title: Dynamical behavior of psb gene transcripts in greening wheat seedlings. I. Time course of accumulation of the pshA through psbN gene transcripts during light-induced greening.
abstract: The time course of the accumulation of the transcripts from 13 psb genes encoding a major part of the proteins composing photosystem II during light-induced greening of dark-grown wheat seedlings was examined focusing on early stages of plastid development (0.5 h through 72 h). The 13 genes can be divided into three groups. (1) The psbA gene is transcribed as a single transcript of 1.3 kb in the dark-grown seedlings, but its level increases 5- to 7-fold in response to light due to selective increase in RNA stability as well as in transcription activity. (2) The psbE-F-L-J operon, psbM and psbN genes are transcribed as a single transcript of 1.1 kb, two transcripts of 0.5 and 0.7 kb and a single transcript of 0.3 kb, respectively, in the dark-grown seedlings. The levels of accumulation of every transcript remain unchanged or rather decrease during plastid development under illumination. (3) The psbK-I-D-C gene cluster and psbB-H operon exhibit fairly complicated northern hybridization patterns during the greening process. When a psbC or psbD gene probe was used for northern hybridization, five transcripts differing in length were detected in the etioplasts from 5-day old dark-grown seedlings. After 2 h illumination, two new transcripts of different length appeared. Light induction of new transcripts was also observed in the psbB-H operon.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Integrated Arts & Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiina
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Toyoshima
mesh_terms: D015152:Blotting, Northern; D017343:Genes, Plant; D007700:Kinetics; D008027:Light; D005810:Multigene Family; D009876:Operon; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D012639:Seeds; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014908:Triticum / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex