番茄花粉特异表达的高赖氨酸蛋白基因(tsb)的克隆与特性分析

赖氨酸是人和单胃动物必需的八种氨基酸之一,食物蛋白中的必需氨基酸种类不全或数量不足,都会影响其它氨基酸的利用.玉米等主要禾谷类作物由于缺少赖氨酸,种子蛋白利用率还不到50%.在长期以玉米为口粮的地区,人们往往患有营养不足或糙皮病.

Cloning and Characterization of a Pollen-specific Lysine-rich Protein cDNA(tsb) from Tomato

To obtain a new lysine rich protein gene, tomato tsb cDNA was synthesized from nearly matural anther mRNA by RT PCR. Sequence analysis indicated that the isolated fragment was composed of 748 bp, encoding a glutamic acid rich (22 55%) and lysine rich (14 89%) protein which was hydrophilic throughout and contained seven imperfect repeated motifs of sequence V V E K K N/E E. It had 70 22% homology to the sequence of SB 401 cDNA reported by Liu et al. The deduced amino acid sequence shares 69 96% identity with the reported gene. Southern blot analysis indicated that tsb was one copy in the tomato genome tsb expressed only in pollen.