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Bayer-Császár E, Jörg A, Härtel B, Brennicke A, Takenaka M. The Gating Domain of MEF28 Is Essential for Editing Two Contiguous Cytidines in nad2 mRNA in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 65:590-601. [PMID: 37530742 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcad087] [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: 04/24/2023] [Revised: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
Abstract
In plant organelles, each C-to-U RNA-editing site is specifically recognized by pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins with E1-E2, E1-E2-E+ or E1-E2-DYW domain extensions at the C-terminus. The distance between the PPR domain-binding site and the RNA-editing site is usually fixed at four bases, increasing the specificity of target-site recognition in this system. We here report, in contrast to the general case, on MEF28, which edits two adjacent mitochondrial sites, nad2-89 and nad2-90. When the sDYW domain of MEF28 was replaced with one derived from MEF11 or CRR22, the ability to edit downstream sites was lost, suggesting that the DYW domain of MEF28 provides unique target flexibility for two continuous cytidines. By contrast, substitutions of the entire E1-E2-DYW domains by MEF19E1-E2, SLO2E1-E2-E+ or CRR22E1-E2-E+ target both nad2 sites. In these cases, access to the contiguous sites in the chimeric PPR proteins is likely to be provided by the trans-associated DYW1-like proteins via the replaced E1-E2 or E1-E2-E+ domains. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the gating domain of MEF28 plays an important role in specific target-site recognition of the DYW domain. This finding suggests that the DYW domain and its internal gating domain fine-tune the specificity of the target site, which is valuable information for designing specific synthetic RNA-editing tools based on plant RNA-editing factors.
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Ulm 89069, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Ulm 89069, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Ulm 89069, Germany
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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Small I, Melonek J, Bohne AV, Nickelsen J, Schmitz-Linneweber C. Plant organellar RNA maturation. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:1727-1751. [PMID: 36807982 PMCID: PMC10226603 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Plant organellar RNA metabolism is run by a multitude of nucleus-encoded RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that control RNA stability, processing, and degradation. In chloroplasts and mitochondria, these post-transcriptional processes are vital for the production of a small number of essential components of the photosynthetic and respiratory machinery-and consequently for organellar biogenesis and plant survival. Many organellar RBPs have been functionally assigned to individual steps in RNA maturation, often specific to selected transcripts. While the catalog of factors identified is ever-growing, our knowledge of how they achieve their functions mechanistically is far from complete. This review summarizes the current knowledge of plant organellar RNA metabolism taking an RBP-centric approach and focusing on mechanistic aspects of RBP functions and the kinetics of the processes they are involved in.
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- Ian Small
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Plant Sciences, LMU Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Yang H, Wang Y, Tian Y, Teng X, Lv Z, Lei J, Duan E, Dong H, Yang X, Zhang Y, Sun Y, Chen X, Bao X, Chen R, Gu C, Zhang Y, Jiang X, Ma W, Zhang P, Ji Y, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Wan J. Rice FLOURY ENDOSPERM22, encoding a pentatricopeptide repeat protein, is involved in both mitochondrial RNA splicing and editing and is crucial for endosperm development. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 65:755-771. [PMID: 36333887 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Most of the reported P-type pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins play roles in organelle RNA stabilization and splicing. However, P-type PPRs involved in both RNA splicing and editing have rarely been reported, and their underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we report a rice floury endosperm22 (flo22) mutant with delayed amyloplast development in endosperm cells. Map-based cloning and complementation tests demonstrated that FLO22 encodes a mitochondrion-localized P-type PPR protein. Mutation of FLO22 resulting in defective trans-splicing of mitochondrial nad1 intron 1 and perhaps causing instability of mature transcripts affected assembly and activity of complex Ⅰ, and mitochondrial morphology and function. RNA-seq analysis showed that expression levels of many genes involved in starch and sucrose metabolism were significantly down-regulated in the flo22 mutant compared with the wild type, whereas genes related to oxidative phosphorylation and the tricarboxylic acid cycle were significantly up-regulated. In addition to involvement in splicing as a P-type PPR protein, we found that FLO22 interacted with DYW3, a DYW-type PPR protein, and they may function synergistically in mitochondrial RNA editing. The present work indicated that FLO22 plays an important role in endosperm development and plant growth by participating in nad1 maturation and multi-site editing of mitochondrial messager RNA.
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- Hang Yang
- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- National Key Facility for Crop Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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Li X, Sun M, Liu S, Teng Q, Li S, Jiang Y. Functions of PPR Proteins in Plant Growth and Development. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:11274. [PMID: 34681932 PMCID: PMC8537650 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222011274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins form a large protein family in land plants, with hundreds of different members in angiosperms. In the last decade, a number of studies have shown that PPR proteins are sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins involved in multiple aspects of plant organellar RNA processing, and perform numerous functions in plants throughout their life cycle. Recently, computational and structural studies have provided new insights into the working mechanisms of PPR proteins in RNA recognition and cytidine deamination. In this review, we summarized the research progress on the functions of PPR proteins in plant growth and development, with a particular focus on their effects on cytoplasmic male sterility, stress responses, and seed development. We also documented the molecular mechanisms of PPR proteins in mediating RNA processing in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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- Xiulan Li
- School of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China; (M.S.); (S.L.); (Q.T.); (S.L.)
