TY - JOUR
T1 - Multidimensional patterns of metabolic response in abiotic stress-induced growth of Arabidopsis thaliana
AU - Yadav, Brijesh S.
AU - Lahav, Tamar
AU - Reuveni, Eli
AU - Chamovitz, Daniel A.
AU - Freilich, Shiri
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Profs. Georg Jander, Doron Holland and Gad Galili for helpful comments on the manuscript. We also thank Eyal Zinger and Dr.??Efrat Oron for technical support related to R and MatLab languages. This research was supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee, The Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 757/12) and the Chief Scientist of Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Grant No. 277059016). DAC is a member Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel-Aviv University. B.Y.S. was supported by a fellowship from the PBC (Planning and Budgeting Committee) Fellowship Program for Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers from India. BSY carried out the analyses and wrote the manuscript; TL aided programming and MatLab analyses; ER aided in gene-enrichment analyses; DAC and SF conceived study, oversaw its execution and wrote the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Key message: Contextualization of specific transcriptional responses of Arabidopsis within the stress–tissue–time perspective provides a simplified representation of the cellular transcriptional response pathways to abiotic stress, while reducing the dimensions in gene-oriented response description. Abstract: Crops resistant to abiotic stresses are a long-term goal of many research programs, thus understanding the progression of stress responses is of great interest. We reanalyzed the AtGenExpress transcription dataset to go beyond gene-level characterization, and to contextualize the discrete information into (1) a process-level signature of stress-specific, time-specific, and tissue-specific responses and (2) identify patterns of response progression across a time axis. To gain a functional perspective, ∼1000 pathways associated with the differentially-expressed genes were characterized across all experiments. We find that the global response of pathways to stress is multi-dimensional and does not obviously cluster according to stress, time or tissue. The early response to abiotic stress typically involves induction of genes involved in transcription, hormone synthesis and signaling modules; a later response typically involves metabolism of amino acids and secondary metabolites. By linking specific primary and secondary response pathways, we outline possible stress-associated routes of response progression. The contextualization of specific processes within stress–tissue–time perspective provides a simplified representation of cellular response while reducing the dimensions in gene-oriented response description. Such simplified representation allows finding stress-specific markers based on process-combinations pointing whether a stress-specific response was invoked as well as provide a reference point for the conductance of comparative inter-plant study of stress response, bypassing the need in detailed orthologous mapping.
AB - Key message: Contextualization of specific transcriptional responses of Arabidopsis within the stress–tissue–time perspective provides a simplified representation of the cellular transcriptional response pathways to abiotic stress, while reducing the dimensions in gene-oriented response description. Abstract: Crops resistant to abiotic stresses are a long-term goal of many research programs, thus understanding the progression of stress responses is of great interest. We reanalyzed the AtGenExpress transcription dataset to go beyond gene-level characterization, and to contextualize the discrete information into (1) a process-level signature of stress-specific, time-specific, and tissue-specific responses and (2) identify patterns of response progression across a time axis. To gain a functional perspective, ∼1000 pathways associated with the differentially-expressed genes were characterized across all experiments. We find that the global response of pathways to stress is multi-dimensional and does not obviously cluster according to stress, time or tissue. The early response to abiotic stress typically involves induction of genes involved in transcription, hormone synthesis and signaling modules; a later response typically involves metabolism of amino acids and secondary metabolites. By linking specific primary and secondary response pathways, we outline possible stress-associated routes of response progression. The contextualization of specific processes within stress–tissue–time perspective provides a simplified representation of cellular response while reducing the dimensions in gene-oriented response description. Such simplified representation allows finding stress-specific markers based on process-combinations pointing whether a stress-specific response was invoked as well as provide a reference point for the conductance of comparative inter-plant study of stress response, bypassing the need in detailed orthologous mapping.
KW - Abiotic Stress
KW - Arabidopsis thaliana
KW - Expression data
KW - Metabolic Response
KW - Pathway analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/s11103-016-0539-7
DO - 10.1007/s11103-016-0539-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 27633976
AN - SCOPUS:84988378063
VL - 92
SP - 689
EP - 699
JO - Plant Molecular Biology
JF - Plant Molecular Biology
SN - 0167-4412
IS - 6
ER -