کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5894046 1154304 2015 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The RING Finger Protein NtRCP1 Is Involved in the Floral Transition in Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شناسی تکاملی
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The RING Finger Protein NtRCP1 Is Involved in the Floral Transition in Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
چکیده انگلیسی
The transition from the vegetative phase to the reproductive phase is a major developmental process in flowering plants. The underlying mechanism controlling this cellular process remains a research focus in the field of plant molecular biology. In the present work, we identified a gene encoding the C3H2C3-type RING finger protein NtRCP1 from tobacco BY-2 cells. Enzymatic analysis demonstrated that NtRCP1 is a functional E3 ubiquitin ligase. In tobacco plants, expression level of NtRCP1 was higher in the reproductive shoot apices than in the vegetative ones. NtRCP1-overexpressing plants underwent a more rapid transition from the vegetative to the reproductive phase and flowered markedly earlier than the wild-type control. Histological analysis revealed that the shoot apical meristem of NtRCP1-overexpressing plants initiated inflorescence primordia precociously compared to the wild-type plant due to accelerated cell division. Overexpression of NtRCP1 in BY-2 suspension cells promoted cell division, which was a consequence of the shortened G2 phase in the cell cycle. Together, our data suggest that NtRCP1 may act as a regulator of the phase transition, possibly through its role in cell cycle regulation, during vegetative/reproductive development in tobacco plant.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Genetics and Genomics - Volume 42, Issue 6, 20 June 2015, Pages 311-317
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