Journal
PLANTA
Volume 236, Issue 4, Pages 1093-1105Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1659-1
Keywords
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus); Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL); Gene family; Tandem duplication; Expression profile
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- Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31101548]
- International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China [2010DFB30550]
- earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System [CARS-25-C-13]
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Biology and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture
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Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) is the first entry enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway, and therefore plays a key role in both plant development and stress defense. In many plants, PAL is encoded by a multi-gene family, and each member is differentially regulated in response to environmental stimuli. In the present study, we report that PAL in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is encoded for by a family of seven genes (designated as CsPAL1-7). All seven CsPALs are arranged in tandem in two duplication blocks, which are located on chromosomes 4 and 6, respectively. The cDNA and protein sequences of the CsPALs share an overall high identity to each other. Homology modeling reveals similarities in their protein structures, besides several slight differences, implying the different activities in conversion of phenylalanine. Phylogenic analysis places CsPAL1-7 in a separate cluster rather than clustering with other plant PALs. Analyses of expression profiles in different cucumber tissues or in response to various stress or plant hormone treatments indicate that CsPAL1-7 play redundant, but divergent roles in cucumber development and stress response. This is consistent with our finding that CsPALs possess overlapping but different cis-elements in their promoter regions. Finally, several duplication events are discussed to explain the evolution of the cucumber PAL genes.
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