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- School of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China; (M.S.); (S.L.); (Q.T.); (S.L.)
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Quantification of Mitochondrial RNA Editing Efficiency Using Sanger Sequencing Data. Methods Mol Biol 2021. [PMID: 34545498 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1653-6_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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C-to-U RNA editing in mitochondria and plastids is widespread in almost all terrestrial plants, where it mainly changes codons to encode conserved amino acids in organelle mRNAs. In flowering plants, the number of RNA editing sites reaches 400-600 in mitochondria and about 40 in plastids, respectively. To date, more than 100 factors involved in RNA editing have been identified. Since target cytidines of each factor are often distributed across multiple transcripts, comprehensive monitoring of all RNA editing sites is necessary for their characterization. Comparing the signals of C and T in the Sanger sequencing chromatogram of RT-PCR products is the most frequently employed method for quantification of RNA editing efficiency, although several methods based on next-generation sequencing have been developed. I here describe a quick and easy method for quantification of RNA editing efficiency at several hundred sites using the Sanger sequencing chromatogram data.
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Yang Y, Shan W. Quantitative Analysis of RNA Editing at Specific Sites in Plant Mitochondria or Chloroplasts Using DNA Sequencing. Bio Protoc 2021; 11:e4154. [PMID: 34692904 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Revised: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Cytidine-to-uridine (C-to-U) RNA editing is one of the most important post-transcriptional RNA processing in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts. Several techniques have been developed to detect the RNA editing efficiency in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts, such as poisoned primer extension (PPE) assays, high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis, and DNA sequencing. Here, we describe a method for the quantitative detection of RNA editing at specific sites by sequencing cDNA from plant leaves to further evaluate the effect of different treatments or plant mutants on the C to U RNA editing in mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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- Yang Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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Jiang D, Chen J, Zhang Z, Hou X. Mitochondrial Transcription Termination Factor 27 Is Required for Salt Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22031466. [PMID: 33540552 PMCID: PMC7867191 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22031466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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In plants, mTERF proteins are primarily found in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Studies have identified several mTERF proteins that affect plant development, respond to abiotic stresses, and regulate organellar gene expression, but the functions and underlying mechanisms of plant mTERF proteins remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the function of Arabidopsis mTERF27 using molecular genetic, cytological, and biochemical approaches. Arabidopsis mTERF27 had four mTERF motifs and was evolutionarily conserved from moss to higher plants. The phenotype of the mTERF27-knockout mutant mterf27 did not differ obviously from that of the wild-type under normal growth conditions but was hypersensitive to salt stress. mTERF27 was localized to the mitochondria, and the transcript levels of some mitochondrion-encoded genes were reduced in the mterf27 mutant. Importantly, loss of mTERF27 function led to developmental defects in the mitochondria under salt stress. Furthermore, mTERF27 formed homomers and directly interacted with multiple organellar RNA editing factor 8 (MORF8). Thus, our results indicated that mTERF27 is likely crucial for mitochondrial development under salt stress, and that this protein may be a member of the protein interaction network regulating mitochondrial gene expression.
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Yang Y, Fan G, Zhao Y, Wen Q, Wu P, Meng Y, Shan W. Cytidine-to-Uridine RNA Editing Factor NbMORF8 Negatively Regulates Plant Immunity to Phytophthora Pathogens. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 184:2182-2198. [PMID: 32972981 PMCID: PMC7723075 DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts play key roles in plant-pathogen interactions. Cytidine-to-uridine (C-to-U) RNA editing is a critical posttranscriptional modification in mitochondria and chloroplasts that is specific to flowering plants. Multiple organellar RNA-editing factors (MORFs) form a protein family that participates in C-to-U RNA editing, but little is known regarding their immune functions. Here, we report the identification of NbMORF8, a negative regulator of plant immunity to Phytophthora pathogens. Using virus-induced gene silencing and transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana, we show that NbMORF8 functions through the regulation of reactive oxygen species production, salicylic acid signaling, and accumulation of multiple Arg-X-Leu-Arg effectors of Phytophthora pathogens. NbMORF8 is localized to mitochondria and chloroplasts, and its immune function requires mitochondrial targeting. The conserved MORF box domain is not required for its immune function. Furthermore, we show that the preferentially mitochondrion-localized NbMORF proteins negatively regulate plant resistance against Phytophthora, whereas the preferentially chloroplast-localized ones are positive immune regulators. Our study reveals that the C-to-U RNA-editing factor NbMORF8 negatively regulates plant immunity to the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora and that mitochondrion- and chloroplast-localized NbMORF family members exert opposing effects on immune regulation.
