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GrainGenes Reference Report: PPS-124-253

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Reference
PPS-124-253
Title
Isolation of a cDNA encoding a granule-bound 152-kilodalton starch-branching enzyme in wheat
Journal
Plant Physiology
Year
2000
Volume
124
Pages
253-263
Author
Baga M
Nair RB
Repellin A
Scoles GJ
Chibbar RN
Abstract
Summary: Screening of a wheat (Triticum aestivum) cDNA library for starch-branching enzyme I (SBEI) genes combined with 5'-rapid amplification of cDNA ends resulted in isolation of a 4,563-bp composite cDNA, Sbe1c. Based on sequence alignment to characterized SBEI cDNA clones isolated from plants, the SBEIc predicted from the cDNA sequence was produced with a transit peptide directing the polypeptide into plastids. Furthermore, the predicted mature form of SBEIc was much larger (152 kD) than previously characterized plant SBEI (80-100 kD) and contained a partial duplication of SBEI sequences. The first SBEI domain showed high amino acid similarity to a 74-kD wheat SBEI-like protein that is inactive as a branching enzyme when expressed in Escherichia coli. The second SBEI domain on SBEIc was identical in sequence to a functional 87-kD SBEI produced in the wheat endosperm. Immunoblot analysis of proteins produced in developing wheat kernels demonstrated that the 152-kD SBEIc was, in contrast to the 87- to 88-kD SBEI, preferentially associated with the starch granules. Proteins similar in size and recognized by wheat SBEI antibodies were also present in Triticum monococcum, Triticum tauschii, and Triticum turgidum subsp. durum
External Databases
Pubmed: 10982440
Keyword
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alignment
amino acid
amplification
amylopectin
antibody
branching enzyme
cdna
cdna clone
cdna sequence
cloning
domain
duplication
durum
endosperm
enzyme
escherichia coli
expression analysis
gene
granule
kernels
library
maize endosperm
multiple isoforms
peptide
plastid
polypeptide
screening
sequence
sequence alignment
solanum-tuberosum
starch
starch granule
tauschii
transit peptide
triticum aestivum
triticum monococcum
triticum tauschii
triticum turgidum
turgidum
wheat endosperm

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