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Genomic blotting of restriction fragments of Russet Burbank DNA indicated that at least 6 copies of Inhibitor I are present in the tetraploid potato genome. A library of potato genes in bacteriophage λ was screened for the presence of Inhibitor I genes using a wound-inducible tomato Inhibitor I cDNA as a hybridization probe. One phage with an insert of 13.1 kb was isolated that hybridized most strongly with the probe. A 4.2 kb Eco RI fragment containing the gene was isolated from the clone and 2.2 kb region was sequenced that included about 800 bp of both the 5′ and 3′ regions. The gene contained two introns of 479 and 417 bp respectively, and the splice junctions were typical of other eukaryotic genes. Putative TATAA and CAAT boxes were identified. The nucleotide sequence, when compared with a wound-inducible tomato Inhibitor I cDNA, exhibited over 90% identity. The gene codes for a prepro-Inhibitor I protein of 96 amino acids. The putative pre-sequence of 19 amino acids, differs in only one residue from that of tomato Inhibitor I. The potato pro-sequence, however, is lacking a tetrapeptide that is found in the tomato pro-sequence in the region of pro-peptide processing. This deletion, together with a substitution of a Gln for a Leu (4 residues toward the N terminus) provides an explanation for the differences at the N-termini between tomato and potato Inhibitor I natural proteins by providing different processing sites in the two pro-inhibitors. Thus, amino acid sequence differences between the N termini of tomato and potato Inhibitor I are easily explained by the mutational events. The different proposed pro-processing sites of the tomato and potato inhibitors suggest that a processing protease may be present in the vacuole with a specificity for Asn-X and Gln-X bonds.
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This is Scientific Paper No. 7493, Project 1791, College of Agriculture and Home Economics Research Center, Washington State University
This is Scientific Paper No. 7493, Project 1791, College of Agriculture and Home Economics Research Center, Washington State University
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Cleveland, T.E., Thornburg, R.W. & Ryan, C.A. Molecular characterization of a wound-inducible inhibitor I gene from potato and the processing of its mRNA and protein. Plant Mol Biol 8, 199–207 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00015028
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