Cloning and characterization of the OsNramp family from Oryza sativa, a new family of membrane proteins possibly implicated in the transport of metal ions

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1085-1092

  Belouchi, Abdelmajid ^a   Kwan, Tony ^a   Gros, Philippe ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

gene family; membrane protein; rice; tissue specific gene expression

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METAL; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; NATURAL RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; OSNRAMP1 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; OSNRAMP2 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; OSNRAMP3 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031127383     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005723304911     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bairoch A: The PROSITE dictionary of sites and patterns in protein: its current status. Nucl Acids Res 21: 3097-4103 (1993).
2. Belouchi AM, Cellier M, Kwan T, Saini B, Leroux G, Gros P: The macrophage specific membrane protein Nramp controlling natural resistance to infections in mice has homologues expressed in the root system of plants. Plant Mol Biol 29: 1181-1196 (1995).
3. Bent AF, Innes RW, Ecker JR, Staskawicz BJ: Disease-development in ethylene-insensitive Arabidopsis thaliana infected with virulent and avirulent Pseudomonas and Xanthomonas pathogens. Mol Plant-Microbe Interact 5: 372-378 (1992).
4. Cellier M, Belouchi A, Gros P: Resistance to intracellular infections: comparitive genomic analysis of Nramp. Trends Genet 12: 201-204 (1996).
5. Cellier M, Prive G, Belouchi A, Kwan T, Rodrigues V, Chia W, Gros P: The natural resistance associated macrophage protein (Nramp) defines a new family of membrane proteins conserved throughout evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 10089-10094, (1995).
6. Descoteaux S, Yu Y, Samuelson J: Cloning of Entamoeba genes encoding proteolipids of putative vacuolar proton-translocating ATPases. Infect Immun 62: 3572-3572 (1994).
7. Devereux J: The GCG sequence analysis software package, version 7.0. Genetics Computer Group, Inc., University Research Park, Madison, WI (1991).
8. Ecker JR: The ethylene signal transduction pathway in plants. Science 268: 667-675 (1995).
9. Eide D, Broderius M, Fett J, Guerinot ML: A novel iron-regulated metal transporter from plants identified by functional expression in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 5624-5628 (1996).
10. Carcia del Portillo F, Finlay BB: The varied lifestyles of intracellular pathogens within eukaryotic vacuolar compartments. Trends Microbiol 3: 373-380 (1995).
11. Kampfenkel K, Kushnir S, Babichuk E, Inzé D, Van Montagu M: Molecular characterization of a putative Arabidopsis thaliana copper transporter and its yeast homologue. J Biol Chem 270: 28479-28486 (1995).
12. Rodrigues V, Cheah PY, Ray K, Chia W: Malvolio, the Drosophila homologue of mouse NRAMP-1 (Beg), is expressed in macrophages and in the nervous system and is required for normal taste behavior. EMBO J 14: 3007-3020 (1995).
13. Schaller GE, Bleecker AB: Ethylene-binding sites generated in yeast expressing the Arabidopsis ETR1 gene. Science 270: 1809-1811 (1995).
14. Skamene E, Pietrangeli CE: Genetics of the immune response to infectious pathogens. Curr Opin Immunol 3: 511-517 (1991).
15. Supek F, Supekova L, Nelson H, Nelson N: A yeast manganese transporter related to the macrophage protein involved in conferring resistance to mycobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 5105-5110 (1996).
16. Vidal SM, Gros P, Skamene E: Natural resistance to infection with intracellular parasites: Molecular genetics identifies Nramp1 as the Bcg/Ity/Lsh locus. J Leuk Biol 58: 382-390 (1995).
17. Vidal SM, Malo D, Vogan K, Skamene E, Gros P: Natural resistance to infection with intracellular parasites: Isolation of a candidate for Bcg. Cell 73: 469-486 (1993).
18. West AH, Claarck DJ, Martin J, Neupert W, Hartl FU, Horwitz AL: Two related genes encoding extremely hydrophobic proteins suppress a lethal mutation in the yeast mitochondrial processing enhancing protein. J Biol Chem 267: 24625-24633 (1992).
19. + channels and glutamate receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 4882-4886 (1995).