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BREAKTHROUGH REPORT 1 2
Ribonucleoprotein Capture by in vivo Expression of a Designer 3
Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein in Arabidopsis 4
James J. McDermott, Kenneth P. Watkins, Rosalind Williams-Carrier, Alice Barkan* 5
Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 974056
* Corresponding author. Alice Barkan, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon,7 Eugene, OR 97405. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 541-346-51458
9 Short Title: Designer PPR protein as RNA affinity tag 10
11 One sentence summary: Artificial proteins built from consensus PPR motifs bind the intended 12 RNA in vivo and can be used as RNA affinity tags to purify endogenous RNPs and identify the 13 bound proteins. 14
15 The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this 16 article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantcell.org) 17 is: Alice Barkan ([email protected]). 18
19 ABSTRACT 20 Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins bind RNA via a mechanism that facilitates the 21 customization of sequence specificity. However, natural PPR proteins have irregular features 22 that limit the degree to which their specificity can be predicted and customized. We demonstrate 23 here that artificial PPR proteins built from consensus PPR motifs selectively bind the intended 24 RNA in vivo, and we use this property to develop a new tool for ribonucleoprotein 25 characterization. We show by RNA coimmunoprecipitation-sequencing (RIP-seq) that artificial 26 PPR proteins designed to bind the Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast psbA mRNA bind with high 27 specificity to psbA mRNA in vivo. Analysis of coimmunoprecipitating proteins by mass 28 spectrometry showed the psbA translational activator HCF173 and two RNA-binding proteins of 29 unknown function (CP33C and SRRP1) to be highly enriched. RIP-seq revealed that these 30 proteins are bound primarily to psbA RNA in vivo, and precise mapping of the HCF173 and 31 CP33C binding sites placed them in different locations on psbA mRNA. These results 32 demonstrate that artificial PPR proteins can be tailored to bind specific endogenous RNAs in 33 vivo, add to the toolkit for characterizing native ribonucleoproteins, and open the door to other 34 applications that rely on the ability to target a protein to a specified RNA sequence. 35
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INTRODUCTION 39
The ability to target proteins to specified RNA sequences provides an entrée to diverse 40
approaches for manipulating and analyzing RNA-mediated functions. However, the sequence 41
specificities of most RNA binding proteins are difficult to predict because most RNA-binding 42
domains bind short, degenerate sequence motifs and employ variable binding modes (reviewed 43
in Helder et al., 2016). In this context, the Pumilio/FBF (PUF) and pentatricopeptide repeat 44
(PPR) protein families have attracted interest due to their unusual mode of RNA recognition 45
(Chen and Varani, 2013; Yagi et al., 2014; Hall, 2016). PUF and PPR proteins have tandem 46
helical repeating units that bind consecutive nucleotides with a specificity that is largely 47
determined by the identities of amino acids at two positions. These amino acid “codes” have 48
been used to reprogram native proteins to bind new RNA sequences and for the design of 49
artificial proteins with particular sequence specificities (Barkan et al., 2012; Campbell et al., 50
2014; Coquille et al., 2014; Kindgren et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2016; Colas 51
des Francs-Small et al., 2018; Miranda et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018; Bhat et al., 2019; Yan et 52
al., 2019). 53
PUF and PPR proteins also differ in important respects. They bind RNA with opposite 54
polarity, and they employ distinct amino acid combinations to specify each nucleotide (reviewed 55
in Hall, 2016). PUF proteins comprise a small protein family whose members invariably contain 56
eight repeat motifs (Goldstrohm et al., 2018), whereas the PPR family includes over 400 57
members in plants, and the number of PPR motifs per protein ranges from two to approximately 58
thirty (Lurin et al., 2004). PUF proteins generally localize to the cytoplasm and repress the 59
translation or stability of mRNA ligands (reviewed in Wang et al., 2018), while PPR proteins 60
localize almost exclusively to mitochondria and chloroplasts, where they function in RNA 61
stabilization, translational activation, group II intron splicing, RNA cleavage, and RNA editing 62
(reviewed in Barkan and Small, 2014). The evolutionary malleability of PPR architecture and 63
function suggests that the PPR scaffold may be particularly amenable to tailoring RNA binding 64
affinity, kinetics, and sequence specificity for particular applications. 65
The PPR code has been used to recode several natural PPR proteins to bind non-native 66
RNA ligands in vitro (Barkan et al., 2012) and in vivo (Kindgren et al., 2015; Colas des Francs-67
Small et al., 2018; Rojas et al., 2019). However, the engineering of native PPR proteins is 68
complicated by irregularities in their PPR tracts, which result in variable and unpredictable 69
contributions of their PPR motifs to RNA affinity and specificity (Fujii et al., 2013; Okuda et al., 70
2014; Miranda et al., 2017; Rojas et al., 2018). By contrast, artificial PPR proteins (aPPRs) built 71
from consensus PPR motifs exhibit predictable sequence-specificity in vitro (Coquille et al., 72
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2014; Shen et al., 2015; Miranda et al., 2018; Yan et al., 2019). However, the degree to which 73
such proteins bind selectively to RNAs in vivo has not been reported. 74
In this work, we advance efforts to engineer PPR proteins by showing that two aPPR 75
proteins bind with high specificity to their intended endogenous RNA target in vivo. At the same 76
time, we demonstrate the utility of aPPRs for a particular application – the purification of specific 77
native ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs) for identification of the associated proteins. The 78
population of proteins bound to an RNA influences its function and metabolism, but techniques 79
for characterizing RNP-specific proteomes are limited. Thus, our results expand the toolkit for 80
purifying selected RNPs and lay groundwork for the use of aPPRs in other applications. 81
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RESULTS 83
We chose to target aPPRs to the chloroplast psbA mRNA for this proof-of-concept experiment 84
because the psbA mRNA exhibits dynamic changes in translation in response to light, and 85
identification of bound proteins may elucidate the underlying mechanisms (reviewed in Sun and 86
