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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.656657
Keywords
Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis); high light acclimation; small non-coding RNA; gene regulation; RNA sequencing
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- German Research Foundation [SFB-TRR 175, C03]
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This study investigated the transcriptome data of Arabidopsis plants subjected to high light conditions, identifying a large number of high light responsive miRNAs and sRNAs derived from NAT gene pairs, lncRNAs, and TAS transcripts. The study provides a deeper understanding of sRNA-dependent regulatory networks in high light acclimation.
The biological significance of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has been firmly established to be important for the regulation of genes involved in stress acclimation. Light plays an important role for the growth of plants providing the energy for photosynthesis; however, excessive light conditions can also cause substantial defects. Small RNAs (sRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs that regulate transcript levels of protein-coding genes and mediate epigenetic silencing. Next generation sequencing facilitates the identification of small non-coding RNA classes such as miRNAs (microRNAs) and small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), but changes in the ncRNA transcriptome in response to high light are poorly understood. We subjected Arabidopsis plants to high light conditions and performed a temporal in-depth study of the transcriptome data after 3 h, 6 h, and 2 days of high light treatment. We identified a large number of high light responsive miRNAs and sRNAs derived from NAT gene pairs, lncRNAs and TAS transcripts. We performed target predictions for differentially expressed miRNAs and correlated their expression levels through mRNA sequencing data. GO analysis of the targets revealed an overrepresentation of genes involved in transcriptional regulation. In A. thaliana, sRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression in response to high light treatment is mainly carried out by miRNAs and sRNAs derived from NAT gene pairs, and from lncRNAs. This study provides a deeper understanding of sRNA-dependent regulatory networks in high light acclimation.
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