Patent ID: 9309531
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: C07K,C12N

Claim Text:
1. A method for reducing protein productivity in seeds, comprising expressing, in a plant, a chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor, wherein said transcription factor is a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 76, or a protein having transactivation activity and comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 76 but in which 1-10 amino acids have been deleted, substituted, added, or inserted, and wherein the functional peptide has an amino acid sequence expressed by any one of the following formulae (1) to (8): (1) X1-Leu-Asp-Leu-X2-Leu-X3 (SEQ ID NO: 392 with deletion of 0-10 residues from the N-terminus) (where X1 denotes a set of 0 to 10 amino acid residues, X2 denotes Asn or Glu, and X3 denotes a set of at least 6 amino acid residues); (2) Y1-Phe-Asp-Leu-Asn-Y2-Y3 (SEQ ID NO: 393 with deletion of 0-10 residues from the N-terminus (where Y1 denotes a set of 0 to 10 amino acid residues, Y2 denotes Phe or Ile, and Y3 denotes a set of at least 6 amino acid residues); (3) Z1-Asp-Leu-Z2-Leu-Arg-Leu-Z3 (SEQ ID NO: 394 with deletion of 0-10 residues from the C-terminus and deletion of 0-2 residues from the N-terminus) (where Z1 denotes Leu, Asp-Leu, or Leu-Asp-Leu, Z2 denotes Glu, Gln, or Asp, and Z3 denotes a set of 0 to 10 amino acid residues); (4) Asp-Leu-Z4-Leu-Arg-Leu (where Z4 denotes Glu, Gln, or Asp) (residues 4-9 of SEQ ID NO.: 394); (5) α1-Leu-β1-Leu-γ1-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 395); (6) α1-Leu-β1-Leu-γ2-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 396); (7) α1-Leu-β2-Leu-Arg-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 397); and (8) α2-Leu-β1-Leu-Arg-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 398) (where α1 denotes Asp, Asn, Glu, Gln, Thr, or Ser; α2 denotes Asn, Glu, Gln, Thr, or Ser; β1 denotes Asp, Gln, Asn, Arg, Glu, Thr, Ser, or His; β2 denotes Asn, Arg, Thr, Ser, or His; γ1 denotes Arg, Gln, Asn, Thr, Ser, His, Lys, or Asp; and γ2 denotes Gln, Asn, Thr, Ser, His, Lys, or Asp, in formulae (5) to (8)).