title: Basic RNases of wild almond (Prunus webbii): cloning and characterization of six new S-RNase and one "non-S RNase" genes.
abstract: In order to investigate the S-RNase allele structure of a Prunus webbii population from the Montenegrin region of the Balkans, we analyzed 10 Prunus webbii accessions. We detected 10 different S-RNase allelic variants and obtained the nucleotide sequences for six S-RNases. The BLAST analysis showed that these six sequences were new Prunus webbii S-RNase alleles. It also revealed that one of sequenced alleles, S(9)-RNase, coded for an amino acid sequence identical to that for Prunus dulcis S(14)-RNase, except for a single conservative amino acid replacement in the signal peptide region. Another, S(3)-RNase, was shown to differ by only three amino acid residues from Prunus salicina Se-RNase. The allele S(7)-RNase was found to be inactive by stylar protein isoelectric focusing followed by RNase-specific staining, but the reason for the inactivity was not at the coding sequence level. Further, in five of the 10 analyzed accessions, we detected the presence of one active basic RNase (marked PW(1)) that did not amplify with S-RNase-specific DNA primers. However, it was amplified with primers designed from the PA1 RNase nucleotide sequence (basic "non-S RNase" of Prunus avium) and the obtained sequence showed high homology (80%) with the PA1 allele. Although homologs of PA1 "non-S RNases" have been reported in four other Prunus species, this is the first recorded homolog in Prunus webbii. The evolutionary implications of the data are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. bojanabanovic@imgge.bg.ac.yu
authors.forename: Bojana
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Banović
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Surbanovski
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konstantinović
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maksimović
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005838:Genotype; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010936:Plant Extracts; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D027861:Prunus / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D012260:Ribonucleases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts; D010940:Plant Proteins; D012260:Ribonucleases; C022542:ribonuclease S