title: Isolation and characterization of two cDNAs encoding translation initiation factor 1A from rice(Oryza sativa L.).
abstract: The eukaryotic initiation factor 1A(eIF1A) is essential for transferring of the initiator Met-tRNA to 40S ribosomal subunits to form the 40S pre-initiation complex. In present study, we describe the cloning and characterization of two eIF1A genes from rice, which were designated as Oryza sativa eukaryotic initiation factor 1A genes OseIF1A-1, OseIF1A-2, respectively. Both rice elF1As shared high identities in amino acids with eIF1A proteins from other eukaryotes. The mRNA expression analysis revealed that OseIF1A-2 mRNA was much more accumulated than OseIF1A-1 in all tissues but each gene is expressed in root, stem, leaf and flowering spike in high and nearly equal level, and in immature spike in lower level. These results, together with their different location in unrooted phylogenetic tree inferred from amino acid sequences of all known eIF1As, suggested that there are two types of eIF1A genes with different function or different regulation in rice.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Rice Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jianfei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shengping
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Hongsheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D015977:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-1 / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D015977:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-1; D010940:Plant Proteins; C026022:eukaryotic peptide initiation factor-1A