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Plant and Cell Physiology, 1995, Vol. 36, No. 7 1369-1373
© 1995

Short Communication

Touch-Inducible Genes for Calmodulin and a Calmodulin-Related Protein Are Located in Tandem on a Chromosome of Arabidopsis thaliana

Toshiro Ito1,2, Masanori Hirano1, Kazuhito Akama1,4, Yoshiro Shimura1,2 and Kiyotaka Okada1,3

1 Division 1 of Gene Expression and Regulation, National Institute for Basic Biology Myodaijicho, Okazaki, 444 Japan
2 Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University Kyoto, 606 Japan
3 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University Kyoto, 606 Japan
4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shimane University Matsue, 690 Japan

Genes for calmodulin and calmodulin-related proteins in Arabidopsis are up-regulated by a variety of physical stimuli, which include rain, wind and touch [Braam and Davis (1990) Cell 60: 357]. We have isolated five genes for calmodulin (AtCALl, 2, 3, 5, 6) and one gene for a calmodulin-related protein (AtCAL4) from an Arabidopsis genomic library. Touch stimulus of Arabidopsis plants induces the accumulation of mRNA transcribed from AtCAL4 andAtCAL5, but not from the other isolated genes. The two touch-inducible genes are arrayed in tandem with a short intergenic region of 700 bp but they show different organ-specific patterns of expression.

(Received April 27, 1995; Accepted July 20, 1995)
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