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Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane
BACKGROUND: Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism and are here revealed to be involved in responses to environmental stress in plants. To date, individual members of the invertase gene family and their expression patterns are unknown in sugarcane due to its complex genome d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5481874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28645264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-017-1052-0 |
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author | Wang, Liming Zheng, Yuexia Ding, Shihui Zhang, Qing Chen, Youqiang Zhang, Jisen |
author_facet | Wang, Liming Zheng, Yuexia Ding, Shihui Zhang, Qing Chen, Youqiang Zhang, Jisen |
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description | BACKGROUND: Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism and are here revealed to be involved in responses to environmental stress in plants. To date, individual members of the invertase gene family and their expression patterns are unknown in sugarcane due to its complex genome despite their significance in sucrose metabolism. RESULTS: In this study, based on comparative genomics, eleven cDNA and twelve DNA sequences belonging to 14 non-redundant members of the invertase gene family were successfully cloned from sugarcane. A comprehensive analysis of the invertase gene family was carried out, including gene structures, phylogenetic relationships, functional domains, conserved motifs of proteins. The results revealed that the 14 invertase members from sugarcane could be clustered into three subfamilies, including 6 neutral/alkaline invertases (ShN/AINVs), and 8 acid invertases (ShAINVs). Faster divergence occurred in acid INVs than in neutral/alkaline INVs after the split of sugarcane and sorghum. At least a one-time gene duplication event was observed to have occurred in the four groups of acid INVs, whereas ShN/AINV1 and ShN/AINV2 in the β8 lineage were revealed to be the most recently duplicated genes among their paralogous genes in the β group of N/AINVs. Furthermore, comprehensive expression analysis of these genes was performed in sugarcane seedlings subjected to five abiotic stresses (drought, low temperature, glucose, fructose, and sucrose) using Quantitative Real-time PCR. The results suggested a functional divergence of INVs and their potential role in response to the five different treatments. Enzymatic activity in sugarcane seedlings was detected under five abiotic stresses treatments, and showed that the activities of all INVs were significantly inhibited in response to five different abiotic stresses, and that the neutral/alkaline INVs played a more prominent role in abiotic stresses than the acid INVs. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we determined the INV gene family members of sugarcane by PCR cloning using sorghum as a reference, providing the first study of the INV gene family in sugarcane. Combining existing INV gene data from 7 plants with a comparative approach including a series of comprehensive analyses to isolate and identify INV gene family members proved to be highly successful. Moreover, the expression levels of INV genes and the variation of enzymatic activities associated with drought, low temperature, glucose, fructose, and sucrose are reported in sugarcane for the first time. The results offered useful foundation and framework for future research for understanding the physiological roles of INVs for sucrose accumulation in sugarcane. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12870-017-1052-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-54818742017-06-23 Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane Wang, Liming Zheng, Yuexia Ding, Shihui Zhang, Qing Chen, Youqiang Zhang, Jisen BMC Plant Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism and are here revealed to be involved in responses to environmental stress in plants. To date, individual members of the invertase gene family and their expression patterns are unknown in sugarcane due to its complex genome despite their significance in sucrose metabolism. RESULTS: In this study, based on comparative genomics, eleven cDNA and twelve DNA sequences belonging to 14 non-redundant members of the invertase gene family were successfully cloned from sugarcane. A comprehensive analysis of the invertase gene family was carried out, including gene structures, phylogenetic relationships, functional domains, conserved motifs of proteins. The results revealed that the 14 invertase members from sugarcane could be clustered into three subfamilies, including 6 neutral/alkaline invertases (ShN/AINVs), and 8 acid invertases (ShAINVs). Faster divergence occurred in acid INVs than in neutral/alkaline INVs after the split of sugarcane and sorghum. At least a one-time gene duplication event was observed to have occurred in the four groups of acid INVs, whereas ShN/AINV1 and ShN/AINV2 in the β8 lineage were revealed to be the most recently duplicated genes among their paralogous genes in the β group of N/AINVs. Furthermore, comprehensive expression analysis of these genes was performed in sugarcane seedlings subjected to five abiotic stresses (drought, low temperature, glucose, fructose, and sucrose) using Quantitative Real-time PCR. The results suggested a functional divergence of INVs and their potential role in response to the five different treatments. Enzymatic activity in sugarcane seedlings was detected under five abiotic stresses treatments, and showed that the activities of all INVs were significantly inhibited in response to five different abiotic stresses, and that the neutral/alkaline INVs played a more prominent role in abiotic stresses than the acid INVs. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we determined the INV gene family members of sugarcane by PCR cloning using sorghum as a reference, providing the first study of the INV gene family in sugarcane. Combining existing INV gene data from 7 plants with a comparative approach including a series of comprehensive analyses to isolate and identify INV gene family members proved to be highly successful. Moreover, the expression levels of INV genes and the variation of enzymatic activities associated with drought, low temperature, glucose, fructose, and sucrose are reported in sugarcane for the first time. The results offered useful foundation and framework for future research for understanding the physiological roles of INVs for sucrose accumulation in sugarcane. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12870-017-1052-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5481874/ /pubmed/28645264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-017-1052-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Liming Zheng, Yuexia Ding, Shihui Zhang, Qing Chen, Youqiang Zhang, Jisen Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title | Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title_full | Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title_fullStr | Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title_full_unstemmed | Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title_short | Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
title_sort | molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5481874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28645264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-017-1052-0 |
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