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Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Gene Expression

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Heat Shock Proteins and Plants

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Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are the key components of plants’ adaptive mechanism to maintain protein homeostasis. HSPs play critical roles not only in response to unfavorable environmental conditions, but also during normal plant growth and development. Compared with yeast and animals, plants’ HSP-encoding genes have expanded into a large gene family, likely because of their sessile lifestyle. These genes have divergent expression patterns in various plant organs, and respond at various levels to heat treatment. While the genetic control of plant HSP genes by upstream heat shock factors has been well studied, the epigenetic regulation of these stress-responsive genes has emerged as a critical pathway implicated in the plant response to environmental changes. In this chapter, we summarize the progress regarding the epigenetic regulation of plant HSP gene expression. The common and disparate epigenetic pathways and factors in the heat response in plants and other organisms are also discussed.

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Abbreviations

ARP6:

ACTIN-related protein 6

ASF1:

anti-silencing function 1

FACT:

facilitates chromatin transcription

HSF:

heat shock factor

HSP:

heat shock protein

NRP1:

NAP1-related protein 1

PARP:

poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase

Pol II:

Polymerase II

PP2A:

protein phosphatase type 2A

SPT16:

suppressor of TY16

SWR1:

SWI2/SNF2-related 1

TSS:

transcription start site

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program; Grant 2012CB910500), and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant NSFC31271374). We thank many members of our laboratory and colleagues for productive collaborations in our studies of the plant heat response over many years.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 20043, China

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Ren, Y., Zhu, Y. (2016). Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Gene Expression. In: Asea, A., Kaur, P., Calderwood, S. (eds) Heat Shock Proteins and Plants. Heat Shock Proteins, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46340-7_16

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