Rice bicoid-related cDNA sequence and its expression during early embryogenesis
| Autor: | Zhi Xing Yang, Guo Yong An, Zhi Ping Zhu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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animal structures
DNA Complementary Sequence analysis Molecular Sequence Data Biology Genes Plant Gene Expression Regulation Plant Complementary DNA Sequence Homology Nucleic Acid Drosophila Proteins Cloning Molecular Molecular Biology Peptide sequence Gene Body Patterning Genetics Homeodomain Proteins Base Sequence cDNA library fungi food and beverages Drosophila embryogenesis Embryo Oryza Cell Biology Protein Structure Tertiary embryonic structures Seeds Trans-Activators Drosophila Protein |
| Zdroj: | Cell research. 11(1) |
| ISSN: | 1001-0602 |
| Popis: | Bicoid is one of the important Drosophila maternal genes involved in the control of embryo polarity and larvae segmentation. To clone and characterize the rice bicoid-related genes, one cDNA clone, Rb24 (EMBL accession number: AJ2771380), was isolated by screening of rice unmature seed cDNA library. Sequence analysis indicates that Rb24 contains a putative amino acid sequence, which is homologous to unique 8 amino acids sequence within Drosophila bicoid homeodomain (50% identity, 75% similarity) and involves a lys-9 in putative helix 3. Northern blot analysis of rice RNA has shown that this sequence is expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The transcript was detected strongly in young panicles, but less in young leaves and roots. This results are further confirmed with paraffin section in situ hybridization. The signal is intensive in rice globular embryo and located at the apical tip of the embryo, then, along with the development of embryo, the signal is getting reduced and transfers into both sides of embryo. The existence of bicoid-related sequence in rice embryo and the similarity of polar distribution of bicoid and Rb24 mRNA in early embryo development may implicates a conserved maternal regulation mechanism of body axis presents in Drosophila and in rice. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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