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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011

Cis-regulatory code of stress-responsive transcription in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Cheng Zou, Kelian Sun, Joshua D Mackaluso, Alexander E Seddon, Rong Jin, Michael F Thomashow, Shin-Han Shiu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers.

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Cheng ZouDepartment of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Kelian Sun
Joshua D Mackaluso
Alexander E Seddon
Rong Jin
Michael F Thomashow
Shin-Han Shiu
Michigan State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental stress leads to dramatic transcriptional reprogramming, which is central to plant survival. Although substantial knowledge has accumulated on how a few plant cis-regulatory elements (CREs) function in stress regulation, many more CREs remain to be discovered. In addition, the plant stress cis-regulatory code, i.e., how CREs work independently and/or in concert to specify stress-responsive transcription, is mostly unknown. On the basis of gene expression patterns under multiple stresses, we identified a large number of putative CREs (pCREs) in Arabidopsis thaliana with characteristics of authentic cis-elements. Surprisingly, biotic and abiotic responses are mostly mediated by two distinct pCRE superfamilies. In addition, we uncovered cis-regulatory codes specifying how pCRE presence and absence, combinatorial relationships, location, and copy number can be used to predict stress-responsive expression. Expression prediction models based on pCRE combinations perform significantly better than those based on simply pCRE presence and absence, location, and copy number. Furthermore, instead of a few master combinatorial rules for each stress condition, many rules were discovered, and each appears to control only a small subset of stress-responsive genes. Given there are very few documented interactions between plant CREs, the combinatorial rules we have uncovered significantly contribute to a better understanding of the cis-regulatory logic underlying plant stress response and provide prioritized targets for experimentation.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsResponse ElementsStress, PhysiologicalTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticArabidopsis ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMCPMC3169165
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