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RNAi Targeting Putative Genes in Phosphatidylcholine Turnover Results in Significant Change in Fatty Acid Composition in Crambe abyssinica Seed Oil
Ist Teil von
Lipids, 2015-04, Vol.50 (4), p.407-416
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of three enzymes, LPCAT, PDCT and PDAT, involved in acyl turnover in phosphatidylcholine in order to explore the possibility of further increasing erucic acid (22:1) content in
Crambe
seed oil. The complete coding sequences of
LPCAT1
-
1
and
LPCAT1
-
2
encoding lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase (LPCAT),
PDCT1
and
PDCT2
encoding phosphatidylcholine:diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase (PDCT), and
PDAT
encoding phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT) were cloned from developing
Crambe
seeds. The alignment of deduced amino acid sequences displayed a high similarity to the
Arabidopsis
homologs. Transgenic lines expressing RNA interference (RNAi) targeting either single or double genes showed significant changes in the fatty acid composition of seed oil. An increase in oleic acid (18:1) was observed, to varying degrees, in all of the transgenic lines, and a cumulative effect of increased 18:1 was shown in the
LPCAT
-
PDCT
double-gene RNAi. However,
LPCAT
single-gene RNAi led to a decrease in 22:1 accumulation, while
PDCT
or
PDAT
single-gene RNAi had no obvious effect on the level of 22:1. In agreement with the abovementioned oil phenotypes, the transcript levels of the target genes in these transgenic lines were generally reduced compared to wild-type levels. In this paper, we discuss the potential to further increase the 22:1 content in
Crambe
seed oil through downregulation of these genes in combination with fatty acid elongase and desaturases.