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Fu J, McKinley B, James B, Chrisler W, Markillie LM, Gaffrey MJ, Mitchell HD, Riaz MR, Marcial B, Orr G, Swaminathan K, Mullet J, Marshall-Colon A. Cell-type-specific transcriptomics uncovers spatial regulatory networks in bioenergy sorghum stems. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 118:1668-1688. [PMID: 38407828 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
Abstract
Bioenergy sorghum is a low-input, drought-resilient, deep-rooting annual crop that has high biomass yield potential enabling the sustainable production of biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts. Bioenergy sorghum's 4-5 m stems account for ~80% of the harvested biomass. Stems accumulate high levels of sucrose that could be used to synthesize bioethanol and useful biopolymers if information about cell-type gene expression and regulation in stems was available to enable engineering. To obtain this information, laser capture microdissection was used to isolate and collect transcriptome profiles from five major cell types that are present in stems of the sweet sorghum Wray. Transcriptome analysis identified genes with cell-type-specific and cell-preferred expression patterns that reflect the distinct metabolic, transport, and regulatory functions of each cell type. Analysis of cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks (GRNs) revealed that unique transcription factor families contribute to distinct regulatory landscapes, where regulation is organized through various modes and identifiable network motifs. Cell-specific transcriptome data was combined with known secondary cell wall (SCW) networks to identify the GRNs that differentially activate SCW formation in vascular sclerenchyma and epidermal cells. The spatial transcriptomic dataset provides a valuable source of information about the function of different sorghum cell types and GRNs that will enable the engineering of bioenergy sorghum stems, and an interactive web application developed during this project will allow easy access and exploration of the data (https://mc-lab.shinyapps.io/lcm-dataset/).
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- Jie Fu
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Resource Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 53726, USA
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- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99354, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99354, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99354, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
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- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99354, USA
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- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Resource Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 53726, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA
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Wang L, Zhang K, Wang Z, Yang J, Kang G, Liu Y, You L, Wang X, Jin H, Wang D, Guo T. Appropriate reduction of importin-α gene expression enhances yellow dwarf disease resistance in common wheat. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2024; 22:572-586. [PMID: 37855813 PMCID: PMC10893941 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.14204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
Abstract
Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) cause widespread damage to global cereal crops. Here we report a novel strategy for elevating resistance to BYDV infection. The 17K protein, a potent virulence factor conserved in BYDVs, interacted with barley IMP-α1 and -α2 proteins that are nuclear transport receptors. Consistently, a nuclear localization signal was predicted in 17K, which was found essential for 17K to be transported into the nucleus and to interact with IMP-α1 and -α2. Reducing HvIMP-α1 and -α2 expression by gene silencing attenuated BYDV-elicited dwarfism, accompanied by a lowered nuclear accumulation of 17K. Among the eight common wheat CRISPR mutants with two to four TaIMP-α1 and -α2 genes mutated, the triple mutant α1aaBBDD /α2AAbbdd and the tetra-mutant α1aabbdd /α2AAbbDD displayed strong BYDV resistance without negative effects on plant growth under field conditions. The BYDV resistance exhibited by α1aaBBDD /α2AAbbdd and α1aabbdd /α2AAbbDD was correlated with decreased nuclear accumulation of 17K and lowered viral proliferation in infected plants. Our work uncovers the function of host IMP-α proteins in BYDV pathogenesis and generates the germplasm valuable for breeding BYDV-resistant wheat. Appropriate reduction of IMP-α gene expression may be broadly useful for enhancing antiviral resistance in agricultural crops and other economically important organisms.
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- Lina Wang
- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- The Shennong LaboratoryZhengzhouHenanChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijingChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- The Shennong LaboratoryZhengzhouHenanChina
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijingChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijingChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- The Shennong LaboratoryZhengzhouHenanChina
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- National Wheat Engineering Research Center, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Center for Crop Genome Engineering, College of AgronomyHenan Agricultural UniversityZhengzhouHenanChina
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García Fernández F, Huet S, Miné-Hattab J. Multi-Scale Imaging of the Dynamic Organization of Chromatin. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15975. [PMID: 37958958 PMCID: PMC10649806 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242115975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Chromatin is now regarded as a heterogeneous and dynamic structure occupying a non-random position within the cell nucleus, where it plays a key role in regulating various functions of the genome. This current view of chromatin has emerged thanks to high spatiotemporal resolution imaging, among other new technologies developed in the last decade. In addition to challenging early assumptions of chromatin being regular and static, high spatiotemporal resolution imaging made it possible to visualize and characterize different chromatin structures such as clutches, domains and compartments. More specifically, super-resolution microscopy facilitates the study of different cellular processes at a nucleosome scale, providing a multi-scale view of chromatin behavior within the nucleus in different environments. In this review, we describe recent imaging techniques to study the dynamic organization of chromatin at high spatiotemporal resolution. We also discuss recent findings, elucidated by these techniques, on the chromatin landscape during different cellular processes, with an emphasis on the DNA damage response.
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- Fabiola García Fernández
- Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France;
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IGDR (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes)-UMR 6290, BIOSIT-UMS 3480, 35000 Rennes, France;
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France;
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Schubert V, Weißleder A, Lermontova I. Simultaneous EYFP-CENH3/H2B-DsRed Expression Is Impaired Differentially in Meristematic and Differentiated Nuclei of Arabidopsis Double Transformants. Cytogenet Genome Res 2023; 163:74-80. [PMID: 37552957 DOI: 10.1159/000533317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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Fluorescence live-cell microscopy is important in cell biology to perform artifact-free investigations. To analyze the dynamics of chromatin and centromeres at different stages of the cell cycle in nuclei and chromosomes, we performed simultaneous EYFP-CENH3/H2B-DsRed and single H2B-YFP transformations in Arabidopsis wild-type and cohesin T-DNA mutants. All constructs were under the control of the strong CaMV 35S promoter. While a strong silencing of fluorescence expression occurred differently in leaf and root tissues in the double transformants, nearly all single-transformed wild-type and most mutant cells showed H2B-YFP fluorescence. It seems that for an efficient co-expression of two fluorescence proteins, endogenous promoters and terminators should be used.
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- Veit Schubert
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Seeland, Germany
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Lu KK, Song RF, Guo JX, Zhang Y, Zuo JX, Chen HH, Liao CY, Hu XY, Ren F, Lu YT, Liu WC. CycC1;1-WRKY75 complex-mediated transcriptional regulation of SOS1 controls salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:2570-2591. [PMID: 37040621 PMCID: PMC10291036 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE1 (SOS1) is a key component of plant salt tolerance. However, how SOS1 transcription is dynamically regulated in plant response to different salinity conditions remains elusive. Here, we report that C-type Cyclin1;1 (CycC1;1) negatively regulates salt tolerance by interfering with WRKY75-mediated transcriptional activation of SOS1 in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Disruption of CycC1;1 promotes SOS1 expression and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis because CycC1;1 interferes with RNA polymerase II recruitment by occupying the SOS1 promoter. Enhanced salt tolerance of the cycc1;1 mutant was completely compromised by an SOS1 mutation. Moreover, CycC1;1 physically interacts with the transcription factor WRKY75, which can bind to the SOS1 promoter and activate SOS1 expression. In contrast to the cycc1;1 mutant, the wrky75 mutant has attenuated SOS1 expression and salt tolerance, whereas overexpression of SOS1 rescues the salt sensitivity of wrky75. Intriguingly, CycC1;1 inhibits WRKY75-mediated transcriptional activation of SOS1 via their interaction. Thus, increased SOS1 expression and salt tolerance in cycc1;1 were abolished by WRKY75 mutation. Our findings demonstrate that CycC1;1 forms a complex with WRKY75 to inactivate SOS1 transcription under low salinity conditions. By contrast, under high salinity conditions, SOS1 transcription and plant salt tolerance are activated at least partially by increased WRKY75 expression but decreased CycC1;1 expression.
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- Kai-Kai Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, School
of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan
430079, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan
University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement,
Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences,
Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Ohmido N, Polosoro A. Chromatin Immunostaining of Plant Nuclei. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2672:233-244. [PMID: 37335480 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3226-0_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
Abstract
Recent evidence has demonstrated that specific epigenetic changes are also related to plant growth and development. Immunostaining enables the detection and characterization of chromatin modification, e.g., histone H4 acetylation (H4K5ac), histone H3 methylation (H3K4me2 and H3K9me2), and DNA methylation (5mC) with unique and specific patterns in plant tissues. Here we describe experimental procedures to determine the histone H3 methylation (H3K4me2 and H3K9me2) patterns in 3D-chromatin in whole roots tissue and 2D-chromatin in single nuclei in rice. To analyze both iron and salinity treatments, we show how to test for changes to the epigenetic chromatin landscape using heterochromatin (H3K9me2) and euchromatin (H3K4me) markers for chromatin immunostaining, especially in the proximal meristem region. To elucidate the epigenetic impact of environmental stress and external plant growth regulators, we demonstrate how to apply a combination of salinity, auxin, and abscisic acid treatments. The results of these experiments provide insights into the epigenetic landscape during rice root growth and development.
