Diverse soybean actin transcripts contain a large intron in the 5' untranslated leader: structural similarity to vertebrate muscle actin genes

Plant Molecular Biology
L Pearson, R B Meagher

Abstract

Plant actins are encoded by complex and highly divergent multigene families. Despite the general lack of intron conservation in animal, fungal and protist actin genes, evidence is presented which indicates that higher plant actin genes have an untranslated leader exon with structural similarity to that found in vertebrate actin genes. All functional higher plant actin genes sequenced to date contain a potential intron acceptor site in the 5' untranslated region 10 to 13 nucleotides upstream of the initiator ATG. A leader specific cDNA probe hybridized to sequences over 1.0 kbp upstream from the coding region confirming the presence of an upstream exon. Primer extension of mRNA with gene-specific oligonucleotides was used to analyze the 5' untranslated exon and leader intron from four divergent soybean actin genes, SAc3, 4, 6 and 7. The 5' ends of all four mRNAs are heterogeneous. The consensus promoter elements of the SAc7 actin promoter were identified. Gene specific primer extension sequencing of actin mRNAs indicated that splicing of the 5' leader intron occurred at the predicted acceptor site in SAc6 and SAc7. The SAc6 and SAc7 5' untranslated exons are small (88-111 nt) and the leader introns are relatively large (844-1496...Continue Reading

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