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Volume 5, Issue 3(Suppl) Biochem Anal Biochem 2016
ISSN: 2161-1009, Biochem an open access journal
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Biochemistry 2016
October 10-12, 2016
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Biochemistry
October 10-12, 2016 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Conference on
Isolation and expression analysis of a cDNA encoding for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in
thermogenic skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus renifolius
Md Abu Sayed, Yui Umekawa and Kikukatsu Ito
Iwate University, Japan
Skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus renifolius, is known to produce enough heat to melt the snow in early spring. We have isolated a
cDNA that encodes a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, termed as SrPEPC from thermogenic florets of skunk cabbage. SrPEPC
is a 110.5 kDa protein that contains conserved amino acid regions such as phosphorylation and catalytic domains. Expression of
SrPEPC mRNA was highly abundant in the petal and pistil of thermogenic florets. Interestingly, the expression was very low in non-
thermogenic tissues including spathe and leaf. Our data suggest that SrPEPC plays a role for tissue-specific heat production in the
skunk cabbage.
Biography
Md Abu Sayed is currently pursuing his PhD from United Graduate School of Agriculture, Iwate University, Japan. He has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur, Bangladesh since 16 May, 2012.
Md Abu Sayed et al., Biochem Anal Biochem 2016, 5:3(Suppl)