An endosperm-specific DOF protein from barley, highly conserved in wheat, binds to and activates transcription from the prolamin-box of a native B-hordein promoter in barley endosperm

Plant Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-62

  Mena, Montaña ^a   Vicente Carbajosa, Jesus ^a   Schmidt, Robert J ^b   Carbonero, Pilar ^a  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BARLEY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032190502     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00275.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Albani, D., Hammond-Kosack, M.C.U., Smith, C., Conlan, S., Colot, V., Holdsworth, M. and Bevan, M.W. (1997) The wheat transcriptional activator SPA: a seed-specific bZIP protein that recognizes the GCN4-like motif in the bifactorial endosperm box of prolamin genes. Plant Cell, 9, 171-184
2. Boronat, A., Martínez, M.C., Reina, M., Puigdomènech, P. and Palau, J. (1986) Isolation and sequencing of a 28 kDa glutelin-2 gene from maize. Common elements in the 5′ flanking regions among zein and glutelin genes. Plant Sci. 47, 95-102.
3. Bosnes, M., Weideman, F. and Olsen, O.A. (1992) Endosperm differentiation in barley wild-type and sex mutants. Plant J. 2, 661-674.
4. Brandt, A., Montembault, A., Cameron-Mills, V. and Rasmusen, S.K. (1985) Primary structure of a B1 hordein gene from barley. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 50, 333-345.
5. Brown, J.W.S., Wandelt, C., Feix, G., Neuhaus, G. and Schweiger, H.G. (1986) The upstream regions of zein genes: sequence analysis and expression in the unicellular green alga Acetabularia. Eur. J. Cell. Biol. 42, 161-170.
6. 2-inducible Arabidopsis glutathione S-transferase gene contains closely linked OBF- and OBP1-binding sites. Plant J. 10, 955-966.
7. Colot, V., Robert, L.S., Kavanagh, T.A., Bevan, M.W. and Thompson, R.D. (1987) Localization of sequences in wheat endosperm protein genes which confer tissue-specific expression in tobacco. EMBO J. 6, 3559-3564.
8. De Paolis, A., Sabatini, S., De Pascalis, L., Costantino, P. and Capone, I. (1996) A rolB regulatory factor belongs to a new class of single zinc finger plant proteins. Plant J. 10, 215-223.
9. Entwistle, J., Knudsen, S., Müller, M. and Cameron-Mills, V. (1991) Amber codon supression: the in vivo and in vitro analysis of two C-hordein genes from barley. Plant Mol. Biol. 17, 1217-1231.
10. Forde, B.G., Heyworth, A., Pywell, J. and Kreis, M. (1985) Nucleotide sequence of a B1-hordein gene and the identification of possible upstream regulatory elements in endosperm storage protein genes from barley, wheat and maize. Nucl. Acids Res. 13, 7327-7339.
11. Gerlach, W.L. and Bedbrook, J.R. (1979) Cloning and characterization of ribosomal RNA genes from wheat and barley. Nucl Acids Res. 7, 1869-1885.
12. Hammond-Kosack, M.C.U., Holdsworth, M.J. and Bevan, M.W. (1993) In vivo footprinting of a low molecular weight glutenin gene (LMWG-1D1) in wheat endosperm. EMBO J. 12, 545-554.
13. Hartings, H., Maddaloni, M., Lazzaroni, N., Di Fonzo, N., Motto, M., Salamini, F. and Thompson, R. (1989) The O2 gene wich regulates zein deposition in maize endosperm encodes a protein with structural homologies to transcriptional activators. EMBO J. 8, 2795-2801.
14. Hull, G.A., Halford, N.G., Kreis, M. and Shewry, P.R. (1991) Isolation and characterization of genes encoding rye prolamins containing a highly repetitive sequence motif. Plant Mol. Biol. 17, 1111-1115.
15. Jefferson, R.A. (1987) Assaying chimeric genes in plants: The GUS gene fusion system. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 5, 387-405.
16. Jensen, E.S., Marcker, K.A., Schell, J. and Bruijn, F.J. (1988) Interaction of a nodule specific trans-acting factor with distinct DNA elements in the soybean leghaemoglobin lbc3,5′ upstream region. EMBO J. 7, 1265-1271.
17. Klein, T.M., Gradziel, T., Fromm, M.E. and Sanford, J.C. (1988) Factors influencing gene delivery into Zea mays cells by high-velocity microprojectiles. Biotechnology, 6, 559-563.
18. Kreis, M., Forde, B.G., Rahman, S., Miflin, B.J. and Shewry, P.R. (1985) Molecular evolution of the seed storage proteins of barley, rye and wheat. J. Mol. Biol. 183, 499-502.
19. Lagrimini, L.M., Burkhart, W., Moyer, M. and Rothstein, S. (1987) Molecular cloning of complementary DNA encoding the lignin forming peroxidases from tobacco: molecular analysis and tissue-specific expression. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 84, 7542-7546.
