title: Alternative splicing and expression analysis of OsFCA (FCA in Oryza sativa L.), a gene homologous to FCA in Arabidopsis.
abstract: A subtracted cDNAs library was constructed using rice (Oryza sativa L.) calli cDNA as driver and differentiating calli cDNA as tester. A novel gene homologous with FCA in Arabidopsis was cloned from rice by screening the SSH (suppression subtractive hybridization) library followed by RACE. Four alternative transcripts of OsFCA were cloned from the leaves of rice, and designated as OsFCA-1, OsFCA-2, OsFCA-3 and OsFCA-4 respectively. OsFCA-1 was homologous to FCA-gamma of Arabidopsis and contained several conserved domains (two RNA Recognition Motifs and one WW-domain). OsFCA-2 was 102 bp shorter than OsFCA-1 which caused the WW-domain deletion. The proteins encoded by OsFCA-3 and OsFCA-4 were 101 amino acids shorter than OsFCA-1 at the N-terminal which is a glycine-rich region. The fluorescence quantitative PCR analysis showed that the mRNA of OsFCA-1 is the most abundant in the four splicing variants of rice FCA, and its expression level is much higher in differentiating calli than in calli. The expression of OsFCA-1 is steady in the leaves of three different stage, but up-regulated in young spikelet of primary branch-differentiating stage and down-regulated in young spikelet of pistil and stamen-differentiating stage.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xiling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Xiaoyin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jinshui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015723:Gene Library; D017343:Genes, Plant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D018514:Plant Structures / Q000235:genetics; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014018:Tissue Distribution / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C106535:Flowering time control protein FCA, Arabidopsis; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins