The primary leaf catalase gene from Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana sylvestris.
The primary leaf catalase gene from Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana sylvestris.
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来自烟草和樟子松的初级叶过氧化氢酶基因。
DOI:
10.1104/pp.106.1.399
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Nelson,T
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作者:
Schultes,NP;Zelitch,I;McGonigle,B;Nelson,T
Large amounts of hydrogen peroxide are generated in C3 plants by the glycolate oxidase reaction during the photorespiratory pathway of photosynthesis (Zelitch, 1992), and catalase (EC 1.11. 1.6) in peroxisomes of leaves functions in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. The major tobacco leaf catalase, CAT-1, reaches a maximum leve1 about 15 d postgermination, and a minor isozyme, CAT-3, with enhanced peroxidatic activity is also present (Havir and McHale, 1987). A tobacco mutant has been identified with more catalase protein than wild type and an increased catalase activity of about 40%(Zelitch et al., 1991). The mutant has increased net photosynthesis when photorespiration is rapid (Zelitch, 1992). Additional interest in the role of catalase arises from recent reports of its function in a plant defense mechanism against a broad range of pathogens (Chen et al., 1993) and in resistance to chilling-induced stress in maize seedlings (Prassad et al., 1994).To enable us to produce transgenic plants with elevated and depressed levels of leaf catalase, we have isolated and characterized a full-length cDNA clone (1.9 kb) from Nicotiana tabacum (2n= 48) and a partial cDNA (1.4 kb) from Nicotiana sylvestris (2n= 24), one of the ancestral diploids of N. tabacum (Table I). The N. sylvestris clone (383 residues) lacks about 0.4 kb from the 5’coding end (Zelitch et al., 1991). The full-length leaf catalase cDNA from N. tabacum (492 residues) has 28 untranslated bases at the 5’end followed by 1476 bases in the open reading frame. The predicted amino acid sequence of this full-length N. tabacum catalase was compared to the predicted sequences of catalases from N. tabacum (489 residues)(Chen et al., 1993), N. sylvestris (partial cDNA)(this report), Arabidopsis leaf (492 residues)(Chevalier et al., 1992), cottonseed (492 residues)(Ni et al., 1990), and maize seedling CAT-2 (529 residues)(Redinbaugh et al., 1988). A11 plant catalases have a high degree of homology and near-perfect homology in the region between 53 and 150 bp. Notably the His residues at positions 65 and 79 are conserved. This is the region of the heme-binding site, analogous to His74 in beef liver catalase (Reid et al., 1981). Our N. tabacum catalase clone differs from