Cloning of BrHsfA3 in Chinese Flowering Cabbage and Its Responses to Heat Stress

doi:10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2022-0568

Abstract

Abstract:

In order to study the response mechanism to heat stress and explore related genes of Chinese flowering cabbage（Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis var. utilis Tsen et Lee）, a differentially expressed gene screened from the transcriptome database under heat stress in the early stage was cloned by PCR-based accurate synthesis（PAS）. Then bioinformatics analysis was performed, and the expression profiles of the gene under heat stress were analyzed by RT-qPCR. The results showed that the gene with an ORF of 906 bp was obtained and named as BrHsfA3, encoding 301 amino acid residues, the relative molecular weight was 34.12 kD with a theoretical isoelectric point being 5.00. BrHsfA3 protein was a hydrophilic protein with three phosphorylation sites of serine, threonine and tyrosine. Sequence analysis indicated that BrHsfA3 possessed a Hsf conserved domain, a DNA-binding domain（DBD）, a oligomerization domain（OD）, a nuclear localization signal（NLS）, and an activator domain（AHA）, the secondary structure were mainly alpha helix and random coil. Evolutionary analysis revealed that BrHsfA3 gene had the closest genetic relationship with Brassica napus. The RT-qPCR analysis results showed that the expression of BrHsfA3 was highly induced in the leaves and flowers of heat-resistant self-inbred line CX1-7 by heat stress and significantly higher than in heat-sensitive self-inbred line CX7-3, but the expression in the roots of CX7-3 was high under the same heat treatment, and which was significantly up-regulated after heat stress. These results provide a foundation for the high temperature response mechanism of BrHsfA3 in Chinese flowering cabbage.

Key words: Chinese flowering cabbage, BrHsfA3, heat stress, expression analysis

PANG Qiang-qiang, SUN Xiao-dong, ZHOU Man, CAI Xing-lai, ZHANG Wen, WANG Ya-qiang. Cloning of BrHsfA3 in Chinese Flowering Cabbage and Its Responses to Heat Stress[J]. Biotechnology Bulletin, 2023, 39(2): 107-115.

Figures/Tables 11

Table 1 Primers used for gene cloning and expression analysis

引物名称Primer name	引物序列Primer sequence（5'-3'）	引物用途Primer purpose
BrHsfA3-F1	CGCCAGAATCATACTCCCGC	基因合成 Gene synthesis
BrHsfA3-R1	CCTTAGAGGACAGAAGCATC	基因合成 Gene synthesis
BrHsfA3-F2	GATGTGCTGCAAGGCGATTA	基因合成 Gene synthesis
BrHsfA3-R2	TTATGCTTCCGGCTCGTATG	基因合成 Gene synthesis
BrActin-F	AGCAACTGGGATGACATGGA	RT-qPCR内参基因 RT-qPCR reference genes
BrActin-R	TCACCAGAGTCGAGCACAAT	RT-qPCR内参基因RT-qPCR reference genes
Q-BrHsfA3-F	GTCGACATAACAGACGTGGC	RT-qPCR
Q-BrHsfA3-R	CTGTCTGACGAAGCTGGAGA	RT-qPCR

Fig. 1 ORF sequences and amino acid sequences of BrHsfA3

Fig. 2 Prediction of the hydrophobic/hydrophilic of BrHs-fA3 protein

Fig. 3 Prediction of phosphorylation site after amino acid translation of BrHsfA3 protein

Fig. 4 Prediction of the signal peptide prediction of BrHs-fA3 protein

Fig. 5 Conservative domains and functional domain of BrHsfA3 protein

Fig. 6 Prediction of BrHsfA3 protein secondary structure Horizontal axis indicates amino acid position. The blue part indicates alpha helix. The purple indicates random coil. The red part indicates extended strand. The green part indicates beta turn

Fig. 7 Prediction of the three-dimensional structure of BrHsfA3 protein

Fig. 8 Phylogenetic tree of HsfA3 amino acid sequence from flowering Chinese cabbage and other plants

Fig. 9 FPKM value of BrHsfA3 gene under heat stress Different lowercase letters of the same inbred indicate significant difference（P<0.05），the same below

Fig. 10 Relative expressions of BrHsfA3 gene in different tissues under heat stress

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