A Dual-Promoter Gene Orchestrates the Sucrose-Coordinated Synthesis of Starch and Fructan in Barley

作     者：Yunkai Jin Mingliang Fei Sara Rosenquist Lu Jin Suresh Gohil Corine Sandstrom Helena Olsson Cecilia Persson Anna-Stina Hoglund Gunnel Fransson Ying Ruan Per Aman Christer Jansson Chunlin Liu Roger Andersson Chuanxin Sun 

作者机构：Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization Hunan Agricultural University Changsha 410128 China Department of Plant Biology Uppsala BioCenter Linnean Centre for Plant Biology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences P.O. Box 7080 75007 UppsalaSweden Key Laboratory of Education Department of Hunan Province on Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology College of Bioscience and BiotechnologyHunan Agricultural University Changsha 410128 China Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology Uppsala BioCenter Swedish University of Agrioultural Scienoes P.O. Box 7015 75007 Uppsala Sweden The Swedish NMR Centre at University of Gothenburg Box 465 405 30 Gothenburg Sweden Department of Molecular Sciences Uppsala BioCenter Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences P.O. Box 7051 750 07 Uppsala Sweden The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory P.O. Box 999 K8-93 Richland WA 99352 USA These authors contributed equally to this article. 

出 版 物：《Molecular Plant》 (分子植物（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第10卷第12期

页      面：1556-1570页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 

基　　金：Lantmännen Research Foundation, (20120024, 2014H013, 2015H024) U.S. Department of Energy, USDOE, (DE-AC05-76RL01830) Saint Louis University, SLU Shenyang Ligong University, SLU Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas, (219-2014-1172) Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning, (CTS 11: 450) 

主　　题：ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE INHIBITION VACUOLAR INVERTASE GENE LOLIUM-PERENNE L ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TREHALOSE 6-PHOSPHATE NICOTIANA-BENTHAMIANA PLANT BIOLOGY LEAF SHEATHS METABOLISM 

摘      要：Sequential carbohydrate synthesis is important for plant survival because it guarantees energy supplies for growth and development during plant ontogeny and reproduction. Starch and fructan are two important carbohydrates in many flowering plants and in human diets. Understanding this coordinated starch and fructan synthesis and unraveling how plants allocate photosynthates and prioritize different carbohydrate synthesis for survival could lead to improvements to cereals in agriculture for the purposes of greater food security and production quality. Here, we report a system from a single gene in barley employing two alternative promoters, one intronic/exonic, to generate two sequence-overlapping but functionally opposing transcription factors, in sensing sucrose, potentially via sucrose/gluco lose 6-phosphate signaling. The system employs an autoregulatory mechanism in perceiving a sucrose- controlled trans activity on one promoter and orchestrating the coordinated starch and fructan synthesis by competitive transcription factor binding on the other promoter. As a case in point for the physiological roles of the system, we have demonstrated that this multitasking system can be exploited in breeding barley with tailored amounts of fructan to produce healthy food ingredients. The identification of an intron/exon-spanning promoter in a hosting gene, resulting in proteins with distinct functions, adds to the complexity of plant genomes.