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Peroxisomal enzymatic proteins contain targeting signals (PTS) to enable their import into peroxisomes. These targeting signals have been identified as PTS1 and PTS2 in mammalian, yeast, and higher plant cells; however, no PTS2-like amino acid sequences have been observed in enzymes from the genome database of Cyanidiochyzon merolae (Bangiophyceae), a primitive red algae. In studies on the evolution of PTS, it is important to know when their sequences came to be the peroxisomal targeting signals for all living organisms. To this end, we identified a number of genes in the genome database of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which contains amino acid sequences similar to those found in plant PTS. In order to determine whether these sequences function as PTS in green algae, we expressed modified green fluorescent proteins (GFP) fused to these putative PTS peptides under the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. To confirm whether granular structures containing GFP-PTS fusion proteins accumulated in the peroxisomes of Closterium ehrenbergii, we observed these cells after the peroxisomes were stained with 3, 3'-diaminobenzidine. Our results confirm that the GFP-PTS fusion proteins indeed accumulated in the peroxisomes of these green algae. These findings suggest that the peroxisomal transport system for PTS1 and PTS2 is conserved in green algal cells and that our fusion proteins can be used to visualize peroxisomes in live cells.
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- Akiko Shinozaki
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi, Ninotyou, Niigata city, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan
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Iyer-Pascuzzi AS, McCouch SR. Recessive resistance genes and the Oryza sativa-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae pathosystem. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2007; 20:731-9. [PMID: 17601161 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-20-7-0731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Though recessive resistance is well-studied in viral systems, little is understood regarding the phenomenon in plant-bacterial interactions. The Oryza sativa-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. orzyae pathosystem provides an excellent opportunity to examine recessive resistance in plant-bacterial interactions, in which nine of 30 documented resistance (R) genes are recessively inherited. Infestations of X. oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of bacterial blight, result in significant crop loss and damage throughout South and Southeast Asia. Two recently cloned novel recessive R genes, xa5 and xa13, have yielded insights to this system. Like their viral counterparts, these bacterial recessive R gene products do not conform to the five commonly described classes of R proteins. New findings suggest that such genes may more aptly be viewed as mutations in dominant susceptibility alleles and may also function in a gene-for-gene manner. In this review, we discuss recent accomplishments in the understanding of recessively inherited R genes in the rice-bacterial blight pathosystem and suggest a new model for the function of recessive resistance in plant-bacterial interactions.
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Tepfer M, Gaubert S, Leroux-Coyau M, Prince S, Houdebine LM. Transient expression in mammalian cells of transgenes transcribed from theCauliflower mosaic virus35S promoter. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 3:91-7. [PMID: 15612506 DOI: 10.1051/ebr:2004010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Gene constructs containing the Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter and a sequence coding either for a green fluorescent protein (GFP) or for firefly luciferase were transfected into Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Both reporter genes were expressed to significant levels. The 35S promoter was 40 times less active than the human eF1 alpha promoter, which is known to be one of the most potent promoters in mammalian cells. The 35S promoter must therefore be considered to be a promoter of significant potency in mammalian cells. RT-PCR analysis suggested that transcription initiation in CHO cells occurred between the TATA box and the transcription start site of the 35S promoter that function in plant cells. Further analysis by 5'RACE confirmed that transcription was initiated in CHO cells at different sites located essentially between the TATA box and the plant transcription start site, showing that 35S promoter activity in animal cells is due to the presence of promoter elements that are functional in mammalian cells, but that are not those used in plants. The data reported here raise the possibility that genes controlled by the 35S promoter, which is commonly used in transgenic plants, have the potential for expression in animal cells.
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- Mark Tepfer
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA-Versailles, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France.
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Transcription regulation often activates quiescent genes in a tissue-specific or developmental manner. Activator proteins bind to a DNA sequence upstream of the promoter, interact with the general transcription proteins via bridging proteins, and elevate transcription levels. One group of bridging proteins, the coactivators, have been characterized in animals as polypeptides tightly associated with the general transcription factor TATA-binding protein (TBP). They are referred to as TAFs (TBP-associated factors), and together with TBP comprise general transcription factor IID. We provide biochemical evidence that wheat IID contains coactivators. An activator protein with an acidic activation domain facilitates the binding of IID to the template, and potentiates activated in vitro transcription with wheat IID, but not with wheat TBP. Using antibodies to wheat TBP, we demonstrate that wheat IID also contains TAFs. This is the first demonstration that a plant contains coactivators and TAFs.
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- K B Washburn
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston 02125-3393, USA
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▪ Abstract In vitro transcription systems provide a powerful tool for detailed analysis of transcription reactions including initiation, elongation, and termination. Despite problems inherent to plant cells, efforts have been made to develop plant in vitro transcription systems in the past decade. These efforts have finally culminated in the development of reliable in vitro systems from suspension-cell cultures of both monocot and dicot plants. These systems can be useful in elucidating the specific mechanisms involved in the process of plant transcription and thus can potentially open a new era of transcription studies in plants.
