title: [Orthologs of arabidopsis CLAVATA 1 gene in cultivated Brassicaceae plants].
abstract: In arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the CLAVATA1 (CLV1) gene is involved in maintaining the balance between the stem cells in the central zone of the stem apical meristem and the determined cells at its periphery. However, CLV1 has not been previously characterized in other Brassicaceae. Using the direct amplification of genomic DNA, we obtained a full-length CLV1 ortholog from canola plants (Brassica napus), and also three CLV1 fragments from rape (B. rapa), canola (B. napus), and false flax (Camelina sativa), which corresponded to the transmembrane domain and a part of the kinase domain of the CLAVATA1 protein. The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the full-size CLV1 ortholog from B. napus were similar by 81 and 87% to the prototype gene from arabidopsis; in the case of shorter gene fragments, the similarity was as high as 91-93 and 98%, respectively. By their primary structure, the CLV1 genes in the Brassicaceae considerably differ from its putative structural homologs beyond this family.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Timiryazevskaya ul., 42, Moscow, 127550 Russia.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Martynov
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Tsvetkov
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Khavkin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019607:Brassicaceae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D017343:Genes, Plant; D018519:Meristem / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D018744:DNA, Plant; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C118166:CLV1 protein, Arabidopsis; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases