Overexpression of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase from Larix gmelinii enhances growth and cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

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• 作者：N. N. Li ; L. Chen ; X. H. Li ; Q. Li ; W. B. Zhang ; K. Takechi…
• 关键词：Additional key wordshemicellulose ; real time PCR ; RACE ; sugars ; UDP ; glucuronate
• 刊名：Biologia Plantarum
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：61
• 期：1
• 页码：95-105
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Plant Sciences;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-8264
• 卷排序：61

文摘

Uridine diphosphate glucose dehydrogenase (UGDH) plays an important role in biosynthesis of hemicellulose by catalyzing oxidation of UDP-glucose (UDP-Glc) to UDP-glucuronate (UDP-GlcA), a key sugar nucleotide involved in biosynthesis of the plant cell wall. In this study, a UGDH ortholog referred to as LgUGDH was isolated from Larix gmelinii using PCR and rapid amplification of cDNA ends techniques. Real-time PCR shows that the LgUGDH gene was expressed primarily in larch stems in addition to its roots and leaves, and Southern blot analysis indicates that UGDH is encoded by two paralogous genes in L. gmelinii. Overexpression of LgUGDH increased the content of soluble sugars and hemicelluloses and enhanced vegetative growth and cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. These results reveal that L. gmelinii UGDH participates in sucrose/polysaccharide metabolism and cell wall biosynthesis and may be a good candidate gene for enhancing plant growth, cold tolerance, and hemicellulose content.