GhCTSF1,a short PPR protein with a conserved role in chloroplast development and photosynthesis,participates in intron splicing of rpoC1 and ycf3-2 transcripts in cotton  

作　　者：Yuzhu Huo Mengxue Cheng Meiju Tang Meng Zhang Xiaofan Yang Yating Zheng Tong Zhao Peng He Jianing Yu 

机构地区：[1]College of Life Sciences,Shaanxi Normal University,Xi’an 710119,China

出　　处：《Plant Communications》2024年第6期213-229,共17页植物通讯（英文）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170367 and 32000146);the Shaanxi Fundamental Science Research Project for Chemistry&Biology(22JHZ007);the Department of Science and Technology Innovation Team Project of Shaanxi Provincial(2024RS-CXTD-72);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2020TS053);the Excellent Graduate Training Program of Shaanxi Normal University(LHRCCX23185).

摘　　要：Cotton is one of the most important textile fibers worldwide.As crucial agronomic traits,leaves play an essential role in the growth,disease resistance,fiber quality,and yield of cotton plants.Pentatricopeptide repeat(PPR)proteins are a large family of nuclear-encoded proteins involved in organellar or nuclear RNA metabolism.Using a virus-induced gene silencing assay,we found that cotton plants displayed variegated yellow leaf phenotypes with decreased chlorophyll content when expression of the PPR gene GhCTSF1 was silenced.GhCTSF1 encodes a chloroplast-localized protein that contains only two PPR motifs.Disruption of GhCTSF1 substantially reduces the splicing efficiency of rpoC1 intron 1 and ycf3 intron 2.Loss of function of the GhCTSF1 ortholog EMB1417 causes splicing defects in rpoC1 and ycf3-2,leading to impaired chloroplast structure and decreased photosynthetic rates in Arabidopsis.We also found that GhCTSF1 interacts with two splicing factors,GhCRS2 and GhWTF1.Defects in GhCRS2 and GhWTF1 severely affect intron splicing of rpoC1 and ycf3-2 in cotton,leading to defects in chloroplast development and a reduction in photosynthesis.Our results suggest that GhCTSF1 is specifically required for splicing rpoC1 and ycf3-2 in cooperation with GhCRS2 and GhWTF1.

关 键 词：CHLOROPLAST RNA splicing PPR protein COTTON photosynthesis 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]