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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 268, Issue 23, 16987-16992, 08, 1993

cDNA cloning and gene expression analysis of the microbial proteinase inhibitor of tobacco

T Heitz, P Geoffroy, A Stintzi, B Fritig and M Legrand
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Tobacco mosaic virus-infected tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var. Samsun NN) leaves produce a serine proteinase inhibitor that has evolved a specificity for microbial proteinases. We have isolated two closely related cDNAs that were shown to encode two active inhibitors. Southern analysis of genomic DNA, comparison of deduced amino acid sequences, and characterization of the two separated proteins suggest that the two genes of tobacco are homologous originating from each parent. Amino acid sequences deduced from the cDNAs exhibit a glutamic residue at the P1 position of the active site, known to determine the specificity of this type of inhibitors. Nevertheless, the V8 proteinase from Staphylococcus aureus, an enzyme that cleaves polypeptides after glutamic acid residues, was found to be unaffected by the tobacco inhibitor. We demonstrate strong accumulation of the two mRNAs and proteins during the hypersensitive reaction of tobacco to tobacco mosaic virus. Messengers and products of the two genes are present in a 3:2 ratio, in infected leaves as well as in upper uninfected leaves, the induction being markedly lower at distance from the infection site. The transcripts were also found in sepals and petals of healthy plants, indicating that these genes are also developmentally regulated. Unlike the tomato and potato I inhibitors, the tobacco inhibitor was only weakly induced by wounding, but was expressed upon salicylic acid or ethephon treatment, as many pathogenesis-related proteins.
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