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- Yang Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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Dai D, Jin L, Huo Z, Yan S, Ma Z, Qi W, Song R. Maize pentatricopeptide repeat protein DEK53 is required for mitochondrial RNA editing at multiple sites and seed development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:6246-6261. [PMID: 32710615 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa348] [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: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins were identified as site-specific recognition factors for RNA editing in plant mitochondria and plastids. In this study, we characterized maize (Zea mays) kernel mutant defective kernel 53 (dek53), which has an embryo lethal and collapsed endosperm phenotype. Dek53 encodes an E-subgroup PPR protein, which possesses a short PLS repeat region of only seven repeats. Subcellular localization analysis indicated that DEK53 is localized in the mitochondrion. Strand- and transcript-specific RNA-seq analysis showed that the dek53 mutation affected C-to-U RNA editing at more than 60 mitochondrial C targets. Biochemical analysis of mitochondrial protein complexes revealed a significant reduction in the assembly of mitochondrial complex III in dek53. Transmission electron microscopic examination showed severe morphological defects of mitochondria in dek53 endosperm cells. In addition, yeast two-hybrid and luciferase complementation imaging assays indicated that DEK53 can interact with the mitochondrion-targeted non-PPR RNA editing factor ZmMORF1, suggesting that DEK53 might be a functional component of the organellar RNA editosome.
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- Dawei Dai
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Plant Science Center, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Plant Science Center, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Plant Science Center, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Plant Science Center, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, National Maize Improvement Center, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Joint International Research Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Bio-Energy Crops, Plant Science Center, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, National Maize Improvement Center, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Joint International Research Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Liu R, Cao SK, Sayyed A, Yang HH, Zhao J, Wang X, Jia RX, Sun F, Tan BC. The DYW-subgroup pentatricopeptide repeat protein PPR27 interacts with ZmMORF1 to facilitate mitochondrial RNA editing and seed development in maize. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:5495-5505. [PMID: 32531050 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondria requires the participation of many nucleus-encoded factors, most of which are pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins. There is a large number of PPR proteins and the functions many of them are unknown. Here, we report a mitochondrion-localized DYW-subgroup PPR protein, PPR27, which functions in the editing of multiple mitochondrial transcripts in maize. The ppr27 mutant is completely deficient in C-to-U editing at the ccmFN-1357 and rps3-707 sites, and editing at six other sites is substantially reduced. The lack of editing at ccmFN-1357 causes a deficiency of CcmFN protein. As CcmFN functions in the maturation pathway of cytochrome proteins that are subunits of mitochondrial complex III, its deficiency results in an absence of cytochrome c1 and cytochrome c proteins. Consequently, the assembly of mitochondrial complex III and super-complex I+III2 is decreased, which impairs the electron transport chain and respiration, leading to arrests in embryogenesis and endosperm development in ppr27. In addition, PPR27 was found to physically interact with ZmMORF1, which interacts with ZmMORF8, suggesting that these three proteins may facilitate C-to-U RNA editing via the formation of a complex in maize mitochondria. This RNA editing is essential for complex III assembly and seed development in maize.
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- Rui Liu
- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environment Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Oldenkott B, Burger M, Hein AC, Jörg A, Senkler J, Braun HP, Knoop V, Takenaka M, Schallenberg-Rüdinger M. One C-to-U RNA Editing Site and Two Independently Evolved Editing Factors: Testing Reciprocal Complementation with DYW-Type PPR Proteins from the Moss Physcomitrium ( Physcomitrella) patens and the Flowering Plants Macadamia integrifolia and Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2020; 32:2997-3018. [PMID: 32616665 PMCID: PMC7474288 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.20.00311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Cytidine-to-uridine RNA editing is a posttranscriptional process in plant organelles, mediated by specific pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins. In angiosperms, hundreds of sites undergo RNA editing. By contrast, only 13 sites are edited in the moss Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens Some are conserved between the two species, like the mitochondrial editing site nad5eU598RC. The PPR proteins assigned to this editing site are known in both species: the DYW-type PPR protein PPR79 in P. patens and the E+-type PPR protein CWM1 in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). CWM1 also edits sites ccmCeU463RC, ccmBeU428SL, and nad5eU609VV. Here, we reciprocally expressed the P. patens and Arabidopsis editing factors in the respective other genetic environment. Surprisingly, the P. patens editing factor edited all target sites when expressed in the Arabidopsis cwm1 mutant background, even when carboxy-terminally truncated. Conversely, neither Arabidopsis CWM1 nor CWM1-PPR79 chimeras restored editing in P. patens ppr79 knockout plants. A CWM1-like PPR protein from the early diverging angiosperm macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia) features a complete DYW domain and fully rescued editing of nad5eU598RC when expressed in P. patens. We conclude that (1) the independently evolved P. patens editing factor PPR79 faithfully operates in the more complex Arabidopsis editing system, (2) truncated PPR79 recruits catalytic DYW domains in trans when expressed in Arabidopsis, and (3) the macadamia CWM1-like protein retains the capacity to work in the less complex P. patens editing environment.
