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Analysis of the RDR6-dependent small RNA profile in ein5 ski2 in Arabidopsis with biological replications and increased sequencing depth

ABSTRACT: Post-transcriptional gene silence (PTGS) is employed in plants to shut down transgenes, invading viral genes and a certain group of endogenous genes. Meanwhile, it is not clear how the risk of expansive PTGS from endogenous genes featured by transitive siRNA production is minimized. Here we demonstrate two essential components of the SKI complex in cytoplasmic 3 -5 mRNA decay pathway, SKI2 and SKI3, function as negative regulators of transgene PTGS in Arabidopsis. The ski2 mutants manifested severe synthetic phenotypes with a 5 -3 exoribonuclease mutant, ein5, which were substantially suppressed by the PTGS mutants, rdr6 and ago1. RDR6 is essential for the altered gene expression in ein5 ski2 on a transcriptome-wide scale. mRNA-seq approach was used to investigate the physiological relevance veiled by the myriad developmental phenotypes in Col-0 (C), ein5-1 (e), ski2-3 (s), ein5-1 ski2-3 (es), rdr6-11 (r) and rdr6-11 ein5-1 ski2-3 (res). A number of endogenous genes, including many miRNA target genes, manifest transitive 21-22 nt siRNA production and compromised gene expression in ein5 ski2 in an RDR6-dependent manner. Taken together, our study brings to light a dual-safeguard system in preventing the expansive siRNA production by the 5 -3 and 3 -5 cytoplasmic mRNA decay pathways. In this experiment, we did three replicates in sequencing that help increase the power in identify the differentially represented genes.The sequencing depth was also increased. Therefore we identified more siRNA-generating loci than that in previous study (GSE52408) (441 vs. 200 loci). Examination of small RNA profiles in 4 genotypes with 3 biological replicates each.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Hongwei Guo

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-57936 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Plant biology. Suppression of endogenous gene silencing by bidirectional cytoplasmic RNA decay in Arabidopsis.

Zhang Xinyan X Zhu Ying Y Liu Xiaodan X Hong Xinyu X Xu Yang Y Zhu Ping P Shen Yang Y Wu Huihui H Ji Yusi Y Wen Xing X Zhang Chen C Zhao Qiong Q Wang Yichuan Y Lu Jian J Guo Hongwei H

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150401 6230

Plant immunity against foreign gene invasion takes advantage of posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS). How plants elaborately avert inappropriate PTGS of endogenous coding genes remains unclear. We demonstrate in Arabidopsis that both 5'-3' and 3'-5' cytoplasmic RNA decay pathways act as repressors of transgene and endogenous PTGS. Disruption of bidirectional cytoplasmic RNA decay leads to pleiotropic developmental defects and drastic transcriptomic alterations, which are substantially rescu ...[more]

PMID: 25838384

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Project description:Post-transcriptional gene silence (PTGS) is employed in plants to shut down transgenes, invading viral genes and a certain group of endogenous genes. Meanwhile, it is not clear how the risk of expansive PTGS from endogenous genes featured by transitive siRNA production is minimized. Here we demonstrate two essential components of the SKI complex in cytoplasmic 3’-5’ mRNA decay pathway, SKI2 and SKI3, function as negative regulators of transgene PTGS in Arabidopsis. The ski2 mutants manifested severe synthetic phenotypes with a 5’-3’ exoribonuclease mutant, ein5, which were substantially suppressed by the PTGS mutants, rdr6 and ago1. RDR6 is essential for the altered gene expression in ein5 ski2 on a transcriptome-wide scale. mRNA-seq approach was used to investigate the physiological relevance veiled by the myriad developmental phenotypes in Col-0 (C), ein5-1 (e), ski2-3 (s), ein5-1 ski2-3 (es), rdr6-11 (r) and rdr6-11 ein5-1 ski2-3 (res). Compared with Col-0, 4394 genes exhibited differential expression in ein5-1 ski2-3, much more than those in the ein5-1 (1138 genes) or ski2-3 (1040 genes) single mutant (2-fold cutoff, p < 0.01, FDR < 0.05), suggesting a largely disturbed transcriptome in the absence of both EIN5 and SKI2. While a small overlap was found between the differentially expressed genes in e/C and s/C comparisons, the gene lists from es/C, es/e and es/s comparisons (2-fold cutoff, p < 0.01, FDR < 0.05) largely overlapped with each other, indicating a collaborative function of EIN5 and SKI2 on a transcriptome-wide scale. The 1670 genes overlapped in the es/C, es/e and es/s comparisons included 1306 upregulated genes and 360 downregulated genes with only 4 genes as exception. 994 of the 1306 upregulated genes (76.1%) and 273 of the 360 downregulated genes (75.8%) were differentially expressed in the es/res comparison like that in es/C, es/e and es/s, indicating a substantial supression of the redundant function of EIN5 and SKI2 by RDR6. Taken together, our study brings to light a dual-safeguard system in preventing the expansive siRNA production by the 5’-3’ and 3’-5’ cytoplasmic mRNA decay pathways. Examination of transcriptomes in 6 genotypes.

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