Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 71, Issue 4, Pages 1598-1613Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz523
Keywords
5' Capping; cold stress; DEAD-box RNA helicase; gene repression; inducible gene; mRNA splicing; polyadenylation; salt stress; SHI2
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Funding
- US Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative project [2007-35100-18378]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270316, 31328004]
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Gene regulation is central for growth, development, and adaptation to environmental changes in all living organisms. Many genes are induced by environmental cues, and the expression of these inducible genes is often repressed under normal conditions. Here, we show that the SHINY2 (SHI2) gene is important for repressing salt-inducible genes and also plays a role in cold response. The shi2 mutant displayed hypersensitivity to cold, abscisic acid (ABA), and LiCl. Map-based cloning demonstrates that SHI2 encodes a DEAD- (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box RNA helicase with similarity to a yeast splicing factor. Transcriptomic analysis of the shi2 mutant in response to cold revealed that the shi2 mutation decreased the number of cold-responsive genes and the magnitude of their response, and resulted in the mis-splicing of some cold-responsive genes. Under salt stress, however, the shi2 mutation increased the number of salt-responsive genes but had a negligible effect on mRNA splicing. Our results suggest that SHI2 is a component in a ready-for-transcription repressor complex important for gene repression under normal conditions, and for gene activation and transcription under stress conditions. In addition, SHI2 also serves as a splicing factor required for proper splicing of cold-responsive genes and affects 5' capping and polyadenylation site selection.
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