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- Nobuko Ohmido
- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
- Research Center for Genetic Engineering, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bogor, Indonesia
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Guo JX, Song RF, Lu KK, Zhang Y, Chen HH, Zuo JX, Li TT, Li XF, Liu WC. CycC1;1 negatively modulates ABA signaling by interacting with and inhibiting ABI5 during seed germination. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 190:2812-2827. [PMID: 36173345 PMCID: PMC9706468 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Regulation of seed germination is important for plant survival and propagation. ABSCISIC ACID (ABA) INSENSITIVE5 (ABI5), the central transcription factor in the ABA signaling pathway, plays a fundamental role in the regulation of ABA-responsive gene expression during seed germination; however, how ABI5 transcriptional activation activity is regulated remains to be elucidated. Here, we report that C-type Cyclin1;1 (CycC1;1) is an ABI5-interacting partner affecting the ABA response and seed germination in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). The CycC1;1 loss-of-function mutant is hypersensitive to ABA, and this phenotype was rescued by mutation of ABI5. Moreover, CycC1;1 suppresses ABI5 transcriptional activation activity for ABI5-targeted genes including ABI5 itself by occupying their promoters and disrupting RNA polymerase II recruitment; thus the cycc1;1 mutant shows increased expression of ABI5 and genes downstream of ABI5. Furthermore, ABA reduces the interaction between CycC1;1 and ABI5, while phospho-mimic but not phospho-dead mutation of serine-42 in ABI5 abolishes CycC1;1 interaction with ABI5 and relieves CycC1;1 inhibition of ABI5-mediated transcriptional activation of downstream target genes. Together, our study illustrates that CycC1;1 negatively modulates the ABA response by interacting with and inhibiting ABI5, while ABA relieves the CycC1;1 interaction with and inhibition of ABI5 to activate ABI5 activity for the ABA response, thereby inhibiting seed germination.
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- Jia-Xing Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Pharmaceutical Compound Screening, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang 222005, China
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- Anyang Wenfeng District Natural Resources Bureau, Anyang 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Meschichi A, Zhao L, Reeck S, White C, Da Ines O, Sicard A, Pontvianne F, Rosa S. The plant-specific DDR factor SOG1 increases chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage. EMBO Rep 2022; 23:e54736. [PMID: 36278395 PMCID: PMC9724665 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202254736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Homologous recombination (HR) is a conservative DNA repair pathway in which intact homologous sequences are used as a template for repair. How the homology search happens in the crowded space of the cell nucleus is, however, still poorly understood. Here, we measure chromosome and double-strand break (DSB) site mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana, using lacO/LacI lines and two GFP-tagged HR reporters. We observe an increase in chromatin mobility upon the induction of DNA damage, specifically at the S/G2 phases of the cell cycle. This increase in mobility is lost in the sog1-1 mutant, a central transcription factor of the DNA damage response in plants. Also, DSB sites show particularly high mobility levels and their enhanced mobility requires the HR factor RAD54. Our data suggest that repair mechanisms promote chromatin mobility upon DNA damage, implying a role of this process in the early steps of the DNA damage response.
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- Anis Meschichi
- Plant Biology DepartmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- Plant Biology DepartmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUK
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD)Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293, CNRS, U1103 INSERMClermont‐FerrandFrance
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD)Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293, CNRS, U1103 INSERMClermont‐FerrandFrance
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- Plant Biology DepartmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes (LGDP)Université de Perpignan Via DomitiaPerpignanFrance
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- Plant Biology DepartmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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Aflaki F, Gutzat R, Mozgová I. Chromatin during plant regeneration: Opening towards root identity? CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 69:102265. [PMID: 35988353 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102265] [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: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Plants show exceptional developmental plasticity and the ability to reprogram cell identities during regeneration. Although regeneration has been used in plant propagation for decades, we only recently gained detailed cellular and molecular insights into this process. Evidently, not all cell types have the same regeneration potential, and only a subset of regeneration-competent cells reach pluripotency. Pluripotent cells exhibit transcriptional similarity to root stem cells. In different plant regeneration systems, transcriptional reprogramming involves transient release of chromatin repression during pluripotency establishment and its restoration during organ or embryo differentiation. Incomplete resetting of the epigenome leads to somaclonal variation in regenerated plants. As single-cell technologies advance, we expect novel, exciting insights into epigenome dynamics during the establishment of pluripotency.
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- Fatemeh Aflaki
- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, 1030, Austria
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- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Genome-Wide Analysis of the RAV Gene Family in Wheat and Functional Identification of TaRAV1 in Salt Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23168834. [PMID: 36012100 PMCID: PMC9408559 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23168834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Revised: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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RAV transcription factors (TFs) are unique to higher plants and contain both B3 and APETALA2 (AP2) DNA binding domains. Although sets of RAV genes have been identified from several species, little is known about this family in wheat. In this study, 26 RAV genes were identified in the wheat genome. These wheat RAV TFs were phylogenetically clustered into three classes based on their amino acid sequences. A TaRAV gene located on chromosome 1D was cloned and named TaRAV1. TaRAV1 was expressed in roots, stems, leaves, and inflorescences, and its expression was up-regulated by heat while down-regulated by salt, ABA, and GA. Subcellular localization analysis revealed that the TaRAV1 protein was localized in the nucleus. The TaRAV1 protein showed DNA binding activity in the EMSA assay and transcriptional activation activity in yeast cells. Overexpressing TaRAV1 enhanced the salt tolerance of Arabidopsis and upregulated the expression of SOS genes and other stress response genes. Collectively, our data suggest that TaRAV1 functions as a transcription factor and is involved in the salt stress response by regulating gene expression in the SOS pathway.
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ADA2b and GCN5 Affect Cytokinin Signaling by Modulating Histone Acetylation and Gene Expression during Root Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANTS 2022; 11:plants11101335. [PMID: 35631760 PMCID: PMC9148027 DOI: 10.3390/plants11101335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2022] [Revised: 05/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In Arabidopsis thaliana, the histone acetyltransferase GCN5 and the associated coactivator ADA2b regulate root growth and affect gene expression. The cytokinin signaling reporter TCS::GFP was introduced into gcn5-1, ada2b-1, and ada2a-2, as well as the ada2a-2ada2b-1 mutants. The early root growth (4 to 7 days post-germination) was analyzed using cellular and molecular approaches. TCS signal accumulated from the fourth to seventh days of root growth in the wild-type columella cells. In contrast, ada2b-1 and gcn5-1 and ada2a-2ada2b-1 double mutants displayed reduced TCS expression relative to wild type. Gene expression analysis showed that genes associated with cytokinin homeostasis were downregulated in the roots of gcn5-1 and ada2b-1 mutants compared to wild-type plants. H3K14 acetylation was affected in the promoters of cytokinin synthesis and catabolism genes during root growth of Arabidopsis. Therefore, GCN5 and ADA2b are positive regulators of cytokinin signaling during root growth by modulating histone acetylation and the expression of genes involved in cytokinin synthesis and catabolism. Auxin application in the roots of wild-type seedlings increased TCS::GFP expression. In contrast, ada2b and ada2ada2b mutant plants do not show the auxin-induced TCS signal, suggesting that GCN5 and ADA2b are required for the auxin-induced cytokinin signaling in early root growth.
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Feng ZQ, Li T, Wang X, Sun WJ, Zhang TT, You CX, Wang XF. Identification and characterization of apple MdNLP7 transcription factor in the nitrate response. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 316:111158. [PMID: 35151440 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.111158] [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: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development. Low utilization of nitrogen fertilizer during agricultural production causes a series of environmental problems, such as water eutrophication, soil acidity, and air pollution. Investigating the patterns and mechanisms of crop NO3- absorption and utilization therefore key to fully improving crop nitrogen utilization rates and promoting sustainable agricultural development. Apple is one of the most important horticultural crops in the world. Its nitrogen demand by apple during the growth period is very high, but few studies have been performed on apple genes, that regulate the NO3- response. Here, we found that the apple transcription factor MdNLP7 promoted nitrogen absorption and assimilation by activating the expression of MdNIA2 and MdNRT1.1. MdNLP7 also regulated H2O2 content by increasing catalase activity, which may also influence nitrate utilization. Our findings provide insight into the mechanisms by which MdNLP7 controls nitrate utilization in apple.
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- Zi-Quan Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, National Research Center for Apple Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Fruit & Vegetable Quality and Efficient Production, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, Shandong, China.
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Pei L, Huang X, Liu Z, Tian X, You J, Li J, Fang DD, Lindsey K, Zhu L, Zhang X, Wang M. Dynamic 3D genome architecture of cotton fiber reveals subgenome-coordinated chromatin topology for 4-staged single-cell differentiation. Genome Biol 2022; 23:45. [PMID: 35115029 PMCID: PMC8812185 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02616-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Despite remarkable advances in our knowledge of epigenetically mediated transcriptional programming of cell differentiation in plants, little is known about chromatin topology and its functional implications in this process. Results To interrogate its significance, we establish the dynamic three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture of the allotetraploid cotton fiber, representing a typical single cell undergoing staged development in plants. We show that the subgenome-relayed switching of the chromatin compartment from active to inactive is coupled with the silencing of developmentally repressed genes, pinpointing subgenome-coordinated contribution to fiber development. We identify 10,571 topologically associating domain-like (TAD-like) structures, of which 25.6% are specifically organized in different stages and 75.23% are subject to partition or fusion between two subgenomes. Notably, dissolution of intricate TAD-like structure cliques showing long-range interactions represents a prominent characteristic at the later developmental stage. Dynamic chromatin loops are found to mediate the rewiring of gene regulatory networks that exhibit a significant difference between the two subgenomes, implicating expression bias of homologous genes. Conclusions This study sheds light on the spatial-temporal asymmetric chromatin structures of two subgenomes in the cotton fiber and offers a new insight into the regulatory orchestration of cell differentiation in plants. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13059-022-02616-y.
