Author: Mir Gisela
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1460-2431
Source: Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.55, Iss.408, 2004-12, pp. : 2483-2493
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Abstract
Expression of plant metallothionein genes has been reported in a variety of senescing tissues, such as leaves and stems, ripening fruits, and wounded tissues, and has been proposed to function in both metal chaperoning and scavenging of reactive oxygen species. In this work, it is shown that MT is also associated with suberization, after identifying a gene actively transcribed in Quercus suber cork cells as a novel MT. This cDNA, isolated from a phellem cDNA library, encodes a MT that belongs to type 2 plant MTs (QsMT). Expression of the QsMT cDNA in E. coli grown in media supplemented with Zn, Cd, or Cu has yielded recombinant QsMT. Characterization of the respective metal aggregates agrees well with a copper-related biological role, consistent with the capacity of QsMT to restore copper tolerance to a MT-deficient, copper-sensitive yeast mutant. Furthermore, in situ hybridization results demonstrate that RNA expression of QsMT is mainly observed under conditions related to oxidative stress, either endogenous, as found in cork or in actively proliferating tissues, or exogenous, for example, in response to H
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