Cloning and Bioinformatics and Expression Analyses of Remorin Gene SmREM1.2 from Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge
Remorin is a plant-specific oligomeric filamentous protein that is localized on cell membrane and mediates the formation of lipid rafts into plasma membrane microregions.It plays vital roles in plant re-sponse to abiotic and biotic stresses and immune regulation.Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge is one of the bulk Chi-nese medicinal herbs and is widely used for the treatment of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases.How-ever,currently there are fewer reports about the function research of Remorin in S.miltiorrhiza.In this study,we cloned the S.miltiorrhiza Remorin gene SmREM1.2 based on the transcriptome and genome databases of S.miltiorrhiza,used bioinformatics methods to analyze its amino acid composition,conserved domains,phyloge-netic evolution and subcellular localization,and also expression level under salt stress.The results indicated that the length of coding sequence(CDS)of SmREM1.2 was 585 bp,and it encoded 194 amino acids.SmREM1.2 protein was a weakly acidic and unstable hydrophilic protein with no signal peptide and transmem-brane regions.It contained the conserved domains of Remorin_N and Remorin_C.Its secondary structure was mainly composed of alpha helices and irregullar curls.SmREM1.2 had the highly conserved coiled-coil domain at C-terminal region,and belonged to the typical REM protein.Phylogenetic analysis results showed that SmREM1.2 was very closely related to Salvia hispanica REM protein.Through constructing the pCAMBIA-SmREM1.2-GFP vector and using the tobacco transient transformation system,the subcellular localization of SmREM1.2 was analyzed.It was found that SmREM1.2 was localized on membrane.The real-time quantitative PCR results showed that the expression of SmREM1.2 was upregulated by salt stress treatment,suggesting that this gene play an important role in plant salt stress response.All the results of this study could provide a theo-retical basis for further exploration of function and application of SmREM1.2 gene.
Salvia miltiorrhiza BungeSmREM1.2 geneGene cloningBioinformatics analysisEx-pression analysisSubcellular localization