文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Zhao, Jie ¹ ; Liu, Huijie ¹ ; Li, Tingting ¹ ; Li, Yanpeng ² ; Wang, Meiqi ⁴ ; Ci, Huiting ⁴ ; Lu, Yanwu ¹ ; Zhu, Changhua ¹ ; Gan, Lijun ¹ ; Chen, Shiguo ¹ ; Shen, Wenbiao ¹ ; Chen, Fadi ⁴ ; Chen, Huatao ⁶ ; Chen, Xiaoguang ⁷ ; Wang, Zhenxing ⁴ ; Liu, Wenxian ² ; Chen, Mingjia ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Life Sci, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

2.Lanzhou Univ, State Key Lab Herbage Improvement & Grassland Agro, Lanzhou 730020, Gansu, Peoples R China

3.Lanzhou Univ, Coll Pastoral Agr Sci & Technol, Lanzhou 730020, Gansu, Peoples R China

4.Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Hort, State Key Lab Crop Genet & Germplasm Enhancement &, Key Lab Flower Biol & Germplasm Innovat,Minist Agr, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

5.Zhongshan Biol Breeding Lab, Nanjing 210014, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

6.Jiangsu Acad Agr Sci, Inst Ind Crops, Nanjing 210014, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

7.Hangzhou Normal Univ, Sch Life & Environm Sci, Hangzhou 311121, Zhejiang, Peoples R China

关键词： Arabidopsis thaliana; light-harvesting complex family; N4-acetylcytidine; Oryza sativa; photosynthesis; RNA modification; translation

期刊名称：NEW PHYTOLOGIST （ 影响因子：8.1； 五年影响因子：10.3 ）

ISSN： 0028-646X

年卷期： 2025 年 247 卷 5 期

页码：

收录情况： SCI

摘要： N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C), the only known acetylation modification of eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA), is highly conserved across species. However, the fundamental functions and regulatory mechanisms of it in plants remain largely unexplored. The comprehensive analyses of ac4C distribution on nuclear and plastid transcripts from six plant species revealed its conserved functions associated with chloroplast development and photosynthesis. Eliminating the RNA acetylase ACYR (N-ACETYLTRANSFERASEs FOR CYTIDINE IN RNA), which was also known as N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10), in Arabidopsis and rice led to impaired photosynthetic performance and compromised high-light (HL) acclimation. Multi-omics analyses employing acetylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing, RNA-seq, and Ribo-seq combined with biochemical analyses showed that the translation efficiency (TE) of LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX II 2 (LHCB2), LHCB3, and LHCB4 transcripts was markedly suppressed upon loss of the ac4C modification, ultimately resulting in diminished abundance of their protein products. Therefore, LHC protein homeostasis modulated by the ac4C modification likely represents a functional link between RNA acetylation and ac4C-dependent photosynthesis. The TE of other photosynthesis-associated transcripts also declined, leading to a further reduction in the abundance of the corresponding proteins. Our study uncovered a previously unknown function for the ACYR-mediated ac4C modification on mRNA in regulating photosynthesis and HL acclimation across multiple plant species by improving the TE of components of the photosynthetic apparatus.