JXB Advance Access originally published online on November 1, 2005
Journal of Experimental Botany 2005 56(422):3183-3192; doi:10.1093/jxb/eri315
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Differential expression of genes encoding protein kinase CK2 subunits in the plant cell cycle
1Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
2Hospital de Tarrasa, Laboratorio de Biología y Genética Molecular, Carretera de Torrebonica s/n, E-08227 Tarrasa (Barcelona), Spain
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: +34 93 5811264. E-mail: carmen.martinez{at}uab.es
Protein kinase CK2 is a ubiquitous Ser/Thr/Tyr kinase essential for cell viability in eukaryotes. It comprises
catalytic and ß regulatory subunits, which combine to form the classical tetrameric structure,
2ß2. Although CK2 is a component of the network that controls the eukaryotic cell cycle, very little is known about the expression patterns of genes encoding its constituent subunits, especially in plants. A study of the complexity of CK2
- and CK2ß-encoding genes in BY-2 cells was undertaken in this work, and cloning of the different members of the gene families was performed. The expression of the individual members of each family in relation to cell proliferation was measured by real time RT-PCR. The data obtained provide an accurate understanding of the transcriptional regulation of CK2 in relation to the cell cycle and cell proliferation.
Key words:
CK2
subunit, CK2ß subunit, plant cell cycle, protein kinase CK2, tobacco BY-2 cells, transcriptional regulation
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