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- Bastian Oldenkott
- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abt. Molekulare Evolution, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abt. Molekulare Evolution, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Plant Proteomics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Plant Proteomics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abt. Molekulare Evolution, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Xu C, Song S, Yang YZ, Lu F, Zhang MD, Sun F, Jia R, Song R, Tan BC. DEK46 performs C-to-U editing of a specific site in mitochondrial nad7 introns that is critical for intron splicing and seed development in maize. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 103:1767-1782. [PMID: 32559332 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The self-splicing of group II introns during RNA processing depends on their catalytic structure and is influenced by numerous factors that promote the formation of that structure through direct binding. Here we report that C-to-U editing at a specific position in two nad7 introns is essential to splicing, which also implies that the catalytic activity of non-functional group II introns could be restored by editing. We characterized a maize (Zea mays) mutant, dek46, with a defective kernel phenotype; Dek46 encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat DYW protein exclusively localized in mitochondria. Analyses of the coding regions of mitochondrial transcripts did not uncover differences in RNA editing between dek46 mutant and wild-type maize, but showed that splicing of nad7 introns 3 and 4 is severely reduced in the mutant. Furthermore, editing at nucleotide 22 of domain 5 (D5-C22) of both introns is abolished in dek46. We constructed chimeric introns by swapping D5 of P.li.LSUI2 with D5 of nad7 intron 3. In vitro splicing assays indicated that the chimeric intron containing D5-U22 can be self-spliced, but the one containing D5-C22 cannot. These results indicate that DEK46 functions in the C-to-U editing of D5-C22 of both introns, and the U base at this position is critical to intron splicing.
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- Chunhui Xu
- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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Brehme N, Glass F, Jörg A, Takenaka M. MEF46 and MEF47 are novel specificity factors for RNA editing sites in mitochondrial nad transcripts. Mitochondrion 2020; 53:121-127. [PMID: 32439621 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2020.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Terrestrial plants have C-to-U RNA editing in the transcripts of plastids and mitochondria. Target specificity for more than several hundred editing sites are governed by PLS (PPR, Long and Short) class Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins with additional C-terminal domains. Half of these PPR proteins have DYW (Aspartate (D), Tyrosine (Y) and Tryptophan (W)) domains, which most likely harbour cytidine deaminase activity. The other half of them, E subclass and E+ subclass proteins, contain no or only a part of the DYW domain. Missing DYW domains in the E and E+ subclass PPR proteins are likely to be complemented by other DYW containing proteins. All target sites of so far characterized E+ subclass PPR proteins show defects in dyw2 mutants, suggesting that the DYW2 protein complements the missing DYW domains in the E+ subclass PPR proteins. Here we report two novel RNA editing factors, MEF46 and MEF47, which belong to E+ and E subclass, respectively. The defective editing site in mef46, nad5-1958, overlaps with the affected sites in dyw2 mutants, while that in mef47, nad3-64 and ccmC-614 do not, further supporting the specific functional connection between E+ subclass PPR proteins and DYW2.
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- Nadja Brehme
- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany; Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
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Kobayashi T, Yagi Y, Tamura T, Nakamura T. Identification of new pentatricopeptide repeat proteins, MREF1 and 2, involved in mitochondrial RNA editing, using computational target RNA prediction. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY (TOKYO, JAPAN) 2020; 37:111-116. [PMID: 32362757 PMCID: PMC7193826 DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.20.0116a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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C-to-U RNA editing has been widely observed in mitochondrial and plastid RNAs in plants. The editing sites are known to be recognized by pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins, which belong to one of the largest protein families in vascular plants. PPR proteins are sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins that participate in various steps of organelle RNA metabolism, such as cleavage, stabilization, splicing, translation, and editing. Elucidating the underlying mechanisms of sequence-specific RNA recognition by PPR proteins expanded our understanding of the role of PPR proteins in plant organellar RNA editing and enabled the computational prediction of target RNA-editing sites for PPR proteins of interest. Combining computational prediction and experimental verification, we identified three new PPR proteins involved in mitochondrial RNA editing: At1g56570, known as PGN for RNA editing of nad6_leader_-73 and cox2_742, At4g04370 for RNA editing of nad5_242, and At2g41080 for atp1_1292. Therefore, At4g04370 and At2g41080 were designated as mitochondrial RNA-editing factor 1 (MREF1) and MREF2, respectively. This study supports the use of computational prediction in establishing connections between PPR proteins and specific RNA-editing sites, which are important for maintaining various physiological processes, such as plant development, embryogenesis, and biotic- and abiotic-stress responses.
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819–0395, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819–0395, Japan
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Emami H, Kempken F. PRECOCIOUS1 (POCO1), a mitochondrial pentatricopeptide repeat protein affects flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 100:265-278. [PMID: 31219634 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Revised: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Flowering is a vital developmental shift in plants from vegetative to reproductive phase. The timing of this shift is regulated by various linked genetic pathways including environmental cues and internal regulation. Here we report a role for an Arabidopsis gene, AT1G15480, which encodes a P-class pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein, affecting flowering time. We show that AT1G15480 is localized to mitochondria. An AT1G15480 T-DNA insertion line exhibits an early-flowering phenotype, which is quite a rare phenotype among PPR mutants. The early-flowering phenotype was observed under both long and short days compared with wild type plants. Genetic complementation confirmed the observed phenotype. We therefore named the PPR protein PRECOCIOUS1 (POCO1). poco1 plants showed lower respiration, ATP content and higher accumulation of superoxide. Importantly, the quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that the expression of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), which is a key floral repressor, was strongly downregulated in the poco1. Likewise, the expression level of the FLC positive regulator ABSCISIC ACID-INSENSITIVE 5 (ABI5) was reduced in the poco1. Consistent with the qRT-PCR results, poco1 plants showed reduced sensitivity to abscisic acid compared with wild type with respect to primary root growth and days to flowering. Furthermore, the poco1 mutation enhances the sensitivity to drought stress. Further analysis showed that POCO1 affects mitochondrial RNA editing. Taken together, our data demonstrate a remarkable function of POCO1 in flowering time and the abscisic acid signalling pathway.
