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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 54, Issue 384, Pages 961-969Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg095
Keywords
cis-acting element; Nicotiana tabacum; PEPC; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase; phosphorus deficiency; sucrose effect; tobacco; transcriptional regulation
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Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC), which catalyses the carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate using HCO3- to generate oxaloacetic acid, is an important enzyme in the primary metabolism of plants. Although the PEPC genes (ppc) comprise only a small gene family, the function of each gene is not clear, except for roles in C-4 photosynthesis and CAM. Three PEPC genes (Nsppc1-3) from the C-3 plant Nicotiana sylvestris were used to investigate their roles and regulation in a C-3 plant, and their regulation by phosphorus depletion in particular. First, the induction of PEPC by phosphorus depletion was confirmed. Next, Nsppc1 was determined to be mainly responsive to phosphorus deficiency at the transcriptional level. Further studies using transgenic tobacco harbouring a chimeric gene consisting of the 2.0 kb promoter region of Nsppc1 and the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter showed that PEPC is transcriptionally induced. It was also found that sucrose had a synergistic effect on the induction of PEPC by phosphorus deficiency. A series of transgenic tobacco containing 5'-deletion mutants of Nsppc1 promoter::GUS fusion revealed that the -539 to -442 by Nsppc1 promoter region,. relative to the translation start site, was necessary for the response to phosphorus deficiency. Gain-of-function analysis using a construct containing three tandem repeats of the -539 to -442 by region confirmed that this region was sufficient to induce the phosphorus-deficiency response in tobacco.
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