Cloning, expression and characterization of LeFRK3, the fourth tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) gene encoding fructokinase

Plant Science

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 285-291

  German, Marcelo A ^a   Asher, Israel ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Dai, Nir ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Granot, David ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fructose; Glucose; Hexose phosphorylation; Quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CLONING; DNA; ENZYME INHIBITION; FRUCTOSE; FRUITS; GENE TRANSFER; ION EXCHANGE; YEAST;

DNA ENCODING; KINASES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 1242322474     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Baysdorfer C., Kremer D.F., Sicher R.C. Partial purification and characterisation of fructokinase activity from barley leaves. J. Plant Physiol. 134:1989;156-161.
2. Dai N., German M.A., Matsevitz T., Hanael R., Swartzberg D., Yeselson Y., Petreikov M., Schaffer A.A., Granot D. LeFRK2, a gene encoding the major fructokinase in tomato fruits, is not required for starch accumulation in developing fruits. Plant Sci. 162:2002;423-430.
3. Dai N., Kandel M., Petreikov M., Levine I., Ricard B., Rothan C., Schaffer A.A., Granot D. The tomato hexokinase LeHXK1: cloning, mapping, expression pattern and phylogenetic relationships. Plant Sci. 163:2002;581-590.
4. Dai N., Schaffer A., Petreikov M., Granot D. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) fructokinase expressed in yeast exhibits inhibition by fructose of both in vitro enzyme activity and rate of cell proliferation. Plant Sci. 128:1997;191-197.
5. Doehlert D.C. Fructokinases from developing maize kernels differ in their specificity for nucleoside triphosphates. Plant Physiol. 93:1990;353-355.
6. Eshed Y., Abu Abied M., Saranga Y., Zamir D. Lycopersicon esculentum lines containing small overlapping introgressions from L. pennellii. Theory Appl. Genet. 83:1992;1027-1034.
7. Eshed Y., Zamir D. A genomic library of Lycopersicon pennellii in L. esculentum: a tool for fine mapping of genes. Euphytica. 79:1994;175-179.
8. Gardner A., Davies H.V., Burch L.R. Purification and properties of fructokinase from developing tubers of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Plant Physiol. 100:1992;178-183.
9. German M.A., Dai N., Chmelnitsky I., Sobolev I., Salts Y., Barg R., Schaffer A.A., Granot D. LeFRK4, a novel tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fructokinase specifically expressed in stamens. Plant Sci. 163:2002;607-613.
10. German M.A., Dai N., Matsevitz T., Hanael R., Petreikov M., Bernstein N., Ioffe M., Shahak Y., Schaffer A.A., Granot D. Suppression of fructokinase encoded by LeFRK2 in tomato stem inhibits growth and causes wilting of young leaves. Plant J. 34:2003;837-846.
11. German M.A., Kandel-Kfir M., Swartzberg D., Matsevitz T., Granot D. A rapid method for the analysis of zygosity in transgenic plants. Plant Sci. 166:2003;183-187.
12. Gonzali S., Pistelli L., De Bellis L., Alpi A. Characterization of two Arabidopsis thaliana fructokinases. Plant Sci. 160:2001;1107-1114.
13. Jiang H., Dian W., Liu F., Wu P. Isolation and characterization of two fructokinase cDNA clones from rice. Phytochemistry. 62:2003;47-52.
14. Kanayama Y., Dai N., Granot D., Petreikov M., Schaffer A., Bennett A.B. Divergent fructokinase genes are differentially expressed in tomato. Plant Physiol. 113:1997;1379-1384.
15. Kanayama Y., Granot D., Dai N., Petreikov M., Schaffer A., Powell A., Bennett A.B. Tomato fructokinases exhibit differential expression and substrate regulation. Plant Physiol. 117:1998;85-90.
16. Lutcke H.A., Chow K.C., Mickel F.S., Moss K.A., Kern H.F., Scheele G.A. Selection of AUG initiation codons differs in plants and animals. EMBO J. 6:1987;43-48.
17. Martinez-Barajas E., Randall D.D. Purification and characterization of fructokinase from developing tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits. Planta. 199:1996;451-458.
18. Minet M., Dufour M.E., Lacroute F. Complementation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae auxotrophic mutants by Arabidopsis thaliana cDNAs. Plant J. 2:1992;417-422.
19. Odanaka S., Bennett A.B., Kanayama Y. Distinct physiological roles of fructokinase isozymes revealed by gene-specific suppression of frk1 and frk2 expression in tomato. Plant Physiol. 129:2002;1119-1126.
20. Pego J.V., Smeekens S.C. Plant fructokinases: a sweet family get-together. Trends Plant Sci. 5:2000;531-536.
21. Petreikov M., Dai N., Granot D., Schaffer A. Characterization of native and yeast expressed tomato fructokinases enzymes. Phytochemistry. 58:2001;841-847.
22. Renz A., Merlo L., Stitt M. Partial purification from potato tubers of three fructokinases and three hexokinases which show differing organ and developmental specificity. Planta. 190:1993;156-165.
23. Renz A., Stitt M. Substrate specificity and product inhibition of different forms of fructokinases and hexokinases in developing potato tubers. Planta. 190:1993;166-175.
24. Schaffer A.A., Petreikov M. Sucrose-to-starch metabolism in tomato fruit undergoing transient starch accumulation. Plant Physiol. 113:1997;739-746.
25. Smith S.B., Taylor M.A., Burch L.R., Davies H.V. Primary structure and characterization of a cDNA clone of fructokinase from potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv Record). Plant Physiol. 102:1993;1043.
26. Walsh R.B., Clifton D., Horak J., Fraenkel D. Saccharomyces cerevisiae null mutants in glucose phosphorylation: metabolism and invertase expression. Genetics. 128:1991;521-527.