OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

This Article Free via Open Access: OA OA Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplemental Data OA All Versions of this Article: 148/1/504    most recent pp.108.119222v1 Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in ISI Web of Science Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (5) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Agrawal, G. K. Articles by Thelen, J. J. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Agrawal, G. K. Articles by Thelen, J. J. Agricola Articles by Agrawal, G. K. Articles by Thelen, J. J. Related Collections Biology of Transpiration

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

In-Depth Investigation of the Soybean Seed-Filling Proteome and Comparison with a Parallel Study of Rapeseed^1,[W],[OA]

Department of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (G.K.A., M.H., K.G., J.J.T.); and Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Kathmandu, Nepal (G.K.A.)

To better understand the metabolic processes of seed filling in soybean (Glycine max), two complementary proteomic approaches, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DGE) and semicontinuous multidimensional protein identification technology (Sec-MudPIT) coupled with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, were employed to analyze whole seed proteins at five developmental stages. 2-DGE and Sec-MudPIT analyses collectively identified 478 nonredundant proteins with only 70 proteins common to both datasets. 2-DGE data revealed that 38% of identified proteins were represented by multiple 2-DGE species. Identified proteins belonged to 13 (2-DGE) and 15 (Sec-MudPIT) functional classes. Proteins involved in metabolism, protein destination and storage, and energy were highly represented, collectively accounting for 61.1% (2-DGE) and 42.2% (Sec-MudPIT) of total identified proteins. Membrane proteins, based upon transmembrane predictions, were 3-fold more prominent in Sec-MudPIT than 2-DGE. Data were integrated into an existing soybean proteome database (www.oilseedproteomics.missouri.edu). The integrated quantitative soybean database was compared to a parallel study of rapeseed (Brassica napus) to further understand the regulation of intermediary metabolism in protein-rich versus oil-rich seeds. Comparative analyses revealed (1) up to 3-fold higher expression of fatty acid biosynthetic proteins during seed filling in rapeseed compared to soybean; and (2) approximately a 48% higher number of protein species and a net 80% higher protein abundance for carbon assimilatory and glycolytic pathways leading to fatty acid synthesis in rapeseed versus soybean. Increased expression of glycolytic and fatty acid biosynthetic proteins in rapeseed compared to soybean suggests that a possible mechanistic basis for higher oil in rapeseed involves the concerted commitment of hexoses to glycolysis and eventual de novo fatty acid synthesis pathways.

² Present address: Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademicka 2, Sk–950 07 Nitra, Slovak Republic.

The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Ganesh Kumar Agrawal (agrawalg{at}missouri.edu).

^[W] The online version of this article contains Web-only data.

^[OA] Open Access articles can be viewed online without a subscription.

www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.108.119222

^* Corresponding author; e-mail agrawalg{at}missouri.edu.

Received March 18, 2008; accepted June 12, 2008; published July 3, 2008.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				S. Dam, B. S. Laursen, J. H. Ornfelt, B. Jochimsen, H. H. Staerfeldt, C. Friis, K. Nielsen, N. Goffard, S. Besenbacher, L. Krusell, et al. The Proteome of Seed Development in the Model Legume Lotus japonicus Plant Physiology, March 1, 2009; 149(3): 1325 - 1340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]