Swaminathan Sivakumar, Grover Corrinne E, Mugisha Alither S, Sichterman Lauren E, Lee Youngwoo, Yang Pengcheng, Mallery Eileen L, Jareczek Josef J, Leach Alexis G, Xie Jun, Wendel Jonathan F, Szymanski Daniel B, Zabotina Olga A
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA.
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA.
Plant J. 2024 Dec;120(5):1857-1879. doi: 10.1111/tpj.17084. Epub 2024 Oct 23.
Cotton fiber is the most valuable naturally available material for the textile industry and the fiber length and strength are key determinants of its quality. Dynamic changes in the pectin, xyloglucan, xylan, and cellulose polysaccharide epitope content during fiber growth contribute to complex remodeling of fiber cell wall (CW) and quality. Detailed knowledge about polysaccharide compositional and structural alteration in the fiber during fiber elongation and strengthening is important to understand the molecular dynamics of fiber development and improve its quality. Here, large-scale glycome profiling coupled with fiber phenotype and transcriptome profiling was conducted on fiber collected daily covering the most critical window of fiber development. The profiling studies with high temporal resolution allowed us to identify specific polysaccharide epitopes associated with distinct fiber phenotypes that might contribute to fiber quality. This study revealed the critical role of highly branched RG-I pectin epitopes such as β-1,4-linked-galactans, β-1,6-linked-galactans, and arabinogalactans, in addition to earlier reported homogalacturonans and xyloglucans in the formation of cotton fiber middle lamella and contributing to fiber plasticity and elongation. We also propose the essential role of heteroxylans (Xyl-MeGlcA and Xyl-3Ar), as a guiding factor for secondary CW cellulose microfibril arrangement, thus contributing to fiber strength. Correlation analysis of profiles of polysaccharide epitopes from glycome data and expression profiles of glycosyltransferase-encoding genes from transcriptome data identified several key putative glycosyltransferases that are potentially involved in synthesizing the critical polysaccharide epitopes. The findings of this study provide a foundation to identify molecular factors that dictate important fiber traits.
棉纤维是纺织工业中最有价值的天然可用材料,纤维长度和强度是其品质的关键决定因素。纤维生长过程中果胶、木葡聚糖、木聚糖和纤维素多糖表位含量的动态变化有助于纤维细胞壁(CW)的复杂重塑和品质形成。详细了解纤维伸长和强化过程中多糖组成和结构的变化,对于理解纤维发育的分子动力学和提高其品质至关重要。在此,对每日收集的覆盖纤维发育最关键时期的纤维进行了大规模糖组分析,并结合纤维表型和转录组分析。具有高时间分辨率的分析研究使我们能够识别与不同纤维表型相关的特定多糖表位,这些表位可能有助于纤维品质。这项研究揭示了高度分支的RG-I果胶表位,如β-1,4-连接的半乳聚糖、β-1,6-连接的半乳聚糖和阿拉伯半乳聚糖的关键作用,此外还有先前报道的同型半乳糖醛酸聚糖和木葡聚糖在棉纤维中层的形成中以及对纤维可塑性和伸长的贡献。我们还提出了杂木聚糖(Xyl-MeGlcA和Xyl-3Ar)的重要作用,作为次生CW纤维素微纤丝排列的指导因素,从而有助于纤维强度。对糖组数据中的多糖表位谱与转录组数据中编码糖基转移酶的基因表达谱进行相关性分析,确定了几个可能参与合成关键多糖表位的关键推定糖基转移酶。本研究结果为鉴定决定重要纤维性状的分子因素提供了基础。