Coordination of m6A mRNA methylation and gene transcriptome in rice response to cadmium stress

Rice

Tao Huang¹  Jianmin Bian¹  Guangliang Wu¹  Yanning Wang¹  Xiangyu Zhang¹  Shiying Huang¹  Mengmeng Yang¹  Peng Wang¹  Haohua He¹  Shilei Liu¹  Jingai Tan¹  Qin Cheng¹  Caijing Li¹ 

[1] Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, 330045, Nanchang, China;College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, 330045, Nanchang, China;

关键词: N-methyladenosine;    Posttranscriptional regulation;    Rice;    Cadmium stress;    Seedling;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12284-021-00502-y

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent internal modification present in the mRNAs of all higher eukaryotes. However, the role of the m6A methylomes in rice is still poorly understood. With the development of the MeRIP-seq technique, the in-depth identification of mRNAs with m6A modification has become feasible. A study suggested that m6A modification is crucial for posttranscriptional regulation related to Cd2+-induced malignant transformation, but the association between m6A modification in plants and Cd tolerance has not been reported. We investigated the m6A methylomes in the roots of a cadmium (Cd)-treated group and compared them with the roots in the control (CK) group by m6A sequencing of cv. 9311 and cv. Nipponbare (NIP) plants. The results indicated that Cd leads to an altered modification profile in 3,406 differential m6A peaks in cv. 9311 and 2,065 differential m6A peaks in cv. NIP. KEGG pathway analysis of the genes with differentially modified m6A peaks indicated that the “phenylalanine”, “tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis”, “glycine”, “adherens junctions”, “glycerophospholipid metabolism” and “threonine metabolism” signalling pathways may be associated with the abnormal root development of cv. 9311 rice due to exposure to Cd. The “arginine”, “proline metabolism”, “glycerolipid”, and “protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum” metabolism pathways were significantly enriched in genes with differentially modified m6A peaks in cv. NIP. Unlike that in Arabidopsis, the m6A-modified nucleotide position on mRNAs (m6A peak) distribution in rice exhibited a preference towards both the stop codon and 3′ untranslated regions (3′ UTRs). These findings provide a resource for plant RNA epitranscriptomic studies and further increase our knowledge on the function of m6A modification in RNA in plants.

【 授权许可】

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