ZFP245

2015-01-20 | Categories genes  | Tags seedling  salt  drought  abiotic stress  transcription regulator  stem  oxidative  root 

• Information
  • Symbol: ZFP245
  • MSU: LOC_Os07g39970
  • RAPdb: Os07g0588700
• Publication
  • Increased tolerance of rice to cold, drought and oxidative stresses mediated by the overexpression of a gene that encodes the zinc finger protein ZFP245, 2009, Biochem Biophys Res Commun.
  • Identification of a rice zinc finger protein whose expression is transiently induced by drought, cold but not by salinity and abscisic acid, 2005, DNA Seq.
• Genbank accession number
  • AK103740
  • AY395294
  • AK103740
  • AY395294
• Key message
  • Overproduction of ZFP245 enhanced the activities of reactive oxygen species-scavenging enzymes under stress conditions and increased the tolerance of rice seedlings to oxidative stress
  • However, ZFP245 was not regulated by high salt or abscisic acid treatment
  • The semi-quantitative-RT-PCR assay revealed ZFP245 was strongly induced after 6 h exposure to cold and drought stresses, and then reduced to the baseline
  • Taken together, ZFP245, as the first identified C2H2-type zinc finger protein involved in stress response in monocots probably plays a role as a transcription regulator in plant cold and drought responses through an ABA-independent pathway
  • A C2H2-type zinc finger protein gene ZFP245 was cloned by RT-PCR approach from cold treated rice seedlings
  • Our data suggest that ZFP245 may contribute to the tolerance of rice plants to cold and drought stresses by regulating proline levels and reactive oxygen species-scavenging activities, and therefore may be useful for developing transgenic crops with enhanced tolerance to abiotic stress
  • ZFP245 is a cold- and drought-responsive gene that encodes a zinc finger protein in rice
  • Transgenic rice plants overexpressing ZFP245 were generated and found to display high tolerance to cold and drought stresses
  • Increased tolerance of rice to cold, drought and oxidative stresses mediated by the overexpression of a gene that encodes the zinc finger protein ZFP245
  • Tissue expression analysis showed that ZFP245 was constitutively expressed in various rice tissues including roots, stems, leaves and spikes
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