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  • Title: Comparison of soluble starch synthases and branching enzymes from leaves and kernels of normal and amylose-extender maize.
    Author: Dang PL, Boyer CD.
    Journal: Biochem Genet; 1989 Oct; 27(9-10):521-32. PubMed ID: 2533497.
    Abstract:
    Soluble starch synthases (SS) and branching enzymes (BE) from 20-day-old maize leaves and 22-day-old seeds of normal and amylose-extender (ae) were purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. Elution profiles of leaf extracts showed one major SS and two BE fractions from both genotypes. The SS fractions from normal and ae leaf extracts were capable of citrate-stimulated starch synthesis and had different reaction rates with various primers. The two BE fractions from normal leaf extracts differed significantly from each other but not when compared to the same BE from ae. Comparison of BE fractions from ae and normal leaves showed no differences based on chromatographic, kinetic, and immunological properties. Comparison of the leaf enzymes with endosperm enzymes showed major differences. Leaf extracts did not contain SSII or BEIIb observed in endosperm extracts. Developing ae endosperm lacks BEIIb activity and ae is the structural gene for BEIIb. The tissue specific expression of BEIIb in the endosperm provides the basis for explaining the tissue-specific expression of ae. We propose that as BEIIb is expressed in the endosperm, but not leaves, allelic substitution at the ae locus modifies only endosperm starch synthesis.
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