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An epitranscriptomic mechanism regulating chlorophyll biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

ABSTRACT: Light modulates expression of nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins to promote chlorophyll biosynthesis and photosynthesis in plants. Photoregulatory mechanisms regulating transcription and protein stability of nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins have been extensively studied, but how photoresponsive mRNA metabolism affecting chloroplast proteins remains not well understood. We performed a systematic analysis of the photoresponsive transcriptomes, m6A epitranscriptomes, translatomes, and proteomes in Arabidopsis, leading to a hypothesis that the blue light receptor cryptochromes activate the RNA methyltransferase, FIONA 1 (FIO1), to increase RNA methylation, translation of the nuclear-encoded chlorophyll synthesis enzymes (CSEs), and chlorophyll synthesis. We further demonstrate that the photoresponsive CRY2-interacting protein, SPA1, acts as a chaperone to mediate co-condensation of the CRY2/FIO1 complex, activating the FIO1 methyltransferase activity. This finding demonstrates a previously unknown photoregulatory mechanism controlling chlorophyll biosynthesis in plants.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis Thaliana (mouse-ear Cress)

TISSUE(S): Whole Body

SUBMITTER: xueyang zhang

LAB HEAD: Xeuyang Zhang

PROVIDER: PXD040660 | Pride | 2024-01-26

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Light-induced LLPS of the CRY2/SPA1/FIO1 complex regulating mRNA methylation and chlorophyll homeostasis in Arabidopsis.

Jiang Bochen B Zhong Zhenhui Z Gu Lianfeng L Zhang Xueyang X Wei Jiangbo J Ye Chang C Lin Guifang G Qu Gaoping G Xiang Xian X Wen Chenjin C Hummel Maureen M Bailey-Serres Julia J Wang Qin Q He Chuan C Wang Xu X Lin Chentao C

Nature plants 20231208 12

Light regulates chlorophyll homeostasis and photosynthesis via various molecular mechanisms in plants. The light regulation of transcription and protein stability of nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins have been extensively studied, but how light regulation of mRNA metabolism affects abundance of nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins and chlorophyll homeostasis remains poorly understood. Here we show that the blue light receptor cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) and the METTL16-type m<sup>6</sup>A writer FI ...[more]

PMID: 38066290

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Project description:Aim: To identify regulatory factors that control: (1) chloroplast protein importand (2) chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling. This project is a joint proposal from the Jarvis lab which is interested in chloroplast protein import [1] and the Moller lab which is interested in plastid-to-nucleus signalling [2]. Background: The majority of chloroplast proteins are encoded in the nucleus and imported post-translationally into chloroplasts. The abundance of chloroplast proteins may therefore be regulated at multiple levels. It is well documented that the nuclear gene expression is responsive to (largely unknown) signals from the chloroplast [23] and evidence is now emerging that protein import is also a regulated process [1]. Protein import into chloroplasts is mediated by protein complexes in the outer and inner envelope membranes called Toc and Tic respectively. Biochemical studies of pea chloroplasts identified several Toc/Tic components. These proteins are mechanistic or structural components of the import apparatus. Arabidopsis homologues of the pea Toc/Tic proteins were identified by the AGI. Pea Toc34 is represented in Arabidopsis by two genes "Toc33 and Toc34" and pea Toc75 is represented by three genes. These different Tocs have different expression patterns and are proposed to have different precursor protein recognition specificities. The factors that regulate Toc expression in concert with the needs of plastids in developmentally different cells are unknown. Proposal: Two Arabidopsis mutants will be analysed. The ppi1 mutant is null for the putative precursor protein receptor Toc33 [1]and the ppi3 mutant is null for a putative component of the protein import channel Toc75-IV (on chromosome IV). ppi1 plants are yellow-green in appearance but remarkably healthy and grow only slightly more slowly than wild type. By contrast ppi3 plants are indistinguishable from wild type by eye although analysis of the mutant's chloroplast proteome is beginning to reveal some differences (K. Lilley personal communication). Gene expression changes in ppi1 are likely to be quite extensive. Retardation of chloroplast development in ppi1 will activate retrograde signalling pathways so that many nuclear photosynthetic genes are down-regulated. Changes in the expression of photosynthetic genes and of the genes responsible for mediating these responses may therefore be observed. Any regulatory and signalling genes identified will be of interest to the Moller lab. The expression of factors that regulate Toc/Tic gene expression may also be altered in ppi1. It should be possible to distinguish these factors from those involved in the general control of chloroplast gene expression by comparing the results from the two mutants. Genes affected in both mutants are more likely to be involved in regulating chloroplast import since it is unlikely that widespread changes in gene expression will be observed in ppi3. Changes in the expression of factors that regulate import post-translationallyand of the Toc/Tic genes themselves (many are on the RNA) may also be observed. References: 1. Jarvis P. et al. (1998) Science 282: 100-103. 2. Moller S.G. et al. (2001) Genes Dev. 15:90-103. 3. Jarvis P. (2001) Curr. Biol. 11: R307-R310. Experiment Overall Design: Number of plants pooled:

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An epitranscriptomic mechanism regulating chlorophyll biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

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Light-induced LLPS of the CRY2/SPA1/FIO1 complex regulating mRNA methylation and chlorophyll homeostasis in Arabidopsis.

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