Generation of fruit postharvest gene datasets and a novel motif analysis tool for functional studies: uncovering links between peach fruit heat treatment and cold storage responses
| Autor: | Claudia A. Bustamante, Lucas D. Daurelio, María V. Lara, María F. Drincovich, Mauro Gismondi, Claudia Maiorano, Laura L. Monti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Hot Temperature Transcription Genetic Preservation Biological Cold storage Plant Science Computational biology Biology Genes Plant Models Biological 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Plant Growth Regulators Gene Expression Regulation Plant Stress Physiological Databases Genetic Genetics Transcriptional regulation Nucleotide Motifs Promoter Regions Genetic Transcription factor Gene Phylogeny Prunus persica Binding Sites Base Sequence Phylogenetic tree Promoter Cold Temperature 030104 developmental biology Fruit Postharvest Sequence motif Software Signal Transduction Transcription Factors 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Planta. 251 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2048 0032-0935 |
| Popis: | A survey of developed fruit gene-specific datasets and the implementation of a novel cis-element analysis tool indicate specific transcription factors as novel regulatory actors under HT response and CI protection. Heat treatment (HT) prior to cold storage (CS) has been successfully applied to ameliorate fruit chilling injury (CI) disorders. Molecular studies have identified several HT-driven benefits and putative CI-protective molecules and mechanisms. However, bioinformatic tools and analyses able to integrate fruit-specific information are necessary to begin functional studies and breeding projects. In this work, a HT-responsive gene dataset (HTds) and four fruit expression datasets (FEds), containing gene-specific information from several species and postharvest conditions, were developed and characterized. FEds provided information about HT-responsive genes, not only validating their sensitivity to HT in different systems but also revealing most of them as CS-responsive. A special focus was given to peach heat treatment-sensitive transcriptional regulation by the development of a novel Perl motif analysis software (cisAnalyzer) and a curated plant cis-elements dataset (PASPds). cisAnalyzer is able to assess sequence motifs presence, localization, enrichment and discovery on biological sequences. Its implementation for the enrichment analysis of PASPds motifs on the promoters of HTds genes rendered particular cis-elements that indicate certain transcription factor (TF) families as responsible of fruit HT-sensitive transcription regulation. Phylogenetic and postharvest expression data of these TFs showed a functional diversity of TF families, with members able to fulfil roles under HT, CS and/or both treatments. All integrated datasets and cisAnalyzer tool were deposited in FruitGeneDB (https://www.cefobi-conicet.gov.ar/FruitGeneDB/search1.php), a new available database with a great potential for fruit gene functional studies, including the markers of HT and CS responses whose study will contribute to unravel HT-driven CI-protection and select tolerant cultivars. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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