ArticlePlant molecular biology1997
Isolation and characterization of a gene encoding endo-beta-1,4-glucanase from pepper (Capsicum annuum L.).
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- Molecular regulation of fruit ripening.Frontiers in plant science · 2013Article
- The fading distinctions between classical patterns of ripening in climacteric and non-climacteric fruit and the ubiquity of ethylene-An overview.Journal of food science and technology · 2012Article
- Constitutive overexpression of a ripening-related pepper endo-1,4-beta-glucanase in transgenic tomato fruit does not increase xyloglucan depolymerization or fruit softening.Plant molecular biology · 2002Article
- Suppression of a ripening-related endo-1,4-beta-glucanase in transgenic pepper fruit does not prevent depolymerization of cell wall polysaccharides during ripening.Plant molecular biology · 2002Article
- Cell wall metabolism in fruit softening and quality and its manipulation in transgenic plants.Plant molecular biology · 2001Review
- Antisense suppression of tomato endo-1,4-beta-glucanase Cel2 mRNA accumulation increases the force required to break fruit abscission zones but does not affect fruit softening.Plant molecular biology · 1999Article
- A novel E-type endo-beta-1,4-glucanase with a putative cellulose-binding domain is highly expressed in ripening strawberry fruits.Plant molecular biology · 1999Article
- Characterization of two divergent endo-beta-1,4-glucanase cDNA clones highly expressed in the nonclimacteric strawberry fruit.Plant physiology · 1999Article
- Expression analysis of a ripening-specific, auxin-repressed endo-1, 4-beta-glucanase gene in strawberry.Plant physiology · 1998Article
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Abstract
The endo-beta-1,4-glucanases, or cellulases, of higher plants are cell wall-associated enzymes believed to function in cell wall changes associated with the diverse processes of fruit ripening, organ abscission and cell elongation. We have isolated and characterized cDNA and genomic clones encoding a cellulase, PCEL1, which is abundant in ripening pepper fruit. Genomic analysis indicates that PCEL1 is encoded by a single gene, PCEL1, which belongs to a small, structurally divergent gene family. In ripening fruit, PCEL1 transcription is initiated at two distinct sites which yields overlapping mRNA species of 1.7 and 2.1 kb. High-level accumulation of both transcripts occurs in red fruit, while the 1.7 kb transcript is detected at a much lower level in stem and petiolar tissue. The increase in cellulase activity which is measured during fruit ripening is the product of PCEL1 expression and is tightly coupled to fruit reddening. High-level applications of ethylene serve to enhance the rate of ripening and the accumulation of PCEL1 mRNA. A direct role for ethylene in regulating PCEL1 expression is shown by the exclusive induction, in immature green fruit, of the 1.7 kb transcript in response to prolonged high-level exposure to ethylene--a pattern of expression not observed in fruit development on the vine.
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