Diversity in the carotenoid profiles and the expression of genes related to carotenoid accumulation among citrus genotypes
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Auteurs : Yoshinori Ikoma ; Hikaru Matsumoto ; Masaya KatoSource :
- Breeding Science [ 1344-7610 ] ; 2016.
Abstract
Carotenoids are not only important to the plants themselves but also are beneficial to human health. Since citrus fruit is a good source of carotenoids for the human diet, it is important to study carotenoid profiles and the accumulation mechanism in citrus fruit. Thus, in the present paper, we describe the diversity in the carotenoid profiles of fruit among citrus genotypes. In regard to carotenoids, such as β-cryptoxanthin, violaxanthin, lycopene, and β-citraurin, the relationship between the carotenoid profile and the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes is discussed. Finally, recent results of quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses of carotenoid contents and expression levels of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes in citrus fruit are shown.
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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Breed Sci</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Breed. Sci</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Breeding Science</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1344-7610</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1347-3735</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Japanese Society of Breeding</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">27069398</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4780797</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1270/jsbbs.66.139</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">66_139</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Review</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Diversity in the carotenoid profiles and the expression of genes related to carotenoid accumulation among citrus genotypes</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ikoma</surname><given-names>Yoshinori</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-66_139">1</xref><xref rid="fn2-66_139" ref-type="author-notes">3</xref><xref rid="c1-66_139" ref-type="corresp">*</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Matsumoto</surname><given-names>Hikaru</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-66_139">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kato</surname><given-names>Masaya</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-66_139">2</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="af1-66_139"><label>1</label><institution>Citrus Research Division, NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science</institution>,<addr-line>485-6 Okitsunakacho, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Shizuoka 424-0292</addr-line>,<country>Japan</country></aff><aff id="af2-66_139"><label>2</label><institution>Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University</institution>,<addr-line>836 Ohya, Suruga, Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8529</addr-line>,<country>Japan</country></aff><author-notes><corresp id="c1-66_139"><label>*</label>Corresponding author (e-mail: <email>yoshino@affrc.go.jp</email>)</corresp><fn id="fn1-66_139"><p>Communicated by M. Omura</p></fn><fn id="fn2-66_139"><label>3</label><p><italic>Present address: Planning and Promotion Section, NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science</italic>, 2-1 Fujimoto, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8605, Japan</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>1</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>1</day><month>1</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>66</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>139</fpage><lpage>147</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>05</day><month>8</month><year>2015</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>14</day><month>12</month><year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2016 by JAPANESE SOCIETY OF BREEDING</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Carotenoids are not only important to the plants themselves but also are beneficial to human health. Since citrus fruit is a good source of carotenoids for the human diet, it is important to study carotenoid profiles and the accumulation mechanism in citrus fruit. Thus, in the present paper, we describe the diversity in the carotenoid profiles of fruit among citrus genotypes. In regard to carotenoids, such as β-cryptoxanthin, violaxanthin, lycopene, and β-citraurin, the relationship between the carotenoid profile and the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes is discussed. Finally, recent results of quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses of carotenoid contents and expression levels of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes in citrus fruit are shown.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>citrus</kwd><kwd>carotenoid</kwd><kwd>β-cryptoxanthin</kwd><kwd>violaxanthin</kwd><kwd>β-citraurin</kwd><kwd>gene expression</kwd><kwd>quantitative trait locus</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec sec-type="intro"><title>Introduction</title><p>Carotenoids play two key roles in the photosynthetic organisms: they serve as accessory pigments in the photosystems, and they protect the photosynthetic apparatus against toxic reactive oxygen species (<xref rid="b32-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ramel <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>). In higher plants, yellow, orange and red carotenoids accumulate in flowers and fruits to attract pollinators and agents of seed dispersal. In addition, epoxy-carotenoids, violaxanthin, and neoxanthin are precursors for the plant hormone abscisic acid (<xref rid="b34-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rock and Zeevaart 1991</xref>).</p><p>Carotenoids are also important components of fruit quality and their presence as pigments dictates peel and juice color in fruit. Moreover, carotenoids are beneficial to human health. Some carotenoids are precursors of vitamin A, which is essential to humans, and antioxidants, which reduce the risk of chronic diseases (<xref rid="b25-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Männistö <italic>et al.