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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 87-87.

Special Issue: 生物技术

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Cloning and Sequence Analysis of Metallothionein Gene from Ganoderma lucidum

Xie Dongyang, Zhu Wen , WU Zu-jian , Lin Qi-ying, XIE Lian-hui   

  • Online:2007-05-05 Published:2007-05-05

Abstract: A partial sequence of Ganoderma lucidum metallothionmerin(MT)gene was identified by RT-PCR and 3’RACE method. The full-length cNDA of G lucidum MT was of 315bp by including a 5’ untranslated region( UTR) of 47 bp,a 3’UTR of 166bp and an open reading frame (ORF) of 102 bp encoding a polypeptide of 33 amino ancids. The predicated protein from G lucidum MT gene sequence contained 7 cysteine residues organized in concerve motifs as classically described for MTs. The contens of cysteine is 21.2%, glycine and alanine were 12.1%. The result sequence analsis indicated that GlMT from Ganoderma lucidum was the member of metallothionmerin family.