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A seed-specific heat-shock transcription factor involved in developmental regulation during embryogenesis in sunflower

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dc.contributor Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (España)
dc.creator Almoguera, Concepción
dc.creator Rojas, A.
dc.creator Díaz-Martín, J.
dc.creator Prieto-Dapena, P.
dc.creator Jordano, Juan
dc.date 2008-03-28T17:23:29Z
dc.date 2008-03-28T17:23:29Z
dc.date 2002-11-15
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:01:19Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:01:19Z
dc.identifier Journal of Biological Chemistry 227: 43866-43872 (2002)
dc.identifier 0021-9258
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3362
dc.identifier 10.1074/jbc.M207330200
dc.identifier 1083-351X
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3362
dc.description 30 pages, 5 figures, 26 references.
dc.description We report the cloning and functional characterization of the first heat-shock transcription factor that is specifically expressed during embryogenesis in the absence of environmental stress. In sunflower embryos this factor, HaHSFA9, trans-activated promoters with poor consensus heat-shock cis-elements, including that of the seed-specific Hahsp17.6G1 gene. Mutations that improved the heat-shock cis-element consensus at the Hahsp17.7G4 promoter impaired transient activation by HaHSFA9 in sunflower embryos. The same mutations did not affect heat-shock-induced gene expression of this promoter in transgenic tobacco plants but reduced the developmental activation by endogenous heat-shock transcription factors (HSFs) in seeds. Sunflower, and perhaps other plants such as tobacco, differs from the vertebrate animal systems in having at least one specialized HSF with expression and (or) activation patterns strictly restricted to embryos. Our results strongly indicate that HaHSFA9 is a transcription factor critically involved in the developmental activation of Hahsp17.6G1 and in that of similar target genes as Hahsp17.7G4.
dc.description This work was supported in part by Grant BIO99-794 (to J. J.) from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Plan Nacional de I+D+I.
dc.description We thank support from Ph. D. fellowships from the Spanish “Ministerio de Educación y Cultura” (to A. R. and J. D. M.). We also thank Pilar Bazaga for excellent technical work.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org//10.1074/jbc.M207330200
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Heat shock factor
dc.subject Embryogenesis
dc.subject Sunflower
dc.subject Small heat shock proteins
dc.title A seed-specific heat-shock transcription factor involved in developmental regulation during embryogenesis in sunflower
dc.type Artículo


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