levels of both WRKY53 and the senescence-associated protease gene SAG12 increased. WHY1 bound to the sequence region that contains an elicitor response element motif-like sequence, GNNNAAATT, plus an AT-rich telomeric repeat-like sequence in the WRKY53 promoter in in vivo and in vitro mutagenesis assays as well as in a chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. This binding to the promoter of WRKY53 was regulated in a developmental stage-dependent manner, as verified by chromatin immunoprecipitation-polymerase chain reaction assay. This direct interaction was further determined by a transient expression assay in which WHY1 repressed β-GLUCURONIDASE gene expression driven by the WRKY53 promoter. Genetic analysis of double mutant transgenic plants revealed that WHY1 overexpression in the wrky53 mutant (oeWHY1wrky53) had no effect on the stay-green phenotype of the wrky53 mutant, while a WHY1 knockout mutant in the wrky53 mutant background (why1wrky53) generated subtle change in the leaf yellow/green phenotype. These results suggest that WHY1 was an upstream regulator of WRKY53 during leaf senescence.
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Kim J, Olinares PD, Oh SH, Ghisaura S, Poliakov A, Ponnala L, van Wijk KJ. Modified Clp protease complex in the ClpP3 null mutant and consequences for chloroplast development and function in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 162:157-79. [PMID: 23548781 PMCID: PMC3641200 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.215699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The plastid ClpPRT protease consists of two heptameric rings of ClpP1/ClpR1/ClpR2/ClpR3/ClpR4 (the R-ring) and ClpP3/ClpP4/ClpP5/ClpP6 (the P-ring) and peripherally associated ClpT1/ClpT2 subunits. Here, we address the contributions of ClpP3 and ClpP4 to ClpPRT core organization and function in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). ClpP4 is strictly required for embryogenesis, similar to ClpP5. In contrast, loss of ClpP3 (clpp3-1) leads to arrest at the hypocotyl stage; this developmental arrest can be removed by supplementation with sucrose or glucose. Heterotrophically grown clpp3-1 can be transferred to soil and generate viable seed, which is surprising, since we previously showed that CLPR2 and CLPR4 null alleles are always sterile and die on soil. Based on native gels and mass spectrometry-based quantification, we show that despite the loss of ClpP3, modified ClpPR core(s) could be formed, albeit at strongly reduced levels. A large portion of ClpPR subunits accumulated in heptameric rings, with overaccumulation of ClpP1/ClpP5/ClpP6 and ClpR3. Remarkably, the association of ClpT1 to the modified Clp core was unchanged. Large-scale quantitative proteomics assays of clpp3-1 showed a 50% loss of photosynthetic capacity and the up-regulation of plastoglobules and all chloroplast stromal chaperone systems. Specific chloroplast proteases were significantly up-regulated, whereas the major thylakoid protease (FtsH1/FtsH2/FtsH5/FtsH8) was clearly unchanged, indicating a controlled protease network response. clpp3-1 showed a systematic decrease of chloroplast-encoded proteins that are part of the photosynthetic apparatus but not of chloroplast-encoded proteins with other functions. Candidate substrates and an explanation for the differential phenotypes between the CLPP3, CLPP4, and CLPP5 null mutants are discussed.
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Janicka S, Kühn K, Le Ret M, Bonnard G, Imbault P, Augustyniak H, Gualberto JM. A RAD52-like single-stranded DNA binding protein affects mitochondrial DNA repair by recombination. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 72:423-435. [PMID: 22762281 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2012.05097.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The plant mitochondrial DNA-binding protein ODB1 was identified from a mitochondrial extract after DNA-affinity purification. ODB1 (organellar DNA-binding protein 1) co-purified with WHY2, a mitochondrial member of the WHIRLY family of plant-specific proteins involved in the repair of organellar DNA. The Arabidopsis thaliana ODB1 gene is identical to RAD52-1, which encodes a protein functioning in homologous recombination in the nucleus but additionally localizing to mitochondria. We confirmed the mitochondrial localization of ODB1 by in vitro and in vivo import assays, as well as by immunodetection on Arabidopsis subcellular fractions. In mitochondria, WHY2 and ODB1 were found in large nucleo-protein complexes. Both proteins co-immunoprecipitated in a DNA-dependent manner. In vitro assays confirmed DNA binding by ODB1 and showed that the protein has higher affinity for single-stranded than for double-stranded DNA. ODB1 showed no sequence specificity in vitro. In vivo, DNA co-immunoprecipitation indicated that ODB1 binds sequences throughout the mitochondrial genome. ODB1 promoted annealing of complementary DNA sequences, suggesting a RAD52-like function as a recombination mediator. Arabidopsis odb1 mutants were morphologically indistinguishable from the wild-type, but following DNA damage by genotoxic stress, they showed reduced mitochondrial homologous recombination activity. Under the same conditions, the odb1 mutants showed an increase in illegitimate repair bypasses generated by microhomology-mediated recombination. These observations identify ODB1 as a further component of homologous recombination-dependent DNA repair in plant mitochondria.
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- Sabina Janicka
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Isemer R, Krause K, Grabe N, Kitahata N, Asami T, Krupinska K. Plastid Located WHIRLY1 Enhances the Responsiveness of Arabidopsis Seedlings Toward Abscisic Acid. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:283. [PMID: 23269926 PMCID: PMC3529394 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2012] [Accepted: 11/30/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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WHIRLY1 is a protein that can be translocated from the plastids to the nucleus, making it an ideal candidate for communicating information between these two compartments. Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana lacking WHIRLY1 (why1) were shown to have a reduced sensitivity toward salicylic acid (SA) and abscisic acid (ABA) during germination. Germination assays in the presence of abamine, an inhibitor of ABA biosynthesis, revealed that the effect of SA on germination was in fact caused by a concomitant stimulation of ABA biosynthesis. In order to distinguish whether the plastid or the nuclear isoform of WHIRLY1 is adjusting the responsiveness toward ABA, sequences encoding either the complete WHIRLY1 protein or a truncated form lacking the plastid transit peptide were overexpressed in the why1 mutant background. In plants overexpressing the full-length sequence, WHIRLY1 accumulated in both plastids and the nucleus, whereas in plants overexpressing the truncated sequence, WHIRLY1 accumulated exclusively in the nucleus. Seedlings containing recombinant WHIRLY1 in both compartments were hypersensitive toward ABA. In contrast, seedlings possessing only the nuclear form of WHIRLY1 were as insensitive toward ABA as the why1 mutants. ABA was furthermore shown to lower the rate of germination of wildtype seeds even in the presence of abamine which is known to inhibit the formation of xanthoxin, the plastid located precursor of ABA. From this we conclude that plastid located WHIRLY1 enhances the responsiveness of seeds toward ABA even when ABA is supplied exogenously.
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- Rena Isemer
- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of KielKiel, Germany
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of TromsøTromsø, Norway
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of KielKiel, Germany
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of TokyoTokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of TokyoTokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of KielKiel, Germany
- *Correspondence: Karin Krupinska, Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany. e-mail:
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