title: Cloning and expression analysis of rice sucrose transporter genes OsSUT2M and OsSUT5Z.
abstract: Two sucrose transporter (SUT) cDNAs, OsSUT2M and OsSUT5Z, were isolated from rice (Oryza sativa L.) by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequencing results indicate they are 1,531 bp and 1,635 bp in length including complete open reading frame 1,506 bp and 1,608 bp, which encode 502 amino acids and 536 amino acids, respectively. The TopPred program suggested that both sucrose transporter proteins, OsSUT2M and OsSUT5Z, consist of potentially 12 transmembrane domains. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR was carried out to investigate the gene expression patterns of OsSUT2M and OsSUT5Z. In vegetative organs, transcripts of OsSUT2M were higher in source leaf blades than in other organs at the same development stage, whereas transcripts of OsSUT5Z were less traceable in all organs investigated. In reproductive organs, both transcripts of these two genes were high in panicles from the booting stage to 7 days after flowering (DAF) and then sharply declined. The potential physiology functions of these two sucrose transporters are discussed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Ai-Jun
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hong-Lin
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wan-Kui
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Hong-Li
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Yong-Qin
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Gui-Fang
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; C078729:sucrose transport protein, plant