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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2022, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (5): 93-101.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20220510

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Molecular Characteristics and Function of the Metal Tolerant Protein, EgMTP6 in Eucalyptus grandis

Lina Han,Xianan Xie,Hui Chen,Ming Tang*   

  1. Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University Guangzhou 510642
  • Received:2021-09-09 Online:2022-05-25 Published:2022-08-19
  • Contact: Ming Tang

Abstract:

Objective: Eucalyptus can tolerate the heavy metal toxicity tosome extent, in which metal tolerance proteins play an important role. In this study, we screened a metal tolerance protein gene EgMTP6 from Eucalyptus grandis and analyzed its bioinformatics characteristics, subcellular localization, zinc transport function and expression pattern, in order to reveal the relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, zinc, phosphorus and EgMTP6, and to explore the role of EgMTP6 in alleviating zinc stress. Method: Through bioinformatics analyses, the gene nucleotide and amino acid sequence characteristics of EgMTP6 were obtained. Subcellular localization of EgMTP6 was analyzed by expressing EgMTP6 inepidermal cells of tobacco leaves, and the zinc transport function was analyzed by yeast mutant complementation. The effects of zinc (ZnSO4), phosphorus (NaH2PO4) and Rhizophagus irregularis on the expression of EgMTP6 were analyzed by qRT-PCR. Result: In this study, bioinformatics analyses displayed that EgMTP6 contained an open reading frame in a length of 1 524 bp, which encoded 507 amino acids, including 12 exons and 11 introns. The tructural prediction showed that the N-terminal of EgMTP6 protein was located in the cytoplasm and the C-terminal was located in the extracellular. The protein contained five transmembrane domains and the HD-HD motif. Phylogenetic analysis showed that EgMTP6 was in Group 6 and belonged to Fe/Zn-CDF. Multiple-sequence alignment showed that MTP6 contained FieF domain (Ferrous-iron efflux pump, FieF). Subcellular localization analysis of tobacco leaves illustrated that EgMTP6 was located in the endoplasmic reticulum. Yeast mutant complementation showed that EgMTP6 was a zinc transporter. Fluorescence quantitative results showed that the expression of EgMTP6 was not affected byzinc, but induced by high concentration of phosphorus, and R. irregularis. Conclusion: EgMTP6 belongs to Fe/Zn-CDFgroup andit is involved in the zinc transport. Its expression is unaffected by zinc concentration, but is induced by high concentration of phosphorus, and R. irregularis. This investigations on molecular characteristics and function of EgMTP6 will be helpful to future studies on the molecular mechanism of heavy metal tolerance of arbuscular mycorrhizal in Eucalyptus grandis.

Key words: Eucalyptus grandis, EgMTP6, Zn, phosphorus, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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