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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 54, Issue 388, Pages 1675-1683Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg184
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CYP51; gene silencing; Nicotiana; obtusifoliol-14 alpha-demethylase; sterol biosynthesis
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Obtusifoliol-14alpha-demethylase (CYP51) is implicated in plant sterol biosynthesis. An Arabidopsis expressed sequence tag encoding a CYP51 was used as a probe to isolate Nicotiana tabacum L. cDNAs. Two types of cDNA clones were identified. Nt CYP51-1 and Nt CYP51-2 shared 97% identity together and around 75% with other plant CYP51s. The function of the encoded enzyme has been demonstrated in planta by manipulating the sterol biosynthetic pathway at the gene level. The endogenous CYP51 of Nicotiana benthamiana was silenced upon inoculation of the plantlets with POTATO VIRUS X::Nt CYP51-1 transcripts. This resulted in the accumulation of obtusifoliol, the substrate of CYP51, and other 14alpha-methyl sterols, with a concomitant growth reduction phenotype. Virus-induced gene silencing was also applied to another steroidogenic enzyme, the Delta(7)-sterol-C5(6)-desaturase, and this resulted in the accumulation of Delta(7)-sterols in infected plants instead of the pathway end-products Delta(5)-sterols.
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