Journal article
Evidence that CTR1-Mediated Ethylene Signal Transduction in Tomato is Encoded by a Multigene Family Whose Members Display Distinct Regulatory Features
Plant molecular biology, Vol.54(3), pp.387-404
02/2004
DOI: 10.1023/B:PLAN.0000036371.30528.26
PMID: 15284494
Abstract
Ethylene governs a range of developmental and response processes in plants. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the Raf-like kinase CTR1 acts as a key negative regulator of ethylene responses. While only one gene with CTR1 function apparently exists in Arabidopsis, we have isolated a family of CTR1-like genes in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Based on amino acid alignments and phylogenetic analysis, these tomato CTR1-like genes are more similar to Arabidopsis
CTR1 than any other sequences in the Arabidopsis genome. Structural analysis reveals considerable conservation in the size and position of the exons between Arabidopsis and tomato CTR1 genomic sequences. Complementation of the Arabidopsis
ctr1-8 mutant with each of the tomato CTR genes indicates that they are all capable of functioning as negative regulators of the ethylene pathway. We previously reported that LeCTR1 expression is up-regulated in response to ethylene. Here, quantitative real-time PCR was carried out to detail expression for LeCTR1 and the additional CTR1-like genes of tomato. Our results indicate that the tomato CTR1 gene family is differentially regulated at the mRNA level by ethylene and during stages of development marked by increased ethylene biosynthesis, including fruit ripening. The possibility of a multi-gene family of CTR1-like genes in other species besides tomato was examined through mining of EST and genomic sequence databases.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Evidence that CTR1-Mediated Ethylene Signal Transduction in Tomato is Encoded by a Multigene Family Whose Members Display Distinct Regulatory Features
- Creators
- Lori Adams-Phillips - Department of Horticultural Sciences Texas A&M University College Station TX 77843-2133 USACornelius Barry - Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Cornell University Tower Road Ithaca NY 14853 USAPriya Kannan - Department of Horticultural Sciences Texas A&M University College Station TX 77843-2133 USAJulie Leclercq - Boîte Postale 107 Auzeville 31326 Castanet Tolosan cedex FranceMondher Bouzayen - Boîte Postale 107 Auzeville 31326 Castanet Tolosan cedex FranceJim Giovannoni - USDA-ARS Plant Soil and Nutrition Lab Cornell University Tower Road Ithaca NY 14853 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Plant molecular biology, Vol.54(3), pp.387-404
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- DOI
- 10.1023/B:PLAN.0000036371.30528.26
- PMID
- 15284494
- ISSN
- 0167-4412
- eISSN
- 1573-5028
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2004
- Academic Unit
- Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984217415202771
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