Zerges, 2015; Chotewutmontri and Barkan, 2018). We designed aPPR proteins with either 11 or 87
14 PPR motifs to bind the psbA 3ʹ-untranslated region (UTR) in Arabidopsis (Figure 1A, 88
Supplemental Figure 1). We refer to these proteins as SCD11 and SCD14, respectively. 89
Because PPR proteins bind single-stranded RNA, we targeted the proteins to a sequence that is 90
predicted to be unstructured. To avoid disrupting psbA expression, we chose a target sequence 91
that is poorly conserved and that begins sufficiently far from the stop codon that the terminating 92
ribosome and aPPR should not occupy the same nucleotides. We designed the proteins 93
according to the scheme described by Shen and coworkers (Shen et al., 2015), such that a tract 94
of consensus PPR motifs with the appropriate specificity-determining amino acids is embedded 95
within N- and C-terminal segments of the native chloroplast-localized protein PPR10 (Pfalz et 96
al., 2009). We previously reported a comprehensive analysis of the sequence specificity of 97
SCD11 and SCD14 in vitro (Miranda et al., 2018), which confirmed them to be highly selective 98
for their intended target sequence in vitro while also revealing nuances relevant to prediction of 99
off-target binding. For the in vivo assays described here, the proteins included, in addition, a C-100
terminal 3xFLAG tag and the N-terminal chloroplast targeting sequence from PPR10, which is 101
cleaved after chloroplast import (Figure 1A and Supplemental Figure 1). 102
Immunoblot analysis of leaf and chloroplast fractions from transgenic Arabidopsis plants 103
expressing SCD11 and SCD14 confirmed that they localize to chloroplasts (Figure 1B). Both 104
proteins were found predominantly in the soluble fraction, as expected given that they lack 105
transmembrane segments or thylakoid targeting signals. Laddering beneath the band 106
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corresponding to each full-length protein suggests that these artificial proteins are prone to 107
proteolysis in vivo. The transgenic plants were phenotypically normal (Figure 1C) and had 108
normal levels of PsbA protein (Figure 1B), indicating that the aPPRs did not disrupt psbA 109
expression or have off-target effects that compromised plant growth. 110
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SCD11 and SCD14 Bind with High Specificity to psbA RNA in vivo 112
To identify RNAs that are bound to SCD11 and SCD14 in vivo, we isolated chloroplasts from the 113
transgenic plants, used anti-FLAG antibody to immunoprecipitate each protein from stromal 114
extract (Figure 2A), and purified RNA from the coimmunoprecipitates. Slot-blot hybridizations 115
showed that psbA RNA was highly enriched in immunoprecipitates from the transgenic lines in 116
comparison to the wild-type progenitor (Col-0) (Figure 2B). Furthermore, RNA from the 3ʹ-UTR 117
was more highly enriched than that from the 5ʹ-UTR (Figure 2B), consistent with the binding of 118
the aPPRs to the 3ʹ-UTR, as intended. 119
To gain a comprehensive view of the RNAs bound to each protein, we sequenced the 120
coimmunoprecipitating RNA (RIP-seq) in two replicate experiments. Comparison of these RNAs 121
to those from immunoprecipitations with an antibody that does not recognize proteins in 122
Arabidopsis showed that the psbA RNA was strongly enriched in the SCD11 and SCD14 123
immunoprecipitates (Figure 2C, Supplemental Figure 2A, Supplemental Dataset 1). The 124
enrichment of RNAs mapping to each chloroplast protein-coding gene was highly reproducible 125
between the replicate experiments (Figure 2D and Supplemental Figure 2A); RNA from the 126
psbA gene was enriched more than 100-fold, whereas RNA from most genes showed no 127
enrichment. This establishes that artificial PPR proteins can bind specifically to an intended 128
RNA target in vivo. The 4.5S rRNA was also enriched in the SCD11 immunoprecipitates. 129
However, this may be artifactual because it was not enriched in SCD14 immunoprecipitates, 130
and 4.5S rRNA is an unlikely ligand for an aPPR protein due to the fact that it is highly 131
structured and largely embedded in the ribosome. 132
Reproducible low-level enrichment of RNA from several genes other than psbA 133
suggested a small degree of off-target binding, particularly by SCD14 (Figure 2D and 134
Supplemental Figure 2A). All genes whose RNAs showed greater than three-fold enrichment 135
in either the SCD14 or SCD11 coimmunoprecipitates are listed in Figure 3A. Most of these 136
contain local peaks of enrichment harboring sequences resembling the intended binding site in 137
the psbA 3ʹ-UTR (Figure 3B and Supplemental Figure 3). A sequence logo representing the 138
frequency of nucleotides at each position in SCD14’s off-target sequence set closely resembles 139
SCD14’s intended binding site (Figure 3C). The in vivo specificity landscapes of SCD11 and 140
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SCD14 implied by these data are discussed below, in the context of our prior in vitro bind-n-seq 141
analysis of the same proteins (Miranda et al., 2018). 142
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Identification of Known and Novel psbA RNA-Binding Proteins in SCD14 and SCD11 144
Coimmunoprecipitates 145
Results above demonstrated that psbA RNA is, by far, the most highly enriched mRNA in 146
SCD14 and SCD11 coimmunoprecipitates. To identify native proteins that are bound to psbA 147
mRNA in vivo, we analyzed the SCD11 and SCD14 coimmunoprecipitates by mass 148
spectrometry. Approximately 400 different proteins were identified in at least one of the 149
immunoprecipitates (Supplemental Dataset 2). The enrichment of each protein was calculated 150
with respect to its representation in an anti-FLAG immunoprecipitate from the non-transgenic 151
host line (Col-0). Approximately 50 proteins were enriched at least two-fold in either the SCD11 152
or SCD14 immunoprecipitation (Supplemental Dataset 2). Proteins whose enrichment 153
averaged at least three-fold in the two experiments are listed in Figure 4A. This protein set 154
included several proteins that are known to associate with psbA mRNA: HCF173, which 155
activates psbA translation (Schult et al., 2007), cpSRP54, which binds cotranslationally to PsbA 156
(Nilsson and van Wijk, 2002), and various ribosomal proteins and general translation factors. 157
Immunoblot analysis of anti-FLAG coimmunoprecipitates confirmed that HCF173 and cpSRP54 158
coimmunoprecipitate with the aPPR proteins from extracts of the transgenic plants (Figure 4B). 159
The differing efficiency with which these proteins were coprecipitated from the two lines may be 160
due to the higher abundance of SCD14 in the stromal extracts (see Figure 1B), or to differing 161
