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Identification of cis-regulatory regions responsible for developmental and hormonal regulation of HbHMGS1 in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

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3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) synthase (HMGS) is an important enzyme in mevalonate (MVA) pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis, which regulates the rubber biosynthetic pathway in rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in coordination with HMG-CoA reductase (HMGR). However, little information is available about the regulation of HMGS gene expression. To understand the mechanism controlling the HbHMGS1 gene expression, we characterized the HbHMGS1 promoter sequence in transgenic plants with the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene.

Results

GUS activity analysis of the transgenic plants showed that the HbHMGS1 promoter is active in all organs of the transgenic Arabidopsis plants during various developmental stages (from 6 to 45-day-old). Deletion of different portions of the upstream HbHMGS1 promoter identified sequences responsible for either positive or negative regulation of the GUS expression. Particularly, the − 454 bp HbHMGS1 promoter resulted in a 2.19-fold increase in promoter activity compared with the CaMV 35S promoter, suggesting that the − 454 bp HbHMGS1 promoter is a super-strong near-constitutive promoter. In addition, a number of promoter regions important for the responsiveness to ethylene, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) and gibberellic acid (GA) were identified.

Conclusion

The − 454 bp HbHMGS1 promoter has great application potential in plant transformation studies as an alternative to the CaMV 35S promoter. The HbHMGS1 promoter may play important roles in regulating ethylene-, MeJA- and GA-mediated gene expression. The functional complexity of cis-elements revealed by this study remains to be elucidated.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31560573), the Postgraduate Innovation Project of Crop Science of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry Institute, Hainan University (ZWCX2018030), and the Talents Training Project for Outstanding Undergraduate of Crop Science in Hainan University (ZWCX2018046).

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Gong, XX., Yan, BY., Tan, YR. et al. Identification of cis-regulatory regions responsible for developmental and hormonal regulation of HbHMGS1 in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnol Lett 41, 1077–1091 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-019-02703-4

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