Identification of drought-responsive universal stress proteins in viridiplantae.

ABSTRACT: Genes encoding proteins that contain the universal stress protein (USP) domain are known to provide bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, and plants with the ability to respond to a plethora of environmental stresses. Specifically in plants, drought tolerance is a desirable phenotype. However, limited focused and organized functional genomic datasets exist on drought-responsive plant USP genes to facilitate their characterization. The overall objective of the investigation was to identify diverse plant universal stress proteins and Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) responsive to water-deficit stress. We hypothesize that cross-database mining of functional annotations in protein and gene transcript bioinformatics resources would help identify candidate drought-responsive universal stress protein

SUBMITTER: Isokpehi RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3045048 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature