Molecular characterization of two y-type high molecular weight glutenin subunit alleles 1Ay12 and 1Ay8 from cultivated einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum ssp. monococcum)

Two y-type high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs) 1Ay12^? and 1Ay8^? from the two accessions PI560720 and PI345186 of cultivated einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum ssp. monococcum, AA, 2n = 2x = 14), were identified by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The mobility of 1Ay12^? and 1Ay8^? was similar to that of 1Dy12 and 1By8 from common wheat Chinese Spring, respectively. Their ORFs respectively consisted of 1812 bp and 1935 bp, encoding 602 and 643 amino acid residues with the four typical structural domains of HMW-GS including signal peptide, conserved N-, and C-terminal and central repetitive domains. Compared with the most similar active 1Ay alleles previous published, there were a total of 15 SNPs and 2 InDels in them. Their encoding functions were confirmed by successful heterogeneous expression. The two novel 1Ay alleles were named as 1Ay12^? and 1Ay8^? with the accession No. JQ318694 and JQ318695 in GenBank, respectively. The two alleles were classed into the two distinct groups, Phe-type and Cys-type, which might be relevant to the differentiation of Glu-A1-2 alleles. Of which, 1Ay8^? belonged to Cys-type group, and its protein possessed an additional conserved cysteine residue in central repetitive region besides the six common ones in N- and C-terminal regions of Phe-type group, and was the second longest in all the known active 1Ay alleles. These results suggested that the subunit 1Ay8^? of cultivated einkorn wheat accession PI345186 might have a potential ability to strengthen the gluten polymer interactions and be a valuable genetic resource for wheat quality improvement.     

不同灌水处理对强筋小麦谷蛋白大聚合体粒度分布和品质的影响

在田间条件下,以两个优质强筋小麦品种(藁城8901和济麦20)为供试材料,研究了不同灌水处理(全生育期不灌水、拔节期灌1次水、越冬期和拔节期灌2次水、越冬期、拔节期和灌浆期灌3次水,每次灌水量675 m³·hm^-2)对强筋小麦谷蛋白大聚合体含量与粒度分布、品质和产量的影响.结果表明: 两个小麦品种的面团形成时间、面团稳定时间、面包体积、籽粒产量、谷蛋白大聚合体含量以及体积加权平均粒径、表面积加权平均粒径、粒径>100 μm的体积百分比和表面积百分比均以灌2水处理最高.相关分析显示,两个小麦品种的面团形成时间、面团稳定时间和面包体积与粒径<10 μm和10～100 μm的谷蛋白大聚合体颗粒体积百分比呈显著负相关,而与粒径>100 μm的谷蛋白大聚合体颗粒体积百分比、体积加权平均粒径和表面积加权平均粒径呈显著正相关.水分供应过多或过少均不利于籽粒产量和品质的同步改善,灌溉水平可通过改变谷蛋白大聚合体粒度分布影响小麦籽粒品质.     

Effect of dietary fenugreek seeds on biliary proteins that influence nucleation of cholesterol crystals in bile

Formation of cholesterol gallstones in gallbladder is controlled by procrystallising and anticrystallising factors present in bile. Dietary fenugreek seed has been recently observed to possess anti-lithogenic potential in experimental mice. In the current animal study, we evaluated the effect of dietary fenugreek on the compositional changes in the bile, particularly its effect on glycoproteins, low-molecular-weight (LMW) and high-molecular-weight (HMW) proteins, cholesterol nucleation time and cholesterol crystal growth. Groups of Wistar rats were fed for 10 weeks with diets: (1) basal control (C), (2) C + fenugreek (12%), (3) high cholesterol diet (HCD) and (4) HCD + fenugreek (12%). Feeding of HCD containing 0.5% cholesterol for 10 weeks rendered the bile lithogenic. Incorporation of fenugreek into HCD decreased the cholesterol content (70.5%), total protein (58.3%), glycoprotein (27.5%), lipid peroxides (13.6%) and cholesterol saturation index (from 1.98 to 0.75) in bile, increased the bile flow rate (19.5%), prolonged the cholesterol nucleation time and reduced the vesicular form of cholesterol (65%), which was accompanied with an increase in smaller vesicular form (94%). There was an increase in biliary phospholipid (33%) and total bile acid (49%) contents in the HCD + fenugreek group as compared with the HCD group. Electrophoretic separation of biliary LMW proteins showed the presence of a high concentration of 28-kDa protein, which might be responsible for the prolongation of cholesterol nucleation time in the fenugreek-fed groups. These findings indicate that the beneficial anti-lithogenic effect of dietary fenugreek, which primarily is due to reduction in the cholesterol content in bile, was additionally affected through a modulation of the nucleating and anti-nucleating proteins, which, in turn, affect cholesterol crystallisation.     

Effect of cleavage enzyme, search algorithm and decoy database on mass spectrometric identification of wheat gluten proteins

While tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is routinely used to identify proteins from complex mixtures, certain types of proteins present unique challenges for MS/MS analyses. The major wheat gluten proteins, gliadins and glutenins, are particularly difficult to distinguish by MS/MS. Each of these groups contains many individual proteins with similar sequences that include repetitive motifs rich in proline and glutamine. These proteins have few cleavable tryptic sites, often resulting in only one or two tryptic peptides that may not provide sufficient information for identification. Additionally, there are less than 14,000 complete protein sequences from wheat in the current NCBInr release. In this paper, MS/MS methods were optimized for the identification of the wheat gluten proteins. Chymotrypsin and thermolysin as well as trypsin were used to digest the proteins and the collision energy was adjusted to improve fragmentation of chymotryptic and thermolytic peptides. Specialized databases were constructed that included protein sequences derived from contigs from several assemblies of wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs), including contigs assembled from ESTs of the cultivar under study. Two different search algorithms were used to interrogate the database and the results were analyzed and displayed using a commercially available software package (Scaffold). We examined the effect of protein database content and size on the false discovery rate. We found that as database size increased above 30,000 sequences there was a decrease in the number of proteins identified. Also, the type of decoy database influenced the number of proteins identified. Using three enzymes, two search algorithms and a specialized database allowed us to greatly increase the number of detected peptides and distinguish proteins within each gluten protein group.     

