A new family of lipolytic plant enzymes with members in rice, arabidopsis and maize

被引:99
作者
Brick, DJ [1 ]
Brumlik, MJ [1 ]
Buckley, JT [1 ]
Cao, JX [1 ]
Davies, PC [1 ]
Misra, S [1 ]
Tranbarger, TJ [1 ]
Upton, C [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV VICTORIA, DEPT BIOCHEM & MICROBIOL, VICTORIA, BC V8W 3P6, CANADA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
lipase; dbEST; lipolytic; motif; esterase;
D O I
10.1016/0014-5793(95)01405-5
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We have noted a striking similarity between the sequences of proteins in a novel family of lipases we recently reported [Upton, C. and Buckley, J.T. (1995) Trends Biol, Sci, 20, 178-9] and more than 120 sequences from the database of Expressed Sequence Tags (dbEST) which correspond to at least 30 unique genes from arabidopsis, rice and maize, A cDNA (Arab-1) corresponding to one of these sequences was isolated, sequenced and translated, There was significant similarity to sequences in the new lipase family over the entire open reading frame of Arab-1 and when expressed in E, coli, the gene product was lipolytic, Arab-1 and genes for some of the other plant proteins appear to be differentially expressed, They may play a role in the regulation of lipid metabolism during plant development.
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页码:475 / 480
页数:6
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