scholarly journals Analysis of SlMYB12 gene polymorphism determining chalcone-naringenin biosynthesis in the skin of tomato fruits and its effect on the lycopene accumulation.

Author(s):  
O. G. Babak ◽  
S. I. Ignatova ◽  
N. A. Golubkina ◽  
N. A. Nekrashevich ◽  
N. V. Anisimova ◽  
...  

Efficiency in detecting of tomato forms with no chalcone-naringenin flavonoid in pink-fruited and yellow-fruited forms was evaluated using DNA markers for various polymorphisms of the SlMYB12 gene. The closest relationship between a phenotype with the transparent skin of fruits and a deletion in the promoter region of the SlMYB12 gene was shown. The highest efficiency in the detection of the recessive y allele of the regulatory SlMYB12 gene, leading to the chalcone-naringenin synthesis disruption and skin transparency, was established by a combination of markers MYB12-603delaF1/603del-aR6 (Myb-603del aF1/R6) and MYB12-603del-aF1/603del-aR5 (Myb12 aF1/R5). Fruit coloration peculiarities were shown depending on a combination of the structural alleles of a carotenoid biosynthesis pathway and SlMYB12 gene alleles. A combination of this y allele with the alleles of the gene of the lycopene-β-cyclase beta (b) and old gold crimson (ogc ) allows selecting pink and raspberry forms respectively. In tomato accessions with yellow and orange fruits, the y allele provides pale shades of the main coloration determined by carotenoid biosynthesis genes (yellow flesh (r), tangerine (t), Beta (B)). The presence of SNP T → C of the SlMYB12 gene (171476848 position of chromosome 1) was identified in 80 % of accessions with the transparent skin of fruits of the evaluated collection. The effect of the recessive y allele of the SlMYB12 gene on an increase in the lycopene concentration of tomato fruits in a combination with b, ogc alleles was shown. Using MAC methods by fruit quality genes, including the SlMYB12 gene, the cherry tomato variety Malinovyj koktel with a high lycopene accumulation was developed and included in the State Register

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (12) ◽  
pp. 7563-7566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Van Dien ◽  
Christopher J. Marx ◽  
Brooke N. O'Brien ◽  
Mary E. Lidstrom

ABSTRACT Genomic searches were used to reconstruct the putative carotenoid biosynthesis pathway in the pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens AM1. Four genes for putative phytoene desaturases were identified. A colorless mutant was obtained by transposon mutagenesis, and the insertion was shown to be in one of the putative phytoene desaturase genes. Mutations in the other three did not affect color. The tetracycline marker was removed from the original transposon mutant, resulting in a pigment-free strain with wild-type growth properties useful as a tool for future experiments.


2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Kłodawska ◽  
Przemysław Malec ◽  
Mihály Kis ◽  
Zoltán Gombos ◽  
Kazimierz Strzałka

EPR spectroscopy using 5-doxylstearic acid (5-SASL) and 16-doxylstearic acid (16-SASL) spin probes was used to study the fluidity of thylakoid membranes. These were isolated from wild type Synechocystis and from several mutants in genes encoding selected enzymes of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway and/or acyl-lipid desaturases. Cyanobacteria were cultivated at 25°C and 35°C under different light regimes: photoautotrophically (PAG) and/or in light-activated heterotrophic conditions (LAHG). The relative fluidity of membranes was estimated from EPR spectra based on the empirical outermost splitting parameter in a temperature range from 15°C to 40°C. Our findings demonstrate that in native thylakoid membranes the elimination of xanthophylls decreased fluidity in the inner membrane region under optimal growth conditions (25°C) and increased it under sublethal heat stress (35°C). This indicated that the overall fluidity of native photosynthetic membranes in cyanobacteria may be influenced by the ratio of polar to non-polar carotenoid pools under different environmental conditions.


1997 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 2151-2158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hirschberg ◽  
M. Cohen ◽  
Mark Harker ◽  
Tamar Lotan ◽  
Varda Mann ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pejman Azadi ◽  
Ntui Valentaine Otang ◽  
Dong Poh Chin ◽  
Ikuo Nakamura ◽  
Masaki Fujisawa ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1689-1697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Baptiste Bassene ◽  
Yann Froelicher ◽  
Claudie Dhuique-Mayer ◽  
Waffa Mouhaya ◽  
Rosa Mar Ferrer ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Hadjipieri ◽  
Egli C. Georgiadou ◽  
Alicia Marin ◽  
Huertas M. Diaz-Mula ◽  
Vlasios Goulas ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Olga Gaidarenko ◽  
Dylan W. Mills ◽  
Maria Vernet ◽  
Mark Hildebrand

ABSTRACTDespite the ubiquity and ecological importance of diatoms, much remains to be understood about their physiology and metabolism, including their carotenoid biosynthesis pathway. Early carotenoid biosynthesis steps are well-conserved, while the identity of the enzymes that catalyze the later steps and their order remain unclear. Those steps lead to the biosynthesis of the final pathway products: the main accessory light-harvesting pigment fucoxanthin (Fx) and the main photoprotective pigment pool comprised of diadinoxanthin (Ddx) and its reversibly de-epoxidized form diatoxanthin (Dtx). We used sequence comparison to known carotenoid biosynthesis enzymes to identify novel candidates in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Microarray and RNA-seq data was used to select candidates with transcriptomic responses similar to known carotenoid biosynthesis genes and to create full-length gene models, and we focused on those that encode proteins predicted to be chloroplast-localized. We identified a violaxanthin de-epoxidase-like gene (Thaps3_11707, VDL2) that when overexpressed results in increased Fx abundance while stoichiometrically reducing Ddx+Dtx. Based on transcriptomics, we hypothesize that Thaps3_10233 may also contribute to Fx biosynthesis, in addition to VDL2. Separately using antisense RNA to target VDL2, VDL1, and both LUT1-like copies (hypothesized to catalyze an earlier step in the pathway) simultaneously, reduced the overall cellular photosynthetic pigment content, including chlorophylls, suggesting destabilization of light-harvesting complexes by Fx deficiency. Based on transcriptomic and physiological data, we hypothesize that the two predicted T. pseudonana zeaxanthin epoxidases have distinct functions and that different copies of phytoene synthase and phytoene desaturase may serve to initiate carotenoid biosynthesis in response to different cellular needs. Finally, nine carotene cis/trans isomerase (CRTISO) candidates identified based on sequence identity to known CRTISO proteins were narrowed to two most likely to be part of the T. pseudonana carotenoid biosynthesis pathway based on transcriptomic responses and predicted chloroplast targeting.


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