title: [Cloning and expression analysis of a new 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase gene from Salvia miltiorrhiza (SmHMGR3)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To clone and analysis a new 3-hydroxy-3methylglutary CoA reductase cDNA from Salvia miltiorrhiza (SmHMGR3).
  
  
  METHODS
  Transcription database of S. miltiorrhiza was used and a new regulatory gene from terpene secondary metabolic pathway has been cloned. ORF Finder was used to find the open reading frame of SmHMGR3 cDNA and ClustalW has been performed to analysis the multiple amino acid sequence alignment. Phylogenetic tree has been constructed using MEGA5.0. RT-PCR has been applied to detect the transcription level of SmHMGR3 in roots, stems and leaves from flowering S. miltiorrhiza plant. The mRNA level of SmHMGR3 gene from hairy roots was detected after elicitor Ag+ supplied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The SmHMGR3 cDNA sequence was obtained. The total length of SmHMGR3 cDNA was 1,692 bp encoding 563 amino acids. The homology rate was 75.04% and 80.64% comparing with SmHMGR1 and SmHMGR2 respectively. QRT-PCR results showed that the highest mRNA level existed in leaves of S. miltiorrhiza. After induced by Ag for 24h, the transcription level reached the highest value.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A new SmHMGR3 gene has been obtained for the first time, and which can provide the new target for the further studies about tepenes metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
authors.forename: Xia'nan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Luqi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D027561:Salvia miltiorrhiza / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases