Natural variation in flavonol accumulation in Arabidopsis is determined by the flavonol glucosyltransferase BGLU6

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of experimental botany. - 1985. - 67(2016), 5 vom: 30. März, Seite 1505-17
1. Verfasser: Ishihara, Hirofumi (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tohge, Takayuki, Viehöver, Prisca, Fernie, Alisdair R, Weisshaar, Bernd, Stracke, Ralf
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of experimental botany
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Arabidopsis thaliana flavonoid flavonol glucosyltransferase glycoside hydrolase-type natural variation whole genome association mapping. Arabidopsis Proteins Flavonols mehr... BGLU6 protein, Arabidopsis EC 2.4.1.- Glucosyltransferases
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Zusammenfassung:© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.
Flavonols are colourless secondary metabolites, primarily regarded as UV-protection pigments that are deposited in plants in their glycosylated forms. The glycosylation of flavonols is mainly catalysed by UDP-sugar-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Although the structures of flavonol glycosides accumulating in Arabidopsis thaliana are known, many genes involved in the flavonol glycosylation pathway are yet to be discovered. The flavonol glycoside profiles of seedlings from 81 naturally occurring A. thaliana accessions were screened using high performance thin layer chromatography. A qualitative variation in flavonol 3-O-gentiobioside 7-O-rhamnoside (F3GG7R) content was identified. Ler × Col-0 recombinant inbred line mapping and whole genome association mapping led to the identification of a glycoside hydrolase family 1-type gene, At1g60270/BGLU6, that encodes a homolog of acyl-glucose-dependent glucosyltransferases involved in the glycosylation of anthocyanins, possibly localized in the cytoplasm, and that is co-expressed with genes linked to phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. A causal single nucleotide polymorphism introducing a premature stop codon in non-producer accessions was found to be absent in the producers. Several other naturally occurring loss-of-function alleles were also identified. Two independent bglu6 T-DNA insertion mutants from the producer accessions showed loss of F3GG7R. Furthermore, bglu6 mutant lines complemented with the genomic Ler BGLU6 gene confirmed that BGLU6 is essential for production of F3GGR7. We have thus identified an accession-specific gene that causes a qualitative difference in flavonol glycoside accumulation in A. thaliana strains. This gene encodes a flavonol 3-O-glucoside: 6″-O-glucosyltransferase that does not belong to the large canonical family of flavonol glycosyltransferases that use UDP-conjugates as the activated sugar donor substrate
Beschreibung:Date Completed 13.12.2016
Date Revised 18.03.2024
published: Print-Electronic
CommentIn: J Exp Bot. 2016 Mar;67(5):1203-4. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erw050. - PMID 26912907
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1460-2431
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erv546