Patent Application: US-53016596-A

Abstract:
recombinant or isolated nucleic acid sequences which : encode enzymes or other proteins involved in plant abscission or dehiscence ; contain a promoter or other regulatory sequence which naturally controls expression of a gene involved in plant abscission or dehiscence ; when introduced into a plant , prevent or otherwise interfere with normal plant abscission or dehiscence ; or hybridise under stringent conditions to nucleic acid satisfying criterion , or or would do so but for the degeneracy of the genetic code are useful in regulating abscission and dehiscence , particularly in reducing pod shatter in brassica napus .

Description:
seeds of b . napus cv rafal were grown as described by meakin and roberts , ( j . exp . bot . 41 ( 229 ) 995 - 1002 ( 1990 )) with the following modifications . single seedlings were potted into 10 cm pots , and after vernalization , were re - potted into 21 cm pots . at anthesis tags were applied daily to record flower opening . this procedure facilitated accurate age determination of each pod . pods were harvested at various days after anthesis ( daa ). the dehiscence zone ( see fig1 ) was excised from the non - zone material and seed using a scalpel blade ( meakin and roberts , j . exp . bot . 41 ( 229 ) 1003 - 1011 ( 1990 )) and immediately frozen in liquid n 2 and stored at - 70 ° c . all chemicals were molecular biology grade and bought from either sigma chemical ltd ( dorset , uk ), or fisons ( loughborough , uk ). total rna was extracted using the polysomal extraction method of christoffersen and laties , proc . natl . acad . sci . 79 4060 - 4063 ( 1982 ), with the following alterations . the plant material was ground to a powder in liquid n 2 and then in 10 volumes of extraction buffer ( 200 mm tris - acetate ph 8 . 2 !, 200 mm magnesium acetate , 20 mm potassium acetate , 20 mm edta , 5 % w / v sucrose , after sterilisation 2 - mercaptoethanol was added to 15 mm and cycloheximide added to a final concentration of 0 . 1 mg ml - 1 ). the supernatant was then layered over 8 ml 1 m sucrose made with extraction buffer and centrifuged in a kontron ™ ( switzerland ) tft 70 . 38 rotor at 45 , 000 rpm ( 150 , 000 g ) for 2 hr at 2 ° c . in a kontron centrikon ™ t - 1065 ultra - centrifuge . pellets were then resuspended in 500 μl 0 . 1m sodium acetate , 0 . 1 % sds , ph 6 . 0 and phenol / chloroform ( 1 : 1 v / v ) extracted and the total rna precipitated . poly ( a ) + rna was isolated from total rna extracted , from both the zone and non - zone tissue of 40 , 45 and 50 daa pods , using a poly ( a ) quik ™ mrna purification kit ( stratagene , cambridge , uk ) following the manufacturers instructions , and then bulked together . total rna was also extracted from leaves , seeds and pods using a method described by dean et al , embo j . 4 3055 - 3061 ( 1985 ) for use in northern analyses . a cdna library was constructed using 5 μg poly ( a ) + rna extracted from the dehiscence zone of pods prior to and during dehiscence . the library was constructed using the λzap - cdna synthesis kit according to the manufacturers &# 39 ; instructions ( stratagene ). this resulted in the production of a library containing 1 . 2 × 10 6 recombinants . several plaques were picked at random and in vivo excised ( short et al , nucl . acids res . 16 7583 - 7600 ( 1988 )). the average insert size was 1 kb . differential screening was performed using single - stranded cdna probes synthesised from poly ( a ) + rna isolated from dehiscence zone or non - zone pod material . the probes were synthesised using the method of picton et al , plant mol . biol in press ( 1993 ) and used to screen 40 , 000 recombinant plaques by in situ plaque hybridisation . duplicate plaque lifts were obtained using hybond ™ n + membranes ( amersham , aylesbury , uk ) and were then treated and hybridised according to manufacturers instructions but were washed at 65 ° c . in 0 . 1 × sodium chloride , sodium phosphate , edta ( sspe ), 0 . 1 % sds . any plaques hybridising preferentially to zone probes were re - screened at densities of 50 - 100 plaques / plate . chosen plaques were cored out of the plate and plasmids isolated using the in vivo excision procedure ( short et al , nucl . acids res . 