Publication: Transcriptional Regulation of the Ambient Temperature Response by H2A.Z Nucleosomes and HSF1 Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis
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2017-10-09
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17529867
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16742052
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Mahidol University
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Molecular Plant. Vol.10, No.10 (2017), 1258-1273
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Sandra Cortijo, Varodom Charoensawan, Anna Brestovitsky, Ruth Buning, Charles Ravarani, Daniela Rhodes, John van Noort, Katja E. Jaeger, Philip A. Wigge Transcriptional Regulation of the Ambient Temperature Response by H2A.Z Nucleosomes and HSF1 Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant. Vol.10, No.10 (2017), 1258-1273. doi:10.1016/j.molp.2017.08.014 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/41337
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Transcriptional Regulation of the Ambient Temperature Response by H2A.Z Nucleosomes and HSF1 Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis
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© 2017 The Author Temperature influences the distribution, range, and phenology of plants. The key transcriptional activators of heat shock response in eukaryotes, the heat shock factors (HSFs), have undergone large-scale gene amplification in plants. While HSFs are central in heat stress responses, their role in the response to ambient temperature changes is less well understood. We show here that the warm ambient temperature transcriptome is dependent upon the HSFA1 clade of Arabidopsis HSFs, which cause a rapid and dynamic eviction of H2A.Z nucleosomes at target genes. A transcriptional cascade results in the activation of multiple downstream stress-responsive transcription factors, triggering large-scale changes to the transcriptome in response to elevated temperature. H2A.Z nucleosomes are enriched at temperature-responsive genes at non-inducible temperature, and thus likely confer inducibility of gene expression and higher responsive dynamics. We propose that the antagonistic effects of H2A.Z and HSF1 provide a mechanism to activate gene expression rapidly and precisely in response to temperature, while preventing leaky transcription in the absence of an activation signal. While heat shock factors (HSFs) are central in heat stress responses, their role in ambient temperature is poorly understood. We show that the warm ambient temperature transcriptome is dependent upon the HSFA1 clade, causing a rapid and transient eviction of H2A.Z nucleosomes. We propose that HSF1/H2A.Z antagonism provides a mechanism to rapidly activate temperature-responsive genes at warm temperature.