Parallel global profiling of plant TOR dynamics reveals a conserved role for LARP1 in translation

  1. M Regina Scarpin
  2. Samuel Leiboff
  3. Jacob Oliver Brunkard  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  2. Oregon State University, United States
  3. University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Abstract

TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR) is a protein kinase that coordinates eukaryotic metabolism. In mammals, TOR specifically promotes translation of ribosomal protein mRNAs when amino acids are available to support protein synthesis. The mechanisms controlling translation downstream from TOR remain contested, however, and are largely unexplored in plants. To define these mechanisms in plants, we globally profiled the plant TOR-regulated transcriptome, translatome, proteome, and phosphoproteome. We found that TOR regulates ribosome biogenesis in plants at multiple levels, but through mechanisms that do not directly depend on 5′ oligopyrimidine tract motifs (5′TOPs) found in mammalian ribosomal protein mRNAs. We then show that the TOR-LARP1-5′TOP signaling axis is conserved in plants and regulates expression of a core set of eukaryotic 5′TOP mRNAs, as well as new, plant-specific 5′TOP mRNAs. Our study illuminates ancestral roles of the TOR-LARP1-5′TOP metabolic regulatory network and provides evolutionary context for ongoing debates about the molecular function of LARP1.

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Sequencing data are available at NCBI SRA, project PRJNA639161.Proteome data are available via PRIDE and ProteomeXchange, doi:10.6019/PXD019942.

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  1. M Regina Scarpin

    Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  2. Samuel Leiboff

    Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
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  3. Jacob Oliver Brunkard

    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, United States
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    brunkard@berkeley.edu
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National Institutes of Health (DP5-OD023072)

  • Jacob Oliver Brunkard

National Science Foundation (IOS-1612268)

  • Samuel Leiboff

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2020, Scarpin et al.

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  1. M Regina Scarpin
  2. Samuel Leiboff
  3. Jacob Oliver Brunkard
(2020)
Parallel global profiling of plant TOR dynamics reveals a conserved role for LARP1 in translation
eLife 9:e58795.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58795

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