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- Liuling Pei
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA, 70124, USA
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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McGowan MT, Zhang Z, Ficklin SP. Chromosomal characteristics of salt stress heritable gene expression in the rice genome. BMC Genom Data 2021; 22:17. [PMID: 34044788 PMCID: PMC8162008 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-00970-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Gene expression is potentially an important heritable quantitative trait that mediates between genetic variation and higher-level complex phenotypes through time and condition-dependent regulatory interactions. Therefore, we sought to explore both the genomic and condition-specific characteristics of gene expression heritability within the context of chromosomal structure. RESULTS Heritability was estimated for biological gene expression using a diverse, 84-line, Oryza sativa (rice) population under optimal and salt-stressed conditions. Overall, 5936 genes were found to have heritable expression regardless of condition and 1377 genes were found to have heritable expression only during salt stress. These genes with salt-specific heritable expression are enriched for functional terms associated with response to stimulus and transcription factor activity. Additionally, we discovered that highly and lowly expressed genes, and genes with heritable expression are distributed differently along the chromosomes in patterns that follow previously identified high-throughput chromosomal conformation capture (Hi-C) A/B chromatin compartments. Furthermore, multiple genomic hot-spots enriched for genes with salt-specific heritability were identified on chromosomes 1, 4, 6, and 8. These hotspots were found to contain genes functionally enriched for transcriptional regulation and overlaps with a previously identified major QTL for salt-tolerance in rice. CONCLUSIONS Investigating the heritability of traits, and in-particular gene expression traits, is important towards developing a basic understanding of how regulatory networks behave across a population. This work provides insights into spatial patterns of heritable gene expression at the chromosomal level.
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- Matthew T McGowan
- Molecular Plant Sciences Program, Washington State University, French Ad 324G, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA.
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- Molecular Plant Sciences Program, Washington State University, French Ad 324G, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA.,Department of Crops and Soils, Washington State University, 105 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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- Molecular Plant Sciences Program, Washington State University, French Ad 324G, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA.,Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, 149 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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Pardal AJ, Piquerez SJM, Dominguez-Ferreras A, Frungillo L, Mastorakis E, Reilly E, Latrasse D, Concia L, Gimenez-Ibanez S, Spoel SH, Benhamed M, Ntoukakis V. Immunity onset alters plant chromatin and utilizes EDA16 to regulate oxidative homeostasis. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1009572. [PMID: 34015058 PMCID: PMC8171942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Perception of microbes by plants leads to dynamic reprogramming of the transcriptome, which is essential for plant health. The appropriate amplitude of this transcriptional response can be regulated at multiple levels, including chromatin. However, the mechanisms underlying the interplay between chromatin remodeling and transcription dynamics upon activation of plant immunity remain poorly understood. Here, we present evidence that activation of plant immunity by bacteria leads to nucleosome repositioning, which correlates with altered transcription. Nucleosome remodeling follows distinct patterns of nucleosome repositioning at different loci. Using a reverse genetic screen, we identify multiple chromatin remodeling ATPases with previously undescribed roles in immunity, including EMBRYO SAC DEVELOPMENT ARREST 16, EDA16. Functional characterization of the immune-inducible chromatin remodeling ATPase EDA16 revealed a mechanism to negatively regulate immunity activation and limit changes in redox homeostasis. Our transcriptomic data combined with MNase-seq data for EDA16 functional knock-out and over-expressor mutants show that EDA16 selectively regulates a defined subset of genes involved in redox signaling through nucleosome repositioning. Thus, collectively, chromatin remodeling ATPases fine-tune immune responses and provide a previously uncharacterized mechanism of immune regulation.
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- Alonso J. Pardal
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRAE, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRAE, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRAE, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
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- Plant Molecular Genetics Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRAE, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Cui Q, Xie L, Dong C, Gao L, Shang Q. Stage-specific events in tomato graft formation and the regulatory effects of auxin and cytokinin. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 304:110803. [PMID: 33568302 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Grafting is widely used worldwide because of its obvious advantages, especially in solanaceous vegetable crops. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying graft formation are unknown. In this study, internode tissues from above and below the graft junction were harvested, and we performed weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) to describe the temporal and spatial transcriptional dynamics that occur during graft formation in tomato. The wounding stress response involved in JA, ETH, and oxylipins mainly occurred at 1 h after grafting (HAG). From 3 to 12 HAG, the biological processes of snRNA and snoRNA modification and the gibberellin-mediated signaling pathway functioned both above and below the graft junction. However, auxin transport and signaling, DNA replication, and xylem and phloem pattern formation were restricted to the scion, whereas the cytokinin-activated signaling pathway and the cellular response to sucrose starvation was restricted to the rootstock. At 24-72 HAG, cell division occurred above the graft junction, and photosynthesis-related pathways were activated below the graft junction. The levels of auxin and cytokinin reached their maxima above and below the graft junction at 12 HAG, respectively. Exogenous application of certain concentrations of IAA and 6-BA will promote xylem and phloem transport capacity. The current work has analyzed the stage-specific events and hub genes during the developmental progression of tomato grafting. We found that auxin and cytokinin levels respond to grafting, above and below the graft junction, respectively, to promote the formation of xylem and phloem patterning. In addition, the accumulation of auxin above the graft junction induced cells to prepare for mitosis and promoted the formation of callus. In short, our work provides an important reference for theoretical research and production application of tomato grafting in the future.
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- Qingqing Cui
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Biology and Germplasm Innovation (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Biology and Germplasm Innovation (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Biology and Germplasm Innovation (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Biology and Germplasm Innovation (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
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Meschichi A, Rosa S. Visualizing and Measuring Single Locus Dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2200:213-224. [PMID: 33175380 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0880-7_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In eukaryotes, DNA is packed into an incredibly complex structure called chromatin. Although chromatin was often considered as a static entity, it is now clear that chromatin proteins and the chromatin fiber itself are in fact very dynamic. For instance, the packaging of the DNA into the nucleus requires an extraordinary degree of compaction but this should be achieved without compromising the accessibility to the transcription machinery and other nuclear processes. Approaches such as gene tagging have been established for living cells in order to detect, track, and analyze the mobility of single loci. In this chapter, we provide an experimental protocol for performing locus tracking in Arabidopsis thaliana roots and for characterizing locus mobility behavior via a Mean Square Displacement analysis.
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- Anis Meschichi
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Bie XM, Dong L, Li XH, Wang H, Gao XQ, Li XG. Trichostatin A and sodium butyrate promotes plant regeneration in common wheat. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2020; 15:1820681. [PMID: 32962515 PMCID: PMC7671042 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2020.1820681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Histone acetylation modification plays a vital role in plant cell division and differentiation. However, the function on wheat mature embryo culture has not been reported. Here, we used the mature embryo of wheat genotypes including CB037, Fielder, and Chinese Spring (CS) as materials to analyze the effects of different concentrations of trichostatin A (TSA) and sodium butyrate (SB) on plant regeneration efficiency. The results showed that, compared with the control group, the induction rates of embryogenic callus and green shoot were significantly increased with the addition of 0.5 µM TSA, while they were reduced under treatment of 2.5 µM TSA on wheat mature embryo. With the respective addition of 200 µM and 1000 µM SB, regeneration frequency of three genotypes was enhanced, especially in Fielder, which reached significant difference compared with the control group. Unfortunately, 0.5 µM TSA and 200 µM SB combination had no apparent effect on wheat regeneration frequency. The results indicated that TSA and SB increase plant regeneration in common wheat. In addition, TSA had a common effect and SB had different effect among genotypes on wheat regeneration frequency. The mechanism of action needs further investigation.
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- Xiao Min Bie
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong, China
- Xing Guo Li State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai′an, Shandong271018, China
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Papareddy RK, Páldi K, Paulraj S, Kao P, Lutzmayer S, Nodine MD. Chromatin regulates expression of small RNAs to help maintain transposon methylome homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Genome Biol 2020; 21:251. [PMID: 32943088 PMCID: PMC7499886 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02163-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Eukaryotic genomes are partitioned into euchromatic and heterochromatic domains to regulate gene expression and other fundamental cellular processes. However, chromatin is dynamic during growth and development and must be properly re-established after its decondensation. Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) promote heterochromatin formation, but little is known about how chromatin regulates siRNA expression. RESULTS We demonstrate that thousands of transposable elements (TEs) produce exceptionally high levels of siRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana embryos. TEs generate siRNAs throughout embryogenesis according to two distinct patterns depending on whether they are located in euchromatic or heterochromatic regions of the genome. siRNA precursors are transcribed in embryos, and siRNAs are required to direct the re-establishment of DNA methylation on TEs from which they are derived in the new generation. Decondensed chromatin also permits the production of 24-nt siRNAs from heterochromatic TEs during post-embryogenesis, and siRNA production from bipartite-classified TEs is controlled by their chromatin states. CONCLUSIONS Decondensation of heterochromatin in response to developmental, and perhaps environmental, cues promotes the transcription and function of siRNAs in plants. Our results indicate that chromatin-mediated siRNA transcription provides a cell-autonomous homeostatic control mechanism to help reconstitute pre-existing chromatin states during growth and development including those that ensure silencing of TEs in the future germ line.