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- Hossein Emami
- Department of Botany, Christian Albrechts University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Botany, Christian Albrechts University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany
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Hao Y, Wang Y, Wu M, Zhu X, Teng X, Sun Y, Zhu J, Zhang Y, Jing R, Lei J, Li J, Bao X, Wang C, Wang Y, Wan J. The nuclear-localized PPR protein OsNPPR1 is important for mitochondrial function and endosperm development in rice. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:4705-4720. [PMID: 31087099 PMCID: PMC6760278 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins constitute one of the largest protein families in land plants. Recent studies revealed the functions of PPR proteins in organellar RNA metabolism and plant development, but the functions of most PPR proteins, especially PPRs localized in the nucleus, remain largely unknown. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of a rice mutant named floury and growth retardation1 (fgr1). fgr1 showed floury endosperm with loosely arranged starch grains, decreased starch and amylose contents, and retarded seedling growth. Map-based cloning showed that the mutant phenotype was caused by a single nucleotide substitution in the coding region of Os08g0290000. This gene encodes a nuclear-localized PPR protein, which we named OsNPPR1, that affected mitochondrial function. In vitro SELEX and RNA-EMSAs showed that OsNPPR1 was an RNA protein that bound to the CUCAC motif. Moreover, a number of retained intron (RI) events were detected in fgr1. Thus, OsNPPR1 was involved in regulation of mitochondrial development and/or functions that are important for endosperm development. Our results provide novel insights into coordinated interaction between nuclear-localized PPR proteins and mitochondrial function.
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- Yuanyuan Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China
- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, PR China
- Correspondence: ; ; or
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MORF9 Functions in Plastid RNA Editing with Tissue Specificity. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20184635. [PMID: 31546885 PMCID: PMC6769653 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20184635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Revised: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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RNA editing in plant mitochondria and plastids converts specific nucleotides from cytidine (C) to uridine (U). These editing events differ among plant species and are relevant to developmental stages or are impacted by environmental conditions. Proteins of the MORF family are essential components of plant editosomes. One of the members, MORF9, is considered the core protein of the editing complex and is involved in the editing of most sites in chloroplasts. In this study, the phenotypes of a T-DNA insertion line with loss of MORF9 and of the genetic complementation line of Arabidopsis were analyzed, and the editing efficiencies of plastid RNAs in roots, rosette leaves, and flowers from the morf9 mutant and the wild-type (WT) control were compared by bulk-cDNA sequencing. The results showed that most of the known MORF9-associated plastid RNA editing events in rosette leaves and flowers were similarly reduced by morf9 mutation, with the exception that the editing rate of the sites ndhB-872 and psbF-65 declined in the leaves and that of ndhB-586 decreased only in the flowers. In the roots, however, the loss of MORF9 had a much lower effect on overall plastid RNA editing, with nine sites showing no significant editing efficiency change, including accD-794, ndhD-383, psbZ-50, ndhF-290, ndhD-878, matK-706, clpP1-559, rpoA-200, and ndhD-674, which were reduced in the other tissues. Furthermore, we found that during plant aging, MORF9 mRNA level, but not the protein level, was downregulated in senescent leaves. On the basis of these observations, we suggest that MORF9-mediated RNA editing is tissue-dependent and the resultant organelle proteomes are pertinent to the specific tissue functions.
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Rojas M, Ruwe H, Miranda RG, Zoschke R, Hase N, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Barkan A. Unexpected functional versatility of the pentatricopeptide repeat proteins PGR3, PPR5 and PPR10. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:10448-10459. [PMID: 30125002 PMCID: PMC6212717 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are a large family of helical repeat proteins that bind RNA in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Sites of PPR action have been inferred primarily from genetic data, which have led to the view that most PPR proteins act at a very small number of sites in vivo. Here, we report new functions for three chloroplast PPR proteins that had already been studied in depth. Maize PPR5, previously shown to promote trnG splicing, is also required for rpl16 splicing. Maize PPR10, previously shown to bind the atpI-atpH and psaJ-rpl33 intercistronic regions, also stabilizes a 3′-end downstream from psaI. Arabidopsis PGR3, shown previously to bind upstream of petL, also binds the rpl14-rps8 intercistronic region where it stabilizes a 3′-end and stimulates rps8 translation. These functions of PGR3 are conserved in maize. The discovery of new functions for three proteins that were already among the best characterized members of the PPR family implies that functional repertoires of PPR proteins are more complex than have been appreciated. The diversity of sequences bound by PPR10 and PGR3 in vivo highlights challenges of predicting binding sites of native PPR proteins based on the amino acid code for nucleotide recognition by PPR motifs.
