A pathway for the biogenesis of trans-acting siRNAs in Arabidopsis
AUTOR(ES)
Yoshikawa, Manabu
FONTE
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
RESUMO
The Arabidopsis genes, TAS2 and TAS1a, produce structurally similar noncoding transcripts that are transformed into short (21-nucleotide [nt]) and long (24-nt) siRNAs by RNA silencing pathways. Some of these short siRNAs direct the cleavage of protein-coding transcripts, and thus function as trans-acting siRNAs (ta-siRNAs). Using genetic analysis, we defined the pathway by which ta-siRNAs and other short siRNAs are generated from these loci. This process is initiated by the miR173-directed cleavage of a primary poly(A) transcript. The 3′ fragment is then transformed into short siRNAs by the sequential activity of SGS3, RDR6, and DCL4: SGS3 stabilizes the fragment, RDR6 produces a complementary strand, and DCL4 cleaves the resulting double-stranded molecule into short siRNAs, starting at the end with the miR173 cleavage site and proceeding in 21-nt increments from this point. The 5′ cleavage fragment is also processed by this pathway, but less efficiently. The DCL3-dependent pathway that generates long siRNAs does not require miRNA-directed cleavage and plays a minor role in the silencing of these loci. Our results define the core components of a post-transcriptional gene silencing pathway in Arabidopsis and reveal some of the features that direct transcripts to this pathway.
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