degrees of RNA degradation in the two preparations, as RNA cleavage will separate the bound 162
aPPRs from proteins bound elsewhere on the RNA. 163
Notably absent from the set of proteins detected in the SCD11 and SCD14 164
immunoprecipitates (Supplemental Dataset 2) is the pentatricopeptide repeat protein LPE1, 165
which was reported to bind the psbA 5ʹ-UTR and recruit HCF173 for psbA translation (Jin et al., 166
2018). However, this role for LPE1 was recently called into question (Williams-Carrier et al., 167
2019). The failure to detect LPE1 in the aPPR coimmunoprecipitates despite the strong 168
enrichment of HCF173 supports the revised view that LPE1 neither binds psbA RNA nor 169
activates its translation. 170
Two predicted RNA-binding proteins of unknown function were strongly enriched in the 171
aPPR coimmunoprecipitates (Figure 4A): SRRP1 (AT3G23700) and CP33C (AT4G09040). 172
SRRP1 has two S1 RNA-binding domains and was proposed to harbor RNA chaperone activity 173
based on in vitro and E. coli complementation data (Gu et al., 2015). CP33C has two RRM 174
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RNA-binding domains (Ruwe et al., 2011), but functional studies have not been reported. To 175
determine whether these proteins associate with psbA RNA in vivo, we performed RIP-seq 176
using antibodies generated against the maize orthologs (sequences shown in Supplemental 177
Figure 4A). At the same time, we performed RIP-seq with antibody to the maize ortholog of 178
HCF173 (Zm-HCF173); HCF173 was previously shown to coimmunoprecipitate with psbA RNA, 179
but limited information was provided about interactions with other RNAs (Schult et al., 2007). 180
Because the Zm-CP33C antibodies did not detect the Arabidopsis ortholog, we used maize 181
stroma for this set of RIP-seq assays. The psbA RNA was highly enriched in each 182
coimmunoprecipitate and was the only RNA to be strongly enriched in each case (Figure 5, 183
replicates in Supplemental Figure 2B). Chloroplast rRNAs were reproducibly enriched in the 184
Zm-HCF173 and Zm-SRRP1 immunoprecipitates but not in the Zm-CP33C immunoprecipitates, 185
suggesting that HCF173 and SRRP1, but not CP33C, associate with ribosomes and/or with 186
psbA RNA that is undergoing translation. Several other mRNAs were reproducibly enriched in 187
each immunoprecipitate, but to a much smaller degree (Figure 5B, Supplemental Figure 2B). 188
These results validate the utility of the aPPR-affinity tag approach to identify proteins that 189
associate with a specific RNA-of-interest in vivo. 190
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High-Resolution RIP-seq Pinpoints Binding Sites for HCF173 and CP33C on psbA mRNA 192
The precise location of an RNA-binding protein on RNA can be informative with regard to its 193
functions and mechanisms. With that in mind, we modified the RIP-seq protocol by adding a 194
Ribonuclease I digestion step prior to antibody addition, aiming to limit the span of RNA that 195
coimmunoprecipitates due to proximity to the binding site. The RNase treatment all but 196
eliminated psbA RNA from the SRRP1 coimmunoprecipitation (Figure 6A), suggesting that the 197
Zm-SRRP1 binding site is too short or of too low an affinity to be recovered with this method. 198
However, psbA sequences remained highly enriched in the Zm-HCF173 and Zm-CP33C 199
coimmunoprecipitates (Figure 6A). The apparent increase in rRNA abundance in the +RNase 200
immunoprecipitates likely reflects a decrease in the balance of true RNA ligand (psbA RNA) to 201
contaminants (rRNA), as we aimed to obtain a similar number sequence reads in all 202
experiments. A higher resolution view of these data showed that both antibodies 203
immunoprecipitated well-defined, specific fragments of psbA RNA (Figure 6B). The sequences 204
that coimmunoprecipitated with CP33C mapped toward the end of the open reading frame 205
(Figure 6B and Supplemental Figure 4B). The sequence that coimmunoprecipitated with 206
HCF173 mapped in the 5ʹ UTR (Figure 6B, red) and coincided with a conserved sequence 207
patch (Figure 6C). We refer to this as the HCF173 footprint, but recognize that HCF173’s 208
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interaction with this sequence could be mediated by another protein. Interestingly, this 209
sequence spans a junction between two predicted conserved RNA hairpins (Figure 6C). The 210
downstream hairpin intrudes on the footprint of the initiating ribosome (Chotewutmontri and 211
Barkan, 2016) and is therefore predicted to inhibit translation initiation (Scharff et al., 2011). 212
Association of HCF173 with the site defined here would likely prevent formation of this hairpin, 213
providing a plausible mechanism for HCF173’s translation activation function. 214
DISCUSSION 215
PPR proteins have attracted interest as potential scaffolds for the development of designer 216
RNA-binding proteins (Filipovska and Rackham, 2011; Yagi et al., 2014; Hall, 2016). However, 217
the feasibility of designing PPR proteins to bind specifically to a wide variety of RNA sequences, 218
and of predicting the landscape of RNA occupancy in vivo remain to be established. Results 219
presented here advance these efforts by demonstrating that artificial proteins built from 220
consensus PPR motifs bind with high specificity to the intended RNA target in vivo, that the 221
affinity of these interactions is sufficient for RNA-tagging applications, and that the landscape of 222
low-level off-target binding correlates well with data from in vitro experiments. 223
As is true of all RNA-binding proteins, the sequence specificity of PPR proteins is not 224
absolute: the population of bound RNAs will inevitably be influenced by protein concentration, 225
salt conditions, RNA structure, and competition from other RNAs. As expected, we observed a 226
small degree of off-target binding by our artificial proteins. Encouragingly, however, features of 227
these off-target interactions (Figure 3) closely resemble those from our prior in vitro bind-n-seq 228
analyses of the same proteins (Miranda et al., 2018). For example, SCD14 was more 229
permissive to mismatches in the binding site than was SCD11, nucleotide selectivity dropped off 230
toward the C-terminus, pyrimidine-binding motifs discriminated poorly between U and C, and 231
purine-binding motifs (especially those aligning with AGA at positions 5 through 7 of the binding 232
site) were the most highly selective. Additionally, sequences flanking the off-target sites are AU-233
rich (see logo in Figure 3C), implying that off-target binding in vivo is concentrated in regions of 234
low RNA structure. This is consistent with our finding that binding of a model PPR protein in 235