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- Margarita Rojas
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Rovira AG, Smith AG. PPR proteins - orchestrators of organelle RNA metabolism. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2019; 166:451-459. [PMID: 30809817 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are important RNA regulators in chloroplasts and mitochondria, aiding in RNA editing, maturation, stabilisation or intron splicing, and in transcription and translation of organellar genes. In this review, we summarise all PPR proteins documented so far in plants and the green alga Chlamydomonas. By further analysis of the known target RNAs from Arabidopsis thaliana PPR proteins, we find that all organellar-encoded complexes are regulated by these proteins, although to differing extents. In particular, the orthologous complexes of NADH dehydrogenase (Complex I) in the mitochondria and NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex in the chloroplast were the most regulated, with respectively 60 and 28% of all characterised A. thaliana PPR proteins targeting their genes.
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- Aleix Gorchs Rovira
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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Takenaka M, Jörg A, Burger M, Haag S. RNA editing mutants as surrogates for mitochondrial SNP mutants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2019; 135:310-321. [PMID: 30599308 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In terrestrial plants, RNA editing converts specific cytidines to uridines in mitochondrial and plastidic transcripts. Most of these events appear to be important for proper function of organellar encoded genes, since translated proteins from edited mRNAs show higher similarity with evolutionary conserved polypeptide sequences. So far about 100 nuclear encoded proteins have been characterized as RNA editing factors in plant organelles. Respective RNA editing mutants reduce or lose editing activity at different sites and display various macroscopic phenotypes from pale or albino in the case of chloroplasts to growth retardation or even embryonic lethality. Therefore, RNA editing mutants can be a useful resource of surrogate mutants for organellar encoded genes, especially for mitochondrially encoded genes that it is so far unfeasible to manipulate. However, connections between RNA editing defects and observed phenotypes in the mutants are often hard to elucidate, since RNA editing factors often target multiple RNA sites in different genes simultaneously. In this review article, we summarize the physiological aspects of respective RNA editing mutants and discuss them as surrogate mutants for functional analysis of mitochondrially encoded genes.
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- Mizuki Takenaka
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069, Ulm, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069, Ulm, Germany
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- Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069, Ulm, Germany
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Kramer MC, Anderson SJ, Gregory BD. The nucleotides they are a-changin': function of RNA binding proteins in post-transcriptional messenger RNA editing and modification in Arabidopsis. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 45:88-95. [PMID: 29883934 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 05/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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During and after transcription, the fate of an RNA molecule is almost entirely directed by the cohorts of interacting RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). RBPs regulate all stages of the life cycle of a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule, including splicing, polyadenylation, transport out of the nucleus, RNA stability, and translation. In addition to these functions, RBPs can function to modify or edit the sequences encoded by the RNA. While the sequence for each transcript is determined in the genome, by the time an RNA reaches its final fate, the sequence may have been edited, where one nucleotide is converted to another, or modified, where a chemical group, or sometimes others moieties, are covalently linked to a nucleotide base. These changes to the RNA sequence have major consequences on the function of the RNA. Additionally, variation in the levels of the RBPs that perform the editing or modification can drastically affect the fitness of an organism. Here, we review RBPs that are known to edit or modify RNA ribonucleotides, focusing on the RNA editing ability of the pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins and the RBPs that modify adenosine to N6- methyladenosine.
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- Marianne C Kramer
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Proteins rarely act alone as their functions tend to be regulated in vivo. Therefore, protein-protein interaction analyses provide key clues for understanding the complex biological processes in the living cell. Several techniques have been developed to elucidate the conformation of large protein complexes, dynamic protein complex rearrangement and transient protein interactions. Yeast two-hybrid system is a well-established method to analyze binary protein interactions. Here we describe a basic yeast three-hybrid method, which represents an additional refinement of the classical yeast two-hybrid system for analyzing further complex interactions among three proteins.
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Xiao H, Xu Y, Ni C, Zhang Q, Zhong F, Huang J, Liu W, Peng L, Zhu Y, Hu J. A rice dual-localized pentatricopeptide repeat protein is involved in organellar RNA editing together with OsMORFs. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:2923-2936. [PMID: 29562289 PMCID: PMC5972581 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 03/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In flowering plants, various RNA editing events occur in the mitochondria and chloroplasts as part of post-transcriptional processes. Although several pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins and multiple organellar RNA editing factors (MORFs) have been identified as RNA editing factors, the underlying mechanism of PPRs and the cooperation among these proteins are still obscure. Here, we identified a rice dual-localized PPR protein, OsPGL1. The loss of function of OsPGL1 resulted in defects in both chloroplast RNA editing of ndhD-878 and mitochondrial RNA editing of ccmFc-543, both of which could be restored in transgenic complementation lines. Despite synonymous editing of ccmFc-543, the loss of editing of ndhD-878 caused a failed conversion of serine to leucine, leading to chloroplast dysfunction and defects in the photosynthetic complex; the results of additional experiments demonstrated that OsPGL1 directly binds to both transcripts. Interactions between three OsMORFs (OsMORF2/8/9) and OsPGL1 both in vitro and in vivo were confirmed, implying that OsPGL1 functions in RNA editing via an editosome. These findings also suggested that OsMORFs assist with and contribute to a flexible PPR-RNA recognition model during RNA editing. These results indicate that, in cooperation with PPRs, OsPGL1 is required for RNA editing. In addition, our study provides new insights into the relationship between RNA editing and plant development.
