Inducible expression by plant hormones of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase gene from Nicotiana tabacum during early flower bud formation in vitro

Plant Science

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-174

  Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Masuta, Chikara ^a   Kataoka, Jiro ^a   Kuwata, Shigeru ^a   Koiwai, Akira ^a   Noma, Masana ^a  

^a JAPAN TOBACCO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokinin; Gene cloning; Plant hormones; S adenosyl L homocysteine hydrolase; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0030046706     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9452(95)04289-X     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. G. de la Haba and G.L. Cantoni, The enzymatic synthesis of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine from adenosine and homocysteine. J. Biol. Chem., 234 (1959) 603-608.
2. S. Shimizu, S. Shiozaki, T. Oshiro and H. Yamada, Occurrence of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase in prokaryote cells. Eur. J. Biochem., 141 (1984) 385-392.
3. A. Kovarik, B. Koukalova, A. Holy and M. Bezdek, Sequence-specific hypomethylation of the tobacco genome induced with dihydroxypropyladenine, ethionine and 5-azacytidine. FEBS Lett., 353 (1994) 309-311.
4. S. Mitsui, T. Wakasugi and M. Sugiura. A cDNA en-coding the 57 kDa subunit of a cytokinin-binding protein complex from tobacco: the subunit has high homology to S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase. Plant Cell Physiol., 34 (1993) 1089-1096.
5. M. Tran Thanh Van, Direct flower neoformation from superficial tissue of small expiants of Nicotiana tabacum L. Planta, 115 (1973) 87-92.
6. M. Noma, N. Koike, M. Sano and N. Kawashima, Endogenous indole-3-acetic acid in the stem of tobacco in relation to flower neoformation as measured by mass spectroscopic assay. Plant Physiol., 75 (1984) 257-260.
7. M. Tran Thanh Van, N.T. Dien and A. Chlyah, Regulation of organogenesis in small expiants of superficial tissue of Nicotiana tabacum L. Planta, 119 (1974) 149-159.
8. T. Murashige and F. Skoog, Revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures. Physiol. Plant., 15 (1962) 473-497.
9. U. Gubler and B.J. Hoffman, A simple and very efficient method for generating cDNA libraries. Gene, 25 (1983) 263-269.
10. J.C. Watson and W.F. Thompson, Purification and restriction endonuclease analysis of plant nuclear DNA. Methods Enzymol., 118 (1986) 57-75.
11. J. Sambrook, E.F. Fritsch and T. Maniatis, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbour, NY, 1989.
12. F. Sanger, S. Nicklen and A.R. Coulson, DNA sequenc-ing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 74 (1977) 5463-5467.
13. R.A. Jefferson, T.A. Kavanagh and M.W. Sevan, GUS fusions: β-glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants. EMBO J., 6 (1987) 3901-3907.
14. T. Komari, Transformation of callus cultures of nine plant species mediated by Agrobacterium. Plant Sci., 60 (1989) 223-229.
15. C. Masuta, H. Tanaka, K. Uehara, S. Kuwata, A. Koiwai and M. Noma, Broad resistance to plant viruses in transgenic plants conferred by antisense inhibition of a host gene essential in 5-adenosylmethionine-dependent transmethylation reactions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92 (1995) 6117-6121.
16. R.L.P. Adams, DNA methylation: the effect of minor bases on DNA-protein interactions. Biochem. J., 265 (1990) 309-320.
17. G. de la Haba, S. Agostini, A. Bozzi, A. Merta, C. Unson and G.L. Cantoni, S-adenosyl-homocysteinase: mechanism of reversible and irreversible inactivation by ATP, cAMP and 2′-deoxyadenosine. Biochemistry, 25 (1986) 8337-8342.
18. M.S. Hershfield and N.M. Kredich, S-adenosyl-homocysteine hydrolase is an adenosine-binding protein: a target for adenosine toxicity. Science, 202 (1978) 757-760.
19. +. FEBS Lett., 165 (1984) 265-268.
20. G.A. Romanov and A. Dietrich, The major cytokininbinding proteins from maize are not associated with S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase activity. Plant Sci., 107 (1995) 77-81.