title: Truncated cotton subtilase promoter directs guard cell-specific expression of foreign genes in tobacco and Arabidopsis.
abstract: A 993-bp regulatory region upstream of the translation start codon of subtilisin-like serine protease gene was isolated from Gossypium barbadense. This (T/A)AAAG-rich region, GbSLSP, and its 5'- and 3'-truncated versions were transferred into tobacco and Arabidopsis after fusing with GUS or GFP. Histochemical and quantitative GUS analysis and confocal GFP fluorescence scanning in the transgenic plants showed that the GbSLSP-driven GUS and GFP expressed preferentially in guard cells, whereas driven by GbSLSPF2 to GbSLSPF4, the 5'-truncated GbSLSP versions with progressively reduced Dof1 elements, both GUS and GFP expressed exclusively in guard cells, and the expression strength declined with (T/A)AAAG copy decrement. Deletion of 5'-untranslated region from GbSLSP markedly weakened the activity of GUS and GFP, while deletion from the strongest guard cell-specific promoter, GbSLSPF2, not only significantly decreased the expression strength, but also completely abolished the guard cell specificity. These results suggested both guard cell specificity and expression strength of the promoters be coordinately controlled by 5'-untranslated region and a cluster of at least 3 (T/A)AAAG elements within a region of about 100 bp relative to transcription start site. Our guard cell-specific promoters will enrich tools to manipulate gene expression in guard cells for scientific research and crop improvement.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Ya-Nan
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Xing-Guo
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D003368:Gossypium / Q000235:genetics; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013381:Subtilisins / Q000235:genetics*; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D017931:DNA Primers; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D013381:Subtilisins; C119297:subtilase, plant
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