The Arabidopsis STRESS RESPONSE SUPPRESSOR DEAD-box RNA helicases are nucleolar- and chromocenter-localized proteins that undergo stress-mediated relocalization and are involved in epigenetic gene silencing

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DEAD-box RNA helicases are involved in many aspects of RNA metabolism and in diverse biological processes in plants. Arabidopsis thaliana mutants of two DEAD-box RNA helicases, STRESS RESPONSE SUPPRESSOR1 (STRS1) and STRS2 were previously shown to exhibit tolerance to abiotic stresses and up-regulated stress-responsive gene expression. Here, we show that Arabidopsis STRS-overexpressing lines displayed a less tolerant phenotype and reduced expression of stress-induced genes confirming the STRSs as attenuators of Arabidopsis stress responses. GFP-STRS fusion proteins exhibited localization to the nucleolus, nucleoplasm and chromocenters and exhibited relocalization in response to abscisic acid (ABA) treatment and various stresses. This relocalization was reversed when stress treatments were removed. The STRS proteins displayed mis-localization in specific gene-silencing mutants and exhibited RNA-dependent ATPase and RNA-unwinding activities. In particular, STRS2 showed mis-localization in three out of four mutants of the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway while STRS1 was mis-localized in the hd2c mutant that is defective in histone deacetylase activity. Furthermore, heterochromatic RdDM target loci displayed reduced DNA methylation and increased expression in the strs mutants. Taken together, our findings suggest that the STRS proteins are involved in epigenetic silencing of gene expression to bring about suppression of the Arabidopsis stress response.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:79

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The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 79(2014), 1 vom: 02. Juli, Seite 28-43

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Khan, Asif [VerfasserIn]
Garbelli, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Grossi, Serena [VerfasserIn]
Florentin, Assa [VerfasserIn]
Batelli, Giorgia [VerfasserIn]
Acuna, Tania [VerfasserIn]
Zolla, Gaston [VerfasserIn]
Kaye, Yuval [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Laju K [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Jian-Kang [VerfasserIn]
Maga, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Grafi, Gideon [VerfasserIn]
Barak, Simon [VerfasserIn]

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451W47IQ8X
72S9A8J5GW
Abiotic stress response
Abscisic Acid
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Arabidopsis Proteins
Arabidopsis thaliana
DEAD-box RNA Helicases
DEAD-box RNA helicase
EC 2.7.7.-
EC 3.6.1.-
EC 3.6.4.13
Epigenetic gene silencing
Journal Article
Nucleolus
Plant Growth Regulators
RNA-dependent ATPase
RNA-directed DNA methylation
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
STRS1 protein, Arabidopsis
STRS2 protein, Arabidopsis
Sodium Chloride

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Date Completed 24.02.2015

Date Revised 19.11.2015

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/tpj.12533

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NLM237291576