title: [The structure and phosphorus or potassium deficiency induced expression of a calmodulin-like protein gene in Arabidopsis].
abstract: According to our previous microarray analysis, we found a putative calmodulin gene related to Pi deficiency and designated AtPsiCaM (Arabidopsis Pi-starvation-induced CaM). Results of structural analysis indicate that AtPsiCaM has three conserved EF-hands motif and belongs to calmodulin-like proteins family (Figs. 1-3). Northern blot analysis revealed that this gene could be induced by potassium and phosphate deficiency and not by potassium deficiency or high salinity (Fig. 4). The results of RT-PCR and GUS histochemical staining assays of the AtPsiCaM promoter::GUS transgenic plants showed that this gene can be expressed in all tissues to different expression levels (Figs. 5, 6).
authors.affiliation: The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China.
authors.forename: Rui-Jun
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Ke-Ke
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C522736:CML38 protein, Arabidopsis; D002147:Calmodulin; D010758:Phosphorus