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Published on December 17, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.131128

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Received October 10, 2008
Accepted December 5, 2008

Analyses of advanced rice anther transcriptomes reveal global tapetum secretory functions and potential proteins for lipid exine formation

Ming-Der Huang , Fu-Jin Wei , Cheng-Cheih Wu , Yue-Ie Caroline Hsing , and Anthony H.C. Huang *

Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

* Corresponding author; email: anthony.huang{at}ucr.edu.

The anthers in flowers perform important functions in sexual reproduction. Several recent studies used microarrays to study anther transcriptomes to explore genes controlling anther development. To analyze the secretion and other functions of the tapetum, we produced transcriptomes of anthers of rice (Oryza sativa, ssp. japonica) at 6 progressive developmental stages and pollen with sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS) technology. The transcriptomes included at least 18,000 unique transcripts, about 25% of which had anti-sense transcripts. In silico anther-minus-pollen subtraction produced transcripts largely unique to the tapetum; these transcripts include all the reported tapetum-specific transcripts of orthologs in other species. The differential developmental profiles of the transcripts and their anti-sense transcripts signify extensive regulation of gene expression in the anther, especially the tapetum, during development. The transcriptomes were used to dissect two major cell/biochemical functions of the tapetum. First, we categorized and charted the developmental profiles of all transcripts encoding secretory proteins present in the cellular exterior; these transcripts represent about 12% and 30% of the those transcripts having more than 100 and 1,000 transcripts per million, respectively. Second, we successfully selected from hundreds of transcripts several transcripts encoding potential proteins for lipid exine synthesis during early anther development. These proteins include cytochrome P450, acyltransferases and lipid transfer proteins in our hypothesized mechanism of exine synthesis in and export from the tapetum. Putative functioning of these proteins in exine formation is consistent with proteins and metabolites detected in the anther locule fluid obtained by micropipetting.




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