Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Hexokinase Genes in Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis )

Frontiers in Plant Science
Wenqing ZhengLiang Du

Abstract

Plant hexokinases (HXKs) are a class of multifunctional proteins that not only act as the enzymes required for hexose phosphorylation but also serve as sugar sensors that repress the expression of some photosynthetic genes when internal glucose level increases and regulators of cell metabolism and some sugar-related signaling pathways independent on their catalytic actives. The HXKs have been studied in many plants; however, limited information is available on HXKs of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis). In this study, we identified and characterized 12 hexokinase genes in moso bamboo. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the moso bamboo hexokinases (PeHXKs) were classifiable into five subfamilies which represented the three types of hexokinases in plants. Gene structure and conserved motif analysis showed that the PeHXK genes contained diverse numbers of introns and exons and that the encoded proteins showed similar motif organization within each subfamily. Multiple sequence alignment revealed that the PeHXK proteins contained conserved domains, such as phosphate 1 (P1), phosphate 2 (P2), adenosine, and a sugar-binding domain. Evolutionary divergence analysis indicated that the PeHXK, OsHXK, and BdHXK families underwent negative...Continue Reading

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