Identification of a CYP84 Family of Cytochrome P450-Dependent Mono-Oxygenase Genes in Brassica napus and Perturbation of Their Expression for Engineering Sinapine Reduction in the Seeds

• Published in: Plant physiology (Bethesda) Vol. 123; no. 4; pp. 1623 - 1634
• Main Authors: Rames B. Nair, Richard W. Joy IV, Eugen Kurylo, Xiaohong Shi, Joan Schnaider, Raju S. S. Datla, Wilf A. Keller, Selvaraj, Gopalan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rockville, MD American Society of Plant Physiologists 01.08.2000
• Subjects: Acrolein - analogs & derivatives; Acrolein - metabolism; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Amino Acid Sequence; Arabidopsis Proteins; Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures; Biological and medical sciences; Blotting, Northern; Blotting, Western; BNF5H1 gene; BNF5H2 gene; BNF5H3 gene; Brassica - enzymology; Brassica - genetics; Brassica - metabolism; Brassica napus; Choline - analogs & derivatives; Choline - metabolism; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Complementary DNA; Coumaric Acids - metabolism; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; DNA; DNA, Complementary - genetics; F5H gene; ferulate-5-hydroxylase; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genes. Genome; Genetics and breeding of economic plants; Genomics; Introns; Lignin; Mixed Function Oxygenases - genetics; Mixed Function Oxygenases - metabolism; Molecular and cellular biology; Molecular genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleotide sequences; Open Reading Frames; Plants; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Seeds; Seeds - metabolism; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Sinapine; Transgenic plants; Varietal selection. Specialized plant breeding, plant breeding aims; Yield, quality, earliness, varia; Production quality; Enzyme; Hydroxylase; Cytochrome P450; Suppression; Sinapine; Identification; Gene expression; Oil plant(vegetal); Oxygenase; Gene; Cruciferae; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Genetic improvement; Phenols; Brassica napus; Spermatophyta; Oxidoreductases; Molecular cloning
• ISSN: 0032-0889; 1532-2548
• DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.4.1623

CYP84 is a recently identified family of cytochrome P450-dependent mono-oxygenases defined by a putative ferulate-5-hydroxylase (F5H) from Arabidopsis. Until recently F5H has been thought to catalyze the hydroxylation of ferulate to 5-OH ferulate en route to sinapic acid. Sinapine, a sinapate-derived ester in the seeds, is antinutritional and a target for elimination in canola meal. We have isolated three F5H-like genes (BNF5H1-3) from a cultivated Brassica napus, whose amphidiploid progenitor is considered to have arisen from a fusion of the diploids Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Two cultivated varieties of the diploids were also found to contain BNF5H3 and additionally either BNF5H1 or BNF5H2, respectively. Whereas all three are >90% identical in their coding sequence, BNF5H1 and BNF5H2 are closer to each other than to BNF5H3. This and additional data suggest that the two groups of genes have diverged in an ancestor of the diploids. B. napus showed maximal F5H expression in the stems, least in the seeds, and subtle differences among the expression profiles of the three genes elsewhere. Transgenic B. napus with cauliflower mosaic virus 35S-antisense BNF5H contained up to 40% less sinapine, from 9.0 ± 0.3 mg in the controls to 5.3 ± 0.3 mg g-1 seed. F5H from Arabidopsis and a similar enzyme from sweetgum (Liquidamber styraciflua) has recently been shown to have coniferaldehyde hydroxylase activity instead of F5H activity. Thus the supply of 5-OH coniferaldehyde or 5-OH ferulate has a bearing on sinapine accumulation in canola seeds.