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Expression of ENOD40 during tomato plant development.

Department of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Drijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Planta (impact factor: 3). 12/2003; 218(1):42-9. DOI:10.1007/s00425-003-1081-9 pp.42-9
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ABSTRACT In legumes, ENOD40 expression is increased upon interaction of plants with rhizobia. Little is known of the expression pattern of ENOD40 during other stages of the plant life cycle. Studies of ENOD40 expression in non-legume development may give an indication of the function of the gene. To investigate the ENOD40 expression pattern during plant development, a fusion between the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene and 150 bp of the 5' untranslated region plus 3,000 bp of 5' untranscribed tomato ENOD40 sequence was constructed and introduced into Lycopersicon esculentum Miller. Based on the observed GUS expression patterns in transgenic tomato we speculate that ENOD40 in tomato has a role in counteracting ethylene-provoked responses.

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    Article: Identification of conserved secondary structures and expansion segments in enod40 RNAs reveals new enod40 homologues in plants.
    Alexander P Gultyaev, Andreas Roussis
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    ABSTRACT: enod40 is a plant gene that participates in the regulation of symbiotic interaction between leguminous plants and bacteria or fungi. Furthermore, it has been suggested to play a general role in non-symbiotic plant development. Although enod40 seems to have multiple functions, being present in many land plants, the molecular mechanisms of its activity are unclear; they may be determined though, by short peptides and/or RNA structures encoded in the enod40 genes. We utilized conserved RNA structures in enod40 sequences to search nucleotide sequence databases and identified a number of new enod40 homologues in plant species that belong to known, but also, to yet unknown enod40-containing plant families. RNA secondary structure predictions and comparative sequence analysis of enod40 RNAs allowed us to determine the most conserved structural features, present in all known enod40 genes. Remarkably, the topology and evolution of one of the conserved structural domains are similar to those of the expansion segments found in structural RNAs such as rRNAs, RNase P and SRP RNAs. Surprisingly, the enod40 RNA structural elements are much more stronger conserved than the encoded peptides. This finding suggests that some general functions of enod40 gene could be determined by the encoded RNA structure, whereas short peptides may be responsible for more diverse functions found only in certain plant families.
    Nucleic Acids Research 02/2007; 35(9):3144-52. · 8.03 Impact Factor
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Keywords

5' untranscribed tomato ENOD40 sequence
 
5' untranslated region
 
counteracting ethylene-provoked responses
 
ENOD40 expression
 
ENOD40 expression pattern
 
expression pattern
 
GUS
 
non-legume development
 
observed GUS expression patterns
 
plant life cycle
 
transgenic tomato