摘要
Salt stress adversely impacts crop production.Several spliceosome components have been implicated in regulating salt stress responses in plants,however,the underlying molecular basis is still unclear.Here we report that the spliceosomal core protein SmEb is essential to salt tolerance in Arabidopsis.Transcriptome analysis showed that SmEb modulates alternative splicing of hundreds of pre-mRNAs in plant response to salt stress.Further study revealed that SmEb is crucial in maintaining proper ratio of two RCD1 splicing variants(RCD1.1/RCD1.2)important for salt stress response.In addition,RCD1.1 but not RCD1.2 is able to interact with the stress regulators and attenuates saltsensitivity by decreasing salt-induced cell death in smeb-1 mutant.Together,our findings uncovered the essential role of SmEb in the regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in salt stress response.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32000206 to Z.W.and 32200234 to Y.H.)
Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(2208085Y08 to Z.W.)
Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(RCBS20210706092213009 to Y.H.)。
作者简介
Yechun Hong,contributed equally to this work;Yang Gao,contributed equally to this work;Correspondences:Jian-Kang Zhu,zhujk@sustech.edu.cn;Correspondences:Zhen Wang,wangzhen@ahau.edu.cn,Dr.Wang is fully responsible for the distributions of the materials associated with this article。
