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GrainGenes Reference Report: JPY-166-101

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Reference	JPY-166-101
Title	Wheat cysteine proteases triticain alpha, beta and gamma exhibit mutually distinct responses to gibberellin in germinating seeds.
Journal	Journal of Plant Physiology
Year	2009
Volume	166
Pages	101-106
Author	[ Hide all but 1 of 9 ] Kiyosaki T Asakura T Matsumoto I Tamura T Terauchi K Funaki J Kuroda M Misaka T Abe K
Abstract	We cloned three novel papain-type cysteine proteases (CPs), triticain alpha, beta and gamma, from 1-d-germinating wheat seeds. Triticain alpha, beta and gamma were constituted with 461, 472 and 365 amino acid residues, respectively, and had Cys-His-Asn catalytic triads as well as signal and propeptide sequences. Triticain gamma contained a putative vacuole-sorting sequence. Phylogenetic analysis showed that these CPs were divided into mutually different clusters. Triticain alpha and gamma mRNAs were expressed in seeds at an early stage of maturation and at the stage of germination 2d after imbibition, while triticain beta mRNA appeared shortly after imbibition. The expression of mRNAs for triticain alpha and gamma was suppressed by uniconazol, a gibberellin synthesis inhibitor. All the three CP mRNAs were strongly expressed in both embryo and aleurone layers. These results suggest that triticain alpha, beta and gamma play differential roles in seed maturation as well as in digestion of storage proteins during germination.
External Databases	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2008.02.006

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