vitro is inhibited even by very weak RNA structures (McDermott et al., 2018). The fact that in 236
vitro bind-n-seq data were highly predictive of the in vivo interaction landscapes of our artificial 237
PPR proteins indicates that bind-n-seq analysis is a fruitful precursor to in vivo applications. 238
In addition, we show that the capability of aPPRs to bind predictably to RNA in vivo can 239
be used to characterize proteomes associated with specific RNAs. The panoply of proteins that 240
bind an RNA determine many aspects of its function and metabolism. Although excellent 241
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approaches are available for identifying RNAs bound to a protein of interest, the identification of 242
proteins bound to particular RNAs remains problematic. Several methods for the RNA-centric 243
purification of RNPs have been reported previously. Some of these rely on the insertion of an 244
RNA affinity tag into the target RNA (e.g. Butter et al., 2009; Panchapakesan et al., 2017; 245
Ramanathan et al., 2018). However, insertions can alter RNA functionalities, modification of 246
endogenous genes is technically challenging in some experimental systems (such as 247
organelles), and expression of ectopic modified genes can disrupt the balance of trans-factors 248
to their cis-targets. These limitations are addressed by assays that purify untagged RNPs by 249
coupling in vivo crosslinking with post-lysis antisense oligonucleotide purification (e.g. Chu et 250
al., 2015; McHugh et al., 2015; Rogell et al., 2017; Spiniello et al., 2018). However, UV 251
crosslinking is inefficient and is practical only with cultured cells or lysates. Formaldehyde 252
crosslinking provides an alternative, but is prone to capturing both transient and stable 253
interactions. Recently, a Type VI-related CRISPR-Cas system was engineered to bind and 254
modify the splicing of endogenous RNAs (Konermann et al., 2018). Whether this system can 255
achieve the degree of RNA occupancy needed for use in affinity purification approaches 256
remains to be determined. 257
Designer PPR affinity tags add to this toolkit by binding unmodified RNPs within intact 258
tissues, and allowing their purification under non-denaturing conditions. Given the successes in 259
using designer PUF proteins to modify the expression of specific mRNAs (Wang et al., 2009; 260
Campbell et al., 2014) and to track untagged RNAs in vivo (Yoshimura and Ozawa, 2016), they 261
may also be useful as affinity tags for RNP purification. However, the greater flexibility in repeat 262
tract length with the PPR scaffold (Hall, 2016) may facilitate customization of RNA binding 263
affinity, kinetics, and specificity for this application. 264
Our approach uncovered two RNA binding proteins of unknown function that associate 265
primarily with psbA RNA in vivo. It seems likely that these proteins influence psbA expression, 266
and elucidation of their functions will be an interesting area for future investigation. However, 267
there are several important caveats relevant to the general applicability of our approach. First, 268
the psbA mRNA is highly abundant, and analysis of proteomes associated with less abundant 269
mRNAs is likely to be more challenging. Second, PPR proteins in nature function almost 270
exclusively inside mitochondria and chloroplasts, and it is as yet unclear how they will perform in 271
the nuclear-cytosolic compartment. Thus, an important next step is to test this approach on a 272
cytosolic RNA target. Additionally, our finding that SCD14 and SCD11 are prone to proteolysis 273
in vivo warrants exploration of alternative consensus designs that are more robust to the in vivo 274
protease milieu. 275
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METHODS 277
Development of Transgenic Lines 278
Genes for SCD14 and SCD11 were codon-optimized for Arabidopsis and assembled by PCR 279
from several overlapping synthetic DNA fragments (IDT). The nucleotide and protein sequences 280
are provided in Supplemental Figure 1. They were designed with the PPR nucleotide 281
specificity codes described previously (Barkan et al., 2012; Miranda et al., 2018) and 282
summarized in Figure 1A. The PPR-encoding genes were inserted into a modified form of 283
pCambia1300 harboring the Superpromoter (Lee et al., 2007) to drive transgene expression 284
(inserted at the XbaI site of pCambia1300) and encoding a 3X-FLAG tag at the C-terminus of 285
the inserted ORF (a gift from Jie Shen and Zhizhong Gong, China Agricultural University). The 286
plasmids were used to transform Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Col-0) using the floral dip 287
method (Zhang et al., 2006). Lines were screened by immunoblotting for aPPR expression, and 288
those with the highest expression were used for further experiments. An additional transgenic 289
line was developed using the MCD14 protein design we reported previously (Miranda et al., 290
2018); however, MCD14 transgenic lines failed to express the protein. 291
Plant Growth 292
Arabidopsis seeds were sterilized by incubation for 10 min in a solution containing 1% bleach 293
and 0.1% SDS, followed by a 70% ethanol wash. The seeds were then washed three times 294
with sterile water. Seeds were plated and grown in tissue culture dishes containing MS agar 295
medium: 4.33 g/L Murashige and Skoog basal salt medium (Sigma), 2% sucrose, 0.3% 296
Phytagel, pH 5.7. Transgenic plants were selected by the addition of 50 µg/mL hygromycin to 297
the growth medium. Plants used for chloroplast isolation and immunoprecipitation assays were 298
grown in a growth chamber in diurnal cycles (10 h light at 120 µmol photons m-2 s-1, 14 h dark, 299
22˚C) for 14 days. Arabidopsis was grown using cool white, high output fluorescent lamps 300
(F48T12/CW/HO, Sylvania). 301
Maize was grown and used for the preparation of stromal extracts using methods 302
described previously (Schmitz-Linneweber at al, 2005). Maize insertion alleles for Zm-cp33C 303
(GRMZM2G023591) and Zm-srrp1 (GRMZM2G016084) were obtained from the UniformMu 304
collection: the GRMZM2G023591 mutant corresponds to line (mu1032521, UFMu-02565); 305
the GRMZM2G016084 mutant corresponds to line (mu1076060, UFMu-09028). Positions of the 306
insertions are diagrammed in Supplemental Figure 5. 307
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Chloroplast Isolation and Fractionation 309
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Maize chloroplast stroma for use in RIP-seq assays was prepared as described previously 310
(Ostheimer et al., 2003). Arabidopsis chloroplast stroma was prepared from chloroplasts 311
isolated from the aerial portion of 2-week old seedlings (40 g tissue) as described (Kunst, 1998), 312
