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ArticleScientific reports2019

Distinct roles of Argonaute in the green alga Chlamydomonas reveal evolutionary conserved mode of miRNA-mediated gene expression.

Betty Y-W Chung, Adrian Valli, Michael J Deery, Francisco J Navarro, Katherine Brown, Silvia Hnatova, Julie Howard, Attila Molnar, David C Baulcombe

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Betty Y-W ChungDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, United Kingdom. bcy23@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4384-285X
Adrian ValliDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.
Michael J DeeryCambridge System Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, United Kingdom.
Francisco J NavarroDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.
Katherine BrownDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QP, United Kingdom.
Silvia HnatovaDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.
Julie HowardCambridge System Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, United Kingdom.
Attila MolnarInstitute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1044-6327
David C BaulcombeDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, United Kingdom. dcb40@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-6878
University of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R021821/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 096082
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is evolutionarily divergent from higher plants, but has a fully functional silencing machinery including microRNA (miRNA)-mediated translation repression and mRNA turnover. However, distinct from the metazoan machinery, repression of gene expression is primarily associated with target sites within coding sequences instead of 3'UTRs. This feature indicates that the miRNA-Argonaute (AGO) machinery is ancient and the primary function is for post transcriptional gene repression and intermediate between the mechanisms in the rest of the plant and animal kingdoms. Here, we characterize AGO2 and 3 in Chlamydomonas, and show that cytoplasmically enriched Cr-AGO3 is responsible for endogenous miRNA-mediated gene repression. Under steady state, mid-log phase conditions, Cr-AGO3 binds predominantly miR-C89, which we previously identified as the predominant miRNA with effects on both translation repression and mRNA turnover. In contrast, the paralogue Cr-AGO2 is nuclear enriched and exclusively binds to 21-nt siRNAs. Further analysis of the highly similar Cr-AGO2 and Cr-AGO 3 sequences (90% amino acid identity) revealed a glycine-arginine rich N-terminal extension of ~100 amino acids that, given previous work on unicellular protists, may associate AGO with the translation machinery. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that this glycine-arginine rich N-terminal extension is present outside the animal kingdom and is highly conserved, consistent with our previous proposal that miRNA-mediated CDS-targeting operates in this green alga.

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3' Untranslated RegionsArgonaute ProteinsBiological EvolutionChlamydomonas reinhardtiiGene ExpressionGene Expression Regulation, PlantMicroRNAsPhylogenyRNA InterferenceRNA, MessengerRNA, Small Interfering3' Untranslated RegionsArgonaute ProteinsMicroRNAsRNA, MessengerRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID31366981
PMCPMC6668577
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