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- Ranjith K. Papareddy
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Kemppainen M, Chowdhury J, Lundberg-Felten J, Pardo A. Fluorescent protein expression in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor: a plasmid toolkit for easy use of fluorescent markers in basidiomycetes. Curr Genet 2020; 66:791-811. [PMID: 32170354 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01060-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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For long time, studies on ectomycorrhiza (ECM) have been limited by inefficient expression of fluorescent proteins (FPs) in the fungal partner. To convert this situation, we have evaluated the basic requirements of FP expression in the model ECM homobasidiomycete Laccaria bicolor and established eGFP and mCherry as functional FP markers. Comparison of intron-containing and intronless FP-expression cassettes confirmed that intron-processing is indispensable for efficient FP expression in Laccaria. Nuclear FP localization was obtained via in-frame fusion of FPs between the intron-containing genomic gene sequences of Laccaria histone H2B, while cytosolic FP expression was produced by incorporating the intron-containing 5' fragment of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase encoding gene. In addition, we have characterized the consensus Kozak sequence of strongly expressed genes in Laccaria and demonstrated its boosting effect on transgene mRNA accumulation. Based on these results, an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation compatible plasmid set was designed for easy use of FPs in Laccaria. The four cloning plasmids presented here allow fast and highly flexible construction of C-terminal in-frame fusions between the sequences of interest and the two FPs, expressed either from the endogenous gene promoter, allowing thus evaluation of the native regulation modes of the gene under study, or alternatively, from the constitutive Agaricus bisporus gpdII promoter for enhanced cellular protein localization assays. The molecular tools described here for cell-biological studies in Laccaria can also be exploited in studies of other biotrophic or saprotrophic basidiomycete species susceptible to genetic transformation.
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- Minna Kemppainen
- Laboratory of Molecular Mycology, Institute of Basic and Applied Microbiology, Department of Science and Technology, Nacional University of Quilmes and CONICET, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Molecular Mycology, Institute of Basic and Applied Microbiology, Department of Science and Technology, Nacional University of Quilmes and CONICET, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Leng X, Thomas Q, Rasmussen SH, Marquardt S. A G(enomic)P(ositioning)S(ystem) for Plant RNAPII Transcription. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 25:744-764. [PMID: 32673579 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histone residues shape the landscape of gene expression by modulating the dynamic process of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription. The contribution of particular histone modifications to the definition of distinct RNAPII transcription stages remains poorly characterized in plants. Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq) resolves the genomic distribution of histone modifications. Here, we review histone PTM ChIP-seq data in Arabidopsis thaliana and find support for a Genomic Positioning System (GPS) that guides RNAPII transcription. We review the roles of histone PTM 'readers', 'writers', and 'erasers', with a focus on the regulation of gene expression and biological functions in plants. The distinct functions of RNAPII transcription during the plant transcription cycle may rely, in part, on the characteristic histone PTM profiles that distinguish transcription stages.
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- Xueyuan Leng
- Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Bülowsvej 34, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Bülowsvej 34, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Bülowsvej 34, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Bülowsvej 34, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Nowicka A, Tokarz B, Zwyrtková J, Dvořák Tomaštíková E, Procházková K, Ercan U, Finke A, Rozhon W, Poppenberger B, Otmar M, Niezgodzki I, Krečmerová M, Schubert I, Pecinka A. Comparative analysis of epigenetic inhibitors reveals different degrees of interference with transcriptional gene silencing and induction of DNA damage. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 102:68-84. [PMID: 31733119 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Repetitive DNA sequences and some genes are epigenetically repressed by transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). When genetic mutants are not available or problematic to use, TGS can be suppressed by chemical inhibitors. However, informed use of epigenetic inhibitors is partially hampered by the absence of any systematic comparison. In addition, there is emerging evidence that epigenetic inhibitors cause genomic instability, but the nature of this damage and its repair remain unclear. To bridge these gaps, we compared the effects of 5-azacytidine (AC), 2'-deoxy-5-azacytidine (DAC), zebularine and 3-deazaneplanocin A (DZNep) on TGS and DNA damage repair. The most effective inhibitor of TGS was DAC, followed by DZNep, zebularine and AC. We confirmed that all inhibitors induce DNA damage and suggest that this damage is repaired by multiple pathways with a critical role of homologous recombination and of the SMC5/6 complex. A strong positive link between the degree of cytidine analog-induced DNA demethylation and the amount of DNA damage suggests that DNA damage is an integral part of cytidine analog-induced DNA demethylation. This helps us to understand the function of DNA methylation in plants and opens the possibility of using epigenetic inhibitors in biotechnology.
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- Anna Nowicka
- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), DE-50829, Cologne, Germany
- The Polish Academy of Sciences, The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Niezapominajek 21, PL-30 239, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Unit of Botany and Plant Physiology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 54, PL-31 425, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), DE-50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), DE-50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Straße 1, DE-85354, Freising, Germany
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- Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Straße 1, DE-85354, Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CZ-166 10, Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Biogeosystem Modelling Group, ING PAN - Institute of Geological Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Center in Krakow, Senacka 1, PL-31 002, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CZ-166 10, Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Stadt Seeland, DE-06466, Gatersleben, OT, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research (CRH), CZ-779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), DE-50829, Cologne, Germany
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Singh S, Singh A, Singh A, Yadav S, Bajaj I, Kumar S, Jain A, Sarkar AK. Role of chromatin modification and remodeling in stem cell regulation and meristem maintenance in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:778-792. [PMID: 31793642 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In higher plants, pluripotent stem cells reside in the specialized microenvironment called stem cell niches (SCNs) harbored at the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and root apical meristem (RAM), which give rise to the aerial and underground parts of a plant, respectively. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) has been extensively studied to decipher the intricate regulatory mechanisms involving some key transcriptions factors and phytohormones that play pivotal roles in stem cell homeostasis, meristem maintenance, and organ formation. However, there is increasing evidence to show the epigenetic regulation of the chromatin architecture, gene expression exerting an influence on an innate balance between the self-renewal of stem cells, and differentiation of the progeny cells to a specific tissue type or organ. Post-translational histone modifications, ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling, and chromatin assembly/disassembly are some of the key features involved in the modulation of chromatin architecture. Here, we discuss the major epigenetic regulators and illustrate their roles in the regulation of stem cell activity, meristem maintenance, and related organ patterning in Arabidopsis.
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- Sharmila Singh
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- Amity School of Architecture and Planning, Amity University, Kant Kalwar, Rajasthan, India
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- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kant Kalwar, Rajasthan, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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Dumur T, Duncan S, Graumann K, Desset S, Randall RS, Scheid OM, Prodanov D, Tatout C, Baroux C. Probing the 3D architecture of the plant nucleus with microscopy approaches: challenges and solutions. Nucleus 2019; 10:181-212. [PMID: 31362571 PMCID: PMC6682351 DOI: 10.1080/19491034.2019.1644592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Revised: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic cell nucleus is a central organelle whose architecture determines genome function at multiple levels. Deciphering nuclear organizing principles influencing cellular responses and identity is a timely challenge. Despite many similarities between plant and animal nuclei, plant nuclei present intriguing specificities. Complementary to molecular and biochemical approaches, 3D microscopy is indispensable for resolving nuclear architecture. However, novel solutions are required for capturing cell-specific, sub-nuclear and dynamic processes. We provide a pointer for utilising high-to-super-resolution microscopy and image processing to probe plant nuclear architecture in 3D at the best possible spatial and temporal resolution and at quantitative and cell-specific levels. High-end imaging and image-processing solutions allow the community now to transcend conventional practices and benefit from continuously improving approaches. These promise to deliver a comprehensive, 3D view of plant nuclear architecture and to capture spatial dynamics of the nuclear compartment in relation to cellular states and responses. Abbreviations: 3D and 4D: Three and Four dimensional; AI: Artificial Intelligence; ant: antipodal nuclei (ant); CLSM: Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy; CTs: Chromosome Territories; DL: Deep Learning; DLIm: Dynamic Live Imaging; ecn: egg nucleus; FACS: Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting; FISH: Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization; FP: Fluorescent Proteins (GFP, RFP, CFP, YFP, mCherry); FRAP: Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching; GPU: Graphics Processing Unit; KEEs: KNOT Engaged Elements; INTACT: Isolation of Nuclei TAgged in specific Cell Types; LADs: Lamin-Associated Domains; ML: Machine Learning; NA: Numerical Aperture; NADs: Nucleolar Associated Domains; PALM: Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy; Pixel: Picture element; pn: polar nuclei; PSF: Point Spread Function; RHF: Relative Heterochromatin Fraction; SIM: Structured Illumination Microscopy; SLIm: Static Live Imaging; SMC: Spore Mother Cell; SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio; SRM: Super-Resolution Microscopy; STED: STimulated Emission Depletion; STORM: STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy; syn: synergid nuclei; TADs: Topologically Associating Domains; Voxel: Volumetric pixel.
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- Tao Dumur
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Norwich Research Park, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Environment, Health and Safety, Neuroscience Research Flanders, Leuven, Belgium
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- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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Boundary maintenance in the ancestral metazoan Hydra depends on histone acetylation. Dev Biol 2019; 458:200-214. [PMID: 31738910 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Much of boundary formation during development remains to be understood, despite being a defining feature of many animal taxa. Axial patterning of Hydra, a member of the ancient phylum Cnidaria which diverged prior to the bilaterian radiation, involves a steady-state of production and loss of tissue, and is dependent on an organizer located in the upper part of the head. We show that the sharp boundary separating tissue in the body column from head and foot tissue depends on histone acetylation. Histone deacetylation disrupts the boundary by affecting numerous developmental genes including Wnt components and prevents stem cells from entering the position dependent differentiation program. Overall, our results suggest that reversible histone acetylation is an ancient regulatory mechanism for partitioning the body axis into domains with specific identity, which was present in the common ancestor of cnidarians and bilaterians, at least 600 million years ago.
