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Enhanced fungal resistance in Arabidopsis expressing wild rice PR-3 (OgChitIVa) encoding chitinase class IV

  • Pak, Jung-Hun (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Chung, Eun-Sook (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Shin, Sang-Hyun (Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota) ;
  • Jeon, Eun-Hee (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Kim, Mi-Jin (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Lee, Hye-Young (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Jeung, Ji-Ung (National Crop Experiment Station, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Hyung, Nam-In (Department of Horticulture, Sangmyung University) ;
  • Lee, Jai-Heon (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Chung, Young-Soo (BK21 Center for Silver-Bio Industrialization, College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University)
  • Received : 2008.08.06
  • Accepted : 2009.01.28
  • Published : 2009.04.30

Abstract

Oryza grandiglumis Chitinase IVa (OgChitIVa) cDNA encoding a class IV chitinase was cloned from wild rice (Oryza grandiglumis). OgChitIVa cDNA contains an open reading frame of 867 nucleotides encoding 288 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular weight of 30.4 kDa and isoelectric point of 8.48. Deduced amino acid sequences of OgChitIVa include the signal peptide and chitin-binding domain in the N-terminal domain and conserved catalytic domain. OgChitIVa showed significant similarity at the amino acid level with related monocotyledonous rice and maize chitinase, but low similarity with dicotyledoneous chitinase. Southern blot analysis showed that OgChitIVa genes are present as two copies in the wild rice genome. It was shown that RNA expression of OgChitIVa was induced by defense/stress signaling chemicals, such as jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, and ethephon or cantharidin and endothall or wounding, and yeast extract. It was demonstrated that overexpression of OgChitIVa in Arabidopsis resulted in mild resistance against the fungal pathogen, Botrytis cinerea, by lowering disease rate and necrosis size. RT-PCR analysis showed that PR-1 and PR-2 RNA expression was induced in the transgenic lines. Here, we suggest that a novel OgChitIVa gene may play a role in signal transduction process in defense response against B. cinerea in plants.

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