Polysome Assembly and RNA Synthesis During Phytochrome-mediated Photomorphogenesis in Mustard Cotyledons

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Journal Planta

Specialty Biology

Date 2013 Nov 23

PMID 24264923

Citations 2

Authors

E Mosinger

P Schopfer

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Abstract

The effect of phytochrome (high irradiance reaction, elicited by continuous far-red light) on cellular polysome levels was investigated using ribosome-isolation procedures which prevent the methodological artifacts inherent in previous studies on polysomes. By including the large pool of ribosomal subunits in the analysis and using the ratio (polysomes: monomers + subunits) as a quantitative estimate of the translational capacity of the ribosomes in mustard (Sinapis alba L.) cotyledons, we found the following results: 1) After a lag-phase of less than 30 min, phytochrome induces a massive increase in the relative amount of cytosolic (free) polysomes at the expense of ribosomal subunits. 2) Cytosolic and membrane-bound polysomes are increased by phytochrome in constant proportions (constant ratio of 65:35 in light and darkness). 3) Simultaneously with the light-mediated increase of the polysome level there is an increased incorporation of newly synthesized (labeled) non-ribosomal RNA, presumably mRNA, into the polysomes which can be kinetically discriminated from the slower incorporation of newly synthesized (labeled) rRNA. 4) Cordycepin strongly inhibits the synthesis of RNA and completely prevents the light-mediated increase of polysomes. 5) The electrophoretic patterns of the in-vitro translation products obtained with polysomal polyadenylated RNA from dark-grown and light-grown cotyledons showed no significant qualitative differences. We conclude from these results that photomorphogenesis of mustard cotyledons is related to a massive increase of newly synthesized mRNA leading to a correspondingly increased recruitment of ribosomal subunits into polysomes. The phytochrome-induced increase of translatable mRNA involves mainly quantitative changes in the production of mRNA species which are also present in the dark-grown cotyledons.

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