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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 95(17): 10334-9, 1998 Aug 18.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9707648

ABSTRACT

Many terrestrial plants respond to flooding with enhanced ethylene production. The roots of flooded plants produce 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), which is transported from the root to the shoot, where it is converted to ethylene. In the roots, ACC is synthesized by ACC synthase, which is encoded by a multigene family. Previously, we identified two ACC synthase genes of tomato that are involved in flooding-induced ethylene production. Here, we report the cloning of LE-ACS7, a new tomato ACC synthase with a role early during flooding but also in the early wound response of leaves. The promoter of LE-ACS7 is tagged by a Sol3 transposon. A Sol3 transposon is also present in the tomato polygalacturonase promoter to which it conferred regulatory elements. Thus, Sol3 transposons may affect the regulation of LE-ACS7 and may be involved in the communication between the root and the shoot of waterlogged tomato plants.


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Genes, Plant , Lyases/genetics , Solanum lycopersicum/enzymology , Solanum lycopersicum/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Base Sequence , Cloning, Molecular , DNA Primers/genetics , DNA Transposable Elements , DNA, Complementary/genetics , DNA, Plant/genetics , Ethylenes/biosynthesis , Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Solanum lycopersicum/metabolism , Molecular Sequence Data , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid , Sequence Tagged Sites , Water
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Plant Mol Biol ; 34(2): 275-86, 1997 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9207843

ABSTRACT

The key enzyme of ethylene biosynthesis, ACC synthase, is encoded by a multigene family. We describe three new DNA sequences encoding members of the ACC synthase family of the tomato. One of these sequences encodes a novel ACC synthase, LE-ACS6, which is phylogenetically related to the ACC synthases LE-ACS1A and LE-ACS1B. Gene-specific probes for seven tomato ACC synthase genes were prepared. They were used for RNase protection assays to study the accumulation of ACC synthase transcripts in suspension-cultured tomato cells after the addition of an elicitor. The ACC synthase genes LE-ACS2, LE-ACS5 and LE-ACS6 were strongly induced by the elicitor. In contrast, the genes LE-ACS1B, LE-ACS3 and LE-ACS4 were constitutively expressed and LE-ACS1B was present at all times at a particularly high level. Thus, there are two groups of ACC synthase transcripts expressed in these cells, either elicitor-induced or constitutive. A transcript of LE-ACS1A was not detected. Despite the presence of LE-ACS1B, LE-ACS2, LE-ACS3, LE-ACS4 and LE-ACS5, there was only little ethylene produced in the absence of the elicitor. Increased ethylene production is usually correlated with the accumulation of ACC synthase transcripts, indicating that ethylene production is controlled via the transcriptional activation of ACC synthase genes. However, the abundance of several ACC synthase mRNAs studied was not strictly correlated with the rate of elicitor-induced ethylene production. Our data provide evidence that the activity of these ACC synthases may not solely be controlled by the transcriptional activation of ACC synthase genes.


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Fungal Proteins/pharmacology , Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/drug effects , Lyases/genetics , Multigene Family , Solanum lycopersicum/enzymology , Solanum lycopersicum/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Base Sequence , Cells, Cultured , Enzyme Induction/drug effects , Enzyme Induction/genetics , Lyases/biosynthesis , Lyases/isolation & purification , Solanum lycopersicum/cytology , Molecular Sequence Data , Plant Proteins/biosynthesis , Plant Proteins/genetics , Ribonucleases/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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