16 7583 - 7600 ( 1988 )). inserts were amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) using the t3 , t7 bacteriophage promoters and subsequently used for probes . isolated plasmid was also used as a template for sequencing . 10 μg total rna isolated from various parts of the oilseed rape plant were separated on a 1 × tbe , 1 % agarose / 6 % formaldehyde denaturing gel . the rna was transferred onto a nylon membrane ( genescreen , nen - du pont , uk ) using capillary transfer . the gel , rna samples , blot and hybridisation were performed in accordance with the membrane manufacturers instructions . a radio - labelled probe was generated using 100 ng of insert from the plasmid psac51 , using 32 p ! dctp ( 110 tbq nmole - 1 , amersham ) and a nick translation kit ( boehringer mannheim , lewes , uk ). unincorporated label was removed from the probe by passing it through a sephadex ™ g - 50 column and eluting the probe with te ( ph 8 ). the blot was washed at 65 ° c . in 0 . 1 × sspe , 0 . 1 % sds and exposed to kodak ™ x - ar5 film with intensifying screens at - 70 ° c . dna was isolated , using a miniprep procedure using a modified form of the extraction buffer described by clarke et al , genome 32 334 - 339 ( 1989 ). young expanding oilseed rape seedlings were homogenised in a 3 . 8 : 0 . 6 : 0 . 6 mixture of the following ; tne buffer ( 0 . 05m tris . hcl ph 7 . 5 , 0 . 2m edta : 0 . 1m nacl ): 5 % sds : 1 mg ml - 1 proteinase k ; to this solution was added sodium diethyidithiocarbamate and sodium bisulphite to 0 . 4 % ( w / v ) just before use . the samples were then incubated for 1 hr at 37 ° c . and debris removed by centrifugation in a microfuge at 11 , 600 g for 5 min . the eluate was then extracted with equal volumes of phenol / chloroform ( 1 : 1 v / v ) and then chloroform alone . nucleic acids were then precipitated by the addition of 2 . 5 vols 95 % ethanol containing 5 % ( v / v ) 2m na acetate , ph 5 . 5 . the sample was then mixed and immediately centrifuged at 11 , 600 g for 5 min . the resulting pellet was resuspended in 300 μl te , 10 μl rnasea ( 10 mg ml - 1 ) added , and then incubated at 37 ° c . for 15 mins before 300 μl ctab buffer ( 0 . 2m tris . hcl ph 7 . 5 , 0 . 05m edta , 2m nacl and 2 % w / v ctab ) was added before a further incubation at 60 ° c . for 15 mins . following re - extraction with an equal volume of chloroform the dna was precipitated with an equal volume of isopropanol at - 20 ° c . subsequent digestions by restriction endonucleases were carried out as detailed in stacey and isaac , restriction enzyme digestion , gel electrophoresis and vacuum blotting of dna to nylon membranes ( 1993 ). the dna was then separated in 1 × tbe , 0 . 8 % agarose and transferred to genescreen +™ ( nen ) nylon membrane . the probes were made as described for northern analysis and hybridisation was carried out according to manufacturers recommendations . the final wash of the membrane was at 65 ° c . in 0 . 1 × sodium chloride , sodium citrate ( ssc ) 0 . 1 % sds . plasmid dna was isolated by the alkaline - lysis method ( sambrook et al , molecular cloning : a laboratory manual new york , cold spring harbour laboratory press ( 1989 )). supercoiled plasmid dna was isolated as reported in the taqtrack ™ sequencing manual ( promega ltd , southampton , uk ). 5 μg denatured plasmid was sequenced using the chain - termination method of sanger et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . 74 5463 - 5467 ( 1977 ) using the sequencing kit sequenase ™ v . 2 . 0 , ( usb , c / o cambridge bioscience , uk ). compressions were resolved by performing the reactions at 70 ° c . using taq dna polymerase ( taqtrack ™ sequencing kit , promega ). dna sequences were analysed using the university of wisconsin genetics computer group ( uwgcg ) package ( devereux et al , nucl . acids res . 12 387 - 395 ( 1984 )) and the dna strider program ( marck , nucl . acids res . 