EST generation and analyses towards identifying female gametophyte-specific genes in Zea mays L.

Planta

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1004-1014

  Yang, Heping ^a,b   Kaur, Navpreet ^a   Kiriakopolos, Stephanie ^a   McCormick, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central cell; Double fertilization; Egg cell; Gamete; Synergid; Triple cysteine motif protein

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33748921746     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0283-3     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Alfieri JA, Martin AD, Takeda J, Kondoh G, Myles DG, Primakoff P (2003) Infertility in female mice with an oocyte-specific knockout of GPI-anchored proteins. J Cell Sci 116:2149-2155
2. Christensen CA, Gorsich SW, Brown RH, Jones LG, Brown J, Shaw JM, Drews GN (2002) Mitochondrial GFA2 is required for synergid cell death in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 14:2215-2232
3. Camon E, Magrane M, Barrell D, Binns D, Fleischmann W, Kersey P, Mulder N, Oinn T, Maslen J, Cox A, Apweiler R (2003) The gene ontology annotation (GOA) project: implementation of GO in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, and InterPro. Genome Res 13:662-672
4. Cordts S, Bantin J, Wittich PE, Kranz E, Lörz H, Dresselhaus T (2001) ZmES genes encode peptides with structural homology to defensins and are specifically expressed in the female gametophyte of maize. Plant J 25:103-114
5. Corpet F (1988) Multiple sequence alignment with hierarchical clustering. Nucleic Acids Res 16:10881-10890
6. Dresselhaus T, Lörz H, Kranz E (1994) Representative cDNA libraries from few plant cells. Plant J 5:605-610
7. Dresselhaus T, Hagel C, Lörz H, Kranz E (1996) Isolation of a full-length cDNA encoding calreticulin from a PCR library of in vitro zygotes of maize. Plant Mol Biol 31:23-34
8. Dresselhaus T, Cordts S, Heuer S, Sauter M, Lörz H, Kranz E (1999a) Novel ribosomal genes from maize are differentially expressed in the zygotic and somatic cell cycles. Mol Gen Genet 261:416-427
9. Dresselhaus T, Cordts S, Lörz H (1999b) A transcript encoding translation initiation factor eIF-5A is stored in unfertilized egg cells of maize. Plant Mol Biol 39:1063-1071
10. Dresselhaus T, Amien S, Marton M, Strecke A, Brettschneider R, Cordts S (2005) TRANSPARENT LEAF AREA1 encodes a secreted proteolipid required for anther maturation, morphogenesis, and differentiation during leaf development in maize. Plant Cell 17:730-745
11. Engel ML, Chaboud A, Dumas C, McCormick S (2003) Sperm cells of Zea mays have a complex complement of mRNAs. Plant J 34:697-707
12. Hennig L, Gruissem W, Grossniklaus U, Kohler C (2004) Transcriptional programs of early reproductive stages in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 135:1-11
13. Heslop-Harrison J, Heslop-Harrison JS, Heslop-Harrison Y (1999) The structure and prophylactic role of the angiosperm embryo sac and its associated tissues: Zea mays as a model. Protoplasma 209:256-272
14. Higashiyama T, Yabe S, Sasaki N, Nishimura Y, Miyagishima S, Kuroiwa H, Kuroiwa T (2001) Pollen tube attraction by the synergid cell. Science 293:1480-1483
15. Huck N, Moore JM, Federer M, Grossniklaus U (2003) The Arabidopsis mutant feronia disrupts the female gametophytic control of pollen tube reception. Development 130:2149-2159
16. Hülskamp M, Schneitz K, Pruitt RE (1995) Genetic evidence for a long-range activity that directs pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 7:57-64
17. Kranz E, Bautor J, Lörz H (1991) In vitro fertilization of single, isolated gametes of maize mediated by electrofusion. Sex Plant Reprod 4:12-16
18. Le Q, Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Costa LM, Meyer S, Dickinson HG, Lörz H, Kranz E, Scholten S (2005) Construction and screening of subtracted cDNA libraries from limited populations of plant cells: a comparative analysis of gene expression between maize egg cells and central cells. Plant J 44:167-178
