Project description:We investigated the root growth of several knockout mutants of heat shock protein family genes and found that heat stress response was compromised in these mutants compared to wild type plants. It suggested that heat shock protein genes including heat shock protein genes including HSP17s, HSP23s, HSP101, and HSFA2 proteins are deployed upon exposure to Cs for plant stress tolerance. Our study provided novel insights into the molecular events occurring in Cs-stressed plants.
Project description:Heat stress seriously affects the plant development and growth. Increasing evidence points to RNA splicing as co-transcriptional regulations linking heat stresses in plants. However, the mechanism of how heat stress trigger and affect alternative splicing (AS) events through crucial splicing factors is still not clear. Here, we discovered a heat stress-enhancing AS suppression involved in splicing factor SR45a function, whereby SR45a modulates automatic self regulation by strengthen the full length mRNA processing together with CBP20. A SR45a intron splicing–dependent luciferase transgenic line was generated to monitor the intron 4 splicing events. We determined that luciferase activity increases upon heat treatment due to the intron remove, which inhibits the production of SR45a splicing variants. Loss functions of SR45a rendered plants more sensitive to heat stress, whereas overexpresion full length SR45a expression enhanced their tolerance. Full length SR45a is Essential for heat-responsive gene expression and splicing. Interestingly, SR45a modulate self-splicing regulation through branch point recognition together with CBP20. Genetic and molecular experiments identified the CBP20 is a positive regulator under heat stress. In addition, we demonstrate that HSFA2 affects the transcriptional levels of SR45a to act upsteam of SR45a by directly binding SR45a promoter. Our research highlights the heat-responsive self-splicing regulation of SR45a as a novel feedback to enhance plant stress tolerance.
Project description:this study discovered unique glycoprotein resources responsible for plant salt stress tolerance and suggested crucial roles of Nthis study discovered unique glycoprotein resources responsible for plant salt stress tolerance and suggested crucial roles of N-glycans in regulating salt responsive protein expression in Arabidopsis.-glycans in regulating salt responsive protein expression in Arabidopsis.
Project description:To understand affected genes by overexpression of origouridylate binding protein 1b (UBP1b) under heat stress conditions, transcriptional profiling of UBP1box and control plants were analyzed under normal and heat stress (40°C) conditions using Arabidopsis custom microarrays.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata are two closely related Brassicaceae species, which are used as models for plant comparative biology. They differ by lifestyle, predominant mating strategy, ecological niches and genome organization. To identify heat stress induced genes, we performed RNA-sequencing of rosette leaves from mock-treated, heat-stressed and heat-stressed-recoved plants of both species.
Project description:Various stress conditions induce the nuclear translocation of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC), but its nuclear function in plant stress responses remains elusive. Here we show that GAPC interacts with a transcription factor to increase the expression of heat-inducible genes and heat tolerance in Arabidopsis. GAPC accumulates in the nucleus in a heat stress-dependent manner. Screening of Arabidopsis transcription factors identifies nuclear factor Y subunit C10 (NF-YC10) as a GAPC-binding protein. Heat tolerance of seedlings and the expression of heat-inducible genes are enhanced by overexpression of GAPC and reduced in gapc. The effects of GAPC overexpression are abolished when NF-YC10 is deficient or GAPC nuclear accumulation is suppressed. Genetic complementation fails to recover the heat responses of gapc when GAPC-NF-YC10 interaction is disrupted. GAPC overexpression also enhances the binding ability of NF-YC10 to its target promoter. The results reveal a cellular and molecular mechanism for the nuclear moonlighting of a glycolytic enzyme in plant response to environmental changes.
Project description:To understand affected genes by overexpression of origouridylate binding protein 1b (UBP1b) under heat stress conditions, transcriptional profiling of UBP1box and control plants were analyzed under normal and heat stress (40°C) conditions using Arabidopsis custom microarrays. Microarray analysis was conducted using UBP1b-ox and Venus control plants subjected to non-stress and heat-stress condition for 1 h.
Project description:Considering global climate changes, incidences of combined drought and heat stress are likely to increase in the future and will considerably influence plant-pathogen interactions. Until now, little is known about plants exposed to simultaneously occurring abiotic and biotic stresses. To shed some light on molecular plant responses to multiple stress factors, a versatile multi-factorial test system, allowing simultaneous application of heat, drought and virus stress, was developed. Comparative analysis of single, double and triple stress responses by transcriptome and metabolome analysis revealed that gene expression under multi-factorial stress is not predictable from single stress treatments. Hierarchical cluster and principal component analysis identified heat as the major stress factor clearly separating heat-stressed from non-heat stressed plants. We identified 11 genes differentially regulated in all stress combinations as well as 23 genes specifically-regulated under triple stress. Furthermore, we showed that virus treated plants displayed enhanced expression of defense genes, which was abolished in plants additionally subjected to heat and drought stress. Triple stress also reduced expression of genes involved in the R-mediated disease response and increased the cytoplasmic protein response which was not seen under single stress conditions. These observations suggested that abiotic stress factors significantly altered TuMV-specific signaling networks which lead to a deactivation of defense responses and a higher susceptibility of plants. Collectively, our transcriptome and metabolome data provide a powerful resource to study plant responses during multi-factorial stress and allows identifying metabolic processes and functional networks involved in tripartite interactions of plants with their environment.
Project description:Considering global climate changes, incidences of combined drought and heat stress are likely to increase in the future and will considerably influence plant-pathogen interactions. Until now, little is known about plants exposed to simultaneously occurring abiotic and biotic stresses. To shed some light on molecular plant responses to multiple stress factors, a versatile multi-factorial test system, allowing simultaneous application of heat, drought and virus stress, was developed. Comparative analysis of single, double and triple stress responses by transcriptome and metabolome analysis revealed that gene expression under multi-factorial stress is not predictable from single stress treatments. Hierarchical cluster and principal component analysis identified heat as the major stress factor clearly separating heat-stressed from non-heat stressed plants. We identified 11 genes differentially regulated in all stress combinations as well as 23 genes specifically-regulated under triple stress. Furthermore, we showed that virus treated plants displayed enhanced expression of defense genes, which was abolished in plants additionally subjected to heat and drought stress. Triple stress also reduced expression of genes involved in the R-mediated disease response and increased the cytoplasmic protein response which was not seen under single stress conditions. These observations suggested that abiotic stress factors significantly altered TuMV-specific signaling networks which lead to a deactivation of defense responses and a higher susceptibility of plants. Collectively, our transcriptome and metabolome data provide a powerful resource to study plant responses during multi-factorial stress and allows identifying metabolic processes and functional networks involved in tripartite interactions of plants with their environment.