title: Promoter for a Brassica napus ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase small subunit gene binds multiple nuclear factors and contains a negative-strand open reading frame encoding a putative transmembrane protein.
abstract: Using a fractionated genomic bank, we have cloned and characterized a Brassica napus gene (rbcSF1) encoding the small sub-unit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. The promoter of this gene contains a 29 bp direct repeat capable of forming a single or a double hairpin loop, and three elements that are recognized by leaf nuclear proteins in vitro. The most upstream are the S-box, a small A/T-rich sequence between -516 and -512, and the F-box between -492 and -475. Finally, we have also observed binding to the G-box, a regulatory element common to numerous plant promoters. The promoter of rbcSF1 also has a 113 amino acids open reading frame (ORF113) in the non-coding strand. When used to probe a northern blot of leaf RNA, this ORF hybridizes to a 1.5 kb transcript. The protein encoded by ORF113 contains a transmembrane domain.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biochimie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nantel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lafleur
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boivin
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Baszczynski
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bellemare
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001937:Brassica / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase