Characterisation of an mRNA encoding a metallothionein-like protein that accumulates during ethylene-promoted abscission of Sambucus nigra L. leaflets

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S A CoupeJ A Roberts

Abstract

A cDNA encoding a metallothionein-like protein has been isolated from a cDNA library from the abscission zones of ethylene-treated Sambucus nigra leaflets. The precise function of this group of proteins in plants has yet to be confirmed but in animals there is convincing evidence that they bind heavy metals. Several of these proteins have recently been characterised from plants and it has been demonstrated that heavy metals have no stimulatory effect on their expression. In this paper we describe the isolation and characterisation of a metallothionein-like mRNA identified as a consequence of differentially screening a cDNA library for messages up-regulated during abscission. The accumulation of the mRNA occurred in the abscission zone tissue within 18 h of exposure to ethylene while, in contrast, no expression was detectable in adjacent non-abscission-zone tissue. The transcript size of the message was approximately 0.6 kb. Northern analysis revealed that the cDNA insert (JET12) did not hybridise to mRNA from either green or senescing leaflets but a signal was detectable with mRNA extracted from senescent tissue. The size of this hybridising transcript was approximately 0.5 kb. The predicted metallothionein-like protein encoded...Continue Reading

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