Plant and Cell Physiology, 2003, Vol. 44, No. 8 861-867
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Array-Based Analysis on Tobacco Plastid Transcripts: Preparation of a Genomic Microarray Containing All Genes and All Intergenic Regions
1 Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata, Mizuho, Nagoya, 467-8501 Japan
2 Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
3 Hokkaido System Science Co., Ltd, Hassamu 14-1-1-34, Nishi, Sapporo, 063-0834 Japan
Abstract
The plastid genome of higher plants includes about 120 genes. We adopted genomic array technologies to the tobacco plastid genome. A microarray was constructed, consisting of 220 DNA fragments that cover the whole genome sequence. Each DNA fragment corresponds to a single known gene or an intergenic region. We evaluated reliability of this microarray by comparing the plastid RNA level in light- or dark-grown tobacco seedlings. The transcripts encoding photosynthetic subunits increased significantly in light-grown tissues as expected. Furthermore, we found unexpected signals in several intergenic regions, suggesting the existence of novel transcripts in tobacco plastids.
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4 Corresponding author: E-mail, sugiura{at}nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp; Fax, +81-52-872-6021.
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