Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture (식물조직배양학회지)

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Cloning and Characterization of Dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) from Matthiola incana R. Br.

Stock(Matthiola incana R. Br.)으로부터 색소유전자의 분리 및 분석

  • 민병환 (한국과학기술연구원 생명공학연구소 유전자원센터) ;
  • 김석원 (한국과학기술연구원 생명공학연구소 유전자원센터) ;
  • 오승철 (한국과학기술연구원 식물세포 및 분자생물학연구그룹) ;
  • 유장렬 (한국과학기술연구원 생명공학연구소 유전자원센터)
  • Published : 1998.09.01
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Abstract

In this paper we describe the cloning and expression of the genes encoding the flavonoid-biosynthetic enzyme dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) in Matthiola incana R. Br. A heterologous cDNA probe from Zea mays was used to isolate full-size DFR cDNA clone from a corolla-specific cDNA library. Comparison of the coding region of this DFR cDNA sequence including the sequences of Zea mays, Anthirrinum majus, Petunia hybrida, Callistephus chinensis, Dianthus caryophyllus and Rosa hybrida reveals a identity higher than 61% at the nucleotide level. The DFR transcript is G/C rich in monocotyledonous plants show a strong codon bias preferring codons with a G or C in the third position. The function of this nucleotide sequences were verified by comparison with amino acid sequences of the amino-terminus and tryptic peptides from purified plant enzyme, by northern blotting with mRNA from wild type and mutant plants and by in vitro expression yielding an enzymatically active reductase. Genomic southern blot analysis showed the presence of one gene for DFR in Matthiola incana. Northern blot analysis of the DFR wild type and mutant lines showed that the lack of DFR activity in the stable acyanic mutant k17b is clearly by a transcriptional block of the DFR gene.

색소유전자의 전이를 통하여 새로운 색소발현체계를 가진 품종을 육종하기 위한 기초연구로 stock (Matthiola incana R. Br.)의 꽃봉오리로부터 cDNA-library를 합성하였고 screening을 통하여 anthocyanin 합성경로의 중요효소의 하나인 DFR (dihydroflavonol 4-reductase) 유전자를 분리하였다. 염기서열분석을 수행하여 분리유전자의 크기가 1450bp 이며 이중 coding region은 1029 bp 임을 확인하였다. 이미 밝혀진 다른 식물체의 DFR 유전자와 서로 염기서열의 일치성을 비교해 본 결과 외자엽식물인 옥수수와 보리와는 각각 61%를 보였으며, 쌍자엽식물인 페튜니아, 금어초, 거베라, 과꽃 그리고 카네이션 등 과는 66%-67%의 일치성을 나타내었다. 아울러 염기서열의 G/C 함량분석을 통하여 쌍자엽식물의 G/C 함량은 외자엽식물의 그것에 비해 매우 낮은 수치를 나타내었다. 분리유전자의 발현을 확인하기 위하여 인위적으로 기내에서의 전사와 해석을 수행한 결과 42-44 kd 크기의 단백질을 확인하였다. Southern blot 분석의 결과 DFR 유전자는 stock의 genome에 다른 대부분의 식물체와 유사하게 한 개가 존재하며 야생종과 돌연변이종의 stock을 분리 DFR 유전자를 probe 로 Northern blot 분석을 수행하여 돌연변이종인 lineK17b가 DFR 돌연변이임을 확인하였다.

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