Characterization of the Light-Responsive Promoter of Rice Chloroplast psbD-C Operon and the Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Factor

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The transcription of rice plastid psbD-psbC genes en-coding photosystem II reaction center protein D2 and chlorophyll a-binding protein CP43 is closely regulated by light. To elucidate the sequence requirement for the light-responsive promoter of psbD-psbC operon, transcriptional analysis of the rice promoter was performed with deleted mutants and site-directed mutants in vitro. Deletion of -546〜-100 upstream sequences resulted in 4- to 5- fold decrease in the transcription rate. Further deletion of -99〜-40 conserved region of repeated sequences resulted in 2-fold decrease in the transcription rate. The core light-responsive promoter requires "-10" element but not "-35" element for accurate initiation of basal transcription. No downstream promoter element was found in the +4〜+111 region. The competitive gel-retardation experiments revealed the presence of DNA-binding protein in the rice chloroplasts, which interacts specifically with the -60〜-37 repeated sequences. Southwestern blot analysis further demonstrated that the binding factor is composed of 36-kDa polypeptide(s).
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