with the following modifications: seedlings were not placed in ice water before homogenization, 313
sorbitol concentration in the homogenization buffer was reduced to 0.33 M, and plants were 314
homogenized in a blender using three 5-second bursts. Purified chloroplasts were resuspended 315
and lysed in Hypotonic Lysis Buffer (30 mM HEPES-KOH pH 8.0, 10 mM MgOAc-4H2O, 60 mM 316
KOAc, 2 mM DTT, 2 µg/mL aprotinin, 2 µg/mL leupeptin, 1 µg/mL pepstatin A, 0.8 mM PMSF), 317
using a minimal buffer volume. Lysed chloroplasts were centrifuged for 40 min at 18,000 x g at 318
4˚C in a tabletop microcentrifuge to pellet membranes and particulates. The supernatant was 319
removed, and the pellet was resuspended in Hypotonic Lysis Buffer and centrifuged again 320
under the same conditions. Supernatants were combined, aliquoted, and frozen at -80 ˚C. The 321
thylakoid membranes (pellet fraction) were aliquoted and frozen at -80 ˚C. 322
Antibodies, SDS-PAGE and Immunoblot Analysis 323
SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analyses were performed as described previously (Barkan, 1998). 324
A mouse monoclonal anti-FLAG M2 antibody was purchased from Sigma (F1804-1 MG, LOT 325
SLBW3851. The SRP54 antibody was a generous gift of Masato Nakai (Osaka University). Cox 326
II and actin antisera were purchased from Agrisera (AS04 053A and AS13 2640, respectively). 327
Polyclonal antibodies were raised in rabbits to recombinant fragments of the maize orthologs of 328
HCF173, AT4G09040/CP33C and AT3G23700/SRRP1; these correspond to maize genes 329
GRMZM2G397247, GRMZM2G023591, and GRMZM2G016084, respectively (see http://cas-330
pogs.uoregon.edu/#/ for evidence of orthology). The amino acids used for the HCF173, S1 and 331
RRM protein antigens and evidence for the specificity of the resulting antisera are shown in 332
Supplemental Figure 4 and Supplemental Figure 5. Maize CRP1 antibody (Fisk et al., 1999) 333
was used as the negative control for immunoprecipitations from Arabidopsis extract because it 334
does not interact with proteins in Arabidopsis. Antibodies used for immunoprecipitations were 335
affinity purified against their antigen prior to use. 336
Coimmunoprecipitation Experiments 337
Immunoprecipitation for analysis of proteins by mass spectrometry was performed as described 338
previously (Watkins et al., 2007) with minor modifications. In brief, experiments used 339
Arabidopsis stromal extract, anti-FLAG antibodies were crosslinked to magnetic Protein A/G 340
beads (Pierce), the beads were pre-washed in CoIP Buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM 341
NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% NP-40, 5 µg/mL aprotinin), and the antibody cross-linked beads were 342
titrated to determine the amount required to deplete the aPPR from the stromal extract. Stromal 343
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extract (400 µL at 6 mg protein/ml) was supplemented with RNAsin (Promega) to a 344
concentration of 1 unit/µL and precleared by centrifugation for 10 min at 18,000 x g at 4˚C. The 345
supernatant was removed to a new tube, antibody-bound beads were added and the mixture 346
was incubated at 4˚C for one hour while rotating. Beads were captured with a magnet 347
(Invitrogen) and the supernatant was removed. The beads (pellets) were washed three times 348
with CoIP Buffer and then twice with 50 mM ammonium bicarbonate (pH 7.5). Proteins were 349
digested on the beads with trypsin (Promega mass spectrometry grade at 25 ng/µL in 50 mM 350
ammonium bicarbonate pH 7.5) overnight at 25˚C while shaking. Beads were captured and the 351
supernatant was transferred to a new tube. This step was repeated five times to ensure the 352
removal of all beads. LC-MS/MS was performed by the UC Davis Proteomics Core Facility, 353
where the data were analyzed using Scaffold2 (Proteome Software Inc). Protein enrichment 354
was calculated by dividing the average Normalized Spectral Abundance Factor (NSAF) values 355
(Zhang et al., 2010) from the two aPPR lines by NSAF values from the control 356
immunoprecipitation using extract of Col-0 plants. To avoid division by zero, a correction term of 357
0.001 was added to each NSAF value in the control; therefore, the actual enrichment of proteins 358
that were not detected in the control is under-estimated. The data are shown in Supplemental 359
Dataset 2. 360
Immunoprecipitations for RIP-seq analysis were performed similarly, except that 361
antibodies were not crosslinked to the beads, the Arabidopsis experiments used 200 µl of 362
extract, and the maize experiments used 70 µl of stromal extract at ~10 mg protein/ml and did 363
not include RNAsin. Antibody to maize CRP1 was used as a negative control for the aPPR RIP-364
seq assays; this antibody does not recognize proteins in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. The aPPR 365
RIP-seq experiments were performed two times, using the same stromal extracts. Antibody to 366
AtpB (subunit of the chloroplast ATP synthase) was used as the negative control for the RIP-367
seq assays using maize stroma. The HCF173, CP33C, and SRRP1 RIP-seq experiments were 368
each performed twice, using antibodies from different rabbits. For high-resolution RIP-seq, 369
stromal extract was pre-treated with 1U/µl RNAse I (Ambion) at 25˚C for 10 min. The sample 370
was placed on ice and the remainder of the procedure was as described above for standard 371
RIP-seq. 372
373 Analysis of Coimmunoprecipitated RNA by RIP-seq and Slot-blot Hydridization 374
An equal volume of TESS Buffer (10 mM Tris pH 7.5, 1 mM EDTA, 150 mM NaCl, 0.2% SDS) 375
supplemented with Proteinase K (0.2 g/µL) was added to the supernatant and pellet fractions 376
and incubated for 30 min at 37˚C. RNA was then purified by phenol-chloroform extraction and 377
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ethanol precipitation, resuspended in H2O, and quantified by Qubit. The RNA was used directly 378
for slot-blot hybridizations as previously described (Schmitz-Linneweber et al., 2005), or 379
phosphorylated (T4 polynucleotide kinase, NEB) and processed for sequencing using the BIOO 380
Scientific NEXTflex Small RNA-Seq Kit v3 (Cat# NOVA-5132-06). For Arabidopsis, 50 ng of 381
pellet RNA was used as the input for sequencing libraries. The maize experiments used 20 ng 382
of pellet RNA for library preparation, and included an RNA fragmentation step: RNA was 383
fragmented by incubation at 95˚C for 4 min in 40 mM Tris-Acetate pH 8, 100 mM KOAc, 30 mM 384
Mg(OAc)2. The reaction was stopped by the addition of EDTA to a final concentration of 50 mM, 385
the RNA was ethanol precipitated in the presence of 1.5 µg GlycoBlue (Thermo Fisher), and 386
phosphorylated (T4 polynucleotide kinase, NEB) prior to library preparation. RNase I-RIP-seq 387
experiments did not include an RNA fragmentation step. Libraries were gel purified to enrich for 388
inserts between 15 and 100 nucleotides. Libraries were sequenced at the University of Oregon 389
Genomics and Cell Characterization Core Facility, with read lengths of 75 or 100 nucleotides. 390
Sequencing data were processed as in (Chotewutmontri and Barkan, 2018) except that all read 391
lengths were included and reads were aligned only to the chloroplast genome. Read counts for 392
RIP-seq experiments are summarized in Supplemental Dataset 1. Enrichment values were 393
calculated as the normalized abundance of reads mapping to each gene (including UTRs) in an 394
experimental sample relative to the control. 395
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Accession Numbers 397
HCF173, AT1G16720; Zm-HCF173, Zm00001d014716_T002 (B73 v4) or 398
GRMZM2G397247_T03 (B73 v3); SRRP1, AT3G23700; Zm-SRRP1, GRMZM2G016084_T02 399
(B73 v3) or Zm00001d034828 (B73 v4); CP33C, AT4G09040; Zm-CP33C, 400
GRMZM2G023591_T01 (B73 v4) or Zm00001d031258_T005 (Bs3 v4) 401
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Supplemental Data 403
Supplemental Figure 1. Sequences of SCD14 and SCD11. 404
Supplemental Figure 2. Replicate RIP-seq data for SCD14, SCD11, HCF173, SRRP1, and 405
CP33C 406
Supplemental Figure 3. High resolution views of RNA enrichment along genes listed in Figure 407
3A. 408
Supplemental Figure 4. Maize CP33C and SRRP1 antigens and CP33C RNA footprint. 409
Supplemental Figure 5. Additional information to support HCF173, CP33C, and SRRP1 RIP-410
seq. 411
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Supplemental Dataset 1. Read counts and RPKM values for RIP-seq experiments. 412
Supplemental Dataset 2. Proteins found in SCD11 and SCD14 coimmunoprecipitates as 413
detected by LC-MS/MS. 414
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Acknowledgments 416
We are grateful to Jie Shen (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Zhizhong Gong (China 417
Agricultural University) for advice and for their gift of the pCAMBIA1300 vector modified to 418
encode a FLAG tag. We are also grateful to Masato Nakai (Osaka University) for the gift of 419
cpSRP54 antibody, Carolyn Brewster, Margarita Rojas, and Susan Belcher for technical 420
assistance, the UniformMu project (University of Florida) for maize insertion lines, and the UC-421
Davis Proteomics Core for LC-MS/MS proteomic analyses. This work was supported by 422
National Science Foundation grant MCB-1616016 (to A.B.) and National Institutes of Health 423
Training Grant T32-GM007759 (to J.J.M.). 424
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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS 426
A.B. and J.M. conceived the project and designed the experiments. J.M., R.W.-C., and K.W. 427
performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. A.B. and J.M. wrote the article. 428
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Figure Legends 589
590
Figure 1. Overview of artificial PPR proteins designed to bind the psbA 3ʹ UTR. 591
(A) Protein design. SCD11 and SCD14 were designed to bind the indicated 14 or 11 592
(underlined) nucleotide sequence in the 3ʹ-UTR of the psbA mRNA in Arabidopsis. The targeted 593
sequence begins 13 nucleotides downstream of the stop codon and ends five (SCD14) or eight 594
(SCD11) nucleotides upstream of the 3ʹ-terminal stem-loop in the psbA mRNA. SCD14 and 595
SCD11 contain 13 and 10 consensus PPR motifs, respectively, flanked by sequences from 596
PPR10 (green). The motifs that are found in SCD14 but not in SCD11 are marked in gray. The 597
specificity-determining amino acids (Barkan et al., 2012) (positions 5 and 35 according to the 598
nomenclature in (Yin et al., 2013) are indicated, and each repeat is aligned with its nucleotide 599
ligand. The PPR10-derived sequence at the N-terminus includes a chloroplast targeting 600
sequence and PPR10’s first PPR motif, which has a non-canonical specificity code (dotted line). 601
The targeting sequence is cleaved after import into the chloroplast (scissors). Both proteins 602
contain a C-terminal 3x FLAG tag. 603
(B) Immunoblots demonstrating chloroplast-localization of SCD11 and SCD14. Chloroplasts 604
(Cp) were isolated from total leaf (T) of wild-type (Col-0) and transgenic Arabidopsis plants, and 605
fractionated to generate thylakoid membrane (Th) and soluble (S) fractions. Aliquots 606
representing an equivalent amount of starting material were probed to detect markers for 607
cytosol (Actin), mitochondria (CoxII), and thylakoid membranes (PsbA). The aPPR proteins 608
were detected with anti-FLAG antibody. The Ponceau S-stained filter is shown below to 609
demonstrate the partitioning of the chloroplast stromal protein RbcL among the fractions. 610
(C) Visible phenotype of transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing SCD14 and SCD11. Col-0 is 611
the wild-type progenitor of the transgenic lines. 612
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Figure 2. RIP-seq analysis of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD14 and SCD11. 615
(A) Immunoprecipitation of SCD14 and SCD11. Stromal extracts from transgenic Arabidopsis 616
expressing the indicated protein or from the Col-0 progenitor were used for immunoprecipitation with 617
anti-FLAG antibody. The pellet (P) and supernatant (S) fractions were analyzed by immunoblot 618
analysis using anti-FLAG antibody. An excerpt of the Ponceau S-stained filter is shown to illustrate 619
the abundance of the large subunit of Rubisco (RbcL), which serves as a loading control. An equal 620
proportion of each pellet fraction was analyzed; 1/4th
that proportion of each supernatant was 621
analyzed to avoid overloading the lane. 622
(B) Slot blot hybridization analysis of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD14 and SCD11. RNA 623
was extracted from the immunoprecipitations analyzed in (A) and applied to nylon membrane via a 624
slot-blot manifold. The same proportion of all samples was analyzed to illustrate the partitioning of 625
psbA RNA between the pellet and supernatant fractions. Replicate blots were hybridized with 626
oligonucleotide probes specific for the psbA 5ʹ-UTR or 3ʹ-UTR. 627
(C) Plastome-wide view of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD11 and SCD14. Results are 628
plotted as the sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome 629
(Accession NC_000932.1) per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome. The negative 630
control used an antibody that does not detect proteins in Arabidopsis together with extract from the 631
SCD14 line. Data for replicate experiments are shown in Supplemental Figure 2A. Read counts for 632
all RIP-seq experiments are provided in Supplemental Dataset 1. 633
