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Small RNAs in Arabidopsis hyl1 and hyl1 suppressor mutants

ABSTRACT: DCL1 and HYL1 are the core components of miRNA biogenesis machinery. hyl1-null mutants accumulate low levels of miRNAs and cause pleiotropic morphological phenotypes. Here, we reported that we identified 5 new alleles of DCL1 which are able to suppress the hyl1 morphological phenotypes and restore the miRNA accumulation level in hyl1 plants. These new alleles are located in the helicase and RNaseIIIa domains of DCL1, highlighting the critical functions of these domains. Biochemical analyses of these suppressors indicated that they process pri-miRNA more efficiently, with both higher Kcat and lower Km values. In addition, we investigated the functions of the DCL1 helicase domain. Our results indicated that the helicase domain is able to modulate the DCL1 processing activities. Based on these results, we proposed that HYL1 might exert its function through interaction with the DCL1 helicase domain. Small RNA sequencing from hyl1 and select hyl1/dcl1 suppressor mutants confirms thats suppression of the hyl1 phenotype is due to an increase in the accumulation, but not the precision, of miRNAs in the suppressor mutants. Wild-type, hyl1-2, hyl1-2/dcl1-20, and hyl1-2/dcl1-21 plants were sampled from both rosette leaves and flowers.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Michael Axtell

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29802 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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The helicase and RNaseIIIa domains of Arabidopsis Dicer-Like1 modulate catalytic parameters during microRNA biogenesis.

Liu Chenggang C Axtell Michael J MJ Fedoroff Nina V NV

Plant physiology 20120403 2

Dicer-Like1 (DCL1), an RNaseIII endonuclease, and Hyponastic Leaves1 (HYL1), a double-stranded RNA-binding protein, are core components of the plant microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis machinery. hyl1 null mutants accumulate low levels of miRNAs and display pleiotropic developmental phenotypes. We report the identification of five new hyl1 suppressor mutants, all of which are alleles of DCL1. These new alleles affect either the helicase or the RNaseIIIa domains of DCL1, highlighting the critical functio ...[more]

PMID: 22474216

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Project description:In Arabidopsis thaliana, four different DICER-LIKE (DCL) proteins have distinct, but partially overlapping functions in the biogenesis of microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) from longer, non-coding precursor RNAs. To analyze the impact of different components of the small RNA (sRNA) biogenesis machinery on the transcriptome, we subjected dcl and other mutants impaired in sRNA biogenesis to whole-genome tiling array analysis. We compared both protein-coding genes and noncoding transcripts, including most pri-miRNAs, in two tissues and several stress conditions. We discovered distinct effects of dcl1, hyl1 and se mutations on the transcriptome, as well as a number of common genes affected in dcl1 and dcl2 dcl3 dcl4 triple mutants. Our results furthermore suggest that the DCL1 is not only involved in miRNA action, but can also contribute to silencing of certain transposons, apparently through an effect on DNA methylation. Together, our findings contribute to the knowledge of both specialization and overlap between different RNA silencing pathways. Wild type and dcl1-100, se-3, hyl1-2, rdr6-15 ans dcl2,3,4 mutants were grown on MS or soil at 23M-BM-0C and LL. 7 day old seedlings (grown on MS plates) and inflorescences from 28 (>40) day old plants (dcl1) were used for RNA extraction. For stress treatments, seedlings had been grown for 10 days on solid MS medium at 21M-BM-0C, they were transferred to liquid MS medium containing no additives (mock control), 200 mM NaCl (salt stress), 300 mM mannitol (osmotic stress) or 100 M-NM-<M ABA. For cold and heat stress, seedlings were transferred to pre-chilled or pre-warmed liquid MS medium and incubated at 8M-BM-0C and 30M-BM-0C, respectively. Samples were taken after 1 h and 12 h of continuous stress treatment. RNA was extracted from whole seedlings. All RNA samples were converted into double stranded DNA targets that were hybridized to whole genome tiling arrays (Affymetrix Arabidopis Tiling1.0RM-BM-.). All hybridizations were performed with 3 biological replicates.

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Small RNAs in Arabidopsis hyl1 and hyl1 suppressor mutants

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The helicase and RNaseIIIa domains of Arabidopsis Dicer-Like1 modulate catalytic parameters during microRNA biogenesis.

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