Isolation and identification of a vegetative organ-specific promoter from maize

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants : an International Journal of Functional Plant Biology
HaoQiang YuFengling Fu

Abstract

To avoid the unregulated overexpression of the exogenous genes, specific or inducible expression is necessary for some exogenous genes in transgenic plants. But little is known about organ- or tissue-specific promoters in maize. In the present study, the expression of a maize pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein encoding gene, GRMZM2G129783, was analyzed by RNA-sequencing data and confirmed by quantitative real time PCR. The results showed that the PPR GRMZM2G129783 gene specifically expressed in vegetative organs. Consequently, a 1830 bp sequence upstream of the start codon of the promoter for GRMZM2G129783 gene was isolated from maize genome (P 1830 ). To validate whether the promoter possesses the vegetative organ-specificity, the full-length and three 5'-end deletion fragments of P 1830 of different length (1387, 437, and 146 bp) were fused with glucuronidase (GUS) gene to generate promoter::GUS constructs and transformed into tobacco. The transient expression and fluorometric GUS assay in transgenic tobacco showed that all promoter could drive the expression of the GUS gene, the - 437 to - 146 bp region possessed some crucial elements for root-specific expression, and the shortest and optimal sequence to maintain tran...Continue Reading

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Dec 4, 2020·Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants : an International Journal of Functional Plant Biology·Fengzhong LuHaoqiang Yu

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
KX665160

Methods Mentioned

BETA
transgenic
PCR
RNA-seq

Software Mentioned

- BLAST
PlantCARE
Primer
SPSS

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