Molecular Cloning of Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Coding Sequence from Aeluropus littoralis Halophyte Grass

H+-ATPase proton pump is one of the major proteins found in plasma membrane of plants which plays an important role in molecular physiology of stress response. Aeluropus littoralis grass due to resistance to some environmental stresses like salinity and heavy metals is a good model for studying the structure and function of the plasma H+ATPase pump. In this study as a starting point، the complete coding sequence of the gene were identified and cloned from Aeluropus littoralis halophyte. Preliminary data showed that nucleotide sequence of A. littoralis plasma membrane proton pump contains a 2856 bp full-length ORF region that shared a significant homology with Sorghum bicolor، Oryza sativa and Zea mays. Also the predicted peptide of this gene consists of 165 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 104567 Da which is in terms of domains type and structure، consistent with most plant and fungal plasma membrane H + ATPase protein type III (type III) from a large family pump ATPase p-type. Comparative alignment of amino acid sequence of A. littoralis plasma membrane H+ATPase with some species indicated that nucleotide substitutions did not targeted critical and functional positions of protein and these regions remained conserved. At last the sequence was submitted to GenBank with accession number of GI: 346230720.