Allelic analysis of the maize amylose-extender locus suggests that independent genes encode starch-branching enzymes IIa and IIb

Plant Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 611-619

  Fisher, Dane K ^a   Gao, Ming ^a   Kim, Kyung Nam ^a   Boyer, Charles D ^b   Guiltinan, Mark J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030060896     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.2.611     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Baba T, Arai Y, Ono T, Munakata A, Yamaguchi H, Itoh T (1982) Branching enzyme from amylomaize endosperms. Carbohydr Res 107: 215-230
2. Baba T, Kimura K, Mizuno K, Etoh H, Ishida Y, Shida O, Arai Y (1991) Sequence conservation of the catalytic regions of amylolytic enzymes in maize branching enzyme-I. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 181: 87-94
3. Boyer CD, Damewood PA, Matters GL (1980) Effect of gene dosage at high amylose loci on the properties of the amylopectin fractions of the starches. Starch 7: 217-222
4. Boyer CD, Preiss J (1978a) Multiple forms of (1,4)-α-D-glucan, (1,4)-α-D-glucan-6-glucosyl transferase from developing Zea mays L. kernels. Carbohydr Res 61: 321-334
5. Boyer CD, Preiss J (1978b) Multiple forms of branching enzyme of maize: evidence for independent genetic control. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 80: 169-175
6. Boyer CD, Preise J (1981) Evidence for independent genetic control of the multiple forms of maize endosperm branching enzymes and starch synthases. Plant Physiol 67: 1141-1145
7. Burton RA, Bewley JD, Smith AM, Bhattacharyya MK, Tatge H, Ring S, Bull V, Hamilton WDO, Martin C (1995) Starch branching enzymes belonging to distinct enzyme families are differentially expressed during pea embryo development. Plant J 7: 3-15
8. Commission on Plant Gene Nomenclature (1994) Nomenclature of sequenced plant genes. Plant Mol Biol Rep 12: S1-S109
9. Dang PL, Boyer CD (1988) Maize leaf and kernel starch synthases and branching enzymes. Phytochemistry 27: 1255-1259
10. Dang PL, Boyer CD (1989) Comparison of soluble starch synthases and branching enzymes from leaves and kernels of normal and amylose-extender maize. Biochem Genet 27: 521-532
11. Deatherage WL, MacMasters MM, Vineyard ML, Bear RP (1954) A note of starch of high amylose content from corn with high starch content. Cereal Chem 31: 50
12. Dellaporta SL, Wood J, Hicks JB (1983) A plant DNA minipreparation: version 2. Plant Mol Biol Rep 1: 19-21
13. Fergason VL, Helm JL, Zuber MS (1966) Gene dosage effects at the aec locus on amylose content of corn endosperm. J Hered 57: 90
14. Fisher DK, Boyer CD, Hannah LC (1993) Starch branching enzyme II from maize endosperm. Plant Physiol 102: 1045-1046
15. Fisher DK, Kim K-N, Gao M, Boyer CD, Guiltinan M (1995) A cDNA encoding starch branching enzyme I from maize endosperm. Plant Physiol 108: 1313-1314
16. Fisher MB, Boyer CD (1983) Immunological characterization of maize starch branching enzymes. Plant Physiol 72: 813-816
17. Gao M, Fisher DK, Kim K-N, Shannon JC, Guiltinan MJ (1996) Evolutionary conservation and expression patterns of maize starch branching enzyme I and IIb genes suggests isoform specialization. Plant Mol Biol (in press)
18. Garwood DL, Shannon JC, Creech RG (1976) Starches of endosperms possessing different alleles at the amylose-extender locus in Zen mays L. Cereal Chem 53: 355
19. Giroux M, Smith-White B, Gilmore V, Hannah LC, Preiss J (1995) The large subunit of the embryo isoform of ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase from maize. Plant Physiol 108: 1333-1334
20. Guan HP, Preiss J (1993) Differentiation of the properties of the branching isozymes from maize (Zea mays). Plant Physiol 102: 1269-1273
