Abstract
The suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) method was used to isolate developmentally regulated genes during carnation flower maturation. Carnation flower maturation-related clones obtained by the SSH were serially assigned as CFMI (carnation flower maturation-induced) clones. Northern blot analysis showed that several CFMI clones were differentially expressed during flower development. One of the clones, CFMI-3, showed similarity to various animal secretory phospholipases A2 (PLA2). Since little is known about PLA2 gene sequence in plant species, the CFMI-3 clone was selected for further characterization by sequence analysis. Full sequence analysis reveals that the CFMI-3 contains a Ca2+ binding domain, a PLA2 active site, and 12 conserved Cys residues, which is a distinct characteristic of PLA2. Amino acid sequence alignment of CFMI-3 to various putative plant PLA2 confirmed that the CFMI-3 cDNA is the full-length putative PLA2 cDNA identified in plant species. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 389-392 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression |
Volume | 1489 |
Issue number | 2-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1999 Dec 23 |
Keywords
- Carnation flower
- Differential gene expression
- Flower maturation
- Phospholipase A
- Suppression subtractive hybridization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Structural Biology
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Genetics