New Insights into Aluminum Tolerance in Rice： The ASR5 Protein Binds the STAR1 Promoter and Other Aluminum-Responsive Genes

作     者：Rafael Augusto Arenhart Yang Bai Luiz Felipe Valter de Oliveira Lauro Bucker Neto Mariana Schunemann Felipe dos Santos Maraschin Jorge Mariath Adriano Silverio Gilberto Sachetto-Martins Rogerio Margis Zhi-Yong Wang Marcia Margis-Pinheiro 

作者机构：Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Genetica e Biologia Molecular Avenida Bento Goncalves 9500 Departamento de Genetica sala 207 predio 43312 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 91501-970 Porto Alegre Brasil Department of Plant Biology Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford CA 94305 USA School of Computer Science and Technology Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin 150001 China Departamento de Botanica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brasil Departamento de Genetica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Porto Alegre Brasil Centro de Biotecnologia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brasil 

出 版 物：《Molecular Plant》 (分子植物（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第7卷第4期

页      面：709-721页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 071007[理学-遗传学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 090102[农学-作物遗传育种] 

基　　金：NIGMS NIH HHS,R01GM066258 NIGMS NIH HHS,R01 GM066258 

主　　题：Aluminum ChlP-Seq RNA-Seq rice ASR. 

摘      要：Aluminum （AI） toxicity in plants is one of the primary constraints in crop production. Al3＋, the most toxic form of Al, is released into soil under acidic conditions and causes extensive damage to plants, especially in the roots. In rice, Al tolerance requires the ASR5 gene, but the molecular function of ASR5 has remained unknown. Here, we perform genome-wide analyses to identify ASR5-dependent Al-responsive genes in rice. Based on ASRS_RNAi silencing in plants, a global transcriptome analysis identified a total of 961 genes that were responsive to Al treatment in wildtype rice roots. Of these genes, 909 did not respond to Al in the ASR5_RNAi plants, indicating a central role for ASR5 in Al-responsive gene expression. Under normal conditions, without Al treatment, the ASR5 RNAi plants expressed 1.756 genes differentially compared to the wild-type plants, and 446 of these genes responded to AI treatment in the wild-type plants. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing identified 104 putative target genes that were directly regulated by ASR5 binding to their promoters, including the STAR1 gene, which encodes an ABC transporter required for AI tolerance. Motif analysis of the binding peak sequences revealed the binding motif for ASR5, which was confirmed via in vitro DNA-binding assays using the STAR1 promoter. These results demonstrate that ASR5 acts as a key transcription factor that is essential for AI-responsive gene expression and Al tolerance in rice.