</italic> 2004</xref>, <xref rid="b30-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Olson 1989</xref>, <xref rid="b58-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Yuan <italic>et al.</italic> 2003</xref>). Furthermore, nutritional epidemiologic studies showed that intake of β-cryptoxanthin, a carotenoid plentiful in satsuma mandarin (<italic>Citrus unshiu</italic> Marcow.) fruit, may reduce the risk of lifestyle-related diseases, such as liver dysfunction (<xref rid="b44-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiura <italic>et al.</italic> 2005</xref>), osteoporosis (<xref rid="b46-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiura <italic>et al.</italic> 2011</xref>, <xref rid="b47-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiura <italic>et al.</italic> 2012</xref>), and metabolic syndrome (<xref rid="b45-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiura <italic>et al.</italic> 2008</xref>). These reports indicate that regulating carotenoid content in citrus fruit is important for human health because the fruit is a good major source of carotenoids, especially of β-cryptoxanthin, in the human diet.</p><p>In this paper, we explain the diversity in the carotenoid profiles of fruit among citrus genotypes. Moreover, the relationship between the accumulation of carotenoids and the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes is discussed. Finally, the potential for genetic regulation of carotenoid content is shown.</p></sec><sec><title>Diversity in carotenoid profiles among citrus genotypes</title><p>Citrus fruit is a complex source of carotenoids. Approximately 115 different carotenoids have been reported in citrus, including a large number of isomers (<xref rid="b13-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Goodner <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>, <xref rid="b53-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Wheaton and Stewart 1973</xref>). Thus, several studies have been conducted to differentiate citrus genotypes on the basis of the carotenoid profiles obtained using high-performance liquid chromatography equipped with a photodiode array detector and a C<sub>30</sub> column. <xref rid="b13-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Goodner <italic>et al.</italic> (2001)</xref> analyzed 12 carotenoids of 32 citrus juices prepared from oranges, mandarins, and their hybrids and demonstrated that these fruits were clearly distinguishable by the difference in their β-cryptoxanthin content. <xref rid="b9-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Fanciullino <italic>et al.</italic> (2006)</xref> reported that <italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin and β-cryptoxanthin in juice were strong determinants for classification of the 25 citrus genotypes. <xref rid="b26-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Matsumoto <italic>et al.</italic> (2007)</xref> developed a highly sensitive liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method for the simultaneous quantification of 18 carotenoids and analyzed carotenoid contents in the flavedos and juice sacs of 39 cultivars from October to January. This study also showed that violaxanthin and β-cryptoxanthin are major factors in discriminating citrus genotypes in each fruit tissue. Moreover, the results suggested that citrus cultivars could be roughly divided into three groups: β-cryptoxanthin abundant, violaxanthin abundant, and carotenoid poor. Most mandarin cultivars, including satsuma mandarin and ponkan (<italic>C. reticulata</italic> Blanco), were classified into the β-cryptoxanthin abundant category in both the flavedo and juice sacs. In contrast, orange cultivars, including common sweet orange (<italic>C. sinensis</italic> (L.) Osbeck ‘Trovita’) and navel orange (<italic>C. sinensis</italic> (L.) Osbeck ‘Washington’), were classified into the violaxanthin abundant category in both the flavedo and juice sacs. Other cultivars, including lime (<italic>C. aurantifolia</italic> (Cristm.) Swingle), lemon (<italic>C. limon</italic> (L.) Burm. f.), grapefruit (<italic>C. paradisi</italic> Macfad.), and pummelo (<italic>C. grandis</italic> (L.) Osbeck), were separated from oranges and mandarins because of the low violaxanthin and β-cryptoxanthin contents both in the flavedo and juice sacs.</p><p>The effect of genotypes and environments on carotenoid content was also investigated in citrus juice (<xref rid="b8-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Dhuique-Mayer <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>) and juice sacs (<xref rid="b28-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Nonaka <italic>et al.</italic> 2012</xref>). On the basis of the carotenoid content of 3 sweet oranges (‘Pera’, ‘Valencia’, and ‘Sanguinelli’) during 3 seasons in Mediterranean conditions, it was demonstrated that annual variations were extremely limited as compared to variations caused by genotype influences in juice (<xref rid="b8-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Dhuique-Mayer <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>). In contrast, on the basis of the carotenoid content of sweet orange in highly contrasting geographical conditions, Mediterranean (Corsica), subtropical (New Caledonia), and tropical (Tahiti, Costa Rica, and Cuba), the effect of high variation of geographical conditions on carotenoid was characterized (<xref rid="b8-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Dhuique-Mayer <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>). Moreover, it was revealed that the Mediterranean condition amplifies the differentiation among genotypes, particularly by increasing the β-cryptoxanthin and <italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin content in sweet oranges and the β-carotene, phytoene, and phytofluene content in mandarins (<xref rid="b8-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Dhuique-Mayer <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>). <xref rid="b28-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Nonaka <italic>et al.