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| Title: | Enhancing lignan biosynthesis by over-expressing pinoresinol lariciresinol reductase in transgenic wheat |
| Authors: | Ayella, Allan K.
Trick, Harold N.
Wang, Weiqun |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Type: | Article (author version) |
| Journal: | Molecular nutrition and food research |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Starting Page: | 1518 |
| Ending Page: | 1526 |
| Permissions: | Published in Ayella AK, Trick HN, Wang W. Enhanced lignan biosynthesis by over-expressing pinoresinol lariciresinol reductase in transgenic wheat. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research 2007; 51(12):1518-1526. |
| Keywords: | Lignans
Secoisolariciresinol diglucoside
Pinoresinol lariciresinol reductase
Transgenic wheat
Cancer prevention |
| Abstract: | Lignans are phenylpropane dimers that are biosynthesized via the phenylpropanoid pathway, in which pinoresinol lariciresinol reductase (PLR) catalyzes the last steps of lignan production. Our previous studies demonstrated that the contents of lignans in various wheat cultivars were significantly associated with anti-tumor activities in APC(Min) mice. To enhance lignan biosynthesis, this study was conducted to transform wheat cultivars ('Bobwhite', 'Madison', and 'Fielder', respectively) with the Forsythia intermedia PLR gene under the regulatory control of maize ubiquitin promoter. Of 24 putative transgenic wheat lines, we successfully obtained 3 transformants with the inserted ubiquitin-PLR gene as screened by PCR. Southern blot analysis further demonstrated that different copies of the PLR gene up to 5 were carried out in their genomes. Furthermore, a real-time PCR indicated -17% increase of PLR gene expression over the control in 2 of the 3 positive transformants at To generation. The levels of secoisolariciresinol diglucoside, a prominent lignan in wheat as determined by HPLC-MS, were found to be 2.2-times higher in one of the three positive transgenic sub-lines at T-2 than that in the wild-type (117.9 +/- 4.5 vs. 52.9 +/- 19.8 mu g/g, p <0.005). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that elevated lignan levels in a transgenic wheat line has been successfully achieved through genetic engineering of over-expressed PLR gene. Although future studies are needed for a stably expression and more efficient transformants, the new wheat line with significantly higher SDG contents obtained from this study may have potential application in providing additive health benefits for cancer prevention. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/648 |
| Publisher URL: | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Human Nutrition
Food Science Institute Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations
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