Project description:Cereal crops accumulate starch in seeds as an energy reserve. Sucrose synthase (SuSy) plays an important role in grain starch synthesis. In this study, ZmSUS1 was transformed into maize inbred line KN5585, and transgenic plants were obtained. Compared with the control, the content and activity of SuSy were significantly increased, the amylose content in mature seeds of transgenic maize increased by 41.1-69.2%, the total starch content increased by 5.0-13.5%, The 100-grain weight increased by 19.0-26.2% and the average diameter of starch granules increased by 10.8-17.2%. These results indicated that overexpression of ZmSUS1 can significantly improve the traits of maize kernels and obtain new lines with high amylose content. It was also found that ZmSUS1 may increase the amylose content by regulating the expression of Shrunken2 (Sh2) and Brittle2 (Bt2) which encodes endosperm ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) size subunits, and the expression of Granule bound starchsynthase1 (GBSS1) and Starch synthase1 (SS1) which encodes starch synthase. This study proved the important role of ZmSUS1 in maize starch synthesis, and provided a new technology strategy for improving corn starch content and yield.
Project description:Waxy starch has an important influence on the qualities of breads. Generally, grain weight and yield in waxy wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are significantly lower than in bread wheat. In this study, we performed the first proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of starch granule-binding proteins by comparing the waxy wheat cultivar Shannong 119 and the bread wheat cultivar Nongda 5181. These results indicate that reduced amylose content does not affect amylopectin synthesis, but it causes significant reduction of total starch biosynthesis, grain size, weight and grain yield. Two-dimensional differential in-gel electrophoresis identified 40 differentially expressed protein (DEP) spots in waxy and non-waxy wheats, which belonged mainly to starch synthase (SS) I, SS IIa and granule-bound SS I. Most DEPs involved in amylopectin synthesis showed a similar expression pattern during grain development, suggesting relatively independent amylose and amylopectin synthesis pathways. Phosphoproteome analysis of starch granule-binding proteins, using TiO2 microcolumns and LC-MS/MS, showed that the total number of phosphoproteins and their phosphorylation levels in ND5181 were significantly higher than in SN119, but proteins controlling amylopectin synthesis had similar phosphorylation levels. Our results revealed the lack of amylose did not affect the expression and phosphorylation of the starch granule-binding proteins involved in amylopectin biosynthesis.
Project description:Waxy starch has an important influence on bread dough and the qualities of breads. Generally, grain weight and yield in waxy wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are significantly lower than in bread wheat. In this study, we performed the first proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of starch granule-binding proteins by comparing the waxy wheat cultivar Shannong 119 and the bread wheat cultivar Nongda 5181. The waxy and non-waxy wheats had similar starch granule morphological features and developmental patterns, and similar amylopectin quality in the grain. These results indicate that reduced amylose content does not affect amylopectin synthesis, but it causes significant reduction of total starch biosynthesis, grain size, weight and yield. Two-dimensional differential in-gel electrophoresis identified 40 differentially expressed protein (DEP) spots in waxy and non-waxy wheats, which belonged mainly to starch synthase (SS) I, SS IIa and granule-bound SS I. Most DEPs involved in amylopectin synthesis showed a similar expression pattern during grain development, suggesting relatively independent amylose and amylopectin synthesis pathways. Phosphoproteome analysis of starch granule-binding proteins, using TiO2 microcolumns and LC-MS/MS, showed that the total number of phosphoproteins and their phosphorylation levels in ND5181 were significantly higher than in SN119, but proteins controlling amylopectin synthesis had similar phosphorylation levels. Dynamic transcriptional expression profiling of starch biosynthesis-related genes indicated similar transcriptional expression profiles in both cultivars. Our results revealed that phosphorylation modifications played critical roles in amylose and amylopectin biosynthesis, but the lack of amylose did not affect the expression and phosphorylation of the starch granule-binding proteins involved in amylopectin biosynthesis.
Project description:PHS1 is a plastidial α-glucan phosphorylase that can elongate and degrade maltooligosaccharides (MOS), but its exact physiological role in plants is poorly understood. Here, we discover a specialised role of PHS1 in establishing the unique bimodal characteristic of starch granules in the wheat endosperm. Wheat endosperm contains large A-type granules that initiate at early grain development, and small B-type granules that initiate in later grain development. We demonstrate that PHS1 interacts with BGC1 – a carbohydrate-binding protein essential for normal B-type granule initiation. Mutants of tetraploid durum wheat deficient in all homeologs of PHS1 had normal A-type granules, but fewer and larger B-type granules. Further, using a double mutant defective in both PHS1 and BGC1, we show that PHS1 is exclusively involved in B-type granule initiation. Grain size and starch content were not affected by the mutations. In leaves, the total starch content and number of starch granules per chloroplast were not affected by loss of PHS1, suggesting that its role in granule initiation in wheat is limited to the endosperm. We therefore propose that the initiation of A- and B-type granules occur by distinct biochemical mechanisms, where PHS1 plays an exclusive role in B-type granule initiation.
Project description:An Arabidopsis double mutant lacking both the cytosolic Disproportionating enzyme 2 (DPE2) and the plastidial Glucan phosphorylase (PHS1) revealed a unique starch metabolism. Dpe2/phs1 was reported to have a dwarf growth phenotype, an uneven starch distribution in the rosettes, and a strongly reduced starch granule number per chloroplast when grown under diurnal rhythm. Here we analyzed dpe2/phs1 in more detail and found that it showed three distinct growth periods. In young plants the starch granule number was similar to Col-0, then the starch granule number decreased massively down to one or no granule per chloroplast followed by an increase of the granule number. Thus, in dpe2/phs1 the control over the starch granule number is impaired and it is not defective in starch granule initiation. The data also show that the granule number is not fixed and is regulated over the entire plant growth. Further, also the chloroplasts revealed alterations during these three periods with a partially strong aberrant morphology in the middle phase. Interestingly, the unique metabolism perpetuated if starch degradation is further impaired by additionally lack of Isoamylase 3 and Starch excess 4. Transcriptomic studies and metabolic profiling of dpe2/phs1 revealed a gene co-regulation of most starch metabolism related genes and a clear metabolic separation. Further most senescence-induced genes were found to up-regulated more than 2-fold in the starch-less mature leave. Thus, dpe2/phs1 is a unique source to understand especially the starch granule number regulation in detail. We performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of 3 stages from both Col-0 and dpe2/phs1.
Project description:Oryza sativa Japonica Group OsSSIIc, Similar to Starch synthase II, chloroplast precursor (EC 2.4.1.21) (SS II) (GBSSII) (Granule-bound starch synthase II), is differentially expressed in 20 experiment(s);
Project description:Oryza sativa Japonica Group OsSSIIc, Similar to Starch synthase II, chloroplast precursor (EC 2.4.1.21) (SS II) (GBSSII) (Granule-bound starch synthase II), is expressed in 11 baseline experiment(s);