ArticleCurrent genetics2011
Developmental and cell type characterization of bundle sheath and mesophyll chloroplast transcript abundance in maize.
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- Architectural switch in plant photosynthetic membranes induced by light stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Article
- Characterizing regulatory and functional differentiation between maize mesophyll and bundle sheath cells by transcriptomic analysis.Plant physiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
The C4 grass Zea mays separates light and light-independent photosynthetic processes into two leaf cell types: bundle sheath (BS) and mesophyll (M). When mature, BS and M cells have anatomically and biochemically distinct chloroplasts that must cooperate to complete the process of photosynthesis. This report compares changes in transcript abundance between young and mature maize BS and M chloroplasts from specific segments of the leaf developmental gradient. Representative transcripts encoding components of Photosystem I, Photosystem II, Cytochrome b (6) f, thylakoidal NADH dehydrogenase; and the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase as well as nine nuclear-coded transcripts encoding chloroplast proteins were measured using quantitative RT-PCR. In addition, 887 nuclear genes encoding plastid-localized proteins, as well as 64 chloroplast and 34 mitochondrial genes were assayed utilizing a cDNA microarray. In 9 out of the 18 chloroplast-encoded genes and 84 genes from the 985 element microarray revealed greater than twofold transcript abundance differences between developmental stages and/or cell types. Patterns for transcripts associated with operons and gene clusters suggest differing regulatory mechanisms for particular polycistronic stretches. In summary, this report provides evidence that cell type-specific transcript abundance varies more in the young developing chloroplast, and differences plateau or subside as chloroplasts mature.
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