Identification of conserved secondary structures and expansion segments in enod40 RNAs reveals new enod40 homologues in plants.

ABSTRACT: enod40 is a plant gene that participates in the regulation of symbiotic interaction between leguminous plants and bacteria or fungi. Furthermore, it has been suggested to play a general role in non-symbiotic plant development. Although enod40 seems to have multiple functions, being present in many land plants, the molecular mechanisms of its activity are unclear; they may be determined though, by short peptides and/or RNA structures encoded in the enod40 genes. We utilized conserved RNA structures in enod40 sequences to search nucleotide sequence databases and identified a number of new enod40 homologues in plant species that belong to known, but also, to yet unknown enod40-containing plant families. RNA secondary structure predictions and comparative sequence analysis of enod40 RNAs allow

SUBMITTER: Gultyaev AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1888808 | biostudies-literature | 2007

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature