Jinxin Liu, Xiaoba Wu, Xuefeng Yao, Ronald Yu, Philip J. Larkin, Chun-Ming Liu. Mutations in the DNA demethylase OsROS1 result in a thickened aleurone and improved nutritional value in rice grains.PNAS. Oct 2018, 201806304; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806304115

　　作 者：Jinxin Liu, Xiaoba Wu, Xuefeng Yao, Ronald Yu, Philip J. Larkin, and Chun-Ming Liu

　　影响因子：9.504

　　刊物名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

　　出版年份：October 1, 2018

　　doi：doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806304115

　　文章摘要 : The rice endosperm, consisting of an outer single-cell layer aleurone and an inner starchy endosperm, is an important staple food for humans. While starchy endosperm stores mainly starch, the aleurone is rich in an array of proteins, vitamins, and minerals. To improve the nutritional value of rice, we screened for mutants with thickened aleurones using a half-seed assay and identified thick aleurone 2–1 (ta2-1 ), in which the aleurone has 4.8 ± 2.2 cell layers on average. Except for starch, the contents of all measured nutritional factors, including lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibers, were increased in ta2-1 grains. Map-based cloning showed that TA2 encodes the DNA demethylase OsROS1. A point mutation in the 14th intron of OsROS1 led to alternative splicing that generated an extra transcript, mOsROS1 transcript. Five additional ta2 alleles with the increased aleurone cell layer and different inheritance patterns were identified by TILLING. Genome-wide bisulfite sequencing revealed general increases in CG and CHG methylations in ta2-1 endosperms, along with hypermethylation and reduced expression in two putative aleurone differentiation-related transcription factors. This study thus suggests that OsROS1-mediated DNA demethylation restricts the number of aleurone cell layers in rice and provides a way to improve the nutrition of rice.

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