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Differential expression of two β-amylase genes of rye during seed development
Authors:Tadeusz Rorat  Jan Sadowski  Witold Irzykowski  Paul Ziegler  Jean Daussant
Affiliation:Inst. of Plant Genetics. Polish Academy of Sciences, Strzeszynska 34, PL-60-479 Poznań. Poland;Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenphysiologie. Univ. Bayreuth. Universitätsstraβe 30, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany;Laboratoire de Physiologie des Organes Végétaux. CNRS, 4 ter route des Gardes. F-92190 Meudon. France.
Abstract:
The expression of two β-amylase loci was analysed in the developing seeds of two inbred lines of rye (Secale cereale L.), one of which was a β-amylase deficient mutant. Enzymatic activity and the contents of enzymatic protein and mRNA specific for each of an endosperm-characteristic and ubiquitous β-amylase were determined throughout the course of caryopsis development. Both loci were expressed in the developing normal line caryopses according to different temporal and quantitative patterns. The ubiquitous enzyme-specific locus β-Amy 2 was expressed earlier; both mRNA and enzymatic protein accumulated to a maximum extent at 10 to 15 days after pollination. In contrast, the highest content of mRNA for endosperm β-amylase (encoded by the β-Amy I locus) was found 20 days after pollination, and the corresponding enzymatic protein accumulated throughout seed development. The expression of the β-Amy I locus was 30- to 40-fold higher than that of the β-Amy 2 locus in terms of maximum specific mRNA accumulation. The expression product of only the β-Amy 2 locus was found in the developing mutant line caryopses. The expression pattern of this locus was similar in the developing normal and mutant line seeds in terms of the temporal accumulation of mRNA and enzymatic protein. However, an approximately 4-fold higher level of ubiquitous β-amylase-specific mRNA was found in the mutant than in the normal line caryopses, and the content of ubiquitous β-amylase protein decreased to near zero at seed maturity in the mutant line, but not in the normal line, caryopses. The enzymatic activities of both β-amylases appeared to be regulated at the level of accumulated enzymatic protein.
Keywords:β-Amylase    caryopsis development    gene expression    mRNA    rye    Secale cereale
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