Co-expression network analysis of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) genes with stress-responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals 13 key regulators

Abstract Abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant growth and development and eventually result in less yield and threaten food security worldwide. In plants, several studies have been carried out to understand molecular responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the complete circui...

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Autores principales: Zaiba Hasan Khan, Swati Agarwal, Atul Rai, Mounil Binal Memaya, Sandhya Mehrotra, Rajesh Mehrotra
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Sumario:Abstract Abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant growth and development and eventually result in less yield and threaten food security worldwide. In plants, several studies have been carried out to understand molecular responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the complete circuitry of stress-responsive genes that plants utilise in response to those environmental stresses are still unknown. The protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) gene has been known to have a crucial role in abiotic and biotic stresses; but how it regulates the stress response in plants is still not known completely. In this study, we constructed gene co-expression networks of PP2A genes with stress-responsive gene datasets from cold, drought, heat, osmotic, genotoxic, salt, and wounding stresses to unveil their relationships with the PP2A under different conditions of stress. The graph analysis identified 13 hub genes and several influential genes based on closeness centrality score (CCS). Our findings also revealed the count of unique genes present in different settings of stresses and subunits. We also formed clusters of influential genes based on the stress, CCS, and co-expression value. Analysis of cis-regulatory elements (CREs), recurring in promoters of these genes was also performed. Our study has led to the identification of 16 conserved CREs.