First published online March 13, 2003; 10.1104/pp.102.016527
Plant Physiol, May 2003, Vol. 132, pp. 137-145
STA11, a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Locus Required for
Normal Starch Granule Biogenesis, Encodes Disproportionating Enzyme.
Further Evidence for a Function of -1,4 Glucanotransferases during
Starch Granule Biosynthesis in Green Algae1
Fabrice
Wattebled,
Jean-Philippe
Ral,
David
Dauvillée,
Alan M.
Myers,
Martha G.
James,
Ralf
Schlichting,
Christoph
Giersch,
Steven G.
Ball, and
Christophe
D'Hulst*
Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle,
Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique/Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 8576, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve D'Ascq cedex, France (F.W., J.-P.R., D.D., S.B., C.D.H.);
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (A.M., M.J.); and Institut für
Botanik, Technische Universität, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
(R.S., C.G.)
In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the presence of
a defective STA11 locus results in significantly reduced
granular starch deposition displaying major modifications in
shape and structure. This defect simultaneously leads to the
accumulation of linear malto-oligosaccharides (MOS). The mutants of
STA11 were showed to lack D-enzyme, a plant -1,4 glucanotransferase analogous to the Escherichia
coli amylomaltase. We have cloned and characterized both the
cDNA and gDNA corresponding to the C.
reinhardtii D-enzyme. We now report
allele-specific modifications of the D-enzyme gene in the
mutants of STA11. These allele-specific modifications
cosegregate with the corresponding sta11 mutations,
thereby demonstrating that STA11 encodes
D-enzyme. MOS production and starch accumulation were
investigated during day and night cycles in wild-type and mutant
C. reinhardtii cells. We demonstrate that
in the algae MOS are produced during starch biosynthesis and degraded
during the phases of net polysaccharide catabolism.
1
This work was supported by the Université
des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, by the Ministère de
l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche, by the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (Unité Mixte de Recherche 8576 du Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique), and by the Région
Nord-Pas de Calais (fellowship no. 99060060 to F.W.).
*
Corresponding author; e-mail
christophe.dhulst{at}univ-lille1.fr; fax 33-3-20-43-65-55.
© 2003 American Society of Plant Biologists
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