期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 20, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20040986
关键词
maize; AGPase; phosphorylation; brittle-2; phos-tag(TM)
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [31501322]
- Postdoctoral Special Foundation of Sichuan Province [03130104]
- Overseas Scholar Science and Technology Activities Project Merit Funding [00124300]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2014CB138200]
AGPase catalyzes a key rate-limiting step that converts ATP and Glc-1-p into ADP-glucose and diphosphate in maize starch biosynthesis. Previous studies suggest that AGPase is modulated by redox, thermal and allosteric regulation. However, the phosphorylation of AGPase is unclear in the kernel starch biosynthesis process. Phos-tag(TM) technology is a novel method using phos-tag(TM) agarose beads for separation, purification, and detection of phosphorylated proteins. Here we identified phos-tag(TM) agarose binding proteins from maize endosperm. Results showed a total of 1733 proteins identified from 10,678 distinct peptides. Interestingly, a total of 21 unique peptides for AGPase sub-unit Brittle-2 (Bt2) were identified. Bt2 was demonstrated by immunoblot when enriched maize endosperm protein with phos-tag(TM) agarose was in different pollination stages. In contrast, Bt2 would lose binding to phos-tag(TM) when samples were treated with alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Furthermore, Bt2 could be detected by Pro-Q diamond staining specifically for phosphorylated protein. We further identified the phosphorylation sites of Bt2 at Ser(10), Thr(451), and Thr(462) by iTRAQ. In addition, dephosphorylation of Bt2 decreased the activity of AGPase in the native gel assay through ALP treatment. Taking together, these results strongly suggest that the phosphorylation of AGPase may be a new model to regulate AGPase activity in the starch biosynthesis process.
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