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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
卷 173, 期 2, 页码 998-1016出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01108
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- Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center [DE-FC02-07ER64494]
- China Scholarship Council
- Research Foundation Flanders
- FAPESP [2015/02527-1]
- Petrobras
- Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) through the IWT-SBO project BIOLEUM [130039]
- Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) through the IWT-FISCH-SBO project ARBOREF
Lignin is a phenolic heteropolymer that is deposited in secondary-thickened cell walls, where it provides mechanical strength. A recent structural characterization of cell walls from monocot species showed that the flavone tricin is part of the native lignin polymer, where it is hypothesized to initiate lignin chains. In this study, we investigated the consequences of altered tricin levels on lignin structure and cell wall recalcitrance by phenolic profiling, nuclear magnetic resonance, and saccharification assays of the naturally silenced maize (Zea mays) C2-Idf (inhibitor diffuse) mutant, defective in the CHALCONE SYNTHASE Colorless2 (C2) gene. We show that the C2-Idf mutant produces highly reduced levels of apigenin-and tricin-related flavonoids, resulting in a strongly reduced incorporation of tricin into the lignin polymer. Moreover, the lignin was enriched in beta-beta and beta-5 units, lending support to the contention that tricin acts to initiate lignin chains and that, in the absence of tricin, more monolignol dimerization reactions occur. In addition, the C2-Idf mutation resulted in strikingly higher Klason lignin levels in the leaves. As a consequence, the leaves of C2-Idf mutants had significantly reduced saccharification efficiencies compared with those of control plants. These findings are instructive for lignin engineering strategies to improve biomass processing and biochemical production.
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