نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 بخش بیوتکنولوژی گیاهی، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه شیراز، شیراز، ایران
2 بخش تحقیقات زراعی و باغی، مرکز تحقیقات و آموزش کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی استان کرمانشاه، سازمان تحقیقات، آموزش و ترویج کشاورزی، کرمانشاه،
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Introduction: Climate changes and increase in severity and duration of abiotics stresses have considerably affected the crops’, e.g. wheat’s, productivity. Accordingly, evaluating the influences of environmental stresses at cellular and molecular level to distinguish regulatory and tolerance mechanisms in plants has become a priority in the world. In response to stress conditions plants employ altered mechanism including a rapid induction in production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) known as oxidative burst. ROS are helpful in a small amount and they are mostly used in cell signaling and as secondary messengers, but excessive accumulation of ROS under environmental stress disturbs the oxidation-reduction balance in the plant and causes oxidative stress. ROSs are normally produced in chloroplasts, mitochondria, peroxisomes in the cytoplasm, peroxidase and amine-oxidase in the plants’ cell walls along with NADP(H) oxidase (NOX) family enzymes available in plants’ cell membrane. NADP(H) oxidase genes play a very important role in plant response to environmental changes by regulating the transportation of electrons from NAD(P)H molecules to molecular oxygen and producing superoxide ion which further leads to create various types of ROS. This research was conducted aiming to investigate the promoter region of the gene encoding NADP(H) oxidase enzyme in wheat genome in order to find the effect of important regulatory elements on expression.
Materials and methods: The promoter region of genes and regulatory elements that are located within this region play an important role in the regulation of gene expression in plants under different conditions. In order to recognize the regulation of gene expression for NAD(P)H oxidase gene, the promoter region of the gene was investigated by using online tools. First, the sequence of the gene encoding this enzyme in wheat was downloaded using the NCBI site. Then, 1500 base pairs upstream from the transcription start point were assessed by using online tools in PlantEnsemble site. The promoter sequence was finally analyzed by PlantCare website to identify important regulatory elements with specific roles in gene expression.
Results: The results showed that a diverse set of regulatory elements involved in different biochemical pathways can affect the expression level of NAD(P)H oxidase gene in wheat. the most effective elements that were identified by promoter analysis were ABRE, TCA motif, TGACG motif, ARE, CCAAT-Box, skn-1-motif, circadian which their activities are regulated by some specific hormones and transcription factors.
Conclusion: The analysis showed that changes in environmental conditions have the ability to change NAD(P)H oxidase gene expression. Hormones and transcription factors each target specific regulatory elements in the gene promoter leading tochange the level of enzyme expression. NADPH oxidase enzyme manages the production of superoxide ion leading to production ofother types of ROSs in the plant. ABRE, TCA motif, TGACG motif, ARE, CCAAT-Box, skn-1-motif, circadian can be mentioned among the regulatory elements that were identified by promoter analysis and they are involvedin the response pathways to abscisic acid, salicylic acid, and jasmonic acid hormones, anaerobic reaction pathways, response to drought through MYB transcription factors, plant endosperm pathway, and light reactions, respectively. According to scientific contexts, the expression of these elements can improve the response of the plant to harsh conditions and environmental stresses in different growth stages and are playing an important role in plants adaptation to changed environments.
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