scholarly journals Correction to: Characterization of novel pollen-expressed transcripts reveals their potential roles in pollen heat stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-79
Author(s):  
Nicholas Rutley ◽  
Laetitia Poidevin ◽  
Tirza Doniger ◽  
Richard L. Tillett ◽  
Abhishek Rath ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Rutley ◽  
Laetitia Poidevin ◽  
Tirza Doniger ◽  
Richard Tillet ◽  
Abhishek Rath ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe male gametophyte is the most heat-sensitive of all plant tissues. In recent years, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important components of cellular regulatory networks involved in most biological processes, including response to stress. While examining RNAseq datasets of developing and germinating Arabidopsis thaliana pollen exposed to heat stress (HS), we identified 66 novel and 246 recently-annotated intergenic expressed loci (XLOCs) of unknown function, with the majority encoding lncRNAs. Comparison to HS in cauline leaves and other RNAseq experiments, indicated 74% of the 312 XLOCs are pollen-specific, and at least 42% are HS-responsive. Phylogenetic analysis revealed 96% of the genes evolved recently in Brassicaceae. We found that 50 genes are putative targets of microRNAs, and that 30% of the XLOCs contain small open reading frames (ORFs) with homology to protein sequences. Finally, RNAseq of ribosome-protected RNA fragments together with predictions of periodic footprint of the ribosome P-sites indicated that 23 of these ORFs are likely to be translated. Our findings indicate that many of the 312 unknown genes might be functional, and play significant role in pollen biology, including the HS response.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Nicholas Rutley ◽  
Laetitia Poidevin ◽  
Tirza Doniger ◽  
Richard L. Tillett ◽  
Abhishek Rath ◽  
...  

Abstract Key message Arabidopsis pollen transcriptome analysis revealed new intergenic transcripts of unknown function, many of which are long non-coding RNAs, that may function in pollen-specific processes, including the heat stress response. Abstract The male gametophyte is the most heat sensitive of all plant tissues. In recent years, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important components of cellular regulatory networks involved in most biological processes, including response to stress. While examining RNAseq datasets of developing and germinating Arabidopsis thaliana pollen exposed to heat stress (HS), we identified 66 novel and 246 recently annotated intergenic expressed loci (XLOCs) of unknown function, with the majority encoding lncRNAs. Comparison with HS in cauline leaves and other RNAseq experiments indicated that 74% of the 312 XLOCs are pollen-specific, and at least 42% are HS-responsive. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that 96% of the genes evolved recently in Brassicaceae. We found that 50 genes are putative targets of microRNAs and that 30% of the XLOCs contain small open reading frames (ORFs) with homology to protein sequences. Finally, RNAseq of ribosome-protected RNA fragments together with predictions of periodic footprint of the ribosome P-sites indicated that 23 of these ORFs are likely to be translated. Our findings indicate that many of the 312 unknown genes might be functional and play a significant role in pollen biology, including the HS response.


1998 ◽  
Vol 274 (6) ◽  
pp. F1029-F1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Gaudio ◽  
Gunilla Thulin ◽  
Andrea Mann ◽  
Michael Kashgarian ◽  
Norman J. Siegel

The stress response was studied in suspensions of tubules from immature (IT) and mature (MT) rats after noninjury, heat, oxygen, and anoxia. Under all conditions, IT exhibited more exuberant activation of heat shock transcription factor (HSF) than MT. Characterization of activated HSF in immature cortex revealed HSF1. Also, 2 h after each condition, heat shock protein-72 (HSP-72) mRNA was twofold in IT. As the metabolic response to 45 min of anoxia, 20-min reoxygenation was assessed by measuring O2 consumption (O2C). Basal O2C was manipulated with ouabain, nystatin, and carbonylcyanide p-chloromethyoxyphenylhydrazone (CCCP). Basal O2C in IT were one-half the value of MT. After anoxia, basal O2C was reduced by a greater degree in MT. Ouabain reduced O2C to half the basal value in both noninjured and anoxic groups. Basal O2C was significantly stimulated by nystatin but not to the same level following anoxia in MT and IT. Basal O2C was also stimulated by CCCP, but after anoxia, CCCP O2C was significantly less in MT with no decrease in IT, suggesting mitochondria are better preserved in IT. Also, O2C devoted to nontransport activity was better maintained in IT.


2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 833-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon-Hee Kim ◽  
Joon-Hyun Lee ◽  
Kyoung-In Seo ◽  
Boyeong Ryu ◽  
Yongju Sung ◽  
...  

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e12673
Author(s):  
Jinyu Shen ◽  
Zhiyong Li ◽  
Yajuan Fu ◽  
Jiansheng Liang

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are ubiquitous zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the interconversion of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. Higher plants mainly contain the three evolutionarily distinct CA families αCA, βCA, and γCA, with each represented by multiple isoforms. Alternative splicing (AS) of the CA transcripts is common. However, there is little information on the spliced variants of individual CA isoforms. In this study, we focused on the characterization of spliced variants of βCA1 from Arabidopsis. The expression patterns and subcellular localization of the individual spliced variants of βCA1 were examined. The results showed that the spliced variants of βCA1 possessed different subcellular and tissue distributions and responded differently to environmental stimuli. Additionally, we addressed the physiological role of βCA1 in heat stress response and its protein-protein interaction (PPI) network. Our results showed that βCA1 was regulated by heat stresses, and βca1 mutant was hypersensitive to heat stress, indicating a role for βCA1 in heat stress response. Furthermore, PPI network analysis revealed that βCA1 interacts with multiple proteins involved in several processes, including photosynthesis, metabolism, and the stress response, and these will provide new avenues for future investigations of βCA1.


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