Regulatory motifs found in the small heat shock protein (sHSP) gene family in tomato.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In living organisms, small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are triggered in response to stress situations. This family of proteins is large in plants and, in the case of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), 33 genes have been identified, most of them related to heat stress response and to the ripening process. Transcriptomic and proteomic studies have revealed complex patterns of expression for these genes. In this work, we investigate the coregulation of these genes by performing a computational analysis of their promoter architecture to find regulatory motifs known as heat shock elements (HSEs). We leverage the presence of sHSP members that originated from tandem duplication events and analyze the promoter architecture diversity of the whole sHSP family, focusing on the identifi

SUBMITTER: Arce D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288846 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature