RICE SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (3): 166-172 .

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A Rice CaMBP Gene is Induced in Organ-Specific Manner by Both Chilling and Heat-Shock Treatments

WAN Jia 1; XI Jiang 1; DU Zhi-ru 1; XU Zheng-jun 1, 2   

  1. 1 Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, China; 2 Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Research and Improvement, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China
  • Received:2008-03-31 Online:2008-09-28 Published:2008-09-28
  • Contact: XU Zheng-jun
  • Supported by:
    the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (Grant No. IRT0453), and the National Science & Technology Pillar Program of China in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period (Grant No. 2007BAD81B00).

Abstract: A rice CaMBP gene, OsCaMBP (AB363406), was isolated from a chilling treated rice using the fluorescent differential display (FDD) screening method. Its cDNA sequence (2094 bp) contains an opening reading frame (ORF) encoding a 569 amino acids protein (63.2 kD). OsCaMBP has the typical structural features of the CaMBP family, including the conserved IQ calmodulin-binding motif at the N-terminus. Homology analysis revealed 38.25%–47.28% identities of OsCaMBP with other CaMBPs in plants. RT-PCR analysis showed that the expression of OsCaMBP was remarkably inducible under the chilling (8°C) and heat-shock (42°C) treatments. OsCaMBP was undetectable under the normal conditions, and induced under the chilling treatment for 1 h, as well as the heat-shock treatment for 15 min, suggesting that the gene plays important roles in the signaling pathway in rice under both chilling and heat-shock stresses.

Key words: rice (Oryza sativa), calmodulin-binding protein, fluorescent differential display, gene cloning, org