Análise transcriptômica de genes e LTR retrotransposons em arroz (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica) em resposta à toxidez por ferro

• Autor(a) principal: Finatto, Taciane
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFPel - Guaiaca
• Texto Completo: http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br/handle/123456789/1138
• topic: Nipponbare; Toxidez por ferro; Estresse oxidativo; Cascata de sinalização; Elementos regulatórios de ação cis; Ácido abscísico; Co-trancrição LTR retrotransposons e genes; Transcrição das regiões flanqueadoras dos LTR retrotransposons; Nipponbare; Iron toxicity; Oxidative stress; Cis-regulatory elements; Signaling cascade; Abscisic acid; Co-transcription LTR retrotransposon and genes; LTR retrotransposons flanking region transcription; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA

Iron toxicity in plants is associated with the presence of large concentrations of reduced iron (Fe2+) in the soil solution, which occurs in flooded soils and affects rice plants grown under this condition. Symptoms of iron toxicity involve oxidative stress in leaves, as a response to excessive Fe2+ absorption by the roots. The responses of plants to stress conditions include stimulus perception, signal transduction and gene transcription activation. Besides gene expression, LTR (Long Terminal Repeat) retrotransposons represent ca. 22% of the rice genome, they can be transcriptionally activated under stress, and they can alter the expression of adjacent genes (e.g. due to alterations in chromatin structure). This study aimed to identify differentially expressed genes and LTR retrotransposons in leaves of 18-day-old rice seedlings (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica cv. Nipponbare) after four days of iron excess exposure. They were identified a differential expression of genes and LTR retrotransposons in rice exposed to iron excess using a microarray approach. Total RNA was extracted from leaves of 18-day-old rice seedlings (Oryza sativa L. ssp japonica cv. Nipponbare) after four days of cultivation in nutrient solution with iron excess (7 mM of FeSO47H2O) and in a control solution. The hybridization was performed with cDNA and rice transposome array v. 2.0 microarray (Roche/NimbleGen technology, an improvement of v.1.0, Picault et al., 2009). Data from gene expression was analyzed by the Bayesian t-test with BH adjustment method. Gene annotation, gene ontology, and LTR retrotransposon identification were performed at RAP-DB (Rice Annotation Project Database, build 5), and microarray results were validated by RT-qPCR. Considering log2 FC (log2-fold-change) ≤ -1 as underexpression and ≥ 1 as overexpression (p-values ≤ 0.05), 44 down-regulated and 1,572 up-regulated genes with described function were identified. Down-regulated genes were related to a wide range of functions and no gene family could be highlighted. Among the up-regulated genes, 166 were transcription factors, the most representative belonging to the Zinc finger RING/FYVE/PHD-type family (22) and WRKY family (19); other genes were from the kinase family, participating in biological processes of protein amino acid phosphorylation (86); had molecular function of iron ion binding (56); were involved in response to oxidative stress (scavenging of reactive oxygen species) (26); had molecular function of transport activity (84), including four genes related to heavy metal transport/detoxification and four genes of the multi antimicrobial extrusion protein MATE family; and were involved in the biological process of apoptosis (14), including 10 genes of NB-ARC. Among the up-regulated genes, 435 present at least one cis-regulatory element responsive to abscisic acid (ABA) with significant occurrence (P≤0.05) in its promoter region (1 kbp upstream of the transcription start site). These data indicate that about 28% of the up-regulated genes can be regulated by changing in the ABA content in leaves in response to iron excess. Regarding expression of LTR retrotransposons, 302 were down-regulated (53 Ty1/Copia, 172 Ty3/Gypsy and 77 unclassified), and 4342 up-regulated (466 Ty1/Copia, 2276 Ty3/Gypsy and 1600 unclassified). They were observed a large activity of LTR retrotransposons in response to iron toxicity, and furthermore, they were verified that LTR retrotransposons transcription can extend to 5' and 3' flanking regions. In addition, 16 situations that should up-regulated LTR retrotransposons are located at a very short distance (smaller than 1000 base pairs) in the same chromosome of up-regulated genes suggesting co-transcription, these occurrences are represented by eight where the LTR retrotransposon and the gene have the same sense of transcription (plus); five occurrences with the both with the same sense of transcription (minus) and one occurrence where they have opposite senses. Additionally, two occurrences that in which both, DNA sequences of up-regulated retrotransposon and gene, are overlapped and have the same sense of transcription.