Project description:Phytophthora effector PSR1 suppresses small RNA (sRNA)-mediated immunity in plants, but the underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we show that Phytophthora suppressor of RNA silencing 1 (PSR1) contributes to the pathogenicity of Phytophthora sojae and specifically binds to three conserved C-terminal domains of the eukaryotic PSR1-Interacting Protein 1 (PINP1). PINP1 encodes a core pre-mRNA splicing factor PRP16, which unwinds RNA duplexes and binds to pri-miRNAs and general RNAs. Intriguingly, PSR1 decreased both RNA helicase and RNA-binding activity of PINP1, thereby dampening sRNA biogenesis and RNA metabolism. The PSR1-PINP1 interaction caused global changes in alternative splicing (AS). A total of 5,135 genes simultaneously exhibited mis-splicing in both PSR1-overexpressing and PINP1-silenced plants. AS upregulated many mRNA transcripts with their introns retained. The high occurrence of intron-retention (IR) in AS-induced transcripts significantly promoted Phytophthora pathogen infection in Nicotiana benthamiana, which might be caused by the production of truncated proteins. Taken together, our findings uncover a novel role for PINP1 in regulating sRNA biogenesis and plant immunity.
Project description:Cd levels in the shoots, as well as in the roots were unexpectedly reduced in 35S:AtHMA4-expressing tobacco. Obtained results indicate that in the generation of the Cd-related phenotypes of transgenic plants substantial modifications of the host plant transcriptome was involved. Microarray based analysis was performed to compare expression profiles of the roots from tobacco expressing 35S-AtHMA4 with the wild-type (WT) plants, which were grown in the presence of 0.25 µM Cd. An effort was undertaken to understand which processes were modified in tobacco as a result of the expression of 35S:AtHMA4, which lead to decreased Cd uptake and lower accumulation in the shoots. Knowing underlying mechanisms is important for developing strategies to grow low cadmium tobacco.
Project description:Report of an RNA-Seq analysis done with strawberries taken from MYB123 RNAi silenced and stable transgenic plants vs control plants transformed with the pFRN empty vector
Project description:To reduce the level of major second messenger inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate (InsP3), we generated transgenic tomato plants (cv. Micro-Tom) that are expressing InsP 5-ptase gene. To understand effects of transgene (InsP 5-ptase) on gene expression we carried out microarray analysis from different parts of transgenic and control (wild type, empty vector control) tomato plants; Objectives for this study included the identification of genes that were up or down-regulated at the transcriptional level in transgenic tomato plants expressing InsP 5-ptase gene Experiment Overall Design: Ripe fruits of wild type, vector control and two transgenic tomato lines expressing InsP 5-ptase gene were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays Experiment Overall Design: First two leaves of 10 day old light grown in vitro seedlings of wild type, vector control and two transgenic tomato lines expressing InsP 5-ptase gene were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays Experiment Overall Design: 10 day old etiolated root tips of wild type, vector control and two transgenic tomato lines expressing InsP 5-ptase gene were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays
Project description:Comparative transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana lines expressing a constitutively active YDA protein (CA-YDA; in La-0 background), and wild-type plants (La-0) non-infected or infected with the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Plectosphaerella cucumerina BMM (PcBMM)
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana 12-days old seedlings comparing Col-0 wild type with transgenic plants with altered expression of dual-targetting plastid/mitochondrial organellar RNA-polymerase RPOTmp. Transgenic plants used for experiment were: overexpressor plants obtained by transformation of Col-0 WT plants with genetic constructs created in [Tarasenko et al., 2016] contained catalytic part of RPOTmp enzyme with transit peptides of RPOTm (mitochondrial) and RPOTp (plastid) by agrobacterial transformation; plants with complementation of RPOTmp functions in mitochondria or chloroplasts obtained from transformation of GABI_286E07 rpotmp knockout-mutant plants with genetic constructs created in [Tarasenko et al., 2016]. Goal was to determine the effects of RPOTmp knockout/overexpression on global Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression.