scholarly journals Dual Catalytic Hairpin Assembly-Based Automatic Molecule Machine for Amplified Detection of Auxin Response Factor-Targeted MicroRNA-160

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 6432
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Xing Dai ◽  
Yujian Feng ◽  
Qiyang Zhao ◽  
Lin Liu ◽  
...  

MicroRNA160 plays a crucial role in plant development by negatively regulating the auxin response factors (ARFs). In this manuscript, we design an automatic molecule machine (AMM) based on the dual catalytic hairpin assembly (D-CHA) strategy for the signal amplification detection of miRNA160. The detection system contains four hairpin-shaped DNA probes (HP1, HP2, HP3, and HP4). For HP1, the loop is designed to be complementary to miRNA160. A fragment of DNA with the same sequences as miRNA160 is separated into two pieces that are connected at the 3′ end of HP2 and 5′ end of HP3, respectively. In the presence of the target, four HPs are successively dissolved by the first catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA1), forming a four-way DNA junction (F-DJ) that enables the rearrangement of separated DNA fragments at the end of HP2 and HP3 and serving as an integrated target analogue for initiating the second CHA reaction, generating an enhanced fluorescence signal. Assay experiments demonstrate that D-CHA has a better performance compared with traditional CHA, achieving the detection limit as low as 10 pM for miRNA160 as deduced from its corresponding DNA surrogates. Moreover, non-target miRNAs, as well as single-base mutation targets, can be detected. Overall, the D-CHA strategy provides a competitive method for plant miRNAs detection.

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 952-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Finet ◽  
Chloé Fourquin ◽  
Marion Vinauger ◽  
Annick Berne-Dedieu ◽  
Pierre Chambrier ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Lelandais-Brière ◽  
Jérémy Moreau ◽  
Caroline Hartmann ◽  
Martin Crespi

Endosymbiosis interactions allow plants to grow in nutrient-deficient soil environments. The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is an ancestral interaction between land plants and fungi, whereas nitrogen-fixing symbioses are highly specific for certain plants, notably major crop legumes. The signaling pathways triggered by specific lipochitooligosaccharide molecules involved in these interactions have common components that also overlap with plant root development. These pathways include receptor-like kinases, transcription factors (TFs), and various intermediate signaling effectors, including noncoding (nc)RNAs. These latter molecules have emerged as major regulators of gene expression and small ncRNAs, composed of micro (mi)RNAs and small interfering (si)RNAs, are known to control gene expression at transcriptional (chromatin) or posttranscriptional levels. In this review, we describe exciting recent data connecting variants of conserved si/miRNAs with the regulation of TFs, such as NSP2, NFY-A1, auxin-response factors, and AP2-like proteins, known to be involved in symbiosis. The link between hormonal regulations and these si- and miRNA-TF nodes is proposed in a model in which different feedback loops or regulations controlling endosymbiosis signaling are integrated. The diversity and emerging regulatory networks of young legume miRNAs are also highlighted.


2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom J. Guilfoyle ◽  
Gretchen Hagen

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 622-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Bin Wei ◽  
Bai-Ming Cui ◽  
Yan-Li Ren ◽  
Juan-Hua Li ◽  
Wei-Bin Liao ◽  
...  

Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Jianfei Wu ◽  
Fan Gao ◽  
Tongtong Li ◽  
Haixia Guo ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
...  

Auxin has a profound impact on plant physiology and participates in almost all aspects of plant development processes. Auxin exerts profound pleiotropic effects on plant growth and differentiation by regulating the auxin response genes’ expressions. The classical auxin reaction is usually mediated by auxin response factors (ARFs), which bind to the auxin response element (AuxRE) in the promoter region of the target gene. Experiments have generated only a limited number of plant genes with well-characterized functions. It is still unknown how many genes respond to exogenous auxin treatment. An economical and effective method was proposed for the genome-wide discovery of genes responsive to auxin in a model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana). Our method relies on cis-regulatory-element-based targeted gene finding across different promoters in a genome. We first exploit and analyze auxin-specific cis-regulatory elements for the transcription of the target genes, and then identify putative auxin responsive genes whose promoters contain the elements in the collection of over 25,800 promoters in the A. thaliana genome. Evaluating our result by comparing with a published database and the literature, we found that this method has an accuracy rate of 65.2% (309/474) for predicting candidate genes responsive to auxin. Chromosome distribution and annotation of the putative auxin-responsive genes predicted here were also mined. The results can markedly decrease the number of identified but merely potential auxin target genes and also provide useful clues for improving the annotation of gene that lack functional information.


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