(D) Enrichment of RNA from each protein-coding chloroplast gene in SCD11 and SCD14 634
coimmunoprecipitates. The ratio of normalized reads/gene in the experimental versus control 635
immunoprecipitations is shown for Replicate 1. Data for replicate experiments are shown in 636
Supplemental Figure 2A. 637
638
639
Figure 3. Analysis of off-target binding by SCD14 and SCD11. 640
(A) Genes whose transcripts were enriched more than three-fold in both replicate SCD14 and 641
SCD11 coimmunoprecipitates. The position of peak enrichment within each gene (see panel B 642
and Supplemental Figure 3) and the magnitude of enrichment at that peak (average of 643
replicates) are indicated, together with sequence motifs within the peak that resemble the 644
intended binding site for SCD14 and SCD11. Matches to the intended binding site in the psbA 645
3ʹ-UTR are shaded in black. Transition mismatches are shaded in gray. The nucleotide at the 646
peak of enrichment (see profiles in Figure 3B and Supplemental Figure 3) is marked in red. 647
(B) Local sequence enrichment profile for the off-target sites in rpl32 and ccsA. The regions 648
shown span the ORF and UTRs of the indicated gene. The displayed sequences overlap the 649
point of maximum enrichment (nucleotide at peak marked in red) and resemble the intended 650
binding site of SCD14 (see panel A). Analogous plots for other genes listed in panel (A) are 651
shown in Supplemental Figure 3. 652
(C) Sequence logo derived from the off-target sites of SCD14. Sequences listed in panel (A) 653
were weighted according to the degree to which RNA from the corresponding region was 654
enriched in the SCD14 immunoprecipitation, and analyzed with WebLogo (Crooks et al., 2004). 655
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Figure 4. Highly-enriched proteins in SCD11 and SCD14 coimmunoprecipitates. 658
(A) Proteins whose average enrichment from lines expressing SCD11 or SCD14 in comparison659
to the Col-0 progenitor was three or greater. Stars mark two RNA-binding proteins of unknown660
function. HCF173 (hashtag) is known to associate with psbA mRNA and to activate its661
translation (Schult et al., 2007; Williams-Carrier et al., 2019). The full dataset is provided in662
Supplemental Dataset 2, which includes a more complete explanation of the data analysis.663
(B) Immunoblot validation of two proteins identified by MS analysis. Chloroplast stroma from664
plants expressing SCD11 or SCD14, or from the Col-0 progenitor was used for665
immunoprecipitation with anti-FLAG antibody. Replicate immunoblots were probed with anti-666
FLAG antibody to detect SCD11 and SCD14 (top panel), HCF173, or cpSRP54. The HCF173667
blot was initially probed to detect RbcL, an abundant protein that typically contaminates668
immunoprecipitates; this serves as an internal standard.669
670
Figure 5. RIP-Seq analysis of Zm-HCF173, Zm-CP33C and Zm-SRRP1. 671
Maize chloroplast stroma was used for immunoprecipitations with antibodies to the maize 672
orthologs of HCF173, CP33C, and SRRP1, and the coimmunoprecipitated RNA was analyzed 673
by deep sequencing. 674
(A) Average sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome,675
per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome (NCBI NC_001666).676
(B) Ratio of normalized reads/gene in the experimental immunoprecipitations versus a control677
using antibody to AtpB. Analogous plots for replicate experiments are shown in Supplemental678
Figure 2B. Read counts are provided in Supplemental Dataset 1, which also includes data for679
tRNAs. Immunoblots demonstrating immunoprecipitation of each protein are shown in680
Supplemental Figure 5.681
682
683
Figure 6. High resolution RIP-seq analysis of HCF173 and CP33C pinpointing interaction sites 684
in the psbA mRNA. Experiments were performed as in Figure 5 except that the stromal extract 685
was briefly treated with RNase I prior to antibody addition. 686
(A) Average sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome,687
per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome (NCBI NC_001666).688
(B) Sequence coverage along the psbA mRNA, with (red, + RNase) or without (black, -RNase)689
a pre-treatment of stroma with RNase I. The number of reads per million mapped to the690
chloroplast genome (Y axes) is shown according to position along the chloroplast genome (X691
axes). The sequences of the RNase-resistant peaks are shown in panel (C) (HCF173) and692
Supplemental Figure 4B (CP33C).693
(C) Site of HCF173 interaction in the psbA 5ʹ UTR. The RNase-resistant sequence that694
coimmunoprecipitates with HCF173 (HCF173 footprint) is marked on a multiple sequence695
alignment of the psbA 5ʹ UTR from Arabidopsis, maize, tobacco, and rice. A conserved696
secondary structure was predicted by Dynalign (Fu et al., 2014) using the maize and697
Arabidopsis sequences as input; the prediction for maize is shown below.698
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Figure 1. Overview of artificial PPR proteins designed to bind the psbA 3’ UTR. (A) Protein design. SCD11 and SCD14 were designed to bind the indicated 14 or 11(underlined) nucleotide sequence in the 3’-UTR of the psbA mRNA in Arabidopsis. The targetedsequence begins 13 nucleotides downstream of the stop codon, and ends five (SCD14) or eight(SCD11) nucleotides upstream of the 3’-terminal stem-loop in the psbA mRNA. SCD14 andSCD11 contain 13 and 10 consensus PPR motifs, respectively, flanked by sequences fromPPR10 (green). The motifs that are found in SCD14 but not in SCD11 are marked in gray. Thespecificity-determining amino acids (Barkan et al., 2012) (positions 5 and 35 according to thenomenclature in (Yin et al., 2013) are indicated, and each repeat is aligned with its nucleotideligand. The PPR10-derived sequence at the N-terminus includes a chloroplast targetingsequence and PPR10’s first PPR motif, which has a non-canonical specificity code (dotted line).The targeting sequence is cleaved after import into the chloroplast (scissors). Both proteinscontain a C-terminal 3x FLAG tag.(B) Immunoblots demonstrating chloroplast-localization of SCD11 and SCD14. Chloroplasts(Cp) were isolated from total leaf (T) of wild-type (Col-0) and transgenic Arabidopsis plants, andfractionated to generate thylakoid membrane (Th) and soluble (S) fractions. Aliquotsrepresenting an equivalent amount of starting material were probed to detect markers forcytosol (Actin), mitochondria (CoxII), and thylakoid membranes (PsbA). The aPPR proteinswere detected with anti-FLAG antibody. The Ponceau S-stained filter is shown below todemonstrate the partitioning of the chloroplast stromal protein RbcL among the fractions.(C) Visible phenotype of transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing SCD14 and SCD11. Col-0 isthe wild-type progenitor of the transgenic lines.
