五个水稻类受体激酶的抗体制备及检测

类受体激酶在植物发育、自交不亲和、雄性不育、抗逆和抗病等生命过程中起着重要的调控作用。为了对水稻类受体激酶的功能及生物学特性进行深入研究,本实验克隆表达了水稻中5个类受体激酶抗原表位片段,以纯化的蛋白质为抗原免疫新西兰兔,获得了特异性较高的多克隆抗体。Western blotting检测结果表明,5个类受体激酶均在叶片中表达。     

水稻LRR型类受体蛋白激酶胞外区的原核表达及多克隆抗体制备

前期研究表明,水稻根尖细胞质膜类受体蛋白激酶OsRLK的表达受盐胁迫诱导.为了进一步研究该激酶的生理功能,通过反转录PCR得到OsRLK胞外区cDNA片段,将其亚克隆至pET29a原核表达载体并在大肠杆菌中实现了高表达,表达量约为细胞总蛋白的30%.重组蛋白经SDS-PAGE分离,染色切胶收集后,作为抗原免疫新西兰家兔,分离抗血清,经纯化得到1:20 000效价的多克隆抗体.Wescem blot结果显示,该抗体能特异识别在原核表达系统内表达的抗原,以及水稻根尖细胞质膜组分中的LRR型类受体蛋白激酶,并且在蛋白质水平证实该激酶为盐胁迫响应蛋白.     

斑马鱼Foxp4基因多克隆抗体的制备及检测

Foxp4为Fox基因家族的一员,目前研究发现其与肺、肠、心脏以及中枢神经系统的发育有关.为了在斑马鱼模型中进一步研究该基因的功能,有必要制备其多克隆抗体.按照巢式PCR原理,经过两次PCR扩增出亲水性和特异性均好的斑马鱼Foxp4基因片段,将其克隆人表达载体pGEX4T-1,转化至大肠杆菌BL21中,再通过1PTG进...     

拟南芥中一种AtBAG4蛋白的抗体制备和特异性检测

以拟南芥AtBAG4的全长cDNA,构建pET-51780重组质粒,转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3),IPTG可诱导融合蛋白高效表达,表达产物以可溶形式存在;经Ni-NTA层析柱分离纯化,可得到分子质量约为49kDa的PAGE纯蛋白。用纯化的融合蛋白pET-51780免疫家兔,可得到抗AtBAG4抗体。Western blot结果显示该抗体能特异识别原核系统内表达的抗原以及拟南芥自身的抗原。     

植物凝集素类受体激酶参与抗病的研究进展

凝集素类受体激酶(Lectin receptor-like kinases,LecRLKs)是类受体激酶(Receptor-like kinases,RLKs)的一个亚族。根据结构域的不同,凝集素类受体激酶可分为L、G和C等3种类型。在植物中,凝集素类受体激酶被报道参与生物/非生物胁迫响应和植物发育调控。近年来,越来越多的研究发现,凝集素类受体激酶参与由细菌、真菌以及食草性昆虫等所引起的植物抗病反应。本文概述了植物凝集素类受体激酶的分类及结构特点,并系统阐述了该类激酶在植物抗病方面的作用,旨在增进对植物凝集素类受体激酶参与抗病功能的了解,并为作物抗病育种提供理论依据。     

水稻PDK2基因原核表达和多克隆抗体制备

本研究以水稻幼苗为材料,通过RT-PCR扩增得到1.1 kb的编码PDK2(登录号:AK100033)基因的片段,成功构建重组表达载体pET-23d=PDK2并转化到大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中.研究结果表明,重组蛋白以包涵体的形式存在,且PDK2的最佳表达条件为:28℃,120 r/min,0.5 mmol/L IPTG诱导60min.经纯化后免疫新西兰大白兔以制备PDK2多克隆抗体.Western blot检测表明该抗体的特异性和效价较好,这为进一步研究水稻PDK2的生物学功能奠定了基础.     

