In order to provide scientific material for promulgating the giant panda(Ailuropoda melanoleuca)nucleus gene inheritance characteristic,for the formulation gene protection countermeasure and to put resources to rational use,the expression sequence of ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase complex ubiquinone-binding protein(QP-C)gene from the giant panda was analyzed.The result indicates that the cDNA sequence length is 335 bp and contains a 246-nucleotide open reading frame encoding 81 amino acid residues.The pI of the protein is 10.50 and its mole cular weight is 9.60×103 Da.Topology prediction shows these QP-C proteins contain a N-glycosylation site,a potential protein kinase C phosphorylation site and a Casein kinase II phosphorylation site.Comparing the cDNA sequence with amino acid sequence of giant panda’s QP-C gene and cDNA sequence with the amino acid sequence of other species’ QP-C gene shows high similarity.The similarity is 82.3% to 95.2% and 81.5% to 95.1%.
