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Data from: Time of day prioritizes the pool of translating mRNAs in response to heat stress

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Nagel, Dawn; Bonnot, Titouan (2021). Data from: Time of day prioritizes the pool of translating mRNAs in response to heat stress [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6086/D1B69N

Abstract

The circadian clock helps organisms to anticipate and coordinate gene regulatory responses to changes in environmental stimuli. Under growth limiting temperatures, time of day modulates the accumulation of polyadenylated mRNAs. In response to heat stress, plants will conserve energy and selectively translate mRNAs. How the clock and/or time of day regulates polyadenylated mRNAs bound by ribosomes in response to heat stress is unknown. In-depth analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana translating mRNAs found that time of day gates the response of approximately one-third of the circadian regulated heat responsive translatome. Specifically, time of day and heat stress interact to prioritize the pool of mRNAs in cue to be translated. For a subset of mRNAs, we observed a stronger gated response during the day, and preferentially before the peak of expression. We propose previously overlooked transcription factors (TFs) as regulatory nodes and show that the clock plays a role in the temperature response for select TFs. When the stress was removed, the redefined priorities for translation recovered within one-hour, though slower recovery was observed for abiotic stress regulators. Through hierarchical network connections between clock genes and prioritized TFs, our work provides a framework to target key nodes underlying heat stress tolerance throughout the day.