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PLANT GENOME
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2018.04.0022
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Epigenetic regulations in the form of changes in differential expression of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) are an essential mechanism of stress response in plants. Previously we showed that heat treatment in Brassica rapa L. results in the differential processing and accumulation of ncRNA fragments (ncRFs) stemming from transfer RNAs (tRNAs), ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), and small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). In this work, we analyzed whether ncRFs are differentially expressed in the progeny of heat-stressed plants. We found significant changes in the size of tRF reads and a significant decrease in the percentage of tRFs mapping to tRNA-Ala, tRNA-Arg, and tRNA-Tyr and an increase in tRFs mapping to tRNA-Asp. The enrichment analysis showed significant differences in processing of tRFs from tRNA(Ala(AGC)), tRNA(Ala(UGC)), tRNA(Arg(UGC),) tRNA(Thr(UGU)), tRNA(Pseudo(UCC)), and tRNA(Val(CAC)) isoacceptors. Analysis of potential targets of tRFs showed that they regulate brassinosteroid metabolism, the proton pump ATPase activity, the antiporter activity, the mRNA decay activity as well as nucleosome positioning and the epigenetic regulation of transgenerational response. Gene ontology term analysis of potential targets demonstrated a significant enrichment in tRFs that potentially targeted a cellular component endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and in small nucleolar RNA fragments (snoRFs), the molecular function protein binding. To summarize, our work demonstrated that the progeny of heat-stressed Brassica rapa plants exhibit changes in the expression of tRFs and snoRFs but not of small nuclear RNA fragments (snRFs) or ribosomal RNA fragments (rRFs) and these changes likely better prepare the progeny of stressed plants to future stress encounters.
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