16 1829 - 1836 ( 1988 )). cdna clones of mrnas accumulating preferentially in the dehiscence zones of developing pods were identified using a differential screening strategy . this employed random - primed , radio - labelled cdnas generated from poly ( a )+ rna , isolated from the bulked 40 , 45 and 50 daa samples of the pod containing the dehiscence zone and from adjacent tissue lacking this zone ( see fig1 ). any potential positives were confirmed by isolation and rescreening at lower densities . by this method 36 clones were isolated from screening 150 , 000 recombinants , which on cross - hybridization could be grouped into 13 families . when screened with the insert from the clone designated psac51 , 19 other clones were shown to have homology ( data not shown ), indicating that this cdna may encode an abundant mrna . the insert from psac51 was approximately 700 bp in length by comparison with dna standards on an ethidium bromide stained agarose gel . pods were harvested at 20 , 40 , 45 , 50 , 60 daa and dehiscence zone ( z ) and flanking non - zone ( nz ) tissue isolated ( see fig1 ). total rna was extracted from these excised parts and from the seed , leaves and roots . northern analysis revealed that the 700 bp insert from psac51 hybridised to a mrna of about 700 nucleotides ( see fig2 a and 2b ). at 20 daa hybridisation was apparent in both z and nz , but subsequently disappeared in nz tissues and preferentially accumulated in the dehiscence zone tissue with maximum signal occurring at 60 daa . the process of dehiscence is visible to the naked eye at 50 daa . the transcript could not be detected in the leaves , seeds and roots . the cdna psac51 was deemed to be near full - length because the mrna transcript size was similar to that of the cdna insert size . both strands of the cdna were sequenced and the result is shown in fig3 ( seq id no : 1 ). when sequenced the cdna was 756 bp in length . the largest open reading frame ( orf ) was 441 nucleotides in length beginning at position 15 ( a ) and ending at position 456 ( t ). the deduced protein sequence of 147 amino acids ( seq id no : 1 , 2 ) has a calculated molecular mass of approximately 15 kda and rich in proline ( 14 . 2 %), leucine ( 14 . 2 %) and lysine ( 10 . 2 %). at the end of the nucleotide sequence there was a large poly ( a ) tail that encompassed 42 ( a ) nucleotides . a prominent feature of the psac51 deduced amino acid sequence was the arrangement of the proline residues into the repeated motif &# 34 ; pro - x &# 34 ; ( underlined in fig3 ). the sequence also contains a potential glycosylation site denoted by the motif &# 34 ; n - x - s or t &# 34 ; ( kornfeld and kornfeld , ann . rev . biochem . 54 631 - 664 ( 1985 )) and a possible polyadenylation site ( joshi , nucl . acids res . 15 9627 - 9640 ( 1987 )). the hydropathy plot ( fig4 ) of the peptide indicates that the protein has several distinct domains . the protein has a hydrophobic amino terminus , characteristic of a membrane spanning cleavable signal sequence ( von heijne , nucl . acids res . 144683 - 4690 ( 1986 )), extending to position 30 . it then has a hydrophilic region extending to position 70 , followed by a further hydrophobic region extending to the carboxy terminus . analysis of this sequence utilising the uwgcg programs revealed the protein to share significant homology with several proteins ; 57 % with a carrot cdna ( dc2 . 15 ) representing a mrna that accumulates during somatic embryogenesis ( aleith and richter , planta 183 17 - 24 ( 1990 )); 40 % with a cdna ( pzrp3 ) that represents a mrna localised to cortical cells in maize roots ( john et al , plant mol . biol . 20 821 - 831 ( 1992 )). a comparison of the sequences of these proteins ( seq id no : 4 , 5 ) with that deduced from the nucleotide sequence of psac51 ( seq id no : 3 ) is shown in fig5 . the deduced amino acids share similar compositions and hydropathy plots . they also have the &# 34 ; pro - x &# 34 ; domain within the first 50 amino acids and a characteristic dalk motif underlined in fig5 . the 756 bp insert of psac51 was used as a probe for hybridisation to southern blots of b . napus genomic dna digested with ecori , hindiii and bamhi ( fig6 ). the probe hybridised to several fragments ranging in size from 5 kb to 1 kb . the cdna has an internal restriction site for hindiii at nucleotide 32 and this may account for extra fragments . pod dehiscence is a hard phenotype to measure accurately and therefore the precise start of the process is not known . cellulase activity increases in the dehiscence zone from 40 daa and precedes the first visible signs of cell wall breakdown by 15 - 20 days ( meakin and roberts , j . exp . bot . 