SE188:/S1
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Sample Set Information
| ID | TSE1347 |
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| Title | Phytochemical genomics in Arabidopsis thaliana: A case study for functional identification of flavonoid biosynthesis genes |
| Description | The completion of the whole genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana has made it possible to explore the phytochemical genomics in this species by determining gene-tometabolite correlation through the comprehensive analysis of metabolite accumulation and gene expression. In this study, flavonoid profiling of wild-type plants and T-DNA insertion mutants was analyzed using ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)/photodiode array detection (PDA)/electrospray ionization (ESI)/multiple-stage mass spectrometry (MSn). Detailed analysis of the metabolite changes in the mutants suggested the functions of genes that have been mutated. In silico coexpression analysis of genes involved in flavonoid metabolism in Arabidopsis was performed using a publicly available transcriptome database of DNA microarrays. We inferred a coexpression framework model of the genes involved in the pathways of flavonol, anthocyanin, and proanthocyanidin synthesis, suggesting specific functions and coregulation of the genes of pathway enzymes and transcription factors. The metabolic profiling of the omt1 mutant lacking a methyltransferase gene narrowed down by the coexpression analysis showed that AtOMT1 (At5g54160) is involved not only in the production of lignins and sinapoyl esters but also in the methylation of flavonols forming isorhamnetin. These results suggest that the functional genomics approach by detailed targetmetabolite profiling with transcriptome coexpression analysis provides an efficient way of identifying novel gene functions involved in plant metabolism. |
| Authors | Tohge, T., Yonekura-Sakakibara, K., Niida, R., Watanabe-Takahashi, A. and Saito, K. |
| Reference | Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2007, 79, 811-823 |
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Sample Information
| ID | S1 |
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| Title | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Organism - Scientific Name | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Organism - ID | NCBI taxonomy:3702 |
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| Preparation | A. thaliana ecotype Columbia-0 seed (Lehle Seeds, Round Rock, TX) was used as the wild-type plant in this study. The f3gt (At5g17050) mutant and f3rt (At1g30530) mutants were described previously. The T-DNA-inserted knockout mutant of omt1 (At5g54160, CS25167) and tt7 (At5g07990, CS6509) were obtained from the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC). The tt4 (At1g30530) mutant was obtained from tt mutant lines induced by ion beam irradiation of Arabidopsis. The plants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS)-agar medium containing 1 % sucrose in a growth chamber at 22 °C in 16 h/8 h light/dark cycles for 18 days. The leaves and roots of plants were harvested, immediately frozen with liquid nitrogen, and stored at –30 °C until use. |
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