为了深入研究豆瓣菜(Nasturtium officinale R. Br.)对锌和铁的吸收和转运,我们采用RACE方法克隆了一种豆瓣菜根部锌铁转运蛋白NoZIP2 (N. officinale zinc iron transporter protein 2)的全长cDNA,并采用生物信息学方法对序列进行分析...为了深入研究豆瓣菜(Nasturtium officinale R. Br.)对锌和铁的吸收和转运,我们采用RACE方法克隆了一种豆瓣菜根部锌铁转运蛋白NoZIP2 (N. officinale zinc iron transporter protein 2)的全长cDNA,并采用生物信息学方法对序列进行分析。结果表明,NoZIP2包含1 446 bp,编码一个357个氨基酸残基的多肽,包含了9个跨膜结构域,存在植物锌铁转运蛋白的保守结构域,可能参与了豆瓣菜锌铁转运的过程。NoZIP2氨基酸序列与其它物种ZIP的氨基酸序列相似性较高,其中与荠菜的相似性最高,氨基酸相似性高达92%。分子进化分析表明,NoZIP2与十字花科植物荠菜、荠蓝和小花蓝芥的ZIP能够聚到一起。从豆瓣菜根部克隆的NoZIP2具有其它植物锌铁转运蛋白相似的高度保守的ZIP家族成员序列特征,因此推测NoZIP2属于ZIP家族成员。豆瓣菜No ZIP2的克隆和序列分析能够为进一步研究其功能及表达提供理论基础。展开更多
A deep-sequencing approach was pursued utilizing 454 and Illumina sequencing methods to discover new genes involved in xyloglucan biosynthesis, cDNA sequences were generated from developing nasturtium (Tropaeolum ma...A deep-sequencing approach was pursued utilizing 454 and Illumina sequencing methods to discover new genes involved in xyloglucan biosynthesis, cDNA sequences were generated from developing nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) seeds, which produce large amounts of non-fucosylated xyloglucan as a seed storage polymer. In addition to known xyloglucan biosynthetic genes, a previously uncharacterized putative xyloglucan galactosyltransferase was iden- tified. Analysis of an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line defective in the corresponding ortholog (AT5G62220) revealed that this gene shows no redundancy with the previously characterized xyloglucan galactosyltransferase, MUR3, but is required for galactosyl-substitution of xyloglucan at a different position. The gene was termed XLT2 for Xyloglucan L-side chain galactosylTransferase position 2. It represents an enzyme in the same subclade of glycosyltransferase family 47 as MUR3. A double mutant defective in both MUR3 (mur3.1) and XLT2 led to an Arabidopsis plant with xyloglucan that consists essentially of only xylosylated glucosyl units, with no further substitutions.展开更多
文摘为了深入研究豆瓣菜(Nasturtium officinale R. Br.)对锌和铁的吸收和转运,我们采用RACE方法克隆了一种豆瓣菜根部锌铁转运蛋白NoZIP2 (N. officinale zinc iron transporter protein 2)的全长cDNA,并采用生物信息学方法对序列进行分析。结果表明,NoZIP2包含1 446 bp,编码一个357个氨基酸残基的多肽,包含了9个跨膜结构域,存在植物锌铁转运蛋白的保守结构域,可能参与了豆瓣菜锌铁转运的过程。NoZIP2氨基酸序列与其它物种ZIP的氨基酸序列相似性较高,其中与荠菜的相似性最高,氨基酸相似性高达92%。分子进化分析表明,NoZIP2与十字花科植物荠菜、荠蓝和小花蓝芥的ZIP能够聚到一起。从豆瓣菜根部克隆的NoZIP2具有其它植物锌铁转运蛋白相似的高度保守的ZIP家族成员序列特征,因此推测NoZIP2属于ZIP家族成员。豆瓣菜No ZIP2的克隆和序列分析能够为进一步研究其功能及表达提供理论基础。
文摘A deep-sequencing approach was pursued utilizing 454 and Illumina sequencing methods to discover new genes involved in xyloglucan biosynthesis, cDNA sequences were generated from developing nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) seeds, which produce large amounts of non-fucosylated xyloglucan as a seed storage polymer. In addition to known xyloglucan biosynthetic genes, a previously uncharacterized putative xyloglucan galactosyltransferase was iden- tified. Analysis of an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line defective in the corresponding ortholog (AT5G62220) revealed that this gene shows no redundancy with the previously characterized xyloglucan galactosyltransferase, MUR3, but is required for galactosyl-substitution of xyloglucan at a different position. The gene was termed XLT2 for Xyloglucan L-side chain galactosylTransferase position 2. It represents an enzyme in the same subclade of glycosyltransferase family 47 as MUR3. A double mutant defective in both MUR3 (mur3.1) and XLT2 led to an Arabidopsis plant with xyloglucan that consists essentially of only xylosylated glucosyl units, with no further substitutions.