Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 983-996Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2021.03.019
Keywords
BBX family; cryptochrome; dawn; HY5; network; morning; phytochrome; transcriptome
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- Alan Turing Institute Research fellowship under an EPSRC research grant [TU/A/000017]
- EPSRC/BBSRC Innovation fellowships [EP/S001360/1, EP/S001360/2]
- EMBO fellowship [ALTF 1418-2015]
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This study investigates the gene expression dynamics in plants after light stimulus at dawn through high-resolution RNA-sequencing and perturbation experiments. The results show that phytochrome and cryptochrome signaling play vital roles in fine-tuning the transcriptional response to light at dawn.
Light perception at dawn plays a key role in coordinating multiple molecular processes and in entraining the plant circadian clock. The Arabidopsis mutant lacking the main photoreceptors, however, still shows clock entrainment, indicating that the integration of light into the morning transcriptome is not well understood. In this study, we performed a high-resolution RNA-sequencing time-series experiment, sampling every 2 min beginning at dawn. In parallel experiments, we perturbed temperature, the circadian clock, photoreceptor signaling, and chloroplast-derived light signaling. We used these data to infer a gene network that describes the gene expression dynamics after light stimulus in the morning, and then validated key edges. By sampling time points at high density, we are able to identify three light- and temperature-sensitive bursts of transcription factor activity, one of which lasts for only about 8 min. Phytochrome and cryptochrome mutants cause a delay in the transcriptional bursts at dawn, and completely remove a burst of expression in key photomorphogenesis genes (HY5 and BBX family). Our complete network is available online (http://www-users.york.ac.uk/similar to de656/dawnBurst/dawnBurst.html). Taken together, our results show that phytochrome and cryptochrome signaling is required for fine-tuning the dawn transcriptional response to light, but separate pathways can robustly activate much of the program in their absence.
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