文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Chen Zhu ¹ ; Chen Ming ² ; Xu Zhao-shi ² ; Li Lian-cheng ² ; Chen Xue-ping ¹ ; Ma You-zhi ³ ;

作者机构： 1.Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Chem, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China

2.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Key Lab Biol & Genet Improvement Triticeae Crops, Natl Key Facil Crop Gene Resources & Genet Improv, Minist Agr,Inst Crop Sci, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Key Lab Biol & Genet Improvement Triticeae Crops, Natl Key Facil Crop Gene Resources & Genet Improv, Minist Agr,Inst Crop Sc

期刊名称：PLOS ONE （ 影响因子：3.24； 五年影响因子：3.788 ）

ISSN： 1932-6203

年卷期： 2014 年 9 卷 7 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Recent genomic sequencing of the foxtail millet, an abiotic, stress-tolerant crop, has provided a great opportunity for novel gene discovery and functional analysis of this popularly-grown grass. However, few stress-mediated gene families have been studied. Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) comprise a gene superfamily encoding NAD (P)(+)-dependent enzymes that play the role of "aldehyde scavengers'', which indirectly detoxify cellular ROS and reduce the effect of lipid peroxidation meditated cellular toxicity under various environmental stresses. In the current paper, we identified a total of 20 ALDH genes in the foxtail millet genome using a homology search and a phylogenetic analysis and grouped them into ten distinct families based on their amino acid sequence identity. Furthermore, evolutionary analysis of foxtail millet reveals that both tandem and segmental duplication contributed significantly to the expansion of its ALDH genes. The exon-intron structures of members of the same family in foxtail millet or the orthologous genes in rice display highly diverse distributions of their exonic and intronic regions. Also, synteny analysis shows that the majority of foxtail millet and rice ALDH gene homologs exist in the syntenic blocks between the two, implying that these ALDH genes arose before the divergence of cereals. Semiquantitative and real-time quantitative PCR data reveals that a few SiALDH genes are expressed in an organ-specific manner and that the expression of a number of foxtail millet ALDH genes, such as, SiALDH7B1, SiALDH12A1 and SiALDH18B2 are upregulated by osmotic stress, cold, H2O2, and phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA). Furthermore, the transformation of SiALDH2B2, SiALDH10A2, SiALDH5F1, SiALDH22A1, and SiALDH3E2 into Escherichia coli (E. coli) was able to improve their salt tolerance. Taken together, our results show that genome-wide identification characteristics and expression analyses provide unique opportunities for assessing the functional roles of foxtail millet ALDH genes in stress responses.