title: Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR) interaction studies of the circadian-controlled tomato LHCa4*1 (CAB 11) protein with its promoter.
abstract: Feedback regulation is an important biochemical mechanism which is also able to direct the circadian timing at the transcriptional level. Independent investigations highlighted a conserved ca. 10 nucleotide motif present in many circadian regulated Lhc genes. Two of such nucleotide motifs exist within 119 nucleotides of the Lhca4*1 promoter from tomato. This promoter fragment was used as a bait in a yeast one hybrid screen and interestingly a clone encoding with sequence identity to the LHCa4*1 protein was isolated as an interaction partner. The LHCa4*1 protein was heterologous expressed and binding to the 119bp promoter fragment was demonstrated by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR, Biacore). This result allows to postulate an autoregulatory feedback loop involved in expression of the Lhca4*1 gene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
authors.forename: Raimund
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoffrogge
authors.forename: Heike
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mikschofsky
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Piechulla
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D010940:Plant Proteins