41 1003 - 1011 ( 1990 )). therefore mrna extracted from different developmental stages ( 40 , 45 and 50 daa ) were bulked in order to increase the chances of obtaining mrnas that are present prior to and during the process of dehiscence . as the pods develop on an oilseed rape plant they undergo growth and expansion ( meakin , the physiology of bud abscission and pod shatter in oilseed rape ( brassica napus l .) phd thesis , university of nottingham , uk ( 1988 )) which then stops at 20 daa . after this point the pods do not increase in size as the priority becomes seed expansion and filling . during this time the pods are drying out and losing chlorophyll ( meakin , the physiology of bud abscission and pod shatter in oilseed rape ( brassica napus l .) phd thesis , university of nottingham , uk ( 1988 )). concurrent with this is the process of pod dehiscence ( meakin and roberts , j . exp . bot . 41 995 - 1002 ( 1990 )). this example relates to the isolation of a cdna clone that corresponds to a mrna that preferentially accumulates in the dehiscence zone of the developing pod ( fig2 a and 2b ). the psac51 mrna is present at the early stages of pod development in both the zone and non - zone tissue . the presence of signal in the non - zone rna at 20 daa cannot be fully explained . genomic southern analysis ( fig6 ) shows that psac51 may be controlled by a single or a small family of genes and the presence and / or arrangement of introns has yet to be determined . therefore the presence of some hybridising bands may be due to further restriction sites in the genomic sequence . also b . napus ( n = 19 ) is an amphidiploid resulting from a natural interspecific hybridisation even between b . oleracea ( n = 9 ) and b . campestris ( n = 10 ) and the resulting genome is likely to contain 2 copies of any gene , one from each parental genome . the deduced protein sequence ( seq id no : 1 , 2 ) of psac51 has several features that are worth mentioning ( fig3 ). the protein is rich in the amino acid , proline , whose arrangement is in the form of a repeated motif &# 34 ; pro - x &# 34 ;. it also has another arrangement of amino acids into a &# 34 ; dalk &# 34 ; motif . other characteristics include defined hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains ( fig4 ) and a membrane spanning cleavable signal peptide . the psac51 deduced amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 3 ) has an unknown function but has significant homology to other characterised proteins ( seq id nos : 4 , 5 ) whose functions are also unknown ( fig5 ). these proteins are from different plant species and from different plant organs ; carrot embryos ( aleith and richter , planta 183 17 - 24 ( 1990 )) and young maize roots ( john et al , plant mol . biol . 20 821 - 831 ( 1992 )). the psac51 protein also has significant homology (& gt ; 40 %) with a protein of unknown function from immature tomato fruit ( salts et al , plant mol . biol . 17 149 - 150 ( 1991 )). this protein is also rich in proline ( but has a different arrangement ) and has a pronounced hydrophobic domain as well as the &# 34 ; dalk &# 34 ; motif but the cdna and protein is much larger . sequence alignment analysis shows the homology to be with proline residues and with the hydrophobic domain particularly with the cysteine residues . there are also other proteins that have significant homology with psac51 and were isolated from soybean seeds ( odani et al , eur . j . biochem . 162 485 - 491 ( 1987 ), estanyol et al , plant cell 4 413 - 423 ( 1992 )). again they are proline - rich and have hydrophobic domains . this may give some insight into the role of the protein encoded by psac51 in that it may be connected with the developing seed . given that the psac51 protein is likely to be transported and that the seed attachments to the pod occur in the region of the dehiscence zone then it may have a role in seed development , although no psac51 mrna was detected by northern analysis . the processes of abscission and dehiscence involve the breakdown of cell walls . the cell walls of a plant are composed of cellulose , hemicellulose , pectic compounds , proteins , suberin , lignin and water ( cassab and verner , ann . rev . plant physiol . plant mol . biol . 39 321 - 353 ( 1988 )), but can be grouped into three main types : hydroxyproline - rich glycoproteins ( hrgps ) ( chen and varner , proc . natl . acad . sci . 82 4399 - 4403 ( 1985 ), zheng - hua and varner , plant cell . 