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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2011

Induction of vacuolar invertase inhibitor mRNA in potato tubers contributes to cold-induced sweetening resistance and includes spliced hybrid mRNA variants.

David A Brummell, Ronan K Y Chen, John C Harris, Huaibi Zhang, Cyril Hamiaux, Andrew V Kralicek, Marian J McKenzie

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David A BrummellThe New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Food Industry Science Centre, Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand. david.brummell@plantandfood.co.nz
Ronan K Y Chen
John C Harris
Huaibi Zhang
Cyril Hamiaux
Andrew V Kralicek
Marian J McKenzie
Plant & Food Research · NZ

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Abstract

Cold storage of tubers of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) compromises tuber quality in many cultivars by the accumulation of hexose sugars in a process called cold-induced sweetening. This is caused by the breakdown of starch to sucrose, which is cleaved to glucose and fructose by vacuolar acid invertase. During processing of affected tubers, the high temperatures involved in baking and frying cause the Maillard reaction between reducing sugars and free amino acids, resulting in the accumulation of acrylamide. cDNA clones with deduced proteins homologous to known invertase inhibitors were isolated and the two most abundant forms, termed INH1 and INH2, were shown to possess apoplastic and vacuolar localization, respectively. The INH2 gene showed developmentally regulated alternative splicing, so, in addition to the INH2α transcript encoding the full-length protein, two hybrid mRNAs (INH2β*A and INH2β*B) that encoded deduced vacuolar invertase inhibitors with divergent C-termini were detected, the result of mRNA splicing of an upstream region of INH2 to a downstream region of INH1. Hybrid RNAs are common in animals, where they may add to the diversity of the proteome, but are rarely described in plants. During cold storage, INH2α and the hybrid INH2β mRNAs accumulated to higher abundance in cultivars resistant to cold-induced sweetening than in susceptible cultivars. Increased amounts of invertase inhibitor may contribute to the suppression of acid invertase activity and prevent cleavage of sucrose. Evidence for increased RNA splicing activity was detected in several resistant lines, a mechanism that in some circumstances may generate a range of proteins with additional functional capacity to aid adaptability.

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Cold TemperatureAmino Acid Sequencebeta-FructofuranosidaseGene Expression Regulation, PlantGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataPlant ProteinsPlant TubersRNA, MessengerRNA SplicingSequence Homology, Amino AcidSolanum tuberosumbeta-FructofuranosidaseGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPlant ProteinsRNA, Messenger

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PMID21393382
PMCPMC3130176
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