title: Functional dissection of a rice high-pI alpha-amylase gene promoter.
abstract: Deletion analysis has previously shown that a 260 bp fragment, located between positions -230 and +29 of the 5' end of a rice high-pI alpha--amylase gene, OSamy-c, is required for gibberellic acid (GA3)-dependent transcriptional activation. We have since established a quantitative transient assay based on expression of a luciferase reporter gene in rice aleurone cells and continued to characterize the OSamy-c promoter for GA3-dependent regulatory sequences. Using this method, we have shown that the DNA sequence between -158 and -46 (sequence I) is sufficient to confer GA3-responsive activation on OSamy-c. We have also shown that this sequence is capable of directing GA3-dependent expression from a heterologous minimal promoter. Our results also showed that sequence I confers GA3 regulatory control in an orientation-dependent manner and interacts with two further upstream DNA sequences, II and III, in a combination which mildly enhances the level of the GA3 response exhibited by sequence I. Thus, we propose that sequence I confers the fundamental GA3-responsive character on OSamy-c, and that regulatory proteins that bind sequences II and III interact with each other and with regulatory proteins that bind sequence I, effectively to modulate the GA3 response.
authors.affiliation: Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2703.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tanida
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D017343:Genes, Plant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D000516:alpha-Amylases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D000516:alpha-Amylases