Communications Biology (Oct 2022)

A long noncoding RNA HILinc1 enhances pear thermotolerance by stabilizing PbHILT1 transcripts through complementary base pairing

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Shengnan Wang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Shengyuan Wang,
  • Li Hao,
  • Chaoran Xu,
  • Yunfei Yu,
  • Ling Xiang,
  • Tianzhong Li,
  • Feng Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04010-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Heat stress in pear cultivar results in upregulation of long non-coding RNA HILinc1, which binds to and stabilizes PbHILT1 mRNA, which codes for a protein that interacts with heat shock factor A1b, improving thermotolerance.