Plavskin, Yevgeniy, Nagashima, Akitomo, Perroud, Pierre-François, Hasebe, Mitsuyasu, Quatrano, Ralph S, Atwal, Gurinder S, Timmermans, Marja C P. (February 2016) Ancient trans-Acting siRNAs Confer Robustness and Sensitivity onto the Auxin Response. Developmental Cell, 36 (3). pp. 276-289. ISSN 1534-5807
Abstract
Summary Novel developmental programs often evolve via cooption of existing genetic networks. To understand this process, we explored cooption of the TAS3 tasiRNA pathway in the moss Physcomitrella patens. We find an ancestral function for this repeatedly redeployed pathway in the spatial regulation of a conserved set of Auxin Response Factors. In moss, this results in stochastic patterning of the filamentous protonemal tissue. Through modeling and experimentation, we demonstrate that tasiRNA regulation confers sensitivity and robustness onto the auxin response. Increased auxin sensitivity parallels increased developmental sensitivity to nitrogen, a key environmental signal. We propose that the properties lent to the auxin response network, along with the ability to stochastically modulate development in response to environmental cues, have contributed to repeated cooption of the tasiRNA-ARF module during evolution. The signaling properties of a genetic network, and not just its developmental output, are thus critical to understanding evolution of multicellular forms.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | small RNA evolution gene regulatory network auxin Physcomitrella |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > auxin bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > siRNA |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Atwal lab CSHL labs > Timmermans lab School of Biological Sciences > Publications |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 8 February 2016 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2016 20:33 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 15:01 |
| PMCID: | PMC5444541 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/32354 |
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