西北农林科技大学
国家自然科学基金项目(面上项目,重点项目,重大项目);青海省重点研发与转化计划项目(2025-NK-129);陕西省自然科学基础研究计划 (2019JCW-18,2020JCW-16)
National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program(32272088); Qinghai Province Key R&D and Transformation Program Project(2025-NK-129); Shaanxi Province Natural Science Basic Research Program(2019JCW-18, 2020JCW-16)
小麦是全球主要粮食作物,保障了世界约30%人口的粮食安全。本研究旨在系统鉴定普通小麦(Triticum aestivum L.)中的SPFH家族,系统分析其序列特征、蛋白结构及生物胁迫响应模式,揭示在小麦逆境抗性中的潜在生物学功能。通过整合拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana)、水稻(Oryza sativa L.)及玉米(Zea mays)基因组数据进行比较分析,本研究在小麦全基因组水平上鉴定出60个SPFH家族成员,并对其理化性质、基因结构、保守基序、顺式调控元件、系统发育、共线性及蛋白质异源复合物形成能力进行了全面分析。研究表明,SPFH家族蛋白普遍呈现酸性及亲水性特征;基因结构分析显示亚家族内基因的内含子长度和数量相似,而亚家族间表现出显著的序列长度异质性。启动子分析进一步发现,该家族富集了大量关联生长发育及多重逆境响应的顺式作用元件。系统发育与结构模拟的进化分析结果高度一致,揭示了SPFH蛋白在亚家族内部的结构保守性及其家族趋同演化模式;物种内及跨物种共线性分析表明,该家族在多倍化过程中经历了染色体易位与基因扩张,其中单子叶植物与小麦间普遍存在1:3的直系同源比例。核苷酸多样性及异源聚合分析强调了TaHIR、TaSLP及TaPHB亚家族的极端保守性,并预测了多数成员具备形成稳定异源复合物的功能潜力。转录组与qRT-PCR耦合分析揭示,在小麦条锈菌(Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici)胁迫下,SPFH家族成员表现出复杂的表达动态:虽在宏观转录水平呈整体下调,但在感病材料Avocet S中,关键成员受到显著诱导上调。综上所述,SPFH家族在进化上高度保守且对生物胁迫响应敏感。本研究为解析小麦抗病分子机制提供了重要的候选靶点,并为作物抗性改良提供了理论支撑。
Wheat is a globally important food crop, supporting the food security of approximately 30% of the world’s population. This study aims to systematically identify the SPFH family in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), comprehensively analyze its sequence characteristics, protein structure, and response patterns to biotic stress, and reveal its potential biological functions in wheat stress resistance. By integrating genomic data from Arabidopsis thaliana, rice (Oryza sativa L.), and maize (Zea mays) for comparative analysis, this study identified 60 SPFH family members at the whole-genome level in wheat and conducted a comprehensive analysis of their physicochemical properties, gene structure, conserved motifs, cis-regulatory elements, phylogeny, synteny, and ability to form heterocomplexes. The research reveals that SPFH family proteins generally exhibit acidic and hydrophilic characteristics; gene structure analysis shows that the length and number of introns are similar within subfamilies, while significant heterogeneity in sequence length exists between subfamilies. Promoter analysis further reveals that this family is enriched with cis-regulatory elements associated with growth, development, and responses to multiple stresses. Evolutionary analysis based on phylogeny and structural modeling yielded highly consistent results, revealing structural conservation within subfamilies and a convergent evolutionary pattern across the family.Intraspecific and cross-species synteny analyses indicate that the family underwent translocation and gene expansion during polyploidization, with a general 1:3 orthologous ratio between monocots and wheat. Nucleotide diversity and heteropolymerization analysis highlight the extreme conservation of the TaHIR, TaSLP, and TaPHB subfamilies and predict the functional potential of most members to form stable heterocomplexes. Integrated analysis of transcriptome and qRT-PCR data reveals complex expression dynamics of SPFH family members under wheat stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) stress:while transcript levels generally decreased at the macro-transcriptional level, key members were significantly upregulated in the susceptible material Avocet S. In summary, the SPFH family is highly conserved in evolution and sensitive to biotic stress responses. This study provides important candidate targets for elucidating molecular mechanisms of disease resistance in wheat and offers theoretical support for improving stress resistance in crops.
