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Early disruption of maternal-zygotic interaction and activation of defense-like responses in Arabidopsis interspecific incompatibility

ABSTRACT: Hybridization of diverged taxa often result in lethality or sterility. We previously described natural variation for postzygotic incompatibility in the cross of diploid Arabidopsis thaliana to Arabidopsis arenosa. Hybrid seed death in this system has a complex genetic basis, involving many non-additive interactions. While activation of AGAMOUS-LIKE genes (AGL) and Athila elements have been detected 5-8 days after pollination (DAP), the molecular basis of death remains mysterious. To address this problem, we compared 3DAP transcriptomes in interspecific hybrids from two A. thaliana ecotypes, one compatible, the other incompatible. Relative to self crosses of the respective A. thaliana seed parent, hybrids displayed differential expression of key developmental regulators in both the endosperm and maternal seed coat as well as natural variation for stress response genes. Ribosomal protein genes and a photosynthetic cluster of genes were hyperactivated, presumably in response to growth signals. Suppressing endosperm growth factor IKU1 and defense response regulators such as NON-EXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS RELATED1 (NPR1) improved hybrid seed survival. Therefore, in incompatible hybrids disruption of seed development most likely initiates in the endosperm, rapidly affecting embryo and seed coat. The activation of putative POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX (PRC) gene targets, together with a twenty-fold reduction in expression of the FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT SEED 2 gene, indicates a PRC role. Examination of differential gene expression of incompatible A. thaliana eco. Col-0 X A. arenosa and compatible A. thaliana eco. C24 X A. arenosa hybrid seeds plus corresponding A. thaliana and A. arenosa control crosses.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Isabelle Henry

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-42957 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Perturbation of parentally biased gene expression during interspecific hybridization.

Burkart-Waco Diana D Ngo Kathie K Lieberman Meric M Comai Luca L

PloS one 20150226 2

Interspecific hybridization often induces epigenetic remodeling that leads to transposon activation, gene expression changes, and loss of imprinting. These genomic changes can be deleterious and contribute to postzygotic hybrid incompatibility. In Arabidopsis, loss of genomic imprinting of PHERES1 and presumed failure of Polycomb Repressive Complex contributes to seed inviability observed in A. thaliana X A. arenosa interspecific hybrids. We used this species pair to further analyze the relation ...[more]

PMID: 25719202

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Project description:In plants, imprinted gene expression occurs in endosperm seed tissue and can be associated with differential DNA methylation between maternal and paternal alleles. Imprinting is theorized to have been selected for because of conflict between parental genomes in offspring, but most studies of imprinting have been conducted in Arabidopsis thaliana, an inbred primarily self-fertilizing species that should have limited parental conflict. We examined embryo and endosperm allele-specific expression and DNA methylation genome-wide in the wild outcrossing species Arabidopsis lyrata. Here we show that the majority of A. lyrata imprinted genes exhibit parentally-biased expression in A. thaliana, suggesting that there is evolutionary conservation in gene imprinting. Surprisingly, we discovered substantial interspecies differences in methylation features associated with paternally expressed imprinted genes (PEGs). Unlike A. thaliana, the maternal allele of many A. lyrata PEGs was hypermethylated in the CHG context. Increased maternal allele CHG methylation was associated with increased expression bias in favor of the paternal allele. We propose that CHG methylation maintains or reinforces repression of maternal alleles of PEGs. These data suggest that while the genes subject to imprinting are largely conserved, there is flexibility in the epigenetic mechanisms employed between closely related species to maintain monoallelic expression. This supports the idea that imprinting of specific genes is a functional phenomenon, and not simply a byproduct of seed epigenomic reprogramming. Examination of total gene expression, parent-of-origin specific allelic bias, or DNA methylation in embryo, endosperm, flower bud or seedcoat tissue from Arabidopsis lyrata accessions MN47 (MN), Karhumaki (Kar or KA), and crosses between them. High-throughput Illumina poly-A-selected mRNA-seq was used to identify imprinted genes in A. lyrata, and high-throughput Illumina whole genome bisulfite-sequencing was used to examine DNA methylation. mRNA-seq samples are designated MMxFF_T# where MM is the mother of the cross (either MN for MN47 or KA for Kar), FF is the father, T is the tissue (E for embryo, N for endosperm, S for seedcoat, b for buds), and # is the replicate numbers. Samples obtained from bisulfite sequencing follow the same naming but have suffix _BS and indicate cytosine methylation context (CpG, CHG, or CHH). For KAxMN bisulfite sequencing, additional files MMxFF_T#_BS_P_C.txt follow the same naming scheme but contain context-specific methylation data (C) from reads that mapped preferentially to one parent strain (P).

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Early disruption of maternal-zygotic interaction and activation of defense-like responses in Arabidopsis interspecific incompatibility

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Perturbation of parentally biased gene expression during interspecific hybridization.

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