21. Hawker JS, Ozbun JL, Ozaki H, Greenburg E, Preiss J (1974) Interaction of spinach leaf adenosine diphosphate glucose alpha-1,4-glucan alpha-4-glucosyl transferase and alpha-1,4-glucan, alpha-1,4-glucan-6-glucosyl transferase in synthesis of branched alpha-glucan. Arch Biochem Biophys 160: 530-551
22. Hedman KD, Boyer CD (1982) Gene dosage at the amylose-extender Locus of maize: effects on the level of starch branching enzymes. Biochem Genet 20: 483-492
23. Hedman KD, Boyer CD (1983) Allelic studies of the amyloseextander locus of Zea mays L.: levels of the starch branching enzymes. Biochem Genet 21: 1217-1222
24. Knecht DA, Dimond RL (1984) Visualization of antigenic proteins on western blots. Anal Biochem 136: 180-184
25. Lanzetta PA, Alvarez LJ, Reinach PS, Candia OA (1979) An improved assay for nanomole amounts of inorganic phosphate. Anal Biochem 100: 95-97
26. Martin C, Smith AM (1995) Starch biosynthesis. Plant Cell 7: 971-985
27. McCarty D (1986) A simple method for extraction of RNA from maize tissue. Maize Genet Coop News Lett 60: 61
28. McCarty DR, Shaw JR, Hannah LC (1986) The cloning, geneticmapping, and expression of the constitutive sucrose synthase locus of maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83: 9099-9103
29. Mizuno K, Kimura K, Arai Y, Kawasaki T, Shimada H, Baba T (1992) Starch branching enzymes from immature rice seeds. J Biochem 112: 643-651
30. Moore CW, Creech RG (1971) Genetic fine structure analysis of the amylose-extender locus in Zea mays L. Genetics 70: 611-619
31. Mu C, Harn C, Ko Y-T, Singletary GW, Keeling PL, Wasserman BP (1994) Association of a 76 kD polypeptide with soluble starch synthase I activity in maize (cv B73) endosperm. Plant J 6: 151-159
32. Nakamura Y, Takeichi T, Kawaguchi K, Yamanouchi H (1992) Purification of two forms of starch branching enzyme (Q-enzyme) from developing rice endosperm. Physiol Plant 84: 329-335
33. Preiss J (1988) Biosynthesis of starch and its regulation. In J Preiss, eds, The Biochemistry of Plants, Vol 14. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp 181-249
34. Preiss J (1991) Biology and molecular biology of starch synthesis and its regulation. Oxf Surv Plant Mol Cell Biol 7: 59-114
35. Prioul JL, Jeannette E, Reyss A, Gregory N, Giroux M, Hannah LC, Causse M (1994) Expression of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in maize (Zra mays L.) grain and source leaf during grain filling. Plant Physiol 104: 179-187
36. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Ed 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
37. Schiefer S, Lee EYC, Whelan WJ (1973) Multiple forms of starch synthetase in maize varieties as revealed by disc-gel electrophoresis and activity staining. FEBS Lett 30: 129-132
38. Shaw JR, Fed RJ, Baier J, St. Clair D, Carson C, McCarty DR, Hannah LC (1994) Structural features of the maize sus1 gene and protein. Plant Physiol 106: 1659-1665
39. Singh BK, Preiss J (1985) Starch branching enzymes from maize. Immunological characterization using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies. Plant Physiol 79: 34-40
40. Stinard PS, Robertson DS, Schnable PS (1993) Genetic isolation, cloning, and analysis of Mutator-induced, dominant antimorph of the maize amylose-extender 1 locus. Plant Cell 5: 1555-1566
41. Takeda Y, Guan HP, Preiss J (1993) Branching of amylose by the branching isoenzymes of maize endosperm. Carbohydr Res 240: 253-263
42. Towbin H, Staehelin T, Gordon J (1979) Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76: 4350-4354
43. Vineyard ML, Bear RP (1952) Amylose content. Maize Genet Coop News Lett 26: 5
44. Yamanouchi H, Nakamura Y (1992) Organ specificity of isoforms of starch branching enzyme (Q-enzyme) in rice. Plant Cell Physiol 33: 985-991