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1: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991 Apr 15;88(8):3377-81.Click here to read Links

Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones encoding a functional p34cdc2 homologue from Zea mays.

Colasanti J, Tyers M, Sundaresan V.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 11724.

We describe the isolation of cDNA clones encoding a p34cdc2 homologue from a higher plant, Zea mays (maize). A full-length cDNA clone, cdc2ZmA, was isolated, sequenced, and shown to complement a cdc28 mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of the maize p34cdc2 protein with other homologues showed that it was 64% identical to human p34cdc2 and 63% identical to Schizosaccharomyces pombe and S. cerevisiae p34cdc2 proteins. Studies of expression of the maize cdc2 gene(s) by Northern blot analysis indicated a correlation between the abundance of cdc2 mRNA and the proliferative state of the tissue. Southern blot analysis, as well as isolation of another cDNA clone, cdc2ZmB, which is 96% identical to cdc2ZmA, indicates that maize has multiple cdc2 genes.

PMID: 2014258 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC51450