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- Title
Transcriptional reprogramming of nucleotide metabolism in response to altered pyrimidine availability in Arabidopsis seedlings.
- Authors
Slocum, Robert D.; Mejia Peña, Carolina; Zhongchi Liu
- Abstract
In Arabidopsis seedlings, inhibition of aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATC) and de novo pyrimidine synthesis resulted in pyrimidine starvation and developmental arrest a few days after germination. Synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides by salvaging of exogenous uridine (Urd) restored normal seedling growth and development. We used this experimental system and transcriptional profiling to investigate genome-wide responses to changes in pyrimidine availability. Gene expression changes at different times after Urd supplementation of pyrimidine-starved seedlings were mapped to major pathways of nucleotide metabolism, in order to better understand potential coordination of pathway activities, at the level of transcription. Repression of de novo synthesis genes and induction of intracellular and extracellular salvaging genes were early and sustained responses to pyrimidine limitation. Since de novo synthesis is energetically more costly than salvaging, this may reflect a reduced energy status of the seedlings, as has been shown in recent studies for seedlings growing under pyrimidine limitation. The unexpected induction of pyrimidine catabolism genes under pyrimidine starvation may result from induction of nucleoside hydrolase NSH1 and repression of genes in the plastid salvaging pathway, diverting uracil (Ura) to catabolism. Identification of pyrimidine-responsive transcription factors with enriched binding sites in highly coexpressed genes of nucleotide metabolism and modeling of potential transcription regulatory networks provided new insights into possible transcriptional control of key enzymes and transporters that regulate nucleotide homeostasis in plants.
- Subjects
HOMEOSTASIS; PYRIMIDINES; PYRIMIDINE nucleotides; NUCLEOTIDE synthesis; ARABIDOPSIS; METABOLISM
- Publication
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023, p01
- ISSN
1664-462X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpls.2023.1273235