Clonagem, caracterização e expressão de genes envolvidos na síntese de compostos isoprenóides em Eucalyptus grandis

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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Isoprenoids are essential to all organisms and are the most structurally and functionally diverse group of plant metabolites. In plants, more than 30,000 compounds of this class were identified to date. All plants produce isoprenoids that can play essential roles as carotenoids, chlorophylls and plastoquinone (photosynthesis); ubiquinone (respiration); regulation of growth and development (cytokinins, brassinosteroids, gibberellins, abscisic acid). However, the majority of isoprenoids is represented by secondary metabolites (essential oils like eucaliptol, cineol, citronelal). Isoprenoids have important roles in the relationships between plants and the environment, since they can mediate plant-insect, plant-microorganism and plant-plant interactions, as well as participate in abiotic stress responses. Due to the high value of isoprenoid compounds, there is great interest in producing them by bioengineering in bacteria or plants. Understanding the role of genes and proteins related to the biosynthetic pathway of isoprenoids is extremely important. In this work, we retrieved, from the collection of cloning plasmids pSPORT1 (Invitrogen) generated in the ¿Genolyptus Project: The Brazilian Research Network on the Eucalytpus Genome¿, selected clones that potentially codified the 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate reductoisomerase (DXR) and other enzymes from the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway including 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS), mevalonate disphosphate decarboxilase (MDC), isopentenil disphosphate isomerase 1 (IPPI1) and isopentenil disphosphate isomerase 2 (IPPI2). Complete sequences of the dxr, ippi1 and ippi2 genes were succesfully recovered from the Genolyptus stocks. The genes were analyzed in silico and the ippi1 sequence was used in studies of molecular modeling and molecular dynamics in order to evaluate specific folding characteristics of this kind of eukaryotic IPPI. The genes were cloned into pGEX-4T vectors (GE Healthcare) and expressed in Escherichia coli. Also, the transcriptional analysis of the selected genes was performed by microarray analysis.

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eucalyptus grandis clonagem isoprenoides

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