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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-22
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Among the downstream targets of calcium in plants, calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) form an interesting class of kinases which are activated by calcium binding. They have been implicated in a diverse array of responses to hormonal and environmental stimuli. In order to dissect the role of CDPKs in the moss Funaria hygrometrica, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approach was adopted to clone the gene. Using degenerate PCR primers against conserved regions of CDPKs, a 900 bp amplicon was obtained from the genomic DNA of Funaria. Southern hybridization under low stringency conditions indicated the presence of several CDPK related sequences in the Funaria genome. This observation is consistent with reports of multigene families of CDPKs in other plants. The 900 bp fragment was subsequently used to isolate a 2.2 kb partial genomic clone of the CDPK gene from Funaria. The genomic clone encodes an open reading frame (ORF) of 518 amino acids. Interestingly, unlike other CDPK genes from plants, the entire 1.5 kb ORF is not interrupted by introns. The deduced amino acid sequence of the Funaria gene shows extensive homology with CDPKs from higher plants, 73% identity with the Fragaria CDPK and 71% identity with CDPK isoform 7 of Arabidopsis. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Funaria CDPK is closer to the CDPKs from higher plants like strawberry and Arabidopsis as compared to those from lower plants such as the liverwort Marchantia, the green alga Chlamydomonas or another moss Tortula. Northern analysis shows enhanced expression of the CDPK transcript within 24-48 h of starvation for nitrogen, phosphorus or sulphur. So far the only other kinase which is known to be induced by nutrient starvation in plants is the wpk 4 which is a snf-1 related kinase (SnRKs). To our knowledge this is the first report that implicates a CDPK in the starvation response.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0250-5991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
331-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Arabidopsis, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Bryopsida, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Chlamydomonas, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Nutritional Requirements, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Plant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11120585-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced expression of a calcium-dependent protein kinase from the moss Funaria hygrometrica under nutritional starvation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article