Should I stay or should I go? Trafficking of plant extra-nuclear transcription factors

S Marathe, E Grotewold, MS Otegui - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
At the heart of all biological processes lies the control of nuclear gene expression, which is
primarily achieved through the action of transcription factors (TFs) that generally contain a …

SERRATE drives phase separation behaviours to regulate m6A modification and miRNA biogenesis

S Zhong, X Li, C Li, H Bai, J Chen, L Gan, J Zhu… - Nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The methyltransferase complex (MTC) deposits N 6-adenosine (m6A) onto RNA, whereas
the microprocessor produces microRNA. Whether and how these two distinct complexes …

Biomolecular condensates in plant RNA silencing: insights into formation, function, and stress responses

Q Li, Y Liu, X Zhang - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Biomolecular condensates are dynamic structures formed through diverse mechanisms,
including liquid-liquid phase separation. These condensates have emerged as crucial …

The METHYLTRANSFERASE B–SERRATE interaction mediates the reciprocal regulation of microRNA biogenesis and RNA m6A modification

H Bai, Y Dai, P Fan, Y Zhou, X Wang… - Journal of Integrative …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In eukaryotes, RNA N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) modification and microRNA (miRNA)‐
mediated RNA silencing represent two critical epigenetic regulatory mechanisms. The m6A …

A prion-like domain is required for phase separation and chloroplast RNA processing during cold acclimation in Arabidopsis

J Legen, B Lenzen, N Kachariya, S Feltgen… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants can produce photosynthetic tissue with active
chloroplasts at temperatures as low as 4° C, and this process depends on the presence of …

Proteolytic control of the RNA silencing machinery

P Genschik, M Schiaffini, E Lechner - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Studies in plants were often pioneering in the field of RNA silencing and revealed a broad
range of small RNA (sRNA) categories. When associated with ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins …

Discovery of new genomic regions and candidate genes implicated in the natural variation of barley peduncle length and plant height

Z Khatir, SG Thabet, MD Alqahtani… - Genetic Resources and …, 2024 - Springer
The cereal plant barley (Hordeum vulgare) has high nutritional content and special
characteristics that allow it to withstand adverse weather conditions. The peduncle's …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the Frontier of Plant Phase Separation: Current Insights and Future Prospects

P Fan, J Zhang, L Gao, M Wang, H Kong, S He - New Crops, 2024 - Elsevier
In the rapidly evolving field of biology, phase separation has recently emerged as a
revolutionary perspective, shedding new light on our comprehension of cellular processes …

The prion-like domain of the chloroplast RNA binding protein CP29A is required for cold-induced phase separation next to nucleoids and supports RNA splicing and …

J Legen, B Lenzen, N Kachariya, S Feltgen, Y Gao… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Arabidopsis thaliana is capable of producing photosynthetic tissue with active chloroplasts
at temperatures as low as 4° C, and this process depends on the presence of the nuclear …

How intrinsically disordered proteins order plant gene silencing

B Shang, C Li, X Zhang - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and proteins with intrinsically disordered regions
(IDRs) possess low sequence complexity of amino acids and display non-globular tertiary …