19. Lee Y, Choi D, Kende H (2001) Expansins: ever-expanding numbers and functions. Curr Opin Plant Biol 4:527-532
20. Linnestad C, Doan DN, Brown RC, Lemmon BE, Meyer DJ, Jung R, Olsen OA (1998) Nucellain, a barley homolog of the dicot vacuolar-processing protease, is localized in nucellar cell walls. Plant Physiol 118:1169-1180
21. Magnard JL, Le Deunff E, Domenech J, Rogowsky PM, Testillano PS, Rougier M, Risueno MC, Vergne P, Dumas C (2000) Genes normally expressed in the endosperm are expressed at early stages of microspore embryogenesis in maize. Plant Mol Biol 44:559-574
22. Magnard JL, Lehouque G, Massonneau A, Frangne N, Heckel T, Gutierrez-Marcos J, Perez P, Dumas C, Rogowsky PM (2003) ZmEBE genes show a novel, continuous expression pattern in the central cell before fertilization and in specific domains of the resulting endosperm after fertilization. Plant Mol Biol 53:821-836
23. Márton ML, Cordt S, Broadhvest J, Dresselhaus T (2005) Micropylar pollen tube guidance by egg apparatus 1 of maize. Science 307:573-576
24. Okamoto T, Higuchi K, Shinkawa T, Isobe T, Lörz H, Koshiba T, Kranz E (2004) Identification of major proteins in maize egg cells. Plant Cell Physiol 45:1406-1412
25. Okamoto T, Scholten S, Lörz H, Kranz E (2005) Identification of genes that are up- or down-regulated in the apical or basal cell of maize two-celled embryos and monitoring their expression during zygote development by a cell manipulation- and PCR-based approach. Plant Cell Physiol 46:332-338
26. Opsahl-Ferstad HG, Le Deunff E, Dumas C, Rogowsky PM (1997) ZmEsr, a novel endosperm-specific gene expressed in a restricted region around the maize embryo. Plant J 12:235-246
27. Pagnussat GC, Yu HJ, Ngo QA, Rajani S, Mayalagu S, Johnson CS, Capron A, Xie LF, Ye D, Sundaresan V (2005) Genetic and molecular identification of genes required for female gametophyte development and function in Arabidopsis. Development 132:603-14
28. Ray SM, Park SS, Ray A (1997) Pollen tube guidance by the female gametophyte. Development 124:2489-2498
29. Rotman N, Rozier F, Boavida L, Dumas C, Berger F, Faure JE (2003) Female control of male gamete delivery during fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Curr Biol 13:432-436
30. Schopfer CR, Nasrallah ME, Nasrallah JB (1999) The male determinant of self-incompatibility in Brassica. Science 286:1697-1700
31. Shimizu KK, Okada K (2000) Attractive and repulsive interactions between female and male gametophytes in Arabidopsis pollen tube guidance. Development 127:4511-4518
32. Sprunck S, Baumann U, Edwards K, Langridge P, Dresselhaus T (2005) The transcript composition of egg cells changes significantly following fertilization in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Plant J 41:660-672
33. Swanson R, Edlund AF, Preuss D (2004) Species specificity in pollen-pistil interactions. Annu Rev Genet 38:793-818
34. Tang W, Ezcurra I, Muschietti J, McCormick S (2002) A cysteine-rich extracellular protein, LAT52, interacts with the extracellular domain of the pollen receptor kinase LePRK2. Plant Cell 14:2277-2287
35. Tang W, Kelley D, Ezcurra I, Cotter R, McCormick S (2004) Le-STIG1, an extracellular binding partner for the pollen receptor kinases LePRK1 and LePRK2, promotes pollen tube growth in vitro. Plant J 39:343-353
36. The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative (2000) Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 408:796-815
37. Torii KU (2004) Leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases in plants: structure, function, and signal transduction pathways. Int Rev Cytol 234:1-46
38. Torres MA, Rigau J, Puigdomenech P, Stiefel V (1995) Specific distribution of mRNAs in maize growing pollen tubes observed by whole-mount in situ hybridization with non-radioactive probes. Plant J 8:317-321
39. Weterings K, Russell SD (2004) Experimental analysis of the fertilization process. Plant Cell 16(Suppl):S107-S118
40. Yu HJ, Hogan P, Sundaresan V (2005) Analysis of the female gametophyte transcriptome of Arabidopsis by comparative expression profiling. Plant Physiol 139:1853-1869