丝裂原活化蛋白激酶(M APK)是生物体内信号转导的重要组分,与生长、发育和逆境胁迫反应密切相关.为了研究草坪草对非生物逆境胁迫反应的分子机理,利用同源基因克隆法从4℃低温诱导的草坪草高羊茅(F estu-ca arund inacea Schreb.)幼苗cDNA文库中分离得到一个M APK的cDNA即F aMAPK 1,F aMAPK 1编码369个氨基酸残基的蛋白激酶,该蛋白激酶具有TEY的磷酸化基序.据推测的氨基酸序列的BLA ST同源性分析表明,F aM APK 1蛋白与水稻O sM APK 4蛋白的一致性为91.1%.N orthern杂交检测F aMAPK 1基因对逆境胁迫反应的结果表明冷(4℃)处理对根中F aMAPK 1基因的表达没有明显影响,但诱导叶中F aMAPK 1上调表达.而且低温(4℃)、高盐(250 mm o l/L N aC l)、干旱和100μm o l/L ABA都诱导叶中F aMAPK 1上调表达,表明F aM APK 1蛋白可能在高羊茅对非生物逆境胁迫的反应中起重要作用.
Dehydration-responsive element-binding (DREB) proteins specifically binding with dehydration-responsive element (DRE) have been identified as a kind of important transcription activator of plants under drought, high salt and cold stress. The conserved amino, acid residues of Val (14th residue) and Glu (19th residue) in AP2/EREBP domain of DREB1A have been identified to be two key points in determining the binding ability of DREB gene with DRE element. Using the yeast one-hybrid system, we isolated one maize DREB gene named maDREB1 by screening cDNA library. Trans-activation experiment in yeast reporter strain demonstrated that maDREB1 protein could function as a DREB transcription factor activating target gene expression by specifically binding to the DRE cis-element. To assess the functional significance of these two residues in maDREB1, the V14 and E19 were substituted individually or doubly by Ala and Asp. Point mutation analysis showed that V14 substitution made significant loss of binding ability with DRE element, while point mutation of E19 had less effect. If the substitution happened simultaneously to these two residues, it would lead to great loss of the ability of binding with DRE element. It suggested that V14 and E19 were both important in protein-DNA interacting in maDREB1, though 14V was more essential. The copy number and expression pattern of maDREB1 was discussed.
