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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 754-761Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci078
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C-4 plant; NADP-malic enzyme; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase; promoter analysis; rice
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NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) are specifically expressed in bundle sheath cells (BSCs) in NADP-ME-type and PCK-type C-4 plants, respectively. Unlike the high activities of these enzymes in the green leaves of C-4 plants, their low activities have been detected in the leaves of C-3 plants. In order to elucidate the differences in the gene expression system between C-3 and C-4 plants, we have produced chimeric constructs with the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene under the control of the maize NADP-Me (ZmMe) or Zoysia japonica Pck (ZjPck) promoter and introduced these constructs into rice. In leaves of transgenic rice, the ZmMe promoter directed GUS expression not only in mesophyll cells (MCs) but also in BSCs and vascular cells, whereas the ZjPck promoter directed GUS expression only in BSCs and vascular cells. Neither the ZjPck nor ZmMe promoters induced GUS expression due to light. In rice leaves, the endogenous NADP-Me (OsMe1) was expressed in MCs, BSCs and vascular cells, whereas the rice Pck (OsPck1) was expressed only in BSCs and vascular cells. Taken together, the results obtained from transgenic rice demonstrate that the expression pattern of ZmMe or ZjPck in transgenic rice was reflected by that of its counterpart gene in rice.
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