Analysis of Promoter Activity for the Gene Encoding Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase in Stably Transformed C4 Flaveria Species1
AUTOR(ES)
Rosche, Elke
FONTE
American Society of Plant Physiologists
RESUMO
The C4 enzyme pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase is encoded by a single gene, Pdk, in the C4 plant Flaveria trinervia. This gene also encodes enzyme isoforms located in the chloroplast and in the cytosol that do not have a function in C4 photosynthesis. Our goal is to identify cis-acting DNA sequences that regulate the expression of the gene that is active in the C4 cycle. We fused 1.5 kb of a 5′ flanking region from the Pdk gene, including the entire 5′ untranslated region, to the uidA reporter gene and stably transformed the closely related C4 species Flaveria bidentis. β-Glucuronidase (GUS) activity was detected at high levels in leaf mesophyll cells. GUS activity was detected at lower levels in bundle-sheath cells and stems and at very low levels in roots. This lower-level GUS expression was similar to the distribution of mRNA encoding the nonphotosynthetic form of the enzyme. We conclude that cis-acting DNA sequences controlling the expression of the C4 form in mesophyll cells and the chloroplast form in other cells and organs are co-located within the same 5′ region of the Pdk gene.
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