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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Ubiquitous expression of a gene encoding for uncoupling protein isolated from the thermogenic inflorescence of the dead horse arum Helicodiceros muscivorus |
Author: | Ito, K. Abe, Y. Johnston, S. Seymour, R. |
Citation: | Journal of Experimental Botany, 2003; 54(384):1113-1114 |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ Press |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
ISSN: | 0022-0957 1460-2431 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kikukatsu Ito, Yukie Abe, Sonya D. Johnston, and Roger S. Seymour |
Abstract: | Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are a family of mitochondrial inner membrane proteins that have been implicated in heat production in mammalian cells. The inflorescences of several members of the arum lily family (Araceae) have also been shown to produce heat during flowering, but the involvement of UCP-mediated heat production in plants is not known. In this work a gene has been isolated termed HmUCPa that encodes for a putative uncoupling protein from Helicodiceros muscivorus, a highly thermogenic arum lily. RT-PCR analysis revealed that the expression of HmUCPa was ubiquitously found, both in thermogenic male florets and appendix, and the non-thermogenic female florets, spathe and club-shaped organs of the spadix. These results suggest that HmUCPa is not primarily involved in organ-specific heat production in H. muscivorus. |
Keywords: | Arum lily heat production Helicodiceros muscivorus mitochondria uncoupling protein (UCP) |
Description: | © 2003 Oxford University Press |
DOI: | 10.1093/jxb/erg115 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erg115 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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