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Our recent study has revealed that an ABA-induced long intergenic noncoding RNA, ARTA, regulates both ABA and drought responses by blocking the nuclear import of a transcription factor, MYB7, through interacting with an importin \u03b2-like protein, SAD2. Here, we show that unlike MYB7, ARTA fails to disrupt interactions of SAD2 with the other two R2R3-MYB subgroup 4 members, MYB4 and MYB32. Consequently, the nuclear localizations of MYB4 and MYB32 remain unchanged upon alteration of ARTA expression. Furthermore, ARTA and MYB7 form a self-reinforcing feedback loop during Arabidopsis responses to ABA: ABA treatment induces ARTA expression, which in turn inhibits nuclear accumulation of MYB7, thereby deteriorating MYB7-mediated repression of ARTA and promoting ARTA production. This self-reinforcing feedback regulation elegantly integrates protein relocalization with transcriptional augmentation in the ABA response process, and provides a tunable molecular circuit for plant stress adaptation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/plants15111596","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]],"date-time":"2026-05-22T16:06:08Z","timestamp":1779465968000},"page":"1596","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA ARTA Specifically Regulates MYB7 Nuclear Trafficking to Establish a Self-Reinforcing Circuit for ABA Response"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-9798-2839","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhengmin","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2709-7047","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanhang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yongdi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-8318-0040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingjing","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4278-2728","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5613-5479","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Reqing","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Youlin","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"672","DOI":"10.1104\/pp.66.4.672","article-title":"Changes in the Levels of Abscisic Acid and Its Metabolites in Excised Leaf Blades of Xanthium strumarium during and after Water Stress","volume":"66","author":"Zeevaart","year":"1980","journal-title":"Plant Physiol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"170","DOI":"10.1093\/plphys\/kiae105","article-title":"Regulatory networks in plant responses to drought and cold stress","volume":"195","author":"Kim","year":"2024","journal-title":"Plant Physiol."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104","DOI":"10.1038\/s41576-021-00413-0","article-title":"Abiotic stress responses in plants","volume":"23","author":"Zhang","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nat. 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