Cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA for the plastid glycerol‐3‐phosphate acyltransferase from squash

FEBS Letters

Eguchi, Goro¹  Murata, Norio¹  Agata, Kiyokazu¹  Ishizaki, Osamu¹  Nishida, Ikuo¹ 

[1] National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444, Japan

关键词: cDNA cloning;    Chilling sensitivity;    Chloroplast enzyme;    Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase;    Lipid synthesis;    (Squash);    AT1–AT3;    isomeric forms of squash glycerol-P acyltransferase;    glycerol-P acyltransferase;    acyl-(acyl-carrier-protein): glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase;   

DOI  :  10.1016/0014-5793(88)80525-8

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

The partial amino acid sequence and amino acid composition of acyl-(acyl-carrier-protein):glycerol-3-phosphate acyl-transferase purified from squash cotyledons were determined. cDNAs encoding this enzyme were isolated from λgt11 cDNA libraries made from poly(A)⁺ RNA of squash cotyledons by immunological selection and cross-hybridization. One of the resultant clones contained a cDNA insert of 1426 base pairs and an open reading frame of 1188 base pairs. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence matched the partial amino acid sequence determined for the enzyme. The results suggest that a precursor protein of 396 amino acid residues is processed to the mature enzyme of 368 amino acid residues, losing a leader peptide of 28 amino acid residues. Relative molecular masses of the precursor and mature proteins were calculated to be 43838 and 40929 Da, respectively.

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