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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Origin and functional prediction of pollen allergens in plants |
Author: | Chen, M. Xu, J. Devis, D. Shi, J. Ren, K. Searle, I. Zhang, D. |
Citation: | Plant Physiology, 2016; 172(1):341-357 |
Publisher: | American Society of Plant Biologists |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 0032-0889 1532-2548 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Miaolin Chen, Jie Xu, Deborah Devis, Jianxin Shi, Kang Ren, Iain Searle, and Dabing Zhang |
Abstract: | Pollen allergies have long been a major pandemic health problem for human. However, the evolutionary events and biological function of pollen allergens in plants remain largely unknown. Here, we report the genome-wide prediction of pollen allergens and their biological function in the dicotyledonous model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and the monocotyledonous model plant rice (Oryza sativa). In total, 145 and 107 pollen allergens were predicted from rice and Arabidopsis, respectively. These pollen allergens are putatively involved in stress responses and metabolic processes such as cell wall metabolism during pollen development. Interestingly, these putative pollen allergen genes were derived from large gene families and became diversified during evolution. Sequence analysis across 25 plant species from green alga to angiosperms suggest that about 40% of putative pollen allergenic proteins existed in both lower and higher plants, while other allergens emerged during evolution. Although a high proportion of gene duplication has been observed among allergen-coding genes, our data show that these genes might have undergone purifying selection during evolution. We also observed that epitopes of an allergen might have a biological function, as revealed by comprehensive analysis of two known allergens, expansin and profilin. This implies a crucial role of conserved amino acid residues in both in planta biological function and allergenicity. Finally, a model explaining how pollen allergens were generated and maintained in plants is proposed. Prediction and systematic analysis of pollen allergens in model plants suggest that pollen allergens were evolved by gene duplication and then functional specification. This study provides insight into the phylogenetic and evolutionary scenario of pollen allergens that will be helpful to future characterization and epitope screening of pollen allergens. |
Keywords: | Humans Plants Arabidopsis Pollen Plant Proteins Allergens Cluster Analysis Gene Expression Profiling Phylogeny Species Specificity Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Amino Acid Sequence Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Genome, Plant Gene Ontology Oryza |
Rights: | Copyright © 2016 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1104/pp.16.00625 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130100525 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.00625 |
Appears in Collections: | Agriculture, Food and Wine publications Aurora harvest 8 |
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