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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1048957
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epigenetics; transposons; environmental stress; Arabidopsis thaliana; ONSEN
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The DDR complex plays an essential role in regulating the activity of the retrotransposon ONSEN in Arabidopsis. Loss of any component of the DDR complex increases ONSEN transcript levels and leads to transgenerational transposition under heat stress. The components of the DDR complex, DRD1, DMS3, and RDM1, independently suppress ONSEN transcription and transposition. The duration of heat stress also affects ONSEN activity.
The RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway plays an essential role in the transposon silencing mechanism; the DDR complex, consisting of DRD1, DMS3, and RDM1, is an essential component of the RdDM pathway. ONSEN, identified in Arabidopsis, is a retrotransposon activated by heat stress at 37 degrees C; however, studies on the regulation of ONSEN are limited. In this study, we analyzed the regulation of ONSEN activity by the DDR complex in Arabidopsis. We elucidated that loss of any component of the DDR complex increased ONSEN transcript levels. Transgenerational transposition of ONSEN was observed in the DDR-complex mutants treated with heat stress for 48 h. Furthermore, the DDR complex components DRD1, DMS3, and RDM1 played independent roles in suppressing ONSEN transcription and transposition. Moreover, we found that the duration of heat stress affects ONSEN activity. Therefore, the results of this study provide new insights into the retrotransposon regulatory mechanisms of the DDR complex in the RdDM pathway.
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