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ArticlePlant communications2025

The E3 ligase OsHel2 impedes readthrough of stalled mRNAs to regulate male fertility in thermosensitive genic male sterile rice.

Wei Liu, Ji Li, Jing Sun, Chunyan Liu, Bin Yan, Can Zhou, Shengdong Li, Xianwei Song, Wei Yan, Yuanzhu Yang and 1 more

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Article in Plant communications, 2025. 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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  1. Ribosome stalling position, spacing, and A-site occupancy impact translation and cotranslational mRNA decay in plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. RNA regulation in plants.Science China. Life sciences · 2026
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Wei LiuInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China.
Ji LiInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
Jing SunInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.
Chunyan LiuInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: cyliu@genetics.ac.cn.
Bin YanInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Can ZhouInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
Shengdong LiInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
Xianwei SongInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Key Laboratory of Seed Innovation, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Wei YanInstitute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China.
Yuanzhu YangYuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Company, Changsha 410125, Hunan, China; State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Changsha 410125, Hunan, China; Key Laboratory of Rice Germplasm Enhancement in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Changsha 410001, Hunan, China. Electronic address: yzhuyah@163.com.
Xiaofeng CaoInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China. Electronic address: xfcao@geneitcs.ac.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterosis is extensively used in the 2-line hybrid breeding system. Photosensitive/thermosensitive genic male sterile (P/TGMS) lines are key components of 2-line hybrid rice, and TGMS lines containing tms5 have significantly advanced 2-line hybrid rice breeding. We cloned the TMS5 gene and found that TMS5 is a tRNA cyclic phosphatase that can remove 2',3'-cyclic phosphate (cP) from cP-ΔCCA-tRNAs for efficient repair to ensure maintenance of mature tRNA levels. tms5 mutation causes increased levels of cP-ΔCCA-tRNAs and reduced levels of mature tRNAs, leading to male sterility at restrictive temperatures. However, the regulatory network of tms5-mediated TGMS remains to be clarified. Here, we demonstrate that the E3 ligase OsHel2 cooperates with TMS5 to regulate TGMS at restrictive temperatures. Consistently, both the accumulation of cP-ΔCCA-tRNAs and the reduction in mature tRNAs in the tms5 mutant are largely recovered in the tms5 oshel2-1 mutant. A lesion in OsHel2 results in partial readthrough of the stalled sequences, thereby enabling evasion of ribosome-associated protein quality control (RQC) surveillance. Our findings reveal a mechanism by which OsHel2 impedes readthrough of stalled mRNA sequences to regulate male fertility in TGMS rice, providing a paradigm for investigating how disorders in components of the RQC pathway impair cellular functions and lead to diseases or defects in other organisms.

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OryzaPlant InfertilityPlant ProteinsRNA, MessengerUbiquitin-Protein LigasesFertilityGene Expression Regulation, PlantRNA, TransferPlant ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, TransferUbiquitin-Protein LigasesE3 ligasemale fertilityOsHel2ribosome stallingTGMS ricetms5

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PMCPMC11897441

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