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ArticleThe EMBO journal2021

HASTY, the Arabidopsis EXPORTIN5 ortholog, regulates cell-to-cell and vascular microRNA movement.

Florian Brioudes, Florence Jay, Alexis Sarazin, Thomas Grentzinger, Emanuel A Devers, Olivier Voinnet

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Florian BrioudesDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6665-307X
Florence JayDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexis SarazinDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Thomas GrentzingerDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Emanuel A DeversDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Olivier VoinnetDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6982-9544
ETH Zurich · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) guide cytosolic post-transcriptional gene silencing of sequence-complementary transcripts within the producing cells, as well as in distant cells and tissues. Here, we used an artificial miRNA-based system (amiRSUL) in Arabidopsis thaliana to explore the still elusive mechanisms of inter-cellular miRNA movement via forward genetics. This screen identified many mutant alleles of HASTY (HST), the ortholog of mammalian EXPORTIN5 (XPO5) with a recently reported role in miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis. In both epidermis-peeling and grafting assays, amiRSUL levels were reduced much more substantially in miRNA-recipient tissues than in silencing-emitting tissues. We ascribe this effect to HST controlling cell-to-cell and phloem-mediated movement of the processed amiRSUL, in addition to regulating its biogenesis. While HST is not required for the movement of free GFP or siRNAs, its cell-autonomous expression in amiRSUL-emitting tissues suffices to restore amiRSUL movement independently of its nucleo-cytosolic shuttling activity. By contrast, HST is dispensable for the movement and activity of amiRSUL within recipient tissues. Finally, HST enables movement of endogenous miRNAs that display mostly unaltered steady-state levels in hst mutant tissues. We discuss a role for HST as a hitherto unrecognized regulator of miRNA movement in relation to its recently assigned nuclear function at the nexus of MIRNA transcription and miRNA processing.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBiological TransportGene Expression Regulation, PlantGreen Fluorescent ProteinsKaryopherinsMicroRNAsMutationPhloemPlant CellsPlant RootsPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA InterferenceRNA, PlantXylemArabidopsis ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHASTY protein, ArabidopsisKaryopherinsMicroRNAsRNA, PlantArabidopsisARGONAUTEHASTYmiRNAmovement

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PMID34152631
PMCPMC8327949
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