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Published on: May 14, 2020
Dimorphic DNA variation in the anionic peroxidase gene AtPrx53 of Arabidopsis thaliana
Evgenia V Kupriyanova1, Tatiana A Ezhova, Sergei V Shestakov
1Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Russia.
Abstract:
The DNA polymorphism in the AtPrx53 gene which encodes anionic peroxidase was analyzed in 20 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. There are two divergent sequence types (Col and Dj-like haplotypes) in the AtPrx53 gene that differ by 2 indel and 16 non-singleton nucleotide polymorphisms including 5 nucleotide polymorphic sites responsible for 4 deduced amino acid replacements. Two of the amino acid substitutions (Phe/Ser180and Asp/Asn270) could be responsible for the difference in electrophoretic mobility of AtPrx53 allozymes. One of them (Phe/Ser180) lies within the hypervariable region, indicating that this amino acid polymorphism is subjected to balancing selection. The revealed difference between deduced allozymes is related to the dimorphism in mobility of three major anionic peroxidase isoforms which according to previously established data encoded by AtPrx53 gene. The haplotype Col which included 12 accessions from three different continents is characterized by faster mobility of three isoforms in comparison with the Dj haplotype represented by eight accessions. There is a significant association between the haplotype and several developmental traits: leaf number, flowering time, main stem height etc. Lines of the Dj haplotype have shorter duration of vegetative stages and flower earlier than most of Col haplotype accessions. The reasons of this association are discussed.
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