A cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase, hydrogen peroxide-scavenging enzyme, was characterized from Codonopsis lanceolata. The cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase cDNA (CAPX) was 983 nucleotides long and possess an open reading frame of 753 bp with 251 amino acids (MW 27.9 kDa) with pI 5.61. The deduced amino acid sequence of CAPX shows high homology to other known cytosolic APXs (78~83%), but the CAPX was clustered independently from compared ten plant APXs. The CAPX gene was highly expressed in leaf and stem tissues, but not in root. When Codonopsis leaves cut using scalpel were soaked in 1 mM hydorgen peroxide, the expression of CAPX gene was suppressed.

광계II(PSII)는 고등식물의 chloroplast에서 두 개의 광합성 반응중심 중의 하나이다. Chlorophyll a/b 광수확 복합체는 광계II를 위한 안테나 역할을 수행한다. 본 연구에서는 인삼의 잎조직을 제작한 cDNA library로부터 chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (Cab) 유전자를 분리하였다. 인삼 Cab유전자는 935 bp의 염기와 265개의 아미노산 잔기(pI 5.63)로 구성된 한 개의 ORF를 포함하고 있으며, 단백질의 분자량은 28.6 kDa으로 추정되었다. 인삼에서 분리한 Cab 유전자는 기존에 식물에서 보고된 유전자들과 유사성을 나타내었으며, 유사도는 68-92%로 나타났다. 아미노산 서열을 비교하여 유연관계를 분석한 결과 인삼의 Cab 유전자는 비교된 P. persica (AAC34983), A.thaliana (AAD28771), G. hirsutum (CAA38025), G. max (AAL29886), V. radiata (AAF89205) 등과 동일한 그룹으로 분리되었다.

A class I type 2 metallothionein (CMet2) cDNA from taproot of Codonopsis lanceolata was isolated and characterized. A CMet2 cDNA was 572 nucleotides long and had an open reading frame of 234 bp with a deduced amino acid sequence of 78 residues (pI = 4.99). The deduced amino acid sequence of CMet2 matched to the previously reported type 2 metallothionein-like protein genes and showed 74% identity with that of G. max (BAD18377) and C. arietinum (CAA65009). Expression of CMet2 by the RT-PCR was increased at 1 hr after cadmium and hydrogen peroxide treatment, respectively.

A cDNA, PSOD1, encoding cytosolic copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD) was cloned and characterized from a full length cDNA library prepared from Populus alba×Populus glandulosa cultured in vitro. A PSOD1, is 725 nucleotides long and has an open reading frame of 459 bp with 152 amino acid residues (pI 5.43). The deduced amino acid sequence of PSOD1 perfect matched to the previously reported CuZn-SOD (CAC33845.1). Consensus amino acid residues (His-45, -47, -62, -70, -79, -119) were involved in Cu-, Cu/Zn-, and Zn- binding ligands. The deduced amino acid sequence of PSOD1 exhibited the high level of similarity from 100 to 85% among previously registered SOD genes. The expression of PSOD1 in poplar increased at the 1 mM H2O2 and drought stress during 30 min and 60 min, but the ozone treated poplar increased at 30 min in the early time and then decreased at 60 min.