滨麦低分子量谷蛋白亚基（LMW-GS）基因的分离与序列分析

采用PCR方法,从滨麦(Leymus mollis)基因组中分离出8条LMW-GS基因序列.核苷酸序列分析表明,序列GQ169791在起始密码子上游包含318 bp的启动子序列,该序列包含-300元件、GCN4 motif、种子贮藏蛋白盒等基因特异表达的顺式或反式作用调控元件.推导的氨基酸序列分析表明,8条序列的编码区依次有信号肽,N-末端区,中部重复区和C-末端Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ区等典型LMW-GS多肽一级结构特征;序列HQ416909、HQ416914和HQ416915具有单一完整的开放阅读框(ORF);序列GQ169791、HQ416910、HQ416911、HQ416912和HQ416913在中部重复区和C-末端区出现了4个或5个提前终止密码子,推断其为假基因.8条序列都含有8个或9个半胱氨酸残基(C),N-末端区起始氨基酸序列为METSRIPG-或METTRIPG-,推断其为LMW-m型LMW-GS基因.系统进化分析表明,8条序列与华山新麦草(Psathyrostachys huashanica)LMW-GS基因(HM475146,GQ223386)和野大麦(Hordeum brevisubulatum)的B-hordein基因(AY695368)具有相对较近的同源关系.该研究为挖掘利用滨麦LMW-GS的基因提供了理论依据,对小麦品质改良具有一定参考价值.     

Immunochemical identification of LMW subunits of glutenin associated with bread-making quality of wheat flours

A murine monoclonal antibody (IFRN 0067), one of a library developed against prolamin fractions fromTriticum aestivum, has been characterised using a combination of immunoassay and immunoblotting techniques. The antibody was specific for two glutenin polypeptides which appeared by 2-dimensional electrophoresis to belong to the B group of LMW subunits. From results of antibody-binding studies with material extracted from genetic stocks, it was deduced that the target polypeptides were encoded on the short arm of chromosome 1D. The antibody was used in an immunoassay of bread wheats with a range of anticipated baking scores and for flours of known baking performance. Significant correlations were found between immunoassay and test-bake results. Indeed, correlation of IFRN 0067 binding with loaf volume was equal or better than that provided by alveograph parameters. The results provide evidence that LMW subunits contribute to the bread-making properties of wheat glutenin, as identified by the use of immunological techniques. The use of particular monoclonal antibodies, such as IFRN 0067, in the further development of simple, rapid diagnostic tests for flour quality predictions is discussed.     

不同品质类型小麦谷蛋白聚合体含量及亚基组成的初步研究

以6个不同品质类型小麦品种为试验材料,对其面粉总蛋白含量(FP％)、谷蛋白总聚合体含量(TGP％)、大聚合体含量(GMP％)进行了测定和比较,并利用多层浓缩胶SDS—PAGE对不同品种小麦面粉大聚合体亚基组成进行了初步分析。结果表明：(1)面包和面条型小麦面粉谷蛋白总聚体含量明显高于饼干型小麦;(2)分子量约为32—43kD和14kD的亚基主要是组成麦谷蛋白大聚合体。     

小麦HMW-G12亚基基因启动子克隆及序列分析

为了研究高分子量谷蛋白基因启动子在种子中的特异性表达,以小麦品种“东农7742”的基因组DNA为模板,根据已发表序列设计并合成引物,用PCR的方法克隆了小麦贮藏蛋白中高分子量谷蛋白12亚基基因的上游调控序列。序列测定结果表明：所克隆的启动子片段大小为424bp与Thomspon报道的序列比较,同源性为97.9%,有9个核苷酸发生了改变。推测的TATA box位于-27— -30bp,Prolamin-box位于-175— -181bp,认为该元件可能与转录速率的调控有关。     

Isolation of HMW DNA from sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) for BAC cloning

The cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the most important oil crops in the world. The importance of sunflower oil in human nutrition and in the chemical industry makes the sunflower a major research interest. An essential element for genomic libraries is the preparation of high molecular weight (HMW) DNA. We developed 2 methods for isolating HMW sunflower DNA. We prepared the DNA from nuclei and from protoplasts isolated from mesophyll tissue with the enzymes cellulase RS and pectolyase Y23. The HMW DNA was digested with restriction endonucleases. The ethidium bromide-stained gel suggested the DNA to be completely digested. These results were confirmed by Southern analysis using a radiolabeled RFLP marker. Both methods made it possible to generate sufficient quantities of megabase-size sunflower DNA suitable for bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) cloning.     

小麦高分子量谷蛋白亚基及其基因的研究进展

主要介绍了小麦高分子量谷蛋白亚基（HMW－GS）及其基因的研究进展情况,目前,转基因小麦的技术已经逐渐成熟,由于分子生物学领域分子标记技术的迅速发展,尤其是PCR技术的广泛应用,为实现外源优良储藏蛋白基因导入改良品种提供了可能,利用已知小麦品种的基因序列设计引物,从众多的未知小麦品种中扩增出新基因加以研究并做外源优质HMW－GS基因的转入已成为一种趋势。