ALTERED GENE-EXPRESSION DURING COLD-ACCLIMATION OF SPINACH
ALTERED GENE-EXPRESSION DURING COLD-ACCLIMATION OF SPINACH
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.82.11.3673
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
BRAMBL, R
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作者:
GUY, CL;NIEMI, KJ;BRAMBL, R
Exposure of spinach (S. oleracea) plants to a constant 5.degree. C induced a greater tolerance to extracellular freezing. The metabolic basis of this cold acclimation response in plants is not understood. In this study the hypothesis that cold acclimation derives from altered gene transcription was tested. Exposure of plants to low temperature resulted in a rapid and stable change in the translatable poly(A)+ RNA populations extracted from leaves, as determined by a cell-free in vitro translation assay. The initial appearance of mRNA species for 2 high MW translation products correlated with an increase in freezing tolerance. Cold acclimation of plants for 8 days resulted in further qualitative changes in mRNA populations. At least four additional mRNA species increased in concentration upon continued exposure of spinach to 5.degree. C, whereas 3 other mRNA species present in 20.degree. C-grown leaves decreased. The possibility that the low temperature-induced mRNA species might encode heat shock proteins was also tested. Heat shock-induced protein synthesis by in vivo labeling techniques were studied and at least 8 distinctive heat shock proteins were synthesized during exposure to 40.degree. C. Most polypeptides induced by exposure to low temperature, however, appeared not to be heat shock proteins. Thus, the change in mRNA species induced by low temperature is a separate response from the induced by high temperature.