Abstract
A 2000-bp 5′-flanking region of VvPAL-like was isolated from ‘Summer Black’ grapevine by PCR amplification, named pVvPAL-like. To gain a better understanding of the expression and regulatory mechanism of VvPAL-like, a chimeric expression unit consisting of the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene under the control of a 2000-bp fragment of the VvPAL-like promoter was transformed into tobacco via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Histochemical staining showed that the full-length promoter directs efficient expression of the reporter gene in cotyledons and hypocotyls, stigma, style, anthers, pollen, ovary, trichomes, and vascular bundles of transgenic plants. A series of 5′ progressive deletions of the promoter revealed the presence of a negative regulatory region (−424 to −292) in the VvPAL-like promoter. Exposure of the transgenic tobacco plants to various abiotic stresses demonstrated that the full-length construct could be induced by light, copper (Cu), abscisic acid (ABA), indole-3-acetic (IAA), methyl jasmonate (MeJA) (N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid), ethylene, and drought. Furthermore, the ethylene-responsive region was found to be located in the −1461/−930 fragment, while the element(s) for the MeJA-responsive expression may be present in the −424/−292 region in the VvPAL-like promoter. These findings will help us to better understand the molecular mechanisms by which VvPAL-like participates in biosynthesis of flavonoids and stress responses.
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Abbreviations
- TIBA:
-
2,3,5-Triiodobenzoic acid
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4-Dichlorophenoxya-cetic acid
- MU:
-
4-Methylumbelliferone
- MUG:
-
4-Methylumbelliferyl glucuronide
- X-Gluc:
-
5-Bromo-4-chloro-3-indyle-β-d-glucuronide
- ABA:
-
Abscisic acid
- ARFAT:
-
Auxin response element
- BG:
-
Big green berries
- BSA:
-
Bovine serum albumin
- CTAB:
-
Cetyltriethylammnonium bromide,
- FR:
-
Full red berries
- Genoscope:
-
Grape Genome Browser
- HR:
-
Harvesting red berries
- IAA:
-
Indole-3-acetic
- IBA:
-
Indole-3-butyric acid
- IR:
-
Initial red berries
- IPA:
-
Isopentenyladenosine
- MRE:
-
Metal response element
- MeJA:
-
Methyl jasmonate
- NPA:
-
N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid
- NAA:
-
1-Naphthaleneacetic acid
- NCBI:
-
National Center for Biotechnology Information
- PR:
-
Partial red berries
- PAL :
-
Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase
- qRT-PCR:
-
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
- SA:
-
Salicylic acid
- SG:
-
Small green berries
- TSS:
-
Transcriptional start sites
- T-DNA:
-
Transfer DNA
- GUS:
-
β-Glucuronidase gene
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The study was funded by the Important National Science & Technology Specific Projects (No. 2012FY110100-3) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (KYZ201411). We thank all laboratory members for help, advice, and discussion.
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Supplementary Fig. 1
Multiple alignment of the amino acid sequences of VvPAL-like and nine plant PALs preformed in DNAMAN. The conserved nucleotides are shaded. The PALs included in the alignment were from Arabidopsis thaliana (Gene ID: 19310726), Oryza sativa (Gene ID: 4330040), Zea mays (Gene ID: 100127011), Glycine max (Gene ID: 100787872), Fragaria vesca (Gene ID: 101315259), Solanum lycopersicum (Gene ID: 101261892), Cucumis sativus (Gene ID: 101218856), Cucumis melo (Gene ID: 103501962), and Malus domestica (Gene ID: 103450046), respectively. (TIF 56971 kb)
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Phylogenetic tree of PAL genes from different species. The tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method. The Bootstrap consensus tree was constructed based on a multiple alignment of PAL genes from Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa, Zea mays, Glycine max, Fragaria vesca, Solanum lycopersicum, Cucumis sativus, Cucumis melo, Malus domestica and Vitis vinifera. Bootstrap values (in percentage) are shown at branch nodes. (PDF 7 kb)
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Jiu, S., Wang, C., Zheng, T. et al. Characterization of VvPAL-like promoter from grapevine using transgenic tobacco plants. Funct Integr Genomics 16, 595–617 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-016-0516-x
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