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- Haijun Xiao
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice; Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Robles P, Quesada V. Emerging Roles of Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins in Plant Development. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18122595. [PMID: 29207474 PMCID: PMC5751198 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18122595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Mitochondria are the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells because they are responsible for energy production through the aerobic respiration required for growth and development. These organelles harbour their own genomes and translational apparatus: mitochondrial ribosomes or mitoribosomes. Deficient mitochondrial translation would impair the activity of this organelle, and is expected to severely perturb different biological processes of eukaryotic organisms. In plants, mitoribosomes consist of three rRNA molecules, encoded by the mitochondrial genome, and an undefined set of ribosomal proteins (mitoRPs), encoded by nuclear and organelle genomes. A detailed functional and structural characterisation of the mitochondrial translation apparatus in plants is currently lacking. In some plant species, presence of small gene families of mitoRPs whose members have functionally diverged has led to the proposal of the heterogeneity of the mitoribosomes. This hypothesis supports a dynamic composition of the mitoribosomes. Information on the effects of the impaired function of mitoRPs on plant development is extremely scarce. Nonetheless, several works have recently reported the phenotypic and molecular characterisation of plant mutants affected in mitoRPs that exhibit alterations in specific development aspects, such as embryogenesis, leaf morphogenesis or the formation of reproductive tissues. Some of these results would be in line with the ribosomal filter hypothesis, which proposes that ribosomes, besides being the machinery responsible for performing translation, are also able to regulate gene expression. This review describes the phenotypic effects on plant development displayed by the mutants characterised to date that are defective in genes which encode mitoRPs. The elucidation of plant mitoRPs functions will provide a better understanding of the mechanisms that control organelle gene expression and their contribution to plant growth and morphogenesis.
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- Pedro Robles
- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Campus de Elche, 03202 Elche, Spain.
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Campus de Elche, 03202 Elche, Spain.
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Wang Y, Yan J, Zhang Q, Ma X, Zhang J, Su M, Wang X, Huang Y. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe PPR protein Ppr10 associates with a novel protein Mpa1 and acts as a mitochondrial translational activator. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:3323-3340. [PMID: 28334955 PMCID: PMC5389468 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins characterized by tandem repeats of a degenerate 35-amino-acid motif function in all aspects of organellar RNA metabolism, many of which are essential for organellar gene expression. In this study, we report the characterization of a fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe PPR protein, Ppr10 and a novel Ppr10-associated protein, designated Mpa1. The ppr10 deletion mutant exhibits growth defects in respiratory media, and is dramatically impaired for viability during the late-stationary phase. Deletion of ppr10 affects the accumulation of specific mitochondrial mRNAs. Furthermore, deletion of ppr10 severely impairs mitochondrial protein synthesis, suggesting that Ppr10 plays a general role in mitochondrial protein synthesis. Ppr10 interacts with Mpa1 in vivo and in vitro and the two proteins colocalize in the mitochondrial matrix. The ppr10 and mpa1 deletion mutants exhibit very similar phenotypes. One of Mpa1's functions is to maintain the normal protein level of Ppr10 protein by protecting it from degradation by the mitochondrial matrix protease Lon1. Our findings suggest that Ppr10 functions as a general mitochondrial translational activator, likely through interaction with mitochondrial mRNAs and mitochondrial translation initiation factor Mti2, and that Ppr10 requires Mpa1 association for stability and function.
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- Yirong Wang
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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Two interacting PPR proteins are major Arabidopsis editing factors in plastid and mitochondria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:8877-8882. [PMID: 28760958 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705780114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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RNA editing is converting hundreds of cytosines into uridines during organelle gene expression of land plants. The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are at the core of this posttranscriptional RNA modification. Even if a PPR protein defines the editing site, a DYW domain of the same or another PPR protein is believed to catalyze the deamination. To give insight into the organelle RNA editosome, we performed tandem affinity purification of the plastidial CHLOROPLAST BIOGENESIS 19 (CLB19) PPR editing factor. Two PPR proteins, dually targeted to mitochondria and chloroplasts, were identified as potential partners of CLB19. These two proteins, a P-type PPR and a member of a small PPR-DYW subfamily, were shown to interact in yeast. Insertional mutations resulted in embryo lethality that could be rescued by embryo-specific complementation. A transcriptome analysis of these complemented plants showed major editing defects in both organelles with a very high PPR type specificity, indicating that the two proteins are core members of E+-type PPR editosomes.
