Arabidopsis UPF1 RNA helicase for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay is involved in seed size control and is essential for growth

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 572-580

  Yoine, Masato ^a   Nishii, Terumi ^a   Nakamura, Kenzo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; lba1 atupf1 1 mutant; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay; Seed sac; Seed size; UPF1

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RNA HELICASE; UPF1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; RNA HELICASES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33745099773     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj035     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alonso-Blanco, C., Blankestijn-de Vries, H., Hanhart, C.J. and Koornneef, M. (1999) Natural allelic variation at seed size loci in relation to other life history traits of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 96: 4710-4717.
2. Baker, K.E. and Parker, R. (2004) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: terminating erroneous gene expression. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 16: 293-299.
3. Conti, E. and Izaurralde, E. (2005) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: molecular insights and mechanistic variations across species. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 17: 316-325.
4. Culbertson, M.R. and Leeds, P.F. (2003) Looking at mRNA decay pathways through the window of molecular evolution. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. Dev. 13: 207-214.
5. Domeier, M.E., Morse, D.P., Knight, S.W., Portereiko, M., Bass, B.L. and Mango, S.E. (2000) A link between RNA interference and nonsense-mediated decay in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 289: 1928-1931.
6. Frischmeyer, P.A. and Dietz, H.C. (1999) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in health and disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 8: 1893-1900.
7. González, C.I., Bhattacharya, A., Wang, W. and Peltz, S.W. (2001) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene 274: 15-25.
8. Gutierrez, R.A., MacIntosh, G.C. and Green, P.J. (1999) Current perspectives on mRNA stability in plants: multiple levels and mechanisms of control. Trends Plant Sci. 4: 429-438.
9. He, F., Li, X., Spatrick, P., Casillo, R., Dong, S. and Jacobson, A. (2003) Genome-wide analysis of mRNAs regulated by the nonsense-mediated and 5′ to 3′ mRNA decay pathways in yeast. Mol. Cell 12: 1439-1452.
10. Hori, K. and Watanabe, Y. (2005) UPF3 suppresses aberrant spliced mRNA in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 43: 530-540.
11. Iida, K., Seki, M., Sakurai, T., Satou, M., Akiyama, K., Toyoda, T., Konagaya, A. and Shinozaki, K.(2004) Genome-wide analysis of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana based on full-length cDNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 32: 5096-5103.
12. Isshiki, M., Yamamoto, Y., Satoh, H. and Shimamoto, K. (2001) Nonsense-mediated decay of mutant waxy mRNA in rice. Plant Physiol. 125: 1388-1395.
13. Jofuku, K.D., Omidyar, P.K., Gee, Z. and Okamuro, J.K. (2005) Control of seed mass and seed yield by the floral homeotic gene APETALA2. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102: 3117-3122.
14. Kim, Y.K., Furic, L., Desgroseillers, L. and Maquat, L.E. (2005) Mammalian Staufenl recruits Upfl to specific mRNA 3′UTRs so as to elicit mRNA decay. Cell 120: 195-208.
15. Leeds, P., Wood, J.M., Lee, B.S. and Culbertson, M.R. (1992) Gene products that promote mRNA turnover in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell Biol. 12: 2165-2177.
16. Lejeune, F. and Maquat, L.E. (2005) Mechanistic links between nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian cells. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 17: 309-315.
17. Lewis, B.P., Green, R.E. and Brenner, S.E. (2003) Evidence for the widespread coupling of alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in humans. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 100: 189-192.
18. Mansfield, S.G. and Bowman, J. (1993) Embryogenesis. In Arabidopsis: An Atlas of Morphology and Development. Edited by Bowman, J. pp. 349-362. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
19. Mathieu, O., Yukawa, Y., Prieto, J.L., Vaillant, I., Sugiura, M. and Tourmente, S. (2003) Identification and characterization of transcription factor IIIA and ribosomal protein L5 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Res. 31: 2424-2433.
20. Medghalchi, S.M., Frischmeyer, P.A., Mendell, J.T., Kelly, A.G., Lawler, A.M. and Dietz, H.C. (2001) Rent1, a trans-eftector of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, is essential for mammalian embryonic viability. Hum. Mol. Genet. 10: 99-105.
21. Mendell, J.T., Sharifi, N.A., Meyers, J.L., Martinez-Murillo, F. and Dietz, H.C. (2004) Nonsense surveillance regulates expression of diverse classes of mammalian transcripts and mutes genomic noise. Nat. Genet. 36: 1073-1078.
22. Mita, S., Murano, N., Akaike, M. and Nakamura, K. (1997) Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana with pleiotropic effects on the expression of the gene for β-amylase and on the accumulation of anthocyanin that are inducible by sugars. Plant J. 11: 841-851.
23. Nott, A., Le, Hir, H. and Moore, M.J. (2004) Splicing enhances translation in mammalian cells: an additional function of the exon junction complex. Genes Dev. 18: 210-222.
24. Ohto, M.A., Fischer, R.L., Goldberg, R.B., Nakamura, K. and Harada, J.J. (2005) Control of seed mass by APETALA2. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102: 3123-3128.
25. Pego, J.V., Weisbeek, P.J. and Smeekens, S.C. (1999) Mannose inhibits Arabidopsis germination via a hexokinase-mediated step. Plant Physiol. 119: 1017-1023.
26. Pulak, R. and Anderson, P. (1993) mRNA surveillance by the Caenorhabditis elegans smg genes. Genes Dev. 7: 1885-1897.
27. Rehwinkel, J., Letunic, I., Raes, J., Bork, P. and Izaurralde, E. (2005) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors act in concert to regulate common mRNA targets. RNA 11: 1530-1544.
28. Riefler, M., Novak, O., Strnad, M. and Schmulling, T. (2006) Arabidopsis cytokinin receptor mutants reveal functions in shoot growth, leaf senescence, seed size, germination, root development, and cytokinin metabolism. Plant Cell 18: 40-54.
29. Schruff, M.C., Spielman, M., Tiwari, S., Adams, S., Fenby, N. and Scott, R.J. (2005) The AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 2 gene of Arabidopsis links auxin signaling, cell division, and the size of seeds and other organs. Development 133: 251-261.
30. Sundaresan, V. (2005) Control of seed size in plants. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102: 17887-17888.
31. Yoine, M., Ohto, M., Onai, K., Mita, S. and Nakamura, K. (2006) The lba1 mutation of UPF1 RNA helicase involved in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay causes pleiotropic phenotypic changes and altered sugar signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 46: in press.