title: Complementation of sugary-1 phenotype in rice endosperm with the wheat isoamylase1 gene supports a direct role for isoamylase1 in amylopectin biosynthesis.
abstract: To examine the role of isoamylase1 (ISA1) in amylopectin biosynthesis in plants, a genomic DNA fragment from Aegilops tauschii was introduced into the ISA1-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) sugary-1 mutant line EM914, in which endosperm starch is completely replaced by phytoglycogen. A. tauschii is the D genome donor of wheat (Triticum aestivum), and the introduced fragment effectively included the gene for ISA1 for wheat (TaISA1) that was encoded on the D genome. In TaISA1-expressing rice endosperm, phytoglycogen synthesis was substantially replaced by starch synthesis, leaving only residual levels of phytoglycogen. The levels of residual phytoglycogen present were inversely proportional to the expression level of the TaISA1 protein, although the level of pullulanase that had been reduced in EM914 was restored to the same level as that in the wild type. Small but significant differences were found in the amylopectin chain-length distribution, gelatinization temperatures, and A-type x-ray diffraction patterns of the starches from lines expressing TaISA1 when compared with wild-type rice starch, although in the first two parameters, the effect was proportional to the expression level of TaISA. The impact of expression levels of ISA1 on starch structure and properties provides support for the view that ISA1 is directly involved in the synthesis of amylopectin.
authors.affiliation: Akita Prefectural University, Akita 010-0195, Japan.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Sadequr
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Utsumi
authors.forename: Zhongyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ugaki
authors.forename: Kyuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Hikaru
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Konik-Rose
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morell
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000687:Amylopectin / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D007517:Isoamylase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007527:Isoenzymes; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D012639:Seeds / Q000502:physiology; D013213:Starch / Q000378:metabolism; D014908:Triticum / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D013213:Starch; D000687:Amylopectin; D007517:Isoamylase