The modular nodulins Nvf 28/32 of broad bean (Vicia faba L.)
Alternative exon combinations account far different modular structures
- verfasst von
- Helge Küster, Martin Frühling, Alfred Pühler, Andreas M. Perlick
- Abstract
The broad bean late nodulins, Nvf-28/32, are composed of two types of repetitively occurring sequence modules flanked by unique N- and C-terminal modules. Six isoforms of these nodulins were characterized by a specific modular structure resulting from a different individual order of repetitive sequence modules. A detailed analysis of genomic PCR fragments revealed that the repetitive modules and the N-terminal unique module exactly corresponded to exons, whereas the C-terminal module was specified by two exons. Since those exons encoding the repetitive modules missing in specific Nvf-28/32 isoforms were consistently present within genomic sequences, a post-transcriptional generation of VfNOD28/32 transcripts specifying six Nvf-28/32 nodulins was concluded. Using tissue-print hybridizations, these transcripts were localized in the interzone II-III and the nitrogen-fixing zone III of root nodules. From this and from cDNA-cDNA hybridizations demonstrating a comparable timing of expression of VfNOD28/32 and of leghemoglobin transcripts in root nodules, a function of the modular nodulins Nvf-28/32 in late developmental stages of broad bean nodules was inferred.
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Universität Bielefeld
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Molecular and General Genetics
- Band
- 252
- Seiten
- 648-657
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 10
- ISSN
- 0026-8925
- Publikationsdatum
- 21.11.1996
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Genetik
- Elektronische Version(en)
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