Cloning of an aminoalcoholphosphotransferase cDNA from chinese cabbage roots |
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Authors: | Kyeong Min Min Young Gi Bae Jong Seob Lee Young Hee Choi Young Ryun Cha Sung Ho Cho |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Biology, Inha University, 402-751, Inchon, Korea 2. Department of Molecular Biology, Seoul National University, 151-742, Seoul, Korea
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Abstract: | Aminoalcoholphosphotransferase is the enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine from diacylglycerol using CDP-aminoalcohol such as CDP-choline and CDP-ethanolamine. To determine its cDNA structure from roots of Chinese cabbage,Brassica campestris L. ssp.pekinensis, degenerate primers were designed from the regions showing high amino acid homology between yeastCPT1 and soybeanAAPT1 and used for PCR amplification of Chinese cabbage DNA. Chinese cabbage aminoalcoholphosphotransferase cDNA (AAPT) contains an open reading frame of 1,167 bp coding for a protein of 389 amino acids. It shared 81% identity and 94% similarity with soybeanAAPT1 at the predicted amino acid level. Hydropathy profile analysis suggested that the predicted protein structure of Chinese cabbage aminoalcoholphosphotransferase was very similar to the soybean enzyme, showing an overall hydrophobicity and having the same number of predicted transmembrane domains. Southern analysis indicated that there might be close isoforms of the enzyme.AAPT was expressed equally well in young shoots and roots. |
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