Extremely high or low autophagy levels disrupt plant survival under nutrient starvation.Recently,autophagy has been reported to display rhythms in animals.However,the mechanism of circadian regulation of autophagy is ...Extremely high or low autophagy levels disrupt plant survival under nutrient starvation.Recently,autophagy has been reported to display rhythms in animals.However,the mechanism of circadian regulation of autophagy is still unclear.Here,we observed that autophagy has a robust rhythm and that various autophagy-related genes(ATGs)are rhythmically expressed in Arabidopsis.Chromatin immunoprecipitation(Ch IP)and dual-luciferase(LUC)analyses showed that the core oscillator gene TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1(TOC1)directly binds to the promoters of ATG(ATG1 a,ATG2,and ATG8 d)and negatively regulates autophagy activities under nutritional stress.Furthermore,autophagy defects might affect endogenous rhythms by reducing the rhythm amplitude of TOC1 and shortening the rhythm period of CIRCADIAN CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1(CCA1).Autophagy is essential for the circadian clock pattern in seedling development and plant sensitivity to nutritional deficiencies.Taken together,our studies reveal a plant strategy in which the TOC1-ATG axis involved in autophagy-rhythm crosstalk to fine-tune the intensity of autophagy.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC–31871396,31571444)the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program of CAST(YESS20160001)+3 种基金the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice(Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center)to Feng Yuthe Foundation of Hunan Provincial Natural Science(2021JJ30540)the Foundation of Hunan Double First-rate Discipline Construction Projects of Bioengineering to Zhaotun Huthe China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co.,Ltd.Research Project(KY2021YC0001)to W.X.P。
文摘Extremely high or low autophagy levels disrupt plant survival under nutrient starvation.Recently,autophagy has been reported to display rhythms in animals.However,the mechanism of circadian regulation of autophagy is still unclear.Here,we observed that autophagy has a robust rhythm and that various autophagy-related genes(ATGs)are rhythmically expressed in Arabidopsis.Chromatin immunoprecipitation(Ch IP)and dual-luciferase(LUC)analyses showed that the core oscillator gene TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1(TOC1)directly binds to the promoters of ATG(ATG1 a,ATG2,and ATG8 d)and negatively regulates autophagy activities under nutritional stress.Furthermore,autophagy defects might affect endogenous rhythms by reducing the rhythm amplitude of TOC1 and shortening the rhythm period of CIRCADIAN CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1(CCA1).Autophagy is essential for the circadian clock pattern in seedling development and plant sensitivity to nutritional deficiencies.Taken together,our studies reveal a plant strategy in which the TOC1-ATG axis involved in autophagy-rhythm crosstalk to fine-tune the intensity of autophagy.
