ISOLATION AND CHERACTERIZATION OF ACTINIDIN GENE FROM CHINESE WILD KIWI FRUIT

A kiwi fruit ,called as the Chinese gooseberry, is originated from the Yangtze River Valley of Northern China and Zhejiang Province on the cost of Eastern China. Around 1950, a large mass production began at New Zealand with an Improved breeding. Plant origin actinidin from kiwi fruit belongs to the papain family of cysteine proteinase, which in plants includes papain from papaya, bromelain from pineapple, Cl4 protease from tomato and aleurain from barley. Actinidin is involved in the ripening-related gene family. In this study, protease gene of chinese wild kiwi fruit was isolated and characterized. 1.2kb PCR-amplified fragment was obtained from the total RNA using RT-PCR. pWACT-1 was obtained by subcloning of amplified fragment into pGEM-T Easy cloning vector and analyzed nucleotide sequence by DNA sequencing and amino acid sequence. In Result, high levels of homology between wild kiwi and New Zealand cultured-kiwi was obtained.

중국산 야생키위로 total RNA를 추출하고 RT-PCR를 실시해서 증폭된 1.2kb fragment를 얻어 pGEM-T Easy에 cloning한 후 염기서열과 아미노산 서열을 비교 분석한 결과 actinidin gene인 것으로 분석되었다.