期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 214, 期 4, 页码 1563-1578出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14507
关键词
Arabidopsis; maize; mitochondria; pentatricopeptide repeat; RNA editing; seed development
资金
- National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [31370035]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2014CB138204]
Mitochondria are semi-autonomous organelles that are the powerhouse of the cells. Plant mitochondrial RNA editing guided by pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins is essential for energy production. We identify a maize defective kernel mutant dek36, which produces small and collapsed kernels, leading to embryos and/or seedlings lethality. Seed filling in dek36 is drastically impaired, in line with the defects observed in the organization of endosperm transfer tissue. Positional cloning reveals that DEK36, encoding a mitochondria-targeted E+ subgroup PPR protein, is required for mitochondrial RNA editing at atp4-59, nad7-383 and ccmF(N)-302, thus resulting in decreased activities of mitochondrial complex I, complex III and complex IV in dek36. Loss-of-function of its Arabidopsis ortholog At DEK36 causes arrested embryo and endosperm development, leading to embryo lethality. At_dek36 also has RNA editing defects in atp4, nad7, ccmF(N1) and ccmF(N2), but at the nonconserved sites. Importantly, efficiency of all editing sites in ccmF(N1), ccmF(N2) and rps12 is severely decreased in At_dek36, probably caused by the impairment of their RNA stabilization. These results suggest that the DEK36 orthologue pair are essential for embryo and endosperm development in both maize and Arabidopsis, but through divergent function in regulating RNA metabolism of their mitochondrial targets.
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