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Published on November 9, 2007; 10.1105/tpc.107.055319

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Received August 23, 2007
Returned for revision October 8, 2007
Accepted October 15, 2007

Arabidopsis FIERY1, XRN2, and XRN3 Are Endogenous RNA Silencing Suppressors

Isabelle Gy 1, Virginie Gasciolli 1, Dominique Lauressergues 1, Jean-Benoit Morel 1, Julie Gombert 1, Florence Proux 1, Caroline Proux 1, Hervé Vaucheret 1, and Allison C. Mallory 1*

1 Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 78026 Versailles Cedex, France

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: amallory{at}versailles.inra.fr.

The eukaryotic defense response posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is directed by short-interfering RNAs and thwarts invading nucleic acids via the RNA slicing activity of conserved ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins. PTGS can be counteracted by exogenous or endogenous suppressors, including the cytoplasmic exoribonuclease XRN4, which also degrades microRNA (miRNA)-guided mRNA cleavage products but does not play an obvious role in development. Here, we show that the nuclear exoribonucleases XRN2 and XRN3 are endogenous PTGS suppressors. We also identify excised MIRNA loops as templates for XRN2 and XRN3 and show that XRN3 is critical for proper development. Independently, we identified the nucleotidase/phosphatase FIERY1 (FRY1) as an endogenous PTGS suppressor through a suppressor screen in a hypomorphic ago1 genetic background. FRY1 is one of six Arabidopsis thaliana orthologs of yeast Hal2. Yeast hal2 mutants overaccumulate 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate, which suppresses the 5'->3' exoribonucleases Xrn1 and Rat1. fry1 mutant plants recapitulate developmental and molecular characteristics of xrn mutants and likely restore PTGS in ago1 hypomorphic mutants by corepressing XRN2, XRN3, and XRN4, thus increasing RNA silencing triggers. We anticipate that screens incorporating partially compromised silencing components will uncover additional PTGS suppressors that may not be revealed using robust silencing systems.




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