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BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

Function and Characterization of Starch Synthase I Using Mutants in Rice

Department of Biological Production, Akita Prefectural University, Akita City, Akita 010–0195, Japan (N.F., M.Y., N.A., T.O., Y.N.); Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332–0012, Japan (N.F., M.Y., T.O., Y.N.); and National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8602, Japan (A.M., H.H.)

Four starch synthase I (SSI)-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) mutant lines were generated using retrotransposon Tos17 insertion. The mutants exhibited different levels of SSI activities and produced significantly lower amounts of SSI protein ranging from 0% to 20% of the wild type. The mutant endosperm amylopectin showed a decrease in chains with degree of polymerization (DP) 8 to 12 and an increase in chains with DP 6 to 7 and DP 16 to 19. The degree of change in amylopectin chain-length distribution was positively correlated with the extent of decrease in SSI activity in the mutants. The structural changes in the amylopectin increased the gelatinization temperature of endosperm starch. Chain-length analysis of amylopectin in the SSI band excised from native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis/SS activity staining gel showed that SSI preferentially synthesized DP 7 to 11 chains by elongating DP 4 to 7 short chains of glycogen or amylopectin. These results show that SSI distinctly generates DP 8 to 12 chains from short DP 6 to 7 chains emerging from the branch point in the A or B₁ chain of amylopectin. SSI seemingly functions from the very early through the late stage of endosperm development. Yet, the complete absence of SSI, despite being a major SS isozyme in the developing endosperm, had no effect on the size and shape of seeds and starch granules and the crystallinity of endosperm starch, suggesting that other SS enzymes are probably capable of partly compensating SSI function. In summary, this study strongly suggested that amylopectin chains are synthesized by the coordinated actions of SSI, SSIIa, and SSIIIa isoforms.

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Received September 26, 2005; returned for revision January 23, 2006; accepted January 24, 2006.

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