20. Luthe, D.S. and Quatrano, R.S. (1980) Transcription in isolated wheat nuclei. I. Isolation of nuclei and elimination of endogenous ribonuclease activity. Plant Physiol. 65, 305-308.
21. Maier, U.-G., Browm, J.W.S., Toloczyki, C. and Feix, G. (1987) Binding of a nuclear factor to a consensus sequence in the 5′ flanking region of zein genes from maize. EMBO J. 6, 17-22.
22. Marris, C., Gallois, P., Copley, J. and Kreis, M. (1988) The 5′ flanking region of a barley B hordein gene controls tissue and developmental specific CAT expression in tobacco plants. Plant Mol. Biol. 10, 359-366.
23. Müller, M. and Knudsen, S. (1993) The nitrogen response of a barley C-hordein promoter is controlled by positive and negative regulation of the GCN4and endosperm box. Plant J. 4, 343-355.
24. Müller, M., Muth, U.R., Gallusci, P. et al. (1995) Regulation of storage protein synthesis in cereal seeds: developmental and nutritional aspects. J. Plant Physiol. 145, 606-613.
25. Quayle, T. and Feix, G. (1992) Functional analysis of the -300 region of maize zein genes. Mol. Gen. Genet. 231, 369-374.
26. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F. and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratoty.
27. Schmidt, R.J., Burr, F.A., Aukerman, M.J. and Burr, B. (1990) Maize regulatory gene opaque-2 encodes a protein with a 'leucine-zipper' motif that binds to zein DNA. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 87, 46-50.
28. Schmidt, R.J., Ketudat, M., Aukerman, M. and Hoschek, G. (1992) Opaque-2 is a transcriptional activator that recognizes a specific target site in 22-kD zein genes. Plant Cell. 4, 689-700.
29. Shewry, P.R., Naiser, J.A. and Tatham, A.S. (1995) Seed storage protein: structures and biosynthesis. Plant Cell, 7, 945-956.
30. Shewry, P.R. and Tatham, A.S. (1990) The prolamin storage proteins of cereal seeds: structure and evolution. Biochem. J. 267, 1-12.
31. Sarensen, M.B., Cameron-Mills, V. and Brandt, A. (1989) Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in developing barley endosperm. Mol. Gen. Genet. 217, 195-201.
32. Sumner-Smith, M., Rafalski, J.A., Sugiyama, T., Stoll, M. and Söll, D. (1985) Conservation and variability of wheat α/β-gliadin genes. Nucl. Acids Res. 13, 2905-3916.
33. Ueda, T., Wang, Z., Pham, N. and Messing, J. (1994) Identification of a transcriptional activator-binding element in the 27-Kilodalton zein promoter, the -300 element. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14, 4350-4359.
34. Vasil, V., Brown, S.M., Re, D., Fromm, M.E. and Vasil, I.K. (1991) Stably transformed callus lines from microprojectile bombardment of cell suspensions cultivars of wheat. Biotechnology, 9, 743-746.
35. Vicente-Carbajosa, J., Beritashvili, D.R., Kraev, A.S. and Skryabin, K.G. (1992) Conserved structure and organization of B hordein genes in the Hor 2 locus of barley. Plant Mol. Biol. 18, 453-458.
36. Vicente-Carbajosa, J., Moose, S.P., Parsons, R.L. and Schmidt, R.J. (1997) A maize zinc-finger protein binds to the prolamin box in zein gene promoters and interacts with the basic leucine zipper transcriptional activator Opaque 2. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 7685-7690.
37. Vicente-Carbajosa, J., Oñate, L., Lara, P., Diaz, I. and Carbonero, P. (1998) Barley Blz1. a bZIP transcriptional activator that interacts with endosperm-specific gene promoters. Plant J. 13, 629-640.
38. Yanagisawa, S. (1995) A novel DMA-binding domain that may form a single zinc finger motif. Nucl Acids Res. 23, 3403-3410.
39. Yanagisawa, S. (1996) Dof DNA-binding proteins contain a novel zinc finger motif. Trends Plant Sci. 1, 213-214.
40. Yanagisawa, S. (1997) Dof DNA-binding domains of plant transcription factors contribute to multiple protein-protein interactions. Eur. J. Biochem. 250, 403-410.
41. Yanagisawa, S. and Izui, K. (1993) Molecular cloning of two DNA-binding proteins of maize that are structurally different but interact with the same sequence motif. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 16028-16036.
42. Yanagisawa, S. and Sheen, J. (1998) Involvement of maize Dof Zinc finger proteins in tissue-specific and light-regulated gene expression. Plant Cell, 10, 75-89.
43. Zhang, B., Chen, W., Foley, R.C., Buttner, M. and Singh, K.B. (1995) Interactions between distinct types of DNA binding proteins enhace binding to ocs element promoter sequences. Plant Cell, 7, 2241-2252.