Genome-Wide Analysis of Serine/Arginine-Rich Protein Family in Wheat and Brachypodium distachyon
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Serine/Arginine-Rich (SR) Proteins in Wheat and B. distachyon
2.2. Phylogenetic Tree of Plant SR Proteins
2.3. Gene Structure and the Conserved Motifs
2.4. Synteny and Homologous Gene Pairs
2.5. Cis-Acting Regulatory Elements
2.6. Predicted Protein Interactions
2.7. Expression and Alternative Splicing Patterns
3. Discussion
3.1. Conservation between Wheat and B. distachyon SR Protein Genes
3.2. Plant SR Proteins May Function in Plant Development and in Response to Environmental Stresses
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Identification of SRs in Plants
4.2. Multiple Alignments and Phylogenetic Analyses
4.3. Cis-Acting Regulatory Elements, Gene Structure, and Conserved Motifs Analyses
4.4. Chromosome Location and Gene Duplication Analyses
4.5. Prediction of Protein–Protein Interactions
4.6. Plant Growth, Stress Treatment, and Semi Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Analyses
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Chen, S.; Li, J.; Liu, Y.; Li, H. Genome-Wide Analysis of Serine/Arginine-Rich Protein Family in Wheat and Brachypodium distachyon. Plants 2019, 8, 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8070188
Chen S, Li J, Liu Y, Li H. Genome-Wide Analysis of Serine/Arginine-Rich Protein Family in Wheat and Brachypodium distachyon. Plants. 2019; 8(7):188. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8070188
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Shoukun, Jiawei Li, Yue Liu, and Haifeng Li. 2019. "Genome-Wide Analysis of Serine/Arginine-Rich Protein Family in Wheat and Brachypodium distachyon" Plants 8, no. 7: 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8070188