Chlorophyll biosynthesis and breakdown, important cellular processes for photosynthesis, occur in the chloroplast. As a semi-autonomous organelle, chloroplast development is mainly regulated by nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins and proteins encoded by itself. However, the knowledge of chloroplast development regulated by other organelles is limited. Here, we report that the nuclear-localized XAP5 CIRCADIAN TIMEKEEPER (XCT) is essential for chloroplast development in Arabidopsis. In this study, significantly decreased chlorophyll content phenotypes of cotyledons and subsequently emerging organs from shoot apical meristem were observed in xct-2. XCT is constitutively expressed in various tissues and localized in the nuclear with speckle patterns. RNA-seq analysis identified 207 differently spliced genes and 1511 differently expressed genes, in which chloroplast development-, chlorophyll metabolism- and photosynthesis-related genes were enriched. Further biochemical assays suggested that XCT was co-purified with the well-known splicing factors and transcription machinery, suggesting dual functions of XCT in gene transcription and splicing. Interestingly, we also found that the chlorophyll contents in xct-2 significantly decreased under high temperature and high light condition, indicating XCT integrates temperature and light signals to fine-tune the chlorophyll metabolism in Arabidopsis. Therefore, our results provide new insights into chloroplast development regulation by XCT, a nuclear-localized protein, at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level.
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