Cloning and Coding Protein Structure Prediction of TIR 1 Gene from Pinus mas s oniana
TIR1 (transport inhibitor response 1) plays an important role in auxin signal transduction pathway. In this study, we used primer 5 to design primers, through PCR and RACE technology, the TIR1 gene from Pinus massoniana named PmTIR1 was cloned. PmTIR1, having 2 446 bp in full length, contains an opening frame of 1 725 bp that encodes a protein of 574 amino acids with predicted relative molecular mass of 64 240.3 u and PI of 6.76. Its nucleotide sequence and the encoded amino acid sequence were analyzed with softwares of ClustalX, DNAMAN and ANTHEPROT, the results showed that:the homology of PmTIR1 protein from Pinus massoniana and TIR1 protein from Pinus tae da was as high as 99%, PmTIR 1 contained the F-box protein domains and multiple LRR domain;F-box protein domains in PmTIR 1 may combine with SKP1 in SCFTIR1, it was consistent with the characteristics of F-box family. Using real-time quantitative techniques, we identified the amount of PmTIR 1 expression, which were the highest in leaf and the lowest in stem from P. massoniana. The study can help to discover how the auxin regulating growth and development of Pinus massoniana.