biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 54:47-53, 2010 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-010-0007-1

Molecular characterization of ginseng farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene and its up-regulation by methyl jasmonate

O. T. Kim1,*, K. H. Bang1, S. J. Jung1, Y. C. Kim1, D. Y. Hyun1, S. H. Kim2, S. W. Cha1
1 Department of Herbal Crop Research, NIHHS, RDA, Eumseong, Republic of Korea
2 Department of Biology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

We isolated a gene encoding for farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS) from Panax ginseng, a species that produces a large quantity of triterpene saponins such as ginsenosides. The deduced amino acid sequence of PgFPS was 77, 84 and 95 % identical to those of Arabidopsis, Hevea, and Centella. Southern blot analysis indicated that P. ginseng contained more than two genes encoding for FPS. When the cDNA of PgFPS was expressed in Escherichia coli, the recombinant enzyme, purified with a His-tag column, was found to possess FPS activity. When cultures of ginseng hairy root were treated with 0.1 mM methyl jasmonate (MJ), PgFPS mRNA was detected within 12 h of the treatment, and achieved maximum after 24 h. Also FPS activity in the hairy root cultures after 12 h of MJ treatment was higher than that of the control.

Keywords: isoprenoid pathway; ginsenoside; squalene synthase; triterpene saponins
Subjects: Escherichia coli; farnesyl diphosphate synthase; ginseng; ginsenoside; jasmonates; Panax ginseng; polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Southern blot analysis

Received: March 11, 2008; Accepted: October 11, 2008; Published: March 1, 2010  Show citation

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Kim, O.T., Bang, K.H., Jung, S.J., Kim, Y.C., Hyun, D.Y., Kim, S.H., & Cha, S.W. (2010). Molecular characterization of ginseng farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene and its up-regulation by methyl jasmonate. Biologia plantarum, 54(1), 47-53. doi: 10.1007/s10535-010-0007-1
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