Lobbes Dajana, Rallapalli Ghanasyam, Schmidt Dominik D, Martin Cathie, Clarke Jonathan
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
EMBO Rep. 2006 Oct;7(10):1052-8. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400806. Epub 2006 Sep 15.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) function as sequence-specific guides that control gene expression by post-transcriptional gene silencing. Many miRNAs influence plant development by regulating the accumulation of transcripts that encode transcription factors. Mutants defective in miRNA accumulation, such as dcl1, hen1, hyl1 and ago1, have pleiotropic developmental phenotypes. The serrate-1 (se-1) mutant of Arabidopsis also shows a highly pleiotropic phenotype, which overlaps with the phenotypes of mutants defective in miRNA accumulation. Although it has been proposed that SERRATE (SE) functions specifically in miRNA-mediated repression of the leaf polarity genes PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA, microarray analysis shows upregulation of many genes known to be the targets of miRNAs in se-1. We show that SE is a general regulator of miRNA levels affecting the processing of primary miRNA to miRNA.
微小RNA(miRNA)作为序列特异性向导,通过转录后基因沉默来控制基因表达。许多miRNA通过调节编码转录因子的转录本积累来影响植物发育。在miRNA积累方面存在缺陷的突变体,如dcl1、hen1、hyl1和ago1,具有多效性发育表型。拟南芥的锯齿叶-1(se-1)突变体也表现出高度多效性表型,这与miRNA积累缺陷突变体的表型重叠。尽管有人提出锯齿叶(SE)在miRNA介导的对叶极性基因PHABULOSA和PHAVOLUTA的抑制中具有特异性功能,但微阵列分析显示,在se-1中许多已知为miRNA靶标的基因上调。我们表明,SE是miRNA水平的一般调节因子,影响初级miRNA加工成miRNA。