浙江大学学报(英文版)
浙江大學學報(英文版)
절강대학학보(영문판)
JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCIENCE
2003年
3期
331-335
,共5页
姜华武%佃蔚敏%刘非燕%吴平
薑華武%佃蔚敏%劉非燕%吳平
강화무%전위민%류비연%오평
Glucose 6-phosphate/phosphate translocator%Starch synthesis%Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Plastids of nongreen tissues import carbon as a source of biosynthetic pathways and energy, and glucose 6-phosphate is the preferred hexose phosphate taken up by nongreen plastids. A cDNA clone encoding glucose 6-phosphate/phosphate translocator (GPT) was isolated from a cDNA library of immature seeds of rice and named as OsGPT. The cDNA has one uninterrupted open reading frame encoding a 42 kDa polypeptide possessing transit peptide consisting of 70 amino acid residues. The OsGPT gene maps on chromosome 8 of rice and is linked to the quantitative trait locus for 1000-grain weight. The expression of OsGPT is mainly restricted to heterotrophic tissues. These results suggest that glucose 6-phosphate imported via GPT can be used for starch biosynthesis in rice nongreen plastids.
