An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta.

	An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta.
	Sun, Ting; Xu, Yuxing; Zhang, Dale; Zhuang, Huifu; Wu, Jianqiang; Sun, Guiling
	2016
发表期刊	Plant diversity
ISSN	2468-2659
卷号	38 期号:3 页码:149-155
摘要	Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) refers to the flow of genetic materials to non-offspring, and occasionally HGT in plants can improve the adaptation of organisms in new niches due to expanded metabolic capability. Anthocyanins are an important group of water-soluble red, purple, or blue secondary metabolites, whose diversity results from modification after the main skeleton biosynthesis. Cuscuta is a stem holoparasitic genus, whose members form direct connection with hosts to withdraw water, nutrients, and macromolecules. Such intimate association is thought to increase the frequency of HGT. By transcriptome screening for foreign genes in Cuscuta australis, we discovered that one gene encoding a putative anthocyanin acyltransferase gene of the BAHD family, which is likely to be involved in anthocyanin modification, was acquired by C.australis from Fabaceae through HGT. The anthocyanin acyltransferase-like (AT-like) gene was confirmed to be present in the genome assembly of C.australis and the transcriptomes of Cuscuta pentagona. The higher transcriptional level in old stems is consistent with its putative function in secondary metabolism by stabilizing anthocyanin at neutral pH and thus HGT of this AT-like gene may have improved biotic and abiotic resistance of Cuscuta.
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/64893
专题	植物化学与西部植物资源持续利用国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun, Ting,Xu, Yuxing,Zhang, Dale,et al. An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta.[J]. Plant diversity,2016,38(3):149-155.
APA	Sun, Ting,Xu, Yuxing,Zhang, Dale,Zhuang, Huifu,Wu, Jianqiang,&Sun, Guiling.(2016).An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta..Plant diversity,38(3),149-155.
MLA	Sun, Ting,et al."An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta.".Plant diversity 38.3(2016):149-155.