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Suppression of gliadins results in altered protein body morphology in wheat

Gil-Humanes, J., Pistón, F., Shewry, P. R., Tosi, P. and Barro, F. (2011) Suppression of gliadins results in altered protein body morphology in wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62 (12). pp. 4203-4213. ISSN 0022-0957

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err119

Abstract/Summary

Wheat gluten proteins, gliadins and glutenins, are of great importance in determining the unique biomechanical properties of wheat. Studies have therefore been carried out to determine their pathways and mechanisms of synthesis, folding, and deposition in protein bodies. In the present work, a set of transgenic wheat lines has been studied with strongly suppressed levels of γ-gliadins and/or all groups of gliadins, using light and fluorescence microscopy combined with immunodetection using specific antibodies for γ-gliadins and HMW glutenin subunits. These lines represent a unique material to study the formation and fusion of protein bodies in developing seeds of wheat. Higher amounts of HMW subunits were present in most of the transgenic lines but only the lines with suppression of all gliadins showed differences in the formation and fusion of the protein bodies. Large rounded protein bodies were found in the wild-type lines and the transgenic lines with reduced levels of γ-gliadins, while the lines with all gliadins down-regulated had protein bodies of irregular shape and irregular formation. The size and number of inclusions, which have been reported to contain triticins, were also higher in the protein bodies in the lines with all the gliadins down-regulated. Changes in the protein composition and PB morphology reported in the transgenic lines with all gliadins down-regulated did not result in marked changes in the total protein content or instability of the different fractions.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
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Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Crop Science
ID Code:34020
Uncontrolled Keywords:Gluten proteins; immunolocalization; protein bodies; RNAi; transgenic wheat; wheat endosperm
Publisher:Oxford University Press

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