Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing of pre-mRNA under salt stress in Arabidopsis

BMC Genomics

Liming Xiong¹  Shahjahan Ali¹  Shoudong Zhang¹  Zhenyu Wang¹  Peng Cui¹  Feng Ding¹ 

[1] Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

关键词: Arabidopsis thaliana;    Salt stress;    SR proteins;    Pre-mRNA;    Alternative splicing;   

Others  :  1216669
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-15-431

 received in 2014-03-23, accepted in 2014-05-29,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Alternative splicing (AS) of precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) is an important gene regulation process that potentially regulates many physiological processes in plants, including the response to abiotic stresses such as salt stress.

Results

To analyze global changes in AS under salt stress, we obtained high-coverage (~200 times) RNA sequencing data from Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings that were treated with different concentrations of NaCl. We detected that ~49% of all intron-containing genes were alternatively spliced under salt stress, 10% of which experienced significant differential alternative splicing (DAS). Furthermore, AS increased significantly under salt stress compared with under unstressed conditions. We demonstrated that most DAS genes were not differentially regulated by salt stress, suggesting that AS may represent an independent layer of gene regulation in response to stress. Our analysis of functional categories suggested that DAS genes were associated with specific functional pathways, such as the pathways for the responses to stresses and RNA splicing. We revealed that serine/arginine-rich (SR) splicing factors were frequently and specifically regulated in AS under salt stresses, suggesting a complex loop in AS regulation for stress adaptation. We also showed that alternative splicing site selection (SS) occurred most frequently at 4 nucleotides upstream or downstream of the dominant sites and that exon skipping tended to link with alternative SS.

Conclusions

Our study provided a comprehensive view of AS under salt stress and revealed novel insights into the potential roles of AS in plant response to salt stress.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Ding et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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