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- Masahiro Sugiura
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-01, Japan
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The development of plant in vitro transcription systems transcribing faithfully and efficiently from a broad range of plant nuclear promoters has remained a challenge. We examined the nucleotide sequence requirements for faithful and efficient transcription in a wheat germ chromatin extract (Yamazaki et al., Plant Mol Biol Rep 8: 114-123). The wheat germ chromatin extract was tested with a series of chimeric promoter constructs containing plant promoter sequences upstream from the TATA box, TATA boxes, and cap-site sequences (from -10 to +14, relative to the major in vivo initiation site) in different combinations. The plant extract transcribed faithfully from several chimeric promoters containing the capsite sequence of the parsley chalcone synthase promoter. The transcription was sensitive to the RNA polymerase II-specific inhibitor alpha-amanitin and was only dependent on the chalcone synthase cap-site sequence which therefore fulfils the operational criteria for a plant initiator element. Mutations of the putative chalcone synthase initiator element defined a core sequence '5'TAACAAC' around the initiation site that was necessary for efficient transcription in vitro. In contrast to the extract, purified wheat germ RNA polymerase II showed no preference for transcription from the major chalcone synthase in vivo initiation site.
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- P Schweizer
- Sandoz Agro Ltd., Agrobiological Research Station, Witterswil, Switzerland
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- P Schweizer
- Institute de Biologie Végétale, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
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The yeast transcription factor IIA (TFIIA), a component of the basal transcription machinery of RNA polymerase II and implicated in vitro in regulation of basal transcription, is composed of two subunits of 32 and 13.5 kilodaltons. The genes that encode these subunits, termed TOA1 and TOA2, respectively, were cloned. Neither gene shares obvious sequence similarity with the other or with any other previously identified genes. The recombinant factor bound to a TATA binding protein-DNA complex and complemented yeast and mammalian in vitro transcription systems depleted of TFIIA. Both the TOA1 and TOA2 genes are essential for growth of yeast.
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- J A Ranish
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104
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Cortes P, Flores O, Reinberg D. Factors involved in specific transcription by mammalian RNA polymerase II: purification and analysis of transcription factor IIA and identification of transcription factor IIJ. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:413-21. [PMID: 1729613 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.1.413-421.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The previously described transcription factor IIA (TFIIA) protein fraction was separated into two factors that affect transcription, TFIIA and TFIIJ. TFIIA was found to have a stimulatory effect, and TFIIJ was found to be required for transcription. The requirement of TFIIJ was observed when bacterially produced purified human or yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) TATA-binding protein (TBP) was used in lieu of the endogenous HeLa cell TFIID complex, suggesting that TFIIJ may be part of the TFIID complex. The stimulatory activity of TFIIA was found also to be dependent on the source of the TBP. Transcription reactions reconstituted with TFIID were stimulated by TFIIA; however, when human or yeast TBP was used instead of TFIID, TFIIA had no effect. TFIIA was found to interact with the TBP and was extensively purified by the use of affinity chromatography on columns containing immobilized recombinant yeast TBP. TFIIA is a heterotrimer composed of polypeptides of 34, 19, and 14 kDa. These three polypeptides were required to isolate, by using the gel mobility shift assay, a stable complex between TBP and the TATA box sequence.
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Flores O, Lu H, Reinberg D. Factors involved in specific transcription by mammalian RNA polymerase II. Identification and characterization of factor IIH. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45947-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Weinmann R. The basic RNA polymerase II transcriptional machinery. Gene Expr 1992; 2:81-91. [PMID: 1633439 PMCID: PMC6057384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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All genes encoding proteins in eukaryotes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II. The first step in analyzing transcriptional regulation requires understanding the general mechanisms of RNA polymerase II-specific gene transcription. The basal promoter, a template containing a TATA box devoid of upstream regulatory sequences, has been used to identify and characterize the factors which, together with RNA polymerase II, govern transcription in mammalian systems: TFIIA, TFIIB, TFIID, TFIIE, TFIIF, TFIIG, TFIIH, and TFIIJ. Interactions between regulatory transcription factors and basal elements of the transcriptional machinery affect the transcriptional rate in a positive or negative fashion. As these multiple proteins are purified, and their coding sequences are isolated, we come closer to reproducing these processes in vitro with pure components, and thus to elucidating the complex interactions among them.
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- R Weinmann
- Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Cortes P, Flores O, Reinberg D. Factors involved in specific transcription by mammalian RNA polymerase II: purification and analysis of transcription factor IIA and identification of transcription factor IIJ. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:413-21. [PMID: 1729613 PMCID: PMC364136 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.1.413-421.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The previously described transcription factor IIA (TFIIA) protein fraction was separated into two factors that affect transcription, TFIIA and TFIIJ. TFIIA was found to have a stimulatory effect, and TFIIJ was found to be required for transcription. The requirement of TFIIJ was observed when bacterially produced purified human or yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) TATA-binding protein (TBP) was used in lieu of the endogenous HeLa cell TFIID complex, suggesting that TFIIJ may be part of the TFIID complex. The stimulatory activity of TFIIA was found also to be dependent on the source of the TBP. Transcription reactions reconstituted with TFIID were stimulated by TFIIA; however, when human or yeast TBP was used instead of TFIID, TFIIA had no effect. TFIIA was found to interact with the TBP and was extensively purified by the use of affinity chromatography on columns containing immobilized recombinant yeast TBP. TFIIA is a heterotrimer composed of polypeptides of 34, 19, and 14 kDa. These three polypeptides were required to isolate, by using the gel mobility shift assay, a stable complex between TBP and the TATA box sequence.
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- P Cortes
- Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854-5635
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