Gene Details:

• Gene ID: Zm00001eb155940
• Gene Symbol: ZmPEAMT peamt1
• Gene Name: phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase1
• Genome: Zm-B73-REFERENCE-NAM-5.0
• Species: Zea mays

Functional Descriptions:

• Phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase (ZmPEAMT), a key enzyme for betaine synthesis, is reported to be regulated by its upstream promoter. In the present investigation, by using the transgenic approach, a 1048 bp long promoter region of ZmPEAMT gene from Zea mays was cloned and functionally characterized in tobacco.
• The T1 generation transgenic tobacco plants possessing a single copy of the transgene were assessed for GUS expression under control and stressful regimes including salt, drought, cold and oxidative stress for determining the optimal length of the ZmPEAMT promoter for achieving effective gene expression.
• ZmPEAMT gene promoter, as a stress-inducible promoter, may be used to biological engineering for solving the problem caused by abiotic stress in different plants that might provide staple food crops.
• ZmPEAMT gene involved in betaine synthesis.

Function-related keywords:

• drought ,  stress ,  drought-stress ,  oxidative-stress ,  salt ,  oxidative ,  cold-stress ,  abiotic-stress ,  salt-stress ,  cold ,  methyltransferase ,  drought-and-oxidative-stress

Literature:

• Cloning and Functional Analysis of Phosphoethanolamine Methyltransferase Promoter from Maize (Zea mays L.).   DOI:  10.3390/ijms19010191 ;  PMID:  29316727

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Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: LOC103651303
• UniProt accessions: A0A1D6NER6

Sequences:

Source: Genetic information comes from the article