title: Characterization of the full-length sequences of phospholipase A2 induced during flower development.
abstract: The suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) method was used to isolate developmentally regulated genes during carnation flower maturation. Carnation flower maturation-related clones obtained by the SSH were serially assigned as CFMI (carnation flower maturation-induced) clones. Northern blot analysis showed that several CFMI clones were differentially expressed during flower development. One of the clones, CFMI-3, showed similarity to various animal secretory phospholipases A2 (PLA2). Since little is known about PLA2 gene sequence in plant species, the CFMI-3 clone was selected for further characterization by sequence analysis. Full sequence analysis reveals that the CFMI-3 contains a Ca2+ binding domain, a PLA2 active site, and 12 conserved Cys residues, which is a distinct characteristic of PLA2. Amino acid sequence alignment of CFMI-3 to various putative plant PLA2 confirmed that the CFMI-3 cDNA is the full-length putative PLA2 cDNA identified in plant species.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ok
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: W I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: I Y
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Shin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000235:genetics*; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D010741:Phospholipases A; D054467:Phospholipases A2