Expression Patterns of Two Tobacco Isoflavone Reductase-like Genes and Their Possible Roles in Secondary Metabolism in Tobacco

Overview

Journal Plant Mol Biol

Date 2002 Oct 9

PMID 12369619

Citations 27

Authors

Tsubasa Shoji

Robert Winz

Tadayuki Iwase

Keiji Nakajima

Yasuyuki Yamada

Takashi Hashimoto

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Abstract

Plants contain a large number of proteins homologous to isoflavone reductase, an NADPH-dependent reductase involved in the biosynthesis of isoflavonoid phytoalexins in legumes. Although some are bonafide isoflavone reductases, others may catalyze distinct reductase reactions. Two tobacco genes, TP7 and A622, encoding isoflavone reductase-like proteins, had been previously identified from their unique expression patterns, but their functions were not known. We show here that TP7 is a tobacco phenylcoumaran benzylic ether reductase involved in lignan biosynthesis, but that A622 is not. To gain insight into the possible function of A622, we analyzed in detail the expression patterns of the A622 gene by RNA and protein blots, immunohistochemistry, and its promoter expression in transgenic Nicotiana sylvestris roots. The A622 expression patterns were qualitatively similar to those of putrescine N-methyltransferase, the first enzyme in nicotine biosynthesis, suggesting that A622 may function in the metabolism of nicotine or related alkaloids.

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