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Kurita K, Sakamoto Y, Naruse S, Matsunaga TM, Arata H, Higashiyama T, Habu Y, Utsumi Y, Utsumi C, Tanaka M, Takahashi S, Kim JM, Seki M, Sakamoto T, Matsunaga S. Intracellular localization of histone deacetylase HDA6 in plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2019; 132:629-640. [PMID: 31338715 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-019-01124-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Histone modification is an important epigenetic mechanism in eukaryotes. Histone acetyltransferase and deacetylase regulate histone acetylation levels antagonistically, leading to dynamic control of chromatin structure. One of the histone deacetylases, HDA6, is involved in gene silencing in the heterochromatin regions, chromocenter formation, and metabolic adaptation under drought stress. Although HDA6 plays an important role in chromatin control and response to drought stress, its intracellular localization has not been observed in detail. In this paper, we generated transformants expressing HDA6-GFP in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and the crops, rice, and cassava. We observed the localization of the fusion protein and showed that HDA6-GFP was expressed in the whole root and localized at the nucleus in Arabidopsis, rice, and cassava. Remarkably, HDA6-GFP clearly formed speckles that were actively colocalized with chromocenters in Arabidopsis root meristem. In contrast, such speckles were unlikely to be formed in rice or cassava. Because AtHDA6 directly binds to the acetate synthesis genes, which function in drought tolerance, we performed live imaging analyses to examine the cellular dynamics of pH in roots and the subnuclear dynamics of AtHDA6 responding to acetic acid treatment. The number of HDA6 speckles increased during drought stress, suggesting a role in contributing to drought stress tolerance.
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- Kazuki Kurita
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8602, Japan
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- Plant Physiology Research Unit, Division of Plant and Microbial Sciences, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
- Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
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Rutowicz K, Lirski M, Mermaz B, Teano G, Schubert J, Mestiri I, Kroteń MA, Fabrice TN, Fritz S, Grob S, Ringli C, Cherkezyan L, Barneche F, Jerzmanowski A, Baroux C. Linker histones are fine-scale chromatin architects modulating developmental decisions in Arabidopsis. Genome Biol 2019; 20:157. [PMID: 31391082 PMCID: PMC6685187 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1767-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Chromatin provides a tunable platform for gene expression control. Besides the well-studied core nucleosome, H1 linker histones are abundant chromatin components with intrinsic potential to influence chromatin function. Well studied in animals, little is known about the evolution of H1 function in other eukaryotic lineages for instance plants. Notably, in the model plant Arabidopsis, while H1 is known to influence heterochromatin and DNA methylation, its contribution to transcription, molecular, and cytological chromatin organization remains elusive. RESULTS We provide a multi-scale functional study of Arabidopsis linker histones. We show that H1-deficient plants are viable yet show phenotypes in seed dormancy, flowering time, lateral root, and stomata formation-complemented by either or both of the major variants. H1 depletion also impairs pluripotent callus formation. Fine-scale chromatin analyses combined with transcriptome and nucleosome profiling reveal distinct roles of H1 on hetero- and euchromatin: H1 is necessary to form heterochromatic domains yet dispensable for silencing of most transposable elements; H1 depletion affects nucleosome density distribution and mobility in euchromatin, spatial arrangement of nanodomains, histone acetylation, and methylation. These drastic changes affect moderately the transcription but reveal a subset of H1-sensitive genes. CONCLUSIONS H1 variants have a profound impact on the molecular and spatial (nuclear) chromatin organization in Arabidopsis with distinct roles in euchromatin and heterochromatin and a dual causality on gene expression. Phenotypical analyses further suggest the novel possibility that H1-mediated chromatin organization may contribute to the epigenetic control of developmental and cellular transitions.
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- Kinga Rutowicz
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, 352a Osborn memorial laboratories, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- Département de Biologie, IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, 46 rue d'Ulm, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Département de Biologie, IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, 46 rue d'Ulm, F-75005, Paris, France
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- College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Département de Biologie, IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, 46 rue d'Ulm, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
- Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Zhang Y, Yin B, Zhang J, Cheng Z, Liu Y, Wang B, Guo X, Liu X, Liu D, Li H, Lu H. Histone Deacetylase HDT1 is Involved in Stem Vascular Development in Arabidopsis. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E3452. [PMID: 31337083 PMCID: PMC6678272 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20143452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Histone acetylation and deacetylation play essential roles in eukaryotic gene regulation. HD2 (HD-tuins) proteins were previously identified as plant-specific histone deacetylases. In this study, we investigated the function of the HDT1 gene in the formation of stem vascular tissue in Arabidopsis thaliana. The height and thickness of the inflorescence stems in the hdt1 mutant was lower than that of wild-type plants. Paraffin sections showed that the cell number increased compared to the wild type, while transmission electron microscopy showed that the size of individual tracheary elements and fiber cells significantly decreased in the hdt1 mutant. In addition, the cell wall thickness of tracheary elements and fiber cells increased. We also found that the lignin content in the stem of the hdt1 mutants increased compared to that of the wild type. Transcriptomic data revealed that the expression levels of many biosynthetic genes related to secondary wall components, including cellulose, lignin biosynthesis, and hormone-related genes, were altered, which may lead to the altered phenotype in vascular tissue of the hdt1 mutant. These results suggested that HDT1 is involved in development of the vascular tissue of the stem by affecting cell proliferation and differentiation.
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- Yongzhuo Zhang
- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
- National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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Polosoro A, Enggarini W, Ohmido N. Global epigenetic changes of histone modification under environmental stresses in rice root. Chromosome Res 2019; 27:287-298. [PMID: 31280458 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-019-09611-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Revised: 06/09/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Abiotic stresses are non-living factors with negative morphological and physiological effects on living organisms. Substantial evidence exists that gene expression changes during plant cell growth are regulated by chromatin reconfiguration and histone modification. Several types of histone modifications are dramatically transformed in stress-responsive gene regions under drought stress conditions. Environmental stresses also cause the root apical meristem (RAM) region to decelerate root growth. In this study, we investigated how quantitative changes in epigenetic markers in this region influence rice morphology and physiology. Both iron and salinity treatments changed the epigenetic landscape from euchromatic to heterochromatic according to heterochromatin (H3K9me2) and euchromatin (H3K4me) markers, especially in the proximal meristem region. Moreover, supplementation with external abscisic acid (ABA) was able to mimic the effect of environmental stresses on global epigenetic changes. In contrast, the addition of external auxin (IAA) to rice under saline conditions affected heterochromatin formation without influencing euchromatin transformation. Chromatin dynamics is therefore believed to be directly connected to plant growth regulator signaling. We discuss insights into the role of plant growth regulators: ABA and IAA, peroxide signaling, and their effects on the global epigenetic change of histone modification under abiotic stresses.
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- Aqwin Polosoro
- Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resource Research and Development (ICABIOGRD), Bogor, Indonesia.,Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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- Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resource Research and Development (ICABIOGRD), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
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Yang X, Lu Y, Zhao X, Jiang L, Xu S, Peng J, Zheng H, Lin L, Wu Y, MacFarlane S, Chen J, Yan F. Downregulation of Nuclear Protein H2B Induces Salicylic Acid Mediated Defense Against PVX Infection in Nicotiana benthamiana. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1000. [PMID: 31134032 PMCID: PMC6517552 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Histone H2B protein is not only structurally important for chromosomal DNA packaging but is also involved in the regulation of gene expression, including the immune response of plants against pathogens. In this study, we show that the potato virus X (PVX) infection resulted in the reduced expression of H2B at both the mRNA and protein level in Nicotiana benthamiana. Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) was then used to down-regulate the expression of H2B in N. benthamiana and tests showed that the titre of TRV was similar in these plants to that in control treated plants. When these H2B-silenced plants were inoculated with PVX, the virus spread more slowly through the plant and there was a lower titre of PVX compared to non-silenced plants. Abnormal leaf development and stem necrosis were observed in the H2B-silenced plants, which were alleviated in H2B-silenced NahG transgenic plants suggesting the involvement of salicylic acid (SA) in the production of these symptoms. Indeed, quantitative reverse transcription (qRT)-PCR and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS) results showed that endogenous SA is increased in H2B-silenced N. benthamiana. Thus, downregulation of H2B induced the accumulation of endogenous SA, which was correlated with stem necrosis and a decreased accumulation of PVX in N. benthamiana.
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- Xue Yang
- Department of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Department of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease – Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
- College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Central Laboratory of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease – Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease – Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease – Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
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- Cell and Molecular Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease – Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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Hasegawa J, Sakamoto T, Fujimoto S, Yamashita T, Suzuki T, Matsunaga S. Auxin decreases chromatin accessibility through the TIR1/AFBs auxin signaling pathway in proliferative cells. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7773. [PMID: 29773913 PMCID: PMC5958073 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25963-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Chromatin accessibility is closely associated with chromatin functions such as gene expression, DNA replication, and maintenance of DNA integrity. However, the relationship between chromatin accessibility and plant hormone signaling has remained elusive. Here, based on the correlation between chromatin accessibility and DNA damage, we used the sensitivity to DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) as an indicator of chromatin accessibility and demonstrated that auxin regulates chromatin accessibility through the TIR1/AFBs signaling pathway in proliferative cells. Treatment of proliferating plant cells with an inhibitor of the TIR1/AFBs auxin signaling pathway, PEO-IAA, caused chromatin loosening, indicating that auxin signaling functions to decrease chromatin accessibility. In addition, a transcriptome analysis revealed that several histone H4 genes and a histone chaperone gene, FAS1, are positively regulated through the TIR1/AFBs signaling pathway, suggesting that auxin plays a role in promoting nucleosome assembly. Analysis of the fas1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana confirmed that FAS1 is required for the auxin-dependent decrease in chromatin accessibility. These results suggest that the positive regulation of chromatin-related genes mediated by the TIR1/AFBs auxin signaling pathway enhances nucleosome assembly, resulting in decreased chromatin accessibility in proliferative cells.
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- Junko Hasegawa
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, Aichi, 487-8501, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
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The long linear chromosomes of eukaryotic organisms are tightly packed into the nucleus of the cell. Beyond a first organization into nucleosomes and higher-order chromatin fibers, the positioning of nuclear DNA within the three-dimensional space of the nucleus plays a critical role in genome function and gene expression. Different techniques have been developed to assess nanoscale chromatin organization, nuclear position of genomic regions or specific chromatin features and binding proteins as well as higher-order chromatin organization. Here, I present an overview of imaging and molecular techniques applied to study nuclear architecture in plants, with special attention to the related protocols published in the "Plant Chromatin Dynamics" edition from Methods in Molecular Biology.
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- Aline V Probst
- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, 63001, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Guo S, Dai S, Singh PK, Wang H, Wang Y, Tan JLH, Wee W, Ito T. A Membrane-Bound NAC-Like Transcription Factor OsNTL5 Represses the Flowering in Oryza sativa. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:555. [PMID: 29774039 PMCID: PMC5943572 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In spite of short-day (SD) nature, rice (Oryza sativa) shares a conserved photoperiodic network for flowering control with long-day plants like Arabidopsis thaliana. Flowering or heading is an important agronomic trait in rice. NAC transcription factors (TFs) are well-conserved and one of the largest families of plant TFs. However, their function in flowering or heading time is not well-known yet. A preferential expression of a membrane-bound NAC-like TF OsNTL5 in developing leaves and panicles of rice indicated to us its putative role in flowering. To examine its function, three independent constructs was generated, one with a deletion in the C terminus membrane-spanning domain (OsNTL5∆C), OsNTL5∆C fused with the SRDX transcriptional repressor motif and OsNTL5∆C used with the VP16 activation domain under the Ubiquitin promoter to produce the overexpressing lines OsNTL5∆C, OsNTL5∆C-SRDX, and OsNTL5∆C-VP, respectively in rice. The OsNTL5∆C-VP line showed an early-flowering phenotype. In contrast to this, the plants with OsNTL5∆C and OsNTL5∆C-SRDX showed a very strong late-flowering phenotype, suggesting that OsNTL5 suppresses flowering as a transcriptional repressor. The protein subcellular localization assay suggested that N-terminal part of the OsNTL5 is localized to the nucleus after the protein is cleaved from its membrane-spanning domain at the C-terminal end and functions as a TF. Expression of flowering genes responsible for day length signals such as Early Heading Date 1 (Ehd1), Heading Date 3a (Hd3a), and Rice Flowering Locus T1 (RFT1) was significantly changed in the overexpression lines of OsNTL5∆C-VP, OsNTL5∆C, and OsNTL5∆C-SRDX as analyzed by Quantitative Real-time PCR. ChIP-qPCR and rice protoplasts assays indicate that OsNTL5 directly binds to the promoter of Ehd1 and negatively regulates the expression of Ehd1, which shows antagonistic photoperiodic expression patterns of OsNTL5 in a 24-h SD cycle. Hence in conclusion, the NAC-like TF OsNTL5 functions as a transcriptional repressor to suppress flowering in rice as an upstream factor of Ehd1.
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- Siyi Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Stress Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- *Correspondence: Siyi Guo, Toshiro Ito,
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- Development Center of Plant Germplasm Resources, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Stress Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Stress Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Stress Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan
- *Correspondence: Siyi Guo, Toshiro Ito,
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Histone proteins play an important role in determining chromatin structure and gene expression. Studies in several systems have established that histones are in continuous turnover within the chromatin. It is therefore important to quantitatively measure the binding dynamics of these proteins in vivo. Photobleaching-based approaches such as fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) are advantageous in that they are applied to living cells at a single cell level. In this chapter, I provide a detailed experimental protocol on how to perform histone FRAP experiments in Arabidopsis thaliana roots and how to analyze the most important parameters.
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- Stefanie Rosa
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, Building 20, DE-14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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She W, Baroux C, Grossniklaus U. Cell-Type Specific Chromatin Analysis in Whole-Mount Plant Tissues by Immunostaining. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1675:443-454. [PMID: 29052206 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7318-7_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Chromatin organization in eukaryotes is highly dynamic, playing fundamental roles in regulating diverse nuclear processes including DNA replication, transcription, and repair. Thus, the analysis of chromatin organization is of great importance for the elucidation of chromatin-mediated biological processes. Immunostaining coupled with imaging is one of the most powerful tools for chromatin analysis at the cellular level. However, in plants, it is sometimes technically challenging to apply this method due to the inaccessibility of certain cell types and/or poor penetration of the reagents into plant tissues and cells. To circumvent these limitations, we developed a highly efficient protocol enabling the analysis of chromatin modifications and nuclear organization at the single-cell level with high resolution in whole-mount plant tissues. The main procedure consists of five steps: (1) tissue fixation; (2) dissection and embedding; (3) tissue processing; (4) antibody incubation; and (5) imaging. This protocol has been simplified for the processing of multiple samples without the need for laborious tissue sectioning. Additionally, it preserves cellular morphology and chromatin organization, allowing comparative analyses of chromatin organization between different cell types or developmental stages. This protocol was successfully used for various tissues of different plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), and Zea mays (maize). Importantly, this method is very useful to analyze poorly accessible tissues, such as female meiocytes, gametophytes, and embryos.
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- Wenjing She
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland
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Santos RB, Pires AS, Abranches R. Addition of a histone deacetylase inhibitor increases recombinant protein expression in Medicago truncatula cell cultures. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16756. [PMID: 29196720 PMCID: PMC5711867 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17006-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Plant cell cultures are an attractive platform for the production of recombinant proteins. A major drawback, hindering the establishment of plant cell suspensions as an industrial platform, is the low product yield obtained thus far. Histone acetylation is associated with increased transcription levels, therefore it is expected that the use of histone deacetylase inhibitors would result in an increase in mRNA and protein levels. Here, this hypothesis was tested by adding a histone deacetylase inhibitor, suberanilohydroxamic acid (SAHA), to a cell line of the model legume Medicago truncatula expressing a recombinant human protein. Histone deacetylase inhibition by SAHA and histone acetylation levels were studied, and the effect of SAHA on gene expression and recombinant protein levels was assessed by digital PCR. SAHA addition effectively inhibited histone deacetylase activity resulting in increased histone acetylation. Higher levels of transgene expression and accumulation of the associated protein were observed. This is the first report describing histone deacetylase inhibitors as inducers of recombinant protein expression in plant cell suspensions as well as the use of digital PCR in these biological systems. This study paves the way for employing epigenetic strategies to improve the final yields of recombinant proteins produced by plant cell cultures.
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- Rita B Santos
- Plant Cell Biology Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Av República, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Plant Cell Biology Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Av República, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Plant Cell Biology Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Av República, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal.
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Li H, Torres-Garcia J, Latrasse D, Benhamed M, Schilderink S, Zhou W, Kulikova O, Hirt H, Bisseling T. Plant-Specific Histone Deacetylases HDT1/2 Regulate GIBBERELLIN 2-OXIDASE2 Expression to Control Arabidopsis Root Meristem Cell Number. THE PLANT CELL 2017; 29:2183-2196. [PMID: 28855334 PMCID: PMC5635991 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.00366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Revised: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Root growth is modulated by environmental factors and depends on cell production in the root meristem (RM). New cells in the meristem are generated by stem cells and transit-amplifying cells, which together determine RM cell number. Transcription factors and chromatin-remodeling factors have been implicated in regulating the switch from stem cells to transit-amplifying cells. Here, we show that two Arabidopsis thaliana paralogs encoding plant-specific histone deacetylases, HDT1 and HDT2, regulate a second switch from transit-amplifying cells to expanding cells. Knockdown of HDT1/2 (hdt1,2i) results in an earlier switch and causes a reduced RM cell number. Our data show that HDT1/2 negatively regulate the acetylation level of the C19-GIBBERELLIN 2-OXIDASE2 (GA2ox2) locus and repress the expression of GA2ox2 in the RM and elongation zone. Overexpression of GA2ox2 in the RM phenocopies the hdt1,2i phenotype. Conversely, knockout of GA2ox2 partially rescues the root growth defect of hdt1,2i These results suggest that by repressing the expression of GA2ox2, HDT1/2 likely fine-tune gibberellin metabolism and they are crucial for regulating the switch from cell division to expansion to determine RM cell number. We propose that HDT1/2 function as part of a mechanism that modulates root growth in response to environmental factors.
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- Huchen Li
- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, ERL CNRS 8196, Saclay Plant Sciences, 91057 Evry, France
- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud 11, UMR 8618, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud 11, UMR 8618, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
- King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale, UMR INRA 1165, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, ERL CNRS 8196, Saclay Plant Sciences, 91057 Evry, France
- King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Cañas RA, Li Z, Pascual MB, Castro-Rodríguez V, Ávila C, Sterck L, Van de Peer Y, Cánovas FM. The gene expression landscape of pine seedling tissues. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 91:1064-1087. [PMID: 28635135 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2016] [Revised: 05/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Conifers dominate vast regions of the Northern hemisphere. They are the main source of raw materials for timber industry as well as a wide range of biomaterials. Despite their inherent difficulties as experimental models for classical plant biology research, the technological advances in genomics research are enabling fundamental studies on these plants. The use of laser capture microdissection followed by transcriptomic analysis is a powerful tool for unravelling the molecular and functional organization of conifer tissues and specialized cells. In the present work, 14 different tissues from 1-month-old maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) seedlings have been isolated and their transcriptomes analysed. The results increased the sequence information and number of full-length transcripts from a previous reference transcriptome and added 39 841 new transcripts. In total, 2376 transcripts were ubiquitously expressed in all of the examined tissues. These transcripts could be considered the core 'housekeeping genes' in pine. The genes have been clustered in function to their expression profiles. This analysis reduced the number of profiles to 38, most of these defined by their expression in a unique tissue that is much higher than in the other tissues. The expression and localization data are accessible at ConGenIE.org (http://v22.popgenie.org/microdisection/). This study presents an overview of the gene expression distribution in different pine tissues, specifically highlighting the relationships between tissue gene expression and function. This transcriptome atlas is a valuable resource for functional genomics research in conifers.
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- Rafael A Cañas
- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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Kurita K, Sakamoto T, Yagi N, Sakamoto Y, Ito A, Nishino N, Sako K, Yoshida M, Kimura H, Seki M, Matsunaga S. Live imaging of H3K9 acetylation in plant cells. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45894. [PMID: 28418019 PMCID: PMC5394682 DOI: 10.1038/srep45894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Proper regulation of histone acetylation is important in development and cellular responses to environmental stimuli. However, the dynamics of histone acetylation at the single-cell level remains poorly understood. Here we established a transgenic plant cell line to track histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation (H3K9ac) with a modification-specific intracellular antibody (mintbody). The H3K9ac-specific mintbody fused to the enhanced green fluorescent protein (H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP) was introduced into tobacco BY-2 cells. We successfully demonstrated that H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP interacted with H3K9ac in vivo. The ratio of nuclear/cytoplasmic H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP detected in quantitative analysis reflected the endogenous H3K9ac levels. Under chemically induced hyperacetylation conditions with histone deacetylase inhibitors including trichostatin A, Ky-2 and Ky-14, significant enhancement of H3K9ac was detected by H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP dependent on the strength of inhibitors. Conversely, treatment with a histone acetyltransferase inhibitor, C646 caused a reduction in the nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio of H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP. Using this system, we assessed the environmental responses of H3K9ac and found that cold and salt stresses enhanced H3K9ac in tobacco BY-2 cells. In addition, a combination of H3K9ac-mintbody-GFP with 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine labelling confirmed that H3K9ac level is constant during interphase.
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- Kazuki Kurita
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Imaging Frontier Center, Organization for Research Advancement, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8501, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
- Imaging Frontier Center, Organization for Research Advancement, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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Santos AP, Ferreira LJ, Oliveira MM. Concerted Flexibility of Chromatin Structure, Methylome, and Histone Modifications along with Plant Stress Responses. BIOLOGY 2017; 6:biology6010003. [PMID: 28275209 PMCID: PMC5371996 DOI: 10.3390/biology6010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The spatial organization of chromosome structure within the interphase nucleus, as well as the patterns of methylome and histone modifications, represent intersecting layers that influence genome accessibility and function. This review is focused on the plastic nature of chromatin structure and epigenetic marks in association to stress situations. The use of chemical compounds (epigenetic drugs) or T-DNA-mediated mutagenesis affecting epigenetic regulators (epi-mutants) are discussed as being important tools for studying the impact of deregulated epigenetic backgrounds on gene function and phenotype. The inheritability of epigenetic marks and chromatin configurations along successive generations are interpreted as a way for plants to “communicate” past experiences of stress sensing. A mechanistic understanding of chromatin and epigenetics plasticity in plant response to stress, including tissue- and genotype-specific epigenetic patterns, may help to reveal the epigenetics contributions for genome and phenotype regulation.
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- Ana Paula Santos
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Genomics of Plant Stress Unit. Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal.
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Genomics of Plant Stress Unit. Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal.
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Genomics of Plant Stress Unit. Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal.
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Morao AK, Bouyer D, Roudier F. Emerging concepts in chromatin-level regulation of plant cell differentiation: timing, counting, sensing and maintaining. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 34:27-34. [PMID: 27522467 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2016] [Revised: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 07/30/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Plants are characterized by a remarkable phenotypic plasticity that meets the constraints of a sessile lifestyle and the need to adjust constantly to the environment. Recent studies have begun to reveal how chromatin dynamics participate in coordinating cell proliferation and differentiation in response to developmental cues as well as environmental fluctuations. In this review, we discuss the pivotal function of chromatin-based mechanisms in cell fate acquisition and maintenance, within as well as outside meristems. In particular, we highlight the emerging role of specific epigenomic factors and chromatin pathways in timing the activity of stem cells, counting cell divisions and positioning cell fate transitions by sensing phytohormone gradients.
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- Ana Karina Morao
- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8197, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8197, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8197, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France; Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR5667, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) UMR879, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Lyon 1 (UCBL), 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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Takagi M, Sakamoto T, Suzuki R, Nemoto K, Obayashi T, Hirakawa T, Matsunaga TM, Kurihara D, Nariai Y, Urano T, Sawasaki T, Matsunaga S. Plant Aurora kinases interact with and phosphorylate transcription factors. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2016; 129:1165-1178. [PMID: 27734173 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-016-0860-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Aurora kinase (AUR) is a well-known mitotic serine/threonine kinase that regulates centromere formation, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis in eukaryotes. In addition to regulating mitotic events, AUR has been shown to regulate protein dynamics during interphase in animal cells. In contrast, there has been no identification and characterization of substrates and/or interacting proteins during interphase in plants. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes three AUR paralogues, AtAUR1, AtAUR2, and AtAUR3. Among them, AtAUR1 and AtAUR2 are considered to function redundantly. Here, we confirmed that both AtAUR1 and AtAUR3 are localized in the nucleus and cytoplasm during interphase, suggesting that they have functions during interphase. To identify novel interacting proteins, we used AlphaScreen to target 580 transcription factors (TFs) that are mainly functional during interphase, using recombinant A. thaliana TFs and AtAUR1 or AtAUR3. We found 133 and 32 TFs had high potential for interaction with AtAUR1 and AtAUR3, respectively. The highly AtAUR-interacting TFs were involved in various biological processes, suggesting the functions of the AtAURs during interphase. We found that AtAUR1 and AtAUR3 showed similar interaction affinity to almost all TFs. However, in some cases, the interaction affinity differed substantially between the two AtAUR homologues. These results suggest that AtAUR1 and AtAUR3 have both redundant and distinct functions through interactions with TFs. In addition, database analysis revealed that most of the highly AtAUR-interacting TFs contained a detectable phosphopeptide that was consistent with the consensus motifs for human AURs, suggesting that these TFs are substrates of the AtAURs. The AtAURs phosphorylated several highly interacting TFs in the AlphaScreen in vitro. Overall, in line with the regulation of TFs through interaction, our results indicate the possibility of phosphoregulation of several TFs by the AtAURs (280/300).
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- Mai Takagi
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, 791-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8679, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, JST ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan
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- Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, 791-8577, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
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Otero S, Desvoyes B, Peiró R, Gutierrez C. Histone H3 Dynamics Reveal Domains with Distinct Proliferation Potential in the Arabidopsis Root. THE PLANT CELL 2016; 28:1361-71. [PMID: 27207857 PMCID: PMC4944401 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.01003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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A coordinated transition from cell proliferation to differentiation is crucial for organogenesis. We found that extensive chromatin reorganization, shown here for histone H3 proteins, characterizes cell population dynamics in the root developmental compartments. The canonical H3.1 protein, incorporated during S-phase, is maintained at high levels in cells dividing at a high rate but is massively evicted in cells undergoing their last cell cycle before exit to differentiation. A similar pattern was observed in the quadruple mutant for the H3.1-encoding genes HTR1, HTR2, HTR3, and HTR9 (htr1,2,3,9), in which H3.1 is expressed only from the HTR13 gene. H3 eviction is a fast process occurring within the G2 phase of the last cell cycle, which is longer than G2 in earlier cell cycles. This longer G2 likely contributes to lower the H3.1/H3.3 ratio in cells leaving the root meristem. The high H3.1/H3.3 ratio and H3.1 eviction process also occurs in endocycling cells before differentiation, revealing a common principle of H3 eviction in the proliferating and endocycling domains of the root apex. Mutants in the H3.1 chaperone CAF-1 (fas1-4) maintain a pattern similar to that of wild-type roots. Our studies reveal that H3 incorporation and eviction dynamics identify cells with different cell division potential during organ patterning.