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Figure 2. RIP-seq analysis of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD14 and SCD11. (A) Immunoprecipitation of SCD14 and SCD11. Stromal extracts from transgenic Arabidopsisexpressing the indicated protein or from the Col-0 progenitor were used for immunoprecipitation withanti-FLAG antibody. The pellet (P) and supernatant (S) fractions were analyzed by immunoblotanalysis using anti-FLAG antibody. An excerpt of the Ponceau S-stained filter is shown to illustratethe abundance of the large subunit of Rubisco (RbcL), which serves as a loading control. An equalproportion of each pellet fraction was analyzed; 1/4th that proportion of each supernatant wasanalyzed to avoid overloading the lane.(B) Slot blot hybridization analysis of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD14 and SCD11. RNAwas extracted from the immunoprecipitations analyzed in (A) and applied to nylon membrane via aslot-blot manifold. The same proportion of all samples was analyzed to illustrate the partitioning ofpsbA RNA between the pellet and supernatant fractions. Replicate blots were hybridized witholigonucleotide probes specific for the psbA 5’-UTR or 3’-UTR.(C) Plastome-wide view of RNAs that coimmunoprecipitate with SCD11 and SCD14. Results areplotted as the sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome(Accession NC_000932.1) per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome. The negativecontrol used an antibody that does not detect proteins in Arabidopsis together with extract from theSCD14 line. Data for replicate experiments are shown in Supplemental Figure 2A. Read counts forall RIP-seq experiments are provided in Supplemental Table 1.(D) Enrichment of RNA from each protein-coding chloroplast gene in SCD11 and SCD14coimmunoprecipitates. The ratio of normalized reads/gene in the experimental versus controlimmunoprecipitations is shown for Replicate 1. Data for replicate experiments is shown inSupplemental Figure 2A.
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Figure 3. Analysis of off-target binding by SCD14 and SCD11. (A) Genes whose transcripts were enriched more than three-fold in both replicate SCD14 andSCD11 coimmunoprecipitates. The position of peak enrichment within each gene (see panel Band Supplemental Figure 3) and the magnitude of enrichment at that peak (average ofreplicates) are indicated, together with sequence motifs within the peak that resemble theintended binding site for SCD14 and SCD11. Matches to the intended binding site in the psbA 3’UTR are shaded in black. Transition mismatches are shaded in gray. The nucleotide at the peakof enrichment (see profiles in Figure 3B and Supplemental Figure 3) is marked in red.(B) Local sequence enrichment profile for the off-target sites in rpl32 and ccsA. The regionsshown span the ORF and UTRs of the indicated gene. The displayed sequences overlap thepoint of maximum enrichment (nucleotide at peak marked in red) and resemble the intendedbinding site of SCD14 (see panel A). Analogous plots for other genes listed in panel (A) areshown in Supplemental Figure 3.(C) Sequence logo derived from the off-target sites of SCD14. Sequences listed in panel (A)were weighted according to the degree to which RNA from the corresponding region wasenriched in the SCD14 immunoprecipitation, and analyzed with WebLogo (Crooks et al., 2004).
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Figure 4. Highly-enriched proteins in SCD11 and SCD14 coimmunoprecipitates. (A) Proteins whose average enrichment from lines expressing SCD11 or SCD14 in comparisonto the Col-0 progenitor was three or greater. Stars mark two RNA-binding proteins of unknownfunction. HCF173 (hashtag) is known to associate with psbA mRNA and to activate itstranslation (Schult et al., 2007; Williams-Carrier et al., 2019). The full dataset is provided inSupplemental Table 2, which includes a more complete explanation of the data analysis.(B) Immunoblot validation of two proteins identified by MS analysis. Chloroplast stroma fromplants expressing SCD11 or SCD14, or from the Col-0 progenitor was used forimmunoprecipitation with anti-FLAG antibody. Replicate immunoblots were probed with anti-FLAG antibody to detect SCD11 and SCD14 (top panel), HCF173, or cpSRP54. The HCF173blot was initially probed to detect RbcL, an abundant protein that typically contaminatesimmunoprecipitates; this serves as an internal standard.
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Figure 5. RIP-Seq analysis of Zm-HCF173, Zm-CP33C and Zm-SRRP1. Maize chloroplast stroma was used for immunoprecipitations with antibodies to the maize orthologs of HCF173, CP33C, and SRRP1, and the coimmunoprecipitated RNA was analyzed by deep sequencing. (A) Average sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome,per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome (NCBI NC_001666).(B) Ratio of normalized reads/gene in the experimental immunoprecipitations versus a controlusing antibody to AtpB. Analogous plots for replicate experiments are shown in SupplementalFigure 2B. Read counts are provided in Supplemental Table 1, which also includes data fortRNAs. Immunoblots demonstrating immunoprecipitation of each protein are shown inSupplemental Figure 5.
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Figure 6. High resolution RIP-seq analysis of HCF173 and CP33C pinpointing interaction sites in the psbA mRNA. Experiments were performed as in Figure 5 except that the stromal extract was briefly treated with RNase I prior to antibody addition. (A) Average sequence coverage in consecutive 10-nt windows along the chloroplast genome,per million reads mapped to the chloroplast genome (NCBI NC_001666).(B) Sequence coverage along the psbA mRNA, with (red, + RNase) or without (black, -RNase)a pre-treatment of stroma with RNase I. Y-axes show the number of reads per million readsmapped to the chloroplast genome coordinate shown on the X axes. The sequences of theRNase-resistant peaks are shown in panel (C) (HCF173) and Supplemental Figure 4B(CP33C).(C) Site of HCF173 interaction in the psbA 5’ UTR. The RNase-resistant sequence thatcoimmunoprecipitates with HCF173 (HCF173 footprint) is marked on a multiple sequencealignment of the psbA 5’ UTR rom Arabidopsis, maize, tobacco, and rice. A conservedsecondary structure was predicted by Dynalign (Fu et al., 2014) using the maize andArabidopsis sequences as input; the prediction for maize is shown below.
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