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CLUSTERING OF GENES FOR 20 kd ZEIN SUBUNITS IN THE SHORT ARM OF MAIZE CHROMOSOME 7
Carlo Soave 1, Remo Reggiani 1, Natale Di Fonzo 1, and Francesco Salamini 1
1 Istituto Biosintesi Vegetali C. N. R., I 20133 Milano, Italy and Istituto sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura, Sezione di Bergamo P. O. Box 164, I 24100 Bergamo, Italy
Zein is the major storage protein of the endosperm of maize kernels. When this alcohol-soluble protein is subjected to SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it is resolved into four fractions of different molecular weight: 10, 14, 20 and 22 kilodaltons (kd). Each fraction is heterogeneous with respect to isoelectric pH. For example, the 20 kd fraction contains at least seven subfractions as revealed by isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gels. In this report, we present evidence that the structural genes coding for the 20 kd proteins are clustered on the short arm of chromosome 7, a region that also bears loci regulating endosperm zein biosynthesis [opaque-2 (02) and defective endosperm-B30 (De*-B30)]. The organization of these zein genes suggests that the evolution of at least some of the maize genome has occurred as the result of repeated duplication and divergence of chromosome segments.
Submitted on June 16, 1980Revised on January 5, 1981
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