3 23 - 37 ( 1991 )); glycine - rich proteins ( grps ) ( condit and meagher , nature 323 178 - 181 ( 1986 )); and lastly proline - ( or hydroxyproline )- rich proteins ( prps ) ( hong et al , plant cell 1 937 - 943 ( 1989 ), wyatt et al , plant cell 4 99 - 110 ( 1992 )). all these proteins are characterised by basic repeat motifs that are different for each type : ser -( hyp ) 4 for hrgps ; ( gly - x ) n for grps ; and pro - pro - val - x - y for prps . the proline - rich protein encoded by psac51 shows no significant identity to any of the aforementioned groups described so far ( cassab and varner , ann . rev . plant physiol . plant mol . biol . 39 321 - 353 ( 1988 )). the proline - rich proteins that do show homology to psac51 have all been characterised since that review was written and , given the different proline repeat motif &# 34 ; pro - x &# 34 ;, they may be a new sub - group of proline - rich proteins . despite these differences psac51 , and the other proteins it shares homology with , do have elements that link them to the other groups of proline - rich proteins . they often include signal sequences , glycosylation sites and are expressed in specific organs and tissues . the psac51 deduced amino acid sequence has one glycosylation site as does the maize protein ( john et al , plant mol . biol . 20 821 - 831 ( 1992 )) but the tomato ( salts et al , plant mol . biol . 17 149 - 150 ( 1991 )) and carrot ( aleith and richter , planta 183 17 - 24 ( 1990 )) proteins do not . many proline - rich proteins that have been characterised so far have been isolated from tissue capable of growth and cell expansion and they may have a role in cell wall formation and structure ( cassab and varner , ann . rev . plant physiol . plant mol . biol . 39 321 - 353 ( 1988 )). others have been found to be produced in response to wounding and stress signals ( zhous et al , plant mol . biol . 20 5 - 17 ( 1992 )). the psac51 mrna is present and increases when the pod has stopped growing and so the protein translated from this may be involved in some other process , for example , pod dehiscence . more and more proline rich proteins are being isolated and characterised ( cheung et al , the plant j . 3 151 - 160 ( 1993 ), estanyol et al , plant cell 4 413 - 423 ( 1992 ), roberts et al , the plant j . 3 111 - 120 ( 1993 ), wright et al , the plant j . 3 41 - 49 ( 1993 )) and this may help in assigning precise functions for these unknown proline - rich proteins . following the general procedure of example 1 , other cdnas were cloned . one was designated psac25 , which has a different pattern of gene expression from that of psac51 . psac40 is one of several cdnas with sequences that match psac25 : the insert is slightly larger than psac25 . pods were harvested at 20 , 30 , 35 , 40 , 45 , 50 and 60 daa , and dehiscence zone and flanking non - zone tissue isolated , as described in example 1 . northern analysis of extracted rna reveals that expression was taking place in zone tissue from 30 daa , with only slight expression in non - zone tissue as late as 50 daa ( fig7 a and 7b ). the transcript could not be detected in leaves , seeds or roots . the cdna sequence of psac40 was sequenced and the result , with the deduced amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 6 ), is shown in fig8 a and 8b . the hydropathy plot ( fig9 ) of the deduced amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 6 , 7 ) shows distinct hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions . the insert of psac25 was used as a probe for hybridisation to southern blots of b . napus genomic dna digested with ecori , hindiii and bamhi . the probe hybridised to several fragments ranging in size from 7 or 8 kb to 1 kb . a 10 kb a . thaliana genomic clone gsac25 ! was isolated that hybridised to the psac25 cdna ( fig1 a ). a 3 . 5 kb ecori / hindiii fragment of this dna that hybridised to the psac25 cdna was subcloned into ecori / hindiii cut pbluescript ks +, forming pdh30 . nucleotide sequencing shows that this fragment contains an orf that is highly homologous to the psac25 orf . this sequence also determines the position of the sac25 promoter region relative to the sac25 orf , as it is that region upstream of ( ie 5 &# 39 ; to ) the orf . a 10 kb a . thaliana genomic clone gsac51 ! was isolated that hybridised to the psac51 cdna ( fig1 b ). a 4 . 