Cloning and expression analysis of a new 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase gene from Salvia miltiorrhiza (SmHMGR3).
- Author:
Xia'nan ZHANG
1
;
Juan GUO
;
Ye SHEN
;
Luqi HUANG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Amino Acid Sequence; Cloning, Molecular; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases; chemistry; genetics; metabolism; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Plant Proteins; chemistry; genetics; metabolism; Salvia miltiorrhiza; chemistry; classification; enzymology; metabolism; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2012;37(16):2378-2382
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo clone and analysis a new 3-hydroxy-3methylglutary CoA reductase cDNA from Salvia miltiorrhiza (SmHMGR3).
METHODTranscription database of S. miltiorrhiza was used and a new regulatory gene from terpene secondary metabolic pathway has been cloned. ORF Finder was used to find the open reading frame of SmHMGR3 cDNA and ClustalW has been performed to analysis the multiple amino acid sequence alignment. Phylogenetic tree has been constructed using MEGA5.0. RT-PCR has been applied to detect the transcription level of SmHMGR3 in roots, stems and leaves from flowering S. miltiorrhiza plant. The mRNA level of SmHMGR3 gene from hairy roots was detected after elicitor Ag+ supplied.
RESULTThe SmHMGR3 cDNA sequence was obtained. The total length of SmHMGR3 cDNA was 1,692 bp encoding 563 amino acids. The homology rate was 75.04% and 80.64% comparing with SmHMGR1 and SmHMGR2 respectively. QRT-PCR results showed that the highest mRNA level existed in leaves of S. miltiorrhiza. After induced by Ag for 24h, the transcription level reached the highest value.
CONCLUSIONA new SmHMGR3 gene has been obtained for the first time, and which can provide the new target for the further studies about tepenes metabolism.