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Hajrah NH, Obaid AY, Atef A, Ramadan AM, Arasappan D, Nelson CA, Edris S, Mutwakil MZ, Alhebshi A, Gadalla NO, Makki RM, Al-Kordy MA, El-Domyati FM, Sabir JSM, Khiyami MA, Hall N, Bahieldin A, Jansen RK. Transcriptomic analysis of salt stress responsive genes in Rhazya stricta. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0177589. [PMID: 28520766 PMCID: PMC5433744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Rhazya stricta is an evergreen shrub that is widely distributed across Western and South Asia, and like many other members of the Apocynaceae produces monoterpene indole alkaloids that have anti-cancer properties. This species is adapted to very harsh desert conditions making it an excellent system for studying tolerance to high temperatures and salinity. RNA-Seq analysis was performed on R. stricta exposed to severe salt stress (500 mM NaCl) across four time intervals (0, 2, 12 and 24 h) to examine mechanisms of salt tolerance. A large number of transcripts including genes encoding tetrapyrroles and pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins were regulated only after 12 h of stress of seedlings grown in controlled greenhouse conditions. Mechanisms of salt tolerance in R. stricta may involve the upregulation of genes encoding chaperone protein Dnaj6, UDP-glucosyl transferase 85a2, protein transparent testa 12 and respiratory burst oxidase homolog protein b. Many of the highly-expressed genes act on protecting protein folding during salt stress and the production of flavonoids, key secondary metabolites in stress tolerance. Other regulated genes encode enzymes in the porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolic pathway with important roles during plant growth, photosynthesis, hormone signaling and abiotic responses. Heme biosynthesis in R. stricta leaves might add to the level of salt stress tolerance by maintaining appropriate levels of photosynthesis and normal plant growth as well as by the participation in reactive oxygen species (ROS) production under stress. We speculate that the high expression levels of PPR genes may be dependent on expression levels of their targeted editing genes. Although the results of PPR gene family indicated regulation of a large number of transcripts under salt stress, PPR actions were independent of the salt stress because their RNA editing patterns were unchanged.
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- Nahid H. Hajrah
- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Centre of Genomic Research, Institute for Integrative Biology, Crown Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Arid Land Agriculture, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- The Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Sun Y, Law YS, Cheng S, Lim BL. RNA editing of cytochrome c maturation transcripts is responsive to the energy status of leaf cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mitochondrion 2017; 35:23-34. [PMID: 28478183 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2017.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Overexpression of AtPAP2, a phosphatase located on the outer membranes of chloroplasts and mitochondria, leads to higher energy outputs from these organelles. AtPAP2 interacts with seven MORF proteins of the editosome complex. RNA-sequencing analysis showed that the editing degrees of most sites did not differ significantly between OE and WT, except some sites on the transcripts of several cytochrome c maturation (Ccm) genes. Western blotting of 2D BN-PAGE showed that the patterns of CcmFN1 polypeptides were different between the lines. We proposed that AtPAP2 may influence cytochrome c biogenesis by modulating RNA editing through its interaction with MORF proteins.
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- Yuzhe Sun
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China; State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
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Schallenberg-Rüdinger M, Oldenkott B, Hiss M, Trinh PL, Knoop V, Rensing SA. A Single-Target Mitochondrial RNA Editing Factor of Funaria hygrometrica Can Fully Reconstitute RNA Editing at Two Sites in Physcomitrella patens. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 58:496-507. [PMID: 28394399 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Nuclear-encoded pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are key factors for site-specific RNA editing, converting cytidines into uridines in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts. All editing factors in the model moss Physcomitrella patens have a C-terminal DYW domain with similarity to cytidine deaminase. However, numerous editing factors in flowering plants lack such a terminal DYW domain, questioning its immediate role in the pyrimidine base conversion process. Here we further investigate the Physcomitrella DYW-type PPR protein PPR_78, responsible for mitochondrial editing sites cox1eU755SL and rps14eU137SL. Complementation assays with truncated proteins demonstrate that the DYW domain is essential for full PPR_78 editing functionality. The DYW domain can be replaced, however, with its counterpart from another editing factor, PPR_79. The PPR_78 ortholog of the related moss Funaria hygrometrica fully complements the Physcomitrella mutant for editing at both sites, although the editing site in rps14 is lacking in Funaria. Editing factor orthologs in different taxa may thus retain editing capacity for multiple sites despite the absence of editing requirement.
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- Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger
- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str, Marburg, Germany
- IZMB-Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Universität Bonn, Kirschallee, Bonn, Germany
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- IZMB-Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Universität Bonn, Kirschallee, Bonn, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str, Marburg, Germany
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- IZMB-Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Universität Bonn, Kirschallee, Bonn, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Enzyme and Protein Technology (KLEPT), VNU University of Science, Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- IZMB-Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Universität Bonn, Kirschallee, Bonn, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str, Marburg, Germany
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Liew YJ, Li Y, Baumgarten S, Voolstra CR, Aranda M. Condition-specific RNA editing in the coral symbiont Symbiodinium microadriaticum. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006619. [PMID: 28245292 PMCID: PMC5357065 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Revised: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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RNA editing is a rare post-transcriptional event that provides cells with an additional level of gene expression regulation. It has been implicated in various processes including adaptation, viral defence and RNA interference; however, its potential role as a mechanism in acclimatization has just recently been recognised. Here, we show that RNA editing occurs in 1.6% of all nuclear-encoded genes of Symbiodinium microadriaticum, a dinoflagellate symbiont of reef-building corals. All base-substitution edit types were present, and statistically significant motifs were associated with three edit types. Strikingly, a subset of genes exhibited condition-specific editing patterns in response to different stressors that resulted in significant increases of non-synonymous changes. We posit that this previously unrecognised mechanism extends this organism's capability to respond to stress beyond what is encoded by the genome. This in turn may provide further acclimatization capacity to these organisms, and by extension, their coral hosts.
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- Yi Jin Liew
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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