A tobacco gene encoding a novel basic class II chitinase: A putative ancestor of basic class I and acidic class II chitinase genes

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 511-515

  Ohme Takagi, M ^a   Meins Jr , F ^b   Shinshi, H ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Evolution; Tobacco; Transposition

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; SALICYLIC ACID; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITINASE; CYSTEINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0031693170     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050842     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Arai T, Torikata T (1995) Structural classification of plant chitinases: Two subclasses in class I and class II chitinases. Biosci Biotech Biochem 59:336-338
2. Beintgema JJ (1994) Structural features of plant chitinase and chitin-binding proteins. FEBS Lett 350:159-163
3. Boller T (1987) Hydrolytic enzymes in plant disease resistance. In: Kosuge T, Nester EW (eds) Plant-Microbe Interactions, vol. 2. Macmillan, New York, pp 385-413
4. Collinge DB, Kragh KM, Mikkelsen JD, Nielsen KK, Rasmussen U, Vad K (1993) Plant chitinases. Plant J 3:31-40
5. Dore I, Legrand M, Cornelissen BJ, Bol JF (1991) Subcellular localization of acidic and basic PR proteins in tobacco mosaic virus-infected tobacco. Arch Virol 120:97-107
6. Fukuda Y, Ohme M, Shinshi H (1991) Gene structure and expression of a tobacco endochitinase gene in suspension-cultured tobacco cells. Plant Mol Biol 16:1-10
7. Gerhardt LBA, Sachetto-Martins G, Contarini MG, Sandroni M, Ferreira RP, Lima VM, Cordeiro MC, Oliveira DE, Margis-Pinheiro M (1997) Arabidopsis thaliana class IV chitinase is early induced during the interaction with Xanthomonas campestris. FEBS Lett 419:69-75
8. Hart CM, Nagy F, Meins F Jr (1993) A 61-bp enhancer element of the tobacco β-1,3-glucanase gene interacts with one or more regulated nuclear proteins. Plant Mol Biol 21:121-131
9. Hamel F, Boivin R, Tremblay C, Bellemare G (1997) Structure and evolutionary relationships among chitinase of flowering plants. J Mol Evol 44:614-624
10. Harikrishna K, Jampates-Beale R, Milligan SB, Gasser CS (1996) An endochitinase gene expressed at high level in the stylar transmitting tissue of tomato. Plant Mol Biol 30:899-911
11. Izawa T, Chua NH (1993) Plant bZIP protein DNA binding specificity. J Mol Biol 20:1131-1144
12. Legrand M, Kauffmann S, Geoffroy P, Friting B (1987) Biological function of pathogenesis-related proteins: Four tobacco pathogenesis-related proteins are chitinases. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:6750-6754
13. Matsubayashi T, Wakasugi T, Shinozaki K, Yamaguch-Shinozaki K, Zaita N, Hidaka T, Meng BY, Ohto C, Tanaka M, Kato A, Maruyama T, Sugiura M (1987) Six chloroplast genes (ndhA-F) homologous to human mitochondrial genes encoding components of the respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase are actively expressed: determination of the splice sites in ndhA and ndhB pre-mRNAs. Mol Gen Genet 210:385-393
14. Mauch F, Staehelin LA (1989) Functional implications of the subcellular localization of ethylene-induced chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase in bean leaves. Plant Cell 1:447-457
15. Meins F Jr, Ahl P (1989) Induction of chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase in tobacco leaves infected with Pseudomonas tabaci and Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae. Plant Sci 61:155-161
16. Neale AD, Wahleithner JA, Lund M, Bonnett HT, Kelly A, Meeks-Wagner DR, Peacock WJ, Dennis ES (1990) Chitinase, β-1,3-glucanase, osmotin, and extensin are expressed in tobacco explants during flower formation. Plant Cell 2:673-684
17. Neuhaus JM, Sticker L, Meins F Jr, Boller T (1991) A short C-terminal sequence is necessary and sufficient for the targeting of chitinases to the plant vacuole. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 15:10362-10366
18. Neuhaus, JM, Fritig B, Linthorst HJM, Meins F Jr, Mikkelsen JD, Ryals J (1996) A revised nomenclature for chitinase genes. Plant Mol Biol Reptr. 14:102-104
19. Ohme-Takagi M, Shinshi H (1990) Structure and expression of a β-1,3-glucanase gene. Plant Mol Biol 15:941-946
20. Ohme-Takagi M, Shinshi H (1995) Ethylene-inducible DNA binding proteins that interact with an ethylene-responsive element. Plant Cell 7:173-182
21. Payne G, Ahl P, Moyer M, Harper A, Beck J, Meins F Jr, Ryals J (1990) Isolation of complementary DNA clones encoding pathogenesis-related proteins P and Q, two acidic chitinases from tobacco. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87:98-102
22. Saito T, Meshi T, Takamatsu N, Okada Y (1987) Coat protein gene sequence of tobacco mosaic virus encodes a host response determinant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:6074-6077
23. Shapiro MB, Senapathy P (1987) RNA splice junctions of different classes of eukaryotes: sequence statistics and functional implications in gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res 15:7155-7175
24. Shinshi H, Mohnen D, Meins F Jr (1987) Regulation of a plant pathogenesis-related enzymes: inhibition of chitinase and chitinase mRNA accumulation in cultured tobacco tissues by auxin and cytokinin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:89-93
25. Shinshi H, Neuhaus JM, Ryals J, Meins F Jr (1990) Structure of a tobacco endochitinase gene: evidence that different chitinase genes can arise by transposition of sequences encoding a cysteine-rich domain. Plant Mol Biol 14:357-368
26. Van Buuren M, Neuhaus JM, Shinshi H, Ryals D, Meins F Jr (1992) The structure and regulation of homologous tobacco endochitinase genes of Nicotiana sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis origin. Mol Gen Genet 232:460-469