0 kb ecori fragment of this dna that hybridised to the psac51 cdna was subcloned into ecori cut pbluescript ks + , forming pdh31 . nucleotide sequencing shows that this fragment contains an orf that is highly homologous to the psac51 orf . this sequence also determines the position of the sac51 promoter region relative to the sac51 orf , as it is that region upstream of ( ie 5 &# 39 ; to ) the orf . to demonstrate that the putative promoter regions of sac25 and sac51 are capable of driving the expression of a foreign gene in a . thaliana , b . napus and n . tabacum , transcriptional fusions of the promoters can be made to the e . coli gene encoding β - glucuronidase ( gus ). fragments of the clones gsac25 ! or gsac51 ! containing the putative promoter region are subcloned into pbi101 ( jefferson et al , embo j . 6 3901 ( 1987 )). the gus constructs are then transformed into a . thaliana , b . napus or n . tabacum , using standard transformation techniques . analysis of the transformed plants demonstrates that gus activity is localised to the pod shatter zone . the temporal regulation of gus activity will be identical to the temporal expression observed for the sac25 and sac51 genes as described in examples 1 and 2 . the construction of expression cassettes and their use in producing sense and anti - sense rna to pod shatter zone - specific messages in transgenic plants either pod shatter zone - specific or constitutive promoters can be used to drive expression of sense or anti - sense rna corresponding to shatter zone - specific transcripts in transgenic plants , thus potentially creating pod mutations and shatter - resistance ( indehiscence ). the same pod shatter zone - specific promoters can be used to drive the pod shatter zone expression of genes encoding proteins or enzymes detrimental to shatter - zone function thereby creating shatter - resistance ( indehiscence ). a ) construction of an intermediate vector to express sense and anti - sense rna utilising the double 35s promoter a 650 bp hindiii , ecori sac25 fragment from the sac25 cdna was cloned into hindiii , ecori - cut pjit60 forming p35s - antisac25 ( fig1 ). pjit 60 is identical to pjit30 ( guerineau et al , plant mol . biol . 15 127 - 136 ( 1990 )) except that the camv 35s promoter is replaced by a double camv 35s promoter . in p35s - antisac25 a portion of the sac25 cdna is cloned in an antisense orientation between a double 35s promoter and a camv polyadenylation signal . this chimeric gene was then cloned into pbin19 ( bevan et al , nucl . acids res . 22 8711 - 8721 ( 1984 )) as a ssn , xhol fragment forming p35s - antisac25 . b . napus plants transformed with the 35s - antisac25 chimeric gene are resistant to pod - shatter ( indehiscent ). other chimeric genes that can be constructed to produce shatter - resistance include , by way of non - limiting example : i ) double camv 35s promoter linked to the coding region of the sac25 cdna or gene such that sense sac25 rna is produced ; ii ) double camv 35s promoter linked to the coding region of the sac51 cdna or gene such that sense or anti - sense sac51 rna is produced ; iii ) sac25 promoter linked to the coding region of the sac25 cdna or gene , such that sense or anti - sense sac25 rna is produced ; iv ) sac51 promoter linked to the coding region of sac25 cdna or gene , such that sense or anti - sense sac25 rna is produced ; v ) sac25 promoter linked to the coding region of the sac51 cdna or gene , such that sense or anti - sense sac51 rna is produced ; and vi ) sac51 promoter linked to the coding region of the sac51 cdna or gene , such that sense or anti - sense sac51 rna is produced . these plasmids could also be transformed into other members of the brassicaceae causing shatter - resistance in the transgenic plants . the utility of the sac25 and sac51 promoters could also be harnessed by expressing gene fusions to barnase , or other genes that disrupt cellular development or otherwise interfere in the function of the shatter zone in pod shatter , in transgenic plants . use of the barnase gene to cause cell ablation has been described in ep - a - 0344029 ( plant genetic systems nv ) and wo - a - 9211379 ( nickerson international seed company limited ), particularly at pages 28 and 29 of the latter document . transcriptional or translational fusion of the sac25 or sac51 promoter fragments and the transfer of these genes into b . napus or n . tabacum plants results in ablation of the pod shatter zone causing shatter - resistance . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - ( 1 ) general information :- ( iii ) number of sequences : 7 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 756 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( ix ) feature : ( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 15 .. 458 # 1 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :- agaggaattt aaca atg gct tca aga acg aaa agc t - # tt tta gcc att ttc 50 met a - # la ser arg thr lys ser phe leu ala ile ph - # e # 10 - ttg att ctg aac atc ctt ttc tgc aca aca at - # c tct gcc tac ggt aac 98leu ile leu asn ile leu phe cys thr thr il - # e ser ala tyr gly asn # 25 - tgc ggt tgc cct tct ccc aag cca aaa cct ga - # c ccc tcc cat aag cca 146cys gly cys pro ser pro lys pro lys pro as - # p pro ser his lys pro # 40 - aaa cct aac cct aaa ccc aaa cca acc cca ac - # t cca acc cct agc cct 194lys pro asn pro lys pro lys pro thr pro th - # r pro thr pro ser pro # 60 - gtc aca gcc aaa tgc cct aga gac gct ctt aa - # a cta gga gtc tgc gcc 242val thr ala lys cys pro arg asp ala leu ly - # s leu gly val cys ala # 75 - aac gtg ctc agc ggt cta ctc aac atc acc ct - # t ggg aag cca cct gtg 290asn val leu ser gly leu leu asn ile thr le - # u gly lys pro pro val # 90 - aag cca tgt tgc acc ctc atc aaa gga ctt gc - # t gat ctt gaa gcc gcg 338lys pro cys cys thr leu ile lys gly leu al - # a asp leu glu ala ala # 105 - gct tgt ctt tgc acc gcg ctt aag gct aac at - # c ctt ggg atc aac ctg 386ala cys leu cys thr ala leu lys ala asn il - # e leu gly ile asn leu # 120 - aac atc cct atc tca ctc agt ctg ctt ctc aa - # t gtt tgt agc aaa aag 434asn ile pro ile ser leu ser leu leu leu as - # n val cys ser lys lys125 1 - # 30 1 - # 35 1 -# 40 - gtt ccc cct ggt ttc caa tgc taatcaagat tataattat - # a caaccaccac 485val pro pro gly phe gln cys 145 - tggatgtcaa catatatact tcttgtttgg atagacaaga taatatatgt aa - # tatagatt 545 - ctgtagtatt tctgtgtgtt tatgtatgaa ttgtatgtgt gtgtatgtga tt - # tctacaac 605 - tctaaacttc acatttgttt ttattttgtt ctcttaatta tatatacagt ca - # caggggtg 665 - ttgttgtact ggttgttgtt taaattaata aataatatgt ttaatactga aa - # aaaaaaaa 725 # 756 aaaa aaaaaaaaaa a - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# acids ( a ) length : 147 amino ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : protein # 2 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :- met ala ser arg thr lys ser phe leu ala il - # e phe leu ile leu asn # 15 - ile leu phe cys thr thr ile ser ala tyr gl - # y asn cys gly cys pro # 30 - ser pro lys pro lys pro asp pro ser his ly - # s pro lys pro asn pro # 45 - lys pro lys pro thr pro thr pro thr pro se - # r pro val thr ala lys # 60 - cys pro arg asp ala leu lys leu gly val cy - # s ala asn val leu ser # 80 - gly leu leu asn ile thr leu gly lys pro pr - # o val lys pro cys cys # 95 - thr leu ile lys gly leu ala asp leu glu al - # a ala ala cys leu cys # 110 - thr ala leu lys ala asn ile leu gly ile as - # n leu asn ile pro ile # 125 - ser leu ser leu leu leu asn val cys ser ly - # s lys val pro pro gly # 140 - phe gln cys145 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# acids ( a ) length : 147 amino ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : peptide # 3 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :- met ala ser arg thr lys ser phe leu ala il - # e phe leu ile leu asn # 15 - ile leu phe cys thr thr ile ser ala tyr gl - # y asn cys gly cys pro # 30 - ser pro lys pro lys pro asp pro ser his ly - # s pro lys pro asn pro # 45 - lys pro lys pro thr pro thr pro thr pro se - # r pro val thr ala lys # 60 - cys pro arg asp ala leu lys leu gly val cy - # s ala asn val leu ser # 80 - gly leu leu asn ile thr leu gly lys pro pr - # o val lys pro cys cys # 95 - thr leu ile lys gly leu ala asp leu glu al - # a ala ala cys leu cys # 110 - thr ala leu lys ala asn ile leu gly ile as - # n leu asn ile pro ile # 125 - ser leu ser leu leu leu asn val cys ser ly - # s lys val pro pro gly # 140 - phe gln cys145 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# acids ( a ) length : 137 amino ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : peptide # 4 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :- met gly ser lys asn ser ala ser val ala le - # u phe phe thr leu asn # 15 - ile leu phe phe ala leu val ser ser thr gl - 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