Abstract:

In order to explore stress resistance genes in wheat and study the molecular mechanism of calmodulin-like genes in plant stress resistance,a calmodulin-like gene TaCML8-A was cloned from wheat by electronic cloning combined with RT-PCR.Bioinformatics analysis showed that the open reading frame length of the gene was 519 bp,encoding 172 amino acid sequences,including PTZ00184 and FRQ1 superfamily,four EF-hand domains,including four calcium binding sites.The molecular weight of the encoded protein was 18.31 ku and the isoelectric point was 4.54.It belonged to acidic protein.Subcellular localization showed that TaCML8-A protein was distributed in the nucleus and cell membrane.Nucleotide sequence alignment showed that TaCML8-A had the closest genetic relationship with rice OsCML14,with a similarity of 79.17%.qRT-PCR results showed that the expression of TaCML8-A gene in shoot and root of wheat increased under salt,osmotic and cold stress,indicating that plants might respond to thoese stresses by increasing the expression of TaCML8-A.During heat shock,TaCML8-A gene was induced and inhibited in root and shoot,respectively,so as to play different functions.The calmodulin-like gene TaCML8-A was successfully cloned from wheat and analyzed for expression.It is preliminarily speculated that the gene might be involved in regulating abiotic stress of plants,so as to provide basic theoretical support for the follow-up study of its biological function.

Key words: Triticum aestivum, Calmodulin-like protein, EF-hand domain, Gene cloning, Gene expression