Abstract:
:The finding in animal species of complexes homologous to the products of six Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes, origin of replication recognition complex (ORC), has suggested that ORC-related mechanisms have been conserved in all eukaryotes. In plants, however, the only cloned putative homologs of ORC subunits are the Arabidopsis ORC2 and the rice ORC1. Homologs of other subunits of plant origin have not been cloned and characterized. A striking observation was the absence from the Arabidopsis genome of an obvious candidate gene-homolog of ORC4. This fact raised compelling questions of whether plants, in general, and Arabidopsis, in particular, may have lost the ORC4 gene, whether ORC-homologous subunits function within a complex in plants, whether an ORC complex may form and function without an ORC4 subunit, whether a functional (but not sequence) protein homolog may have taken up the role of ORC4 in Arabidopsis, and whether lack of ORC4 is a plant feature, in general. Here, we report the first cloned and molecularly characterized five genes coding for the maize putative homologs of ORC subunits ZmORC1, ZmORC2, ZmORC3, ZmORC4 and ZmORC5. Their expression profiles in tissues with different cell-dividing activities are compatible with a role in DNA replication. Based on the potential of ORC-homologous maize proteins to bind each other in yeast, we propose a model for their possible assembly within a maize ORC. The isolation and molecular characterization of an ORC4-homologous gene from maize argues that, in its evolution, Arabidopsis may have lost the homologous ORC4 gene.
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Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Witmer X,Alvarez-Venegas R,San-Miguel P,Danilevskaya O,Avramova Zdoi
10.1093/nar/gkg138keywords:
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2003-01-15 00:00:00pages
619-28issue
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0305-1048issn
1362-4962journal_volume
31pub_type
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