Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México.
PLoS One. 2024 Jun 14;19(6):e0304790. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304790. eCollection 2024.
In plants, small RNAs (sRNAs), mainly microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), have been described as key regulators of plant development, growth, and abiotic and biotic responses. Despite reports indicating the involvement of certain sRNAs in regulating the interaction between Botrytis cinerea (a major necrotrophic fungal phytopathogen) and host plants, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the potential regulatory roles of plant sRNAs during early stages of the interaction despite early immune responses observed then during infection. We present the first transcriptome-wide analysis of small RNA expression on the early interaction between the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that evolutionary conserved A. thaliana miRNAs were the sRNAs that accumulated the most in the presence of B. cinerea. The upregulation of miR167, miR159 and miR319 was of particular interest because these, together with their target transcripts, are involved in the fine regulation of the plant hormone signaling pathways. We also describe that miR173, which triggers the production of secondary siRNAs from TAS1 and TAS2 loci, as well as secondary siRNAs derived from these loci, is upregulated in response to B. cinerea. Thus, at an early stage of the interaction there are transcriptional changes of sRNA-guided silencing pathway genes and of a subset of sRNAs that targeted genes from the PPR gene superfamily, and these may be important mechanisms regulating the interaction between A. thaliana and B. cinerea. This work provides the basis for a better understanding of the regulation mediated by sRNAs during early B. cinerea-plant interaction and may help in the development of more effective strategies for its control.
在植物中,小 RNA(sRNA),主要是 microRNAs(miRNAs)和 small interfering RNAs(siRNAs),已被描述为植物发育、生长以及非生物和生物响应的关键调节剂。尽管有报道表明某些 sRNAs 参与调节 Botrytis cinerea(一种主要的坏死真菌植物病原体)与宿主植物之间的相互作用,但在感染过程中观察到早期免疫反应的情况下,仍然缺乏关于植物 sRNA 在相互作用早期阶段的潜在调节作用的分析。我们首次对坏死真菌 Botrytis cinerea 与模式植物拟南芥之间的早期相互作用进行了全转录组 sRNA 表达分析。我们发现,进化上保守的拟南芥 miRNAs 是在存在 B. cinerea 时积累最多的 sRNAs。miR167、miR159 和 miR319 的上调特别有趣,因为这些 miRNA 及其靶标转录物共同参与植物激素信号通路的精细调控。我们还描述了 miR173,它触发 TAS1 和 TAS2 基因座的次级 siRNA 的产生,以及这些基因座衍生的次级 siRNA,对 B. cinerea 的响应而上调。因此,在相互作用的早期阶段,sRNA 引导的沉默途径基因和靶向 PPR 基因超家族基因的一组 sRNAs 的转录发生变化,这些可能是调节拟南芥与 B. cinerea 相互作用的重要机制。这项工作为更好地理解 sRNA 在早期 B. cinerea-植物相互作用中的调节作用提供了基础,并可能有助于开发更有效的控制策略。