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Bhat, Susheel Sagar, Bielewicz, Dawid, Gulanicz, Tomasz, Bodi, Zsuzsanna, Xiang Yu, Anderson, Stephen J., Szewc, Lukasz, Bajczyk, Mateusz, Dolata, Jakub, Grzelak, Natalia, Smolinski, Dariusz J., Gregory, Brian D., Fray, Rupert G., Jarmolowski, Artur, Szweykowska-Kulinska, Zofia |
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 9/1/2020, Vol. 117 Issue 35, p1-11, 11p |
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In Arabidopsis thaliana, the METTL3 homolog, mRNA adenosine methylase (MTA) introduces N6-methyladenosine (m6A) into various coding and noncoding RNAs of the plant transcriptome. Here, we show that an MTA-deficient mutant (mta) has decreased levels of microRNAs (miRNAs) but accumulates primary miRNA transcripts (pri-miRNAs). Moreover, pri-miRNAs are methylated by MTA, and RNA structure probing analysis reveals a decrease in secondary structure within stem-loop regions of these transcripts in mta mutant plants. We demonstrate interaction between MTA and both RNA Polymerase II and TOUGH (TGH), a plant protein needed for early steps of miRNA biogenesis. Both MTA and TGH are necessary for efficient colocalization of the Microprocessor components Dicer-like 1 (DCL1) and Hyponastic Leaves 1 (HYL1) with RNA Polymerase II. We propose that secondary structure of miRNA precursors induced by their MTA-dependent m6A methylation status, together with direct interactions between MTA and TGH, influence the recruitment of Microprocessor to plant pri-miRNAs. Therefore, the lack of MTA in mta mutant plants disturbs pri-miRNA processing and leads to the decrease in miRNA accumulation. Furthermore, our findings reveal that reduced miR393b levels likely contributes to the impaired auxin response phenotypes of mta mutant plants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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