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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analyses of the Fibrillin Family Genes Suggest Their Involvement in Photoprotection in Cucumber

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Department of Bioindustry and Bioresource Engineering, Plant Engineering Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
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Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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Phyzen Co., Seongnam 13558, Korea
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Biosafety Division, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Institute of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54874, Korea
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Plants 2018, 7(3), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7030050
Received: 31 May 2018 / Revised: 15 June 2018 / Accepted: 23 June 2018 / Published: 27 June 2018
Fibrillin (FBN) is a plastid lipid-associated protein found in photosynthetic organisms from cyanobacteria to plants. In this study, 10 CsaFBN genes were identified in genomic DNA sequences of cucumber (Chinese long and Gy14) through database searches using the conserved domain of FBN and the 14 FBN genes of Arabidopsis. Phylogenetic analysis of CsaFBN protein sequences showed that there was no counterpart of Arabidopsis and rice FBN5 in the cucumber genome. FBN5 is essential for growth in Arabidopsis and rice; its absence in cucumber may be because of incomplete genome sequences or that another FBN carries out its functions. Among the 10 CsaFBN genes, CsaFBN1 and CsaFBN9 were the most divergent in terms of nucleotide sequences. Most of the CsaFBN genes were expressed in the leaf, stem and fruit. CsaFBN4 showed the highest mRNA expression levels in various tissues, followed by CsaFBN6, CsaFBN1 and CsaFBN9. High-light stress combined with low temperature decreased photosynthetic efficiency and highly induced transcript levels of CsaFBN1, CsaFBN6 and CsaFBN11, which decreased after 24 h treatment. Transcript levels of the other seven genes were changed only slightly. This result suggests that CsaFBN1, CsaFBN6 and CsaFBN11 may be involved in photoprotection under high-light conditions at low temperature. View Full-Text
Keywords: fibrillin; cucumber; genome-wide; gene expression; high light stress fibrillin; cucumber; genome-wide; gene expression; high light stress
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Kim, I.; Lee, S.-C.; Kim, E.-H.; Song, K.; Yang, T.-J.; Kim, H.U. Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analyses of the Fibrillin Family Genes Suggest Their Involvement in Photoprotection in Cucumber. Plants 2018, 7, 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7030050

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Kim I, Lee S-C, Kim E-H, Song K, Yang T-J, Kim HU. Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analyses of the Fibrillin Family Genes Suggest Their Involvement in Photoprotection in Cucumber. Plants. 2018; 7(3):50. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7030050

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Kim, Inyoung, Sang-Choon Lee, Eun-Ha Kim, Kihwan Song, Tae-Jin Yang, and Hyun U. Kim. 2018. "Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analyses of the Fibrillin Family Genes Suggest Their Involvement in Photoprotection in Cucumber" Plants 7, no. 3: 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants7030050

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