斑马鱼基因ATF4多克隆抗体的制备

ATF4是含有bZIP结构域的ATF／CREB转录因子家族成员,对胚胎的发育以及细胞的增殖、分化有重要的调节作用。制备ATF4的多克隆抗体对于研究其在斑马鱼心脏发育过程中的作用有重要的意义。研究首先通过生物信息学方法,选择ATF4基因中特异性强、具亲水性的一段核苷酸序列（1017bp）,通过PCR扩增,将片段重组到原核表达载体pET-28a,然后转化入Rosetta菌株中。经测序鉴定正确后,用IPTG诱导表达融合蛋白,以该融合蛋白免疫小鼠,获得ATF4多克隆抗鼠血清。对该多抗血清抗体进行验证,具有很好特异性和较高效价,可以用作Western—blotting、免疫印迹等试验分析。     

水稻中受体激酶的系统树分析

植物受体激酶(RLKs)在植物细胞内的反应中发挥着重要作用.为了比较拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana L.)和水稻(Oryza sativa L.)中受体激酶的进化关系,作者通过对北京华大基因研究中心(BGI)的籼稻蛋白质数据库进行BLASTP搜索,找到267个受体激酶类似基因,根据它们的胞外结构域可以将这些基因分为不同的类型.与拟南芥中受体激酶的系统树比较分析表明,不同类型的受体激酶具有不同的序列保守性,说明在植物进化过程中,不同类型的受体激酶具有不同的进化关系.水稻受体激酶与拟南芥受体激酶BRI1的多序列匹配结果也表明二者可能具有不同的磷酸化位点.     

水稻中受体激酶的系统树分析

植物受体激酶(RLKs)在植物细胞内的反应中发挥着重要作用。为了比较拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana L.)和水稻(Oryza sativa L.)中受体激酶的进化关系,作者通过对北京华大基因研究中心(BGI)的籼稻蛋白质数据库进行BLASTP搜索,找到267个受体激酶类似基因,根据它们的胞外结构域可以将这些基因分为不同的类型。与拟南芥中受体激酶的系统树比较分析表明,不同类型的受体激酶具有不同的序列保守性,说明在植物进化过程中,不同类型的受体激酶具有不同的进化关系。水稻受体激酶与拟南芥受体激酶BRI1的多序列匹配结果也表明二者可能具有不同的磷酸化位点。     

普通小麦中一个类受体激酶基因的克隆、鉴定和表达分析

为研究抗白粉病小麦（Triticum aestivum L．）品系在小麦白粉病菌（Blumeria graminis f. sp．tritici）侵染后有无LRK10同源基因表达,依据小麦蛋白激酶LRK10和其它植物蛋白激酶第6亚结构域设计了一个5’-RACE兼并性引物。以接种小麦白粉病菌后的小麦抗白粉病品系“99—2439”幼苗叶片cDNA为模板进行5’-RACE扩增,获得了一个1551bp长的蛋白激酶基因cDNA片段（S1125,GenBank登录号：AY584533）。此后,通过RACE技术成功地获得了该基因的全长cDNA克隆。该克隆编码637个氨基酸组成的多肽。同源性查寻表明,该基因属于先前命名为wfrk（wheat leaf rust kinase）的小麦类受体蛋白激酶基因家族。与LRK10相似,这个新的小麦类受体蛋白激酶有5个明显的功能域：位于氨基端的疏水信号序列、推测的胞外结构域、跨膜域、高荷电序列和位于羧基端的丝氨酸／苏氨酸激酶域,因此被命名为TaLRK（Triticum aestivum LRK）。以小麦肌动蛋白基因为对照,通过半定量反转录PCR（semi—QRT—PCR）技术对叶片中TaLRK基因在小麦白粉病菌接种后的转录水平表达谱进行了研究。结果表明,小麦白粉病菌的侵染使TaLRK基因的转录显著增强。组织特异性表达分析证明,这一基因仅在小麦的绿色部分表达。研究结果提示TaLRK可能参与了小麦的抗白粉病反应。     

Crinkly4 receptor-like kinase is required to maintain the interlocking of the palea and lemma, and fertility in rice, by promoting epidermal cell differentiation

The palea and lemma are unique organs in grass plants that form a protective barrier around the floral organs and developing kernel. The interlocking of the palea and lemma is critical for maintaining fertility and seed yield in rice; however, the molecules that control the interlocking structure remain largely unknown. Here, we showed that when OsCR4 mRNA expression was knocked down in rice by RNA interference, the palea and lemma separated at later spikelet stages and gradually turned brown after heading, resulting in the severe interruption of pistil pollination and damage to the development of embryo and endosperm, with defects in aleurone. The irregular architecture of the palea and lemma was caused by tumour-like cell growth in the outer epidermis and wart-like cell masses in the inner epidermis. These abnormal cells showed discontinuous cuticles and uneven cell walls, leading to organ self-fusion that distorted the interlocking structures. Additionally, the faster leakage of chlorophyll, reduced silica content and elevated accumulation of anthocyanin in the palea and lemma indicated a lesion in the protective barrier, which also impaired seed quality. OsCR4 is an active receptor-like kinase associated with the membrane fraction. An analysis of promoter::GUS reporter plants showed that OsCR4 is specifically expressed in the epidermal cells of paleas and lemmas. Together, these results suggest that OsCR4 plays an essential role in maintaining the interlocking of the palea and lemma by promoting epidermal cell differentiation.     

Rice Crinkly4 receptor-like kinase positively regulates culm elongation and amino acid K532 is not essential for its kinase activity

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) play important roles in multiple aspects of plant growth and development. As a member of the TNFR-like RLK subfamily, rice Crinkly4 (OsCR4) functions mainly in epidermal cell differentiation in many organs. Here we show that in addition to its essential role in epidermal cell differentiation in the palea and lemma, OsCR4 positively regulates rice culm elongation, similar to maize CR4. Although OsCR4 is an active kinase, like CR4 in maize and ACR4 in Arabidopsis, the conserved amino acid K532 in OsCR4 is not essential for its kinase activity in vitro. Whether other conserved amino acids are required for its kinase activity and the relationship between its activity and function in plant development remain to be investigated.     

Genome-wide analysis of lectin receptor-like kinase family from Arabidopsis and rice

Lectin receptor-like kinases (LecRLKs) are class of membrane proteins found in higher plants that are involved in diverse functions ranging from plant growth and development to stress tolerance. The basic structure of LecRLK protein comprises of a lectin and a kinase domain, which are interconnected by transmembrane region. Here we have identified LecRLKs from Arabidopsis and rice and studied these proteins on the basis of their expression profile and phylogenies. We were able to identify 32 G-type, 42 L-type and 1 C-type LecRLKs from Arabidopsis and 72 L-type, 100 G-type and 1 C-type LecRLKs from rice on the basis of their annotation and presence of lectin as well kinase domains. The whole family is rather intron-less. We have sub-grouped the gene family on the basis of their phylogram. Although on the basis of sequence the members of each group are closely associated but their functions vary to a great extent. The interacting partners and coexpression data of the genes revealed the importance of gene family in physiology and stress related responses. An in-depth analysis on gene-expression suggested clear demarcation in roles assigned to each gene. To gain additional knowledge about the LecRLK gene family, we searched for previously unreported motifs and checked their importance structurally on the basis of homology modelling. The analysis revealed that the gene family has important roles in diverse functions in plants, both in the developmental stages and in stress conditions. This study thus opens the possibility to explore the roles that LecRLKs might play in life of a plant.     

Comparative analysis of the receptor-like kinase family in Arabidopsis and rice

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) belong to the large RLK/Pelle gene family, and it is known that the Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains >600 such members, which play important roles in plant growth, development, and defense responses. Surprisingly, we found that rice (Oryza sativa) has nearly twice as many RLK/Pelle members as Arabidopsis does, and it is not simply a consequence of a larger predicted gene number in rice. From the inferred phylogeny of all Arabidopsis and rice RLK/Pelle members, we estimated that the common ancestor of Arabidopsis and rice had >440 RLK/Pelles and that large-scale expansions of certain RLK/Pelle members and fusions of novel domains have occurred in both the Arabidopsis and rice lineages since their divergence. In addition, the extracellular domains have higher nonsynonymous substitution rates than the intracellular domains, consistent with the role of extracellular domains in sensing diverse signals. The lineage-specific expansions in Arabidopsis can be attributed to both tandem and large-scale duplications, whereas tandem duplication seems to be the major mechanism for recent expansions in rice. Interestingly, although the RLKs that are involved in development seem to have rarely been duplicated after the Arabidopsis-rice split, those that are involved in defense/disease resistance apparently have undergone many duplication events. These findings led us to hypothesize that most of the recent expansions of the RLK/Pelle family have involved defense/resistance-related genes.     

Biochemical characterization of the kinase domain of the rice disease resistance receptor-like kinase XA21

The rice disease resistance gene, Xa21, encodes a receptor kinase-like protein consisting of leucine-rich repeats in the putative extracellular domain and a serine/threonine kinase in the putative intracellular domain. The putative XA21 kinase domain was expressed as maltose-binding and glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins in Escherichia coli. The fusion proteins are capable of autophosphorylation. Phosphoamino acid analysis of the glutathione S-transferase fusion protein indicates that only serine and threonine residues are phosphorylated. The relative phosphorylation rate of the XA21 kinase against increasing enzyme concentrations follows a first-order rather than second-order kinetics, indicating an intramolecular phosphorylation mechanism. Moreover, the active XA21 kinase cannot phosphorylate a kinase-deficient mutant of XA21 kinase. The enzymatic activity of the XA21 kinase in a buffer containing Mn(2+) is at least 15 times higher than that with Mg(2+). The K(m) and V(max) of XA21 kinase for ATP are 0.3 microm and 8.4 nmol/mg/min, respectively. Tryptic phosphopeptide mapping reveals that multiple sites on the XA21 kinase are phosphorylated. Finally, our data suggest that the region of XA21 kinase corresponding to the RD kinase activation domain is not phosphorylated, revealing a distinct mode of action compared with the tomato Pto serine/threonine kinase conferring disease resistance.     

Expression of SERK family receptor-like protein kinase genes in rice

Some SERK-family receptor-like protein kinase genes have been shown to confer embryonic competence to cells. In this study, we isolated two novel rice genes, OsSERK1 and OsSERK2, belonging to the SERK-family. OsSERK2 showed constitutive expression. The OsSERK1 promoter showed reporter gene activities in some specific tissues in a germinating seed, leaf and root, but not in a developing embryo. This promoter activity suggests that OsSERK1 may have roles in non-embryonic tissues rather than in the embryo.     

荧光染料R-藻红蛋白标记小鼠抗人CD4单克隆抗体

以R-藻红蛋白(R-PE)标记小鼠抗人CD4单克隆抗体,形成单色或和用其他荧光染料标记的CD系列单抗组成双色、多色的荧光试剂,应用于流式细胞仪检测分析。用异双功能交联试剂SPDP和SMCC分别活化R-PE和CD4单抗,用DTT使经SPDP活化后的R-PE巯基化,再与用SMCC活化的CD4单抗交联。使用NEM终止交联反应,经Sephacryl S-300柱在AKTA FPLC快速液相色谱系统(简称AKTA)监测下分离纯化。结果用R-PE标记的抗CD4单抗,检测正常人外周血淋巴细胞表面CD4抗原的表达,经流式细胞仪(简称FACS)分析表明,R-PE标记的CD4抗体特异性保持完好,荧光强度较高,还可与用FITC标记的其它CD系列单抗配伍成双标或多标试剂。使用SPDP,SMCC异双功能交联试剂和DTT还原剂,成功地偶联了R-藻红蛋白和CD4单克隆抗体,可应用于流式细胞仪检测分析。