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- Sofía Otero
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Ikeuchi M, Iwase A, Sugimoto K. Control of plant cell differentiation by histone modification and DNA methylation. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 28:60-7. [PMID: 26454697 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Revised: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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How cells differentiate and acquire diverse arrays of determined states in multicellular organisms is a fundamental and yet unanswered question in biology. Molecular genetic studies over the last few decades have identified many transcriptional regulators that activate or repress gene expression to promote cell differentiation in plant development. What has recently emerged as an additional important regulatory layer is the control at the epigenetic level by which locus-specific DNA methylation and histone modification alter the chromatin state and limit the expression of key developmental regulators to specific windows of time and space. Accumulating evidence suggests that histone acetylation is commonly linked with active transcription and this mechanism is adopted to control sequential progression of cell differentiation. Histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 27 and DNA methylation are both associated with gene repression, and these mechanisms are often utilised to promote and/or maintain the differentiated status of plant cells.
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- Momoko Ikeuchi
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
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Rutowicz K, Puzio M, Halibart-Puzio J, Lirski M, Kotliński M, Kroteń MA, Knizewski L, Lange B, Muszewska A, Śniegowska-Świerk K, Kościelniak J, Iwanicka-Nowicka R, Buza K, Janowiak F, Żmuda K, Jõesaar I, Laskowska-Kaszub K, Fogtman A, Kollist H, Zielenkiewicz P, Tiuryn J, Siedlecki P, Swiezewski S, Ginalski K, Koblowska M, Archacki R, Wilczynski B, Rapacz M, Jerzmanowski A. A Specialized Histone H1 Variant Is Required for Adaptive Responses to Complex Abiotic Stress and Related DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:2080-101. [PMID: 26351307 PMCID: PMC4634048 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/07/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Linker (H1) histones play critical roles in chromatin compaction in higher eukaryotes. They are also the most variable of the histones, with numerous nonallelic variants cooccurring in the same cell. Plants contain a distinct subclass of minor H1 variants that are induced by drought and abscisic acid and have been implicated in mediating adaptive responses to stress. However, how these variants facilitate adaptation remains poorly understood. Here, we show that the single Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) stress-inducible variant H1.3 occurs in plants in two separate and most likely autonomous pools: a constitutive guard cell-specific pool and a facultative environmentally controlled pool localized in other tissues. Physiological and transcriptomic analyses of h1.3 null mutants demonstrate that H1.3 is required for both proper stomatal functioning under normal growth conditions and adaptive developmental responses to combined light and water deficiency. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching analysis, we show that H1.3 has superfast chromatin dynamics, and in contrast to the main Arabidopsis H1 variants H1.1 and H1.2, it has no stable bound fraction. The results of global occupancy studies demonstrate that, while H1.3 has the same overall binding properties as the main H1 variants, including predominant heterochromatin localization, it differs from them in its preferences for chromatin regions with epigenetic signatures of active and repressed transcription. We also show that H1.3 is required for a substantial part of DNA methylation associated with environmental stress, suggesting that the likely mechanism underlying H1.3 function may be the facilitation of chromatin accessibility by direct competition with the main H1 variants.
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- Kinga Rutowicz
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
| | - Katarzyna Laskowska-Kaszub
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (K.R., J.H.-P., M.L., M.Kot., A.M., R.I.-N., A.F., P.Z., P.S., S.S., M.Kob., A.J.);Laboratory of Systems Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland (M.P., M.Kot., B.L., R.I.-N., K.L.-K., P.S., M.Kob., R.A., A.J.);Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Rzeszów, 36-100 Kolbuszowa, Poland (J.H.-P.);College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland (M.A.K.);Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Center of New Technologies (L.K., A.M., K.G.), and Institute of Informatics (K.B., J.T., B.W.), University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Plant Physiology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (K.Ś.-Ś., J.K., K.Ż., M.R.);Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Cracow, Poland (F.J.); andInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia (I.J., H.K.)
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Gaillochet C, Lohmann JU. The never-ending story: from pluripotency to plant developmental plasticity. Development 2015; 142:2237-49. [PMID: 26130755 PMCID: PMC4510588 DOI: 10.1242/dev.117614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Plants are sessile organisms, some of which can live for over a thousand years. Unlike most animals, plants employ a post-embryonic mode of development driven by the continuous activity of pluripotent stem cells. Consequently, plants are able to initiate new organs over extended periods of time, and many species can readily replace lost body structures by de novo organogenesis. Classical studies have also shown that plant tissues have a remarkable capacity to undergo de-differentiation and proliferation in vitro, highlighting the fact that plant cell fate is highly plastic. This suggests that the mechanisms regulating fate transitions must be continuously active in most plant cells and that the control of cellular pluripotency lies at the core of diverse developmental programs. Here, we review how pluripotency is established in plant stem cell systems, how it is maintained during development and growth and re-initiated during regeneration, and how these mechanisms eventually contribute to the amazing developmental plasticity of plants.
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- Christophe Gaillochet
- Department of Stem Cell Biology, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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Zhou W, Zhu Y, Dong A, Shen WH. Histone H2A/H2B chaperones: from molecules to chromatin-based functions in plant growth and development. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 83:78-95. [PMID: 25781491 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2015] [Revised: 03/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Nucleosomal core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) must be assembled, replaced or exchanged to preserve or modify chromatin organization and function according to cellular needs. Histone chaperones escort histones, and play key functions during nucleosome assembly/disassembly and in nucleosome structure configuration. Because of their location at the periphery of nucleosome, histone H2A-H2B dimers are remarkably dynamic. Here we focus on plant histone H2A/H2B chaperones, particularly members of the NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY PROTEIN-1 (NAP1) and FACILITATES CHROMATIN TRANSCRIPTION (FACT) families, discussing their molecular features, properties, regulation and function. Covalent histone modifications (e.g. ubiquitination, phosphorylation, methylation, acetylation) and H2A variants (H2A.Z, H2A.X and H2A.W) are also discussed in view of their crucial importance in modulating nucleosome organization and function. We further discuss roles of NAP1 and FACT in chromatin-based processes, such as transcription, DNA replication and repair. Specific functions of NAP1 and FACT are evident when their roles are considered with respect to regulation of plant growth and development and in plant responses to environmental stresses. Future major challenges remain in order to define in more detail the overlapping and specific roles of various members of the NAP1 family as well as differences and similarities between NAP1 and FACT family members, and to identify and characterize their partners as well as new families of chaperones to understand histone variant incorporation and chromatin target specificity.
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- Wangbin Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 20043, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 20043, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 20043, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 20043, China
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084, Strasbourg, France
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Baroux C, Autran D. Chromatin dynamics during cellular differentiation in the female reproductive lineage of flowering plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 83:160-76. [PMID: 26031902 PMCID: PMC4502977 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
Sexual reproduction in flowering plants offers a number of remarkable aspects to developmental biologists. First, the spore mother cells - precursors of the plant reproductive lineage - are specified late in development, as opposed to precocious germline isolation during embryogenesis in most animals. Second, unlike in most animals where meiosis directly produces gametes, plant meiosis entails the differentiation of a multicellular, haploid gametophyte, within which gametic as well as non-gametic accessory cells are formed. These observations raise the question of the factors inducing and modus operandi of cell fate transitions that originate in floral tissues and gametophytes, respectively. Cell fate transitions in the reproductive lineage imply cellular reprogramming operating at the physiological, cytological and transcriptome level, but also at the chromatin level. A number of observations point to large-scale chromatin reorganization events associated with cellular differentiation of the female spore mother cells and of the female gametes. These include a reorganization of the heterochromatin compartment, the genome-wide alteration of the histone modification landscape, and the remodeling of nucleosome composition. The dynamic expression of DNA methyltransferases and actors of small RNA pathways also suggest additional, global epigenetic alterations that remain to be characterized. Are these events a cause or a consequence of cellular differentiation, and how do they contribute to cell fate transition? Does chromatin dynamics induce competence for immediate cellular functions (meiosis, fertilization), or does it also contribute long-term effects in cellular identity and developmental competence of the reproductive lineage? This review attempts to review these fascinating questions.
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- Célia Baroux
- Institute of Plant Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of ZürichZollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland
- *For correspondence (e-mail )
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (UMR DIADE 232), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (URL 5300), Université de Montpellier911 avenue Agropolis, 34000, Montpellier, France
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Rosa S, Shaw P. Two-photon Photoactivation to Measure Histone Exchange Dynamics in Plant Root Cells. Bio Protoc 2015; 5:e1628. [PMID: 29085858 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.1628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Chromatin-binding proteins play a crucial role in chromatin structure and gene expression. Direct binding of chromatin proteins both maintains and regulates transcriptional states. It is therefore important to study the binding properties of these proteins in vivo within the natural environment of the nucleus. Photobleaching, photoactivation and photoconversion (photoswitching) can provide a non-invasive experimental approach to study dynamic properties of living cells and organisms. We used photoactivation to determine exchange dynamics of histone H2B in plant stem cells of the root (Rosa et al., 2014). The stem cells of the root are located in the middle of the tissue, which made it impossible to carry out photoactivation of sufficiently small and well-defined sub-cellular regions with conventional laser illumination in the confocal microscope, mainly because scattering and refraction effects within the root tissue dispersed the focal spot and caused photoactivation of too large a region. We therefore used 2-photon activation, which has much better inherent resolution of the illuminated region. This is because the activation depends on simultaneous absorption of two or more photons, which in turns depends on the square (or higher power) of the intensity-a much sharper peak. In this protocol we will describe the experimental procedure to perform two-photon photoactivation experiments and the corresponding image analysis. This protocol can be used for nuclear proteins tagged with photoactivable GFP (PA-GFP) expressed in root tissues.
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- Stefanie Rosa
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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