Background Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs), a group of small, basic ubiquitous proteins to participate in lipid transfer, cuticle formation and stress response, are involved in the regulation of plant growth and development. To date, although the nsLTP gene family of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) has been preliminarily identified, it is still unclear in the recently completed genome database of barley and Qingke, and its transcriptional profiling under abiotic stress has not been elucidated as well. Results We identified 40 barley nsLTP (HvLTP) genes through a strict screening strategy based on the latest barley genome and 35 Qingke nsLTP (HtLTP) orthologues using blastp, and these LTP genes were divided into four types (1, 2, D and G). At the same time, a comprehensive analysis of the physical and chemical characteristics, homology alignment, conserved motifs, gene structure and evolution of HvLTPs and HtLTPs further supported their similar nsLTP characteristics and classification. The genomic location of HvLTPs and HtLTPs showed that these genes were unevenly distributed, and obvious HvLTP and HtLTP gene clusters were found on the 7 chromosomes including six pairs of tandem repeats and one pair of segment repeats in the barley genome, indicating that these genes may be co-evolutionary and co-regulated. A spatial expression analysis showed that most HvLTPs and HtLTPs had different tissue-specific expression patterns. Moreover, the upstream cis-element analysis of HvLTPs and HtLTPs showed that there were many different stress-related transcriptional regulatory elements, and the expression pattern of HvLTPs and HtLTPs under abiotic stress also indicated that numerous HvLTP and HtLTP genes were related to the abiotic stress response. Taken together, these results may be due to the differences in promoters rather than by genes themselves resulting in different expression patterns under abiotic stress. Conclusion Due to a stringent screening and comprehensive analysis of the nsLTP gene family in barley and Qingke and its expression profile under abiotic stress, this study can be considered a useful source for the future studies of nsLTP genes in either barley or Qingke or for comparisons of different plant species.
Background Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs), a group of small, basic ubiquitous proteins to participate in lipid transfer, cuticle formation and stress response, involved in the regulation of plant growth and development. To date, although the nsLTP gene family of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) has been preliminarily identified, it is still unclear in the recently completed genome database of barley and Qingke and its transcriptional profiling under abiotic stress has not been elucidated as well. Results We identified 40 barley nsLTP (HvLTP) genes through strict screening strategy based on the latest barley genome and 35 Qingke nsLTP (HtLTP) Orthologs used blastp, and these LTP genes were divided into four types (1, 2, D and G). At the same time, the comprehensive analysis of physical and chemical characteristics, homology alignment, conservative motifs, gene structure and evolution of HvLTPs and HtLTPs were further supported their similar nsLTPs’ characteristics and classification. The genomic location of HvLTPs and HtLTPs showed that these genes were unevenly distributed, and obvious HvLTP and HtLTP gene clusters were found on the 7 chromosomes including six pairs of tandem repeats and one pair of segment repeats in barley genome, indicating that these genes may be co-evolution and co-regulated. Spatial expression analysis showed that most HvLTPs and HtLTPs were differently tissue-specific expression patterns. Moreover, the upstream cis-elements analysis of HvLTPs and HtLTPs showed that there had many different stress-related transcriptional regulatory elements, and the expression pattern of HvLTPs and HtLTPs under abiotic stress also indicated that numerous HvLTP and HtLTP genes were found to be related to abiotic stress response. Taken together, it may be due to the differences in promoter, rather than by genes themselves resulting in different expression pattern under abiotic stress. Conclusion Due to a stringent screening and comprehensive analysis of nsLTP gene family in barley and Qingke, and its expression profile under abiotic stress, this study can be considered as a useful source for the future studies of nsLTP genes in either barley and Qingke or comparison of different plant species.
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