</italic> (2012)</xref> assayed the juice sacs of 48 citrus cultivars and selections cultivated at two locations (Nagasaki and Shizuoka) in Japan. In this study, broad-sense heritabilities of the contents of most carotenoids, such as β-cryptoxanthin and violaxanthin, in the 48 genotypes were high, indicating that the differences among the obtained values for 48 genotypes were mostly derived from genetic variation.</p></sec><sec><title>The pathway of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants and the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes during maturation of citrus fruit</title><p>The pathway of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants has been studied extensively (<xref rid="b4-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Bouvier <italic>et al.</italic> 2000</xref>, <xref rid="b6-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Cunningham <italic>et al.</italic> 1996</xref>, <xref rid="b7-66_139" ref-type="bibr">1998</xref>, <xref rid="b31-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Park <italic>et al.</italic> 2002</xref>, <xref rid="b38-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ronen <italic>et al.</italic> 1999</xref>, <xref rid="f1-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1</xref>). The first step of carotenoid biosynthesis is condensing two molecules of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (C<sub>20</sub>) to form a colorless phytoene (C<sub>40</sub>) catalyzed by phytoene synthase (PSY). Phytoene desaturase (PDS) and ζ-carotene desaturase (ZDS) introduce four double bonds into phytoene to produce lycopene. The cyclization of lycopene in the next step is a crucial branching point in this pathway, yielding α-carotene with one ɛ-ring and one β-ring, and β-carotene with two β-rings, in which two cyclases, lycopene β-cyclase (LCYb) and lycopene ɛ-cyclase (LCYe), are responsible for these reactions. The formation of β-carotene is catalyzed by a single cyclase, LCYb, whereas α-carotene is catalyzed by two different cyclases, LCYe and LCYb. β-Carotene is converted to zeaxanthin via β-cryptoxanthin by two-step hydroxylation, which is catalyzed by β-ring hydroxylase (HYb). Furthermore, zeaxanthin is converted to violaxanthin via antheraxanthin by zeaxanthin epoxidase (ZEP). α-Carotene is also converted into lutein by ɛ- and β-ring hydroxylase.</p><p>In the initial stage of studying carotenoid-biosynthetic genes in citrus, increases in the expression of each gene, PSY (<xref rid="b15-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ikoma <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>, <xref rid="b18-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kim <italic>et al.</italic> 2001a</xref>), PDS (<xref rid="b20-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kita <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>), and HYb (<xref rid="b19-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kim <italic>et al.</italic> 2001b</xref>), were individually observed in the flavedo and juice sacs during fruit maturation. Subsequently, the simultaneous investigation of the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes, such as PSY, PDS, ZDS, LCYb, LCYe, HYb, and ZEP, was conducted in the flavedo and juice sacs (<xref rid="b10-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Fanciullino <italic>et al.</italic> 2008</xref>, <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> 2004</xref>, <xref rid="b35-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2004</xref>). <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> showed that with the transition of peel color from green to orange, the change from β,ɛ-carotenoid (α-carotene and lutein) accumulation to β,β-carotenoid (β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin, and violaxanthin) accumulation was observed in the flavedos of satsuma mandarin, ‘Valencia’ sweet orange and ‘Lisbon’ lemon, accompanying the disappearance of LCYe transcripts and the increase in LCYb transcripts. <xref rid="b35-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> also indicated transcriptional downregulation of LCYe in the flavedo of ‘Navelate’ navel orange with the transitional stage of peel color. These results suggest that in the flavedo, a decrease in the gene expression of LCYe is predominantly responsible for the pathway changing from β,ɛ-carotenoid synthesis to β,β-carotenoid synthesis with the transition of the flavedo’s color from green to orange. During massive carotenoid accumulation at the orange stage, <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> showed that a simultaneous increase in the expression of genes (PSY, PDS, ZDS, LCYb, HYb, and ZEP) led to massive β,β-xanthophyll (β-cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin, and violaxanthin) accumulation in both the flavedo and the juice sacs as fruit maturation progressed in satsuma mandarin and ‘Valencia’ sweet orange. <xref rid="b35-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> observed an increase in the expression of PSY, PDS, ZDS, and HYb genes with massive accumulations of carotenoids in the flavedo of ‘Navelate’ navel orange. <xref rid="b10-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Fanciullino <italic>et al.</italic> (2008)</xref> indicated that the accumulation of β,β-xanthophylls in the juice sacs of ‘Shamouti’ and ‘Sanguinelli’ sweet oranges was apparently related to increased transcript levels of PSY, PDS, ZDS, HYb, and ZEP. In contrast, <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> suggested that low levels of gene expression for β,β-xanthophyll synthesis lead to an extremely low concentration of β,β-xanthophyll in the flavedo and juice sacs of ‘Lisbon’ lemon. These results suggest that an increase in the expression of all or most genes related to carotenoid biosynthesis from phytoene to violaxanthin is responsible for the massive accumulation of β,β-xanthophyll. In addition to the expression of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes, <xref rid="b10-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Fanciullino <italic>et al.</italic> (2008)</xref> also investigated that of DXS, the deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase that controls the first step of the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway; they showed that an increase in the gene expression of DXS was responsible for the massive accumulation of β,β-xanthophyll.</p></sec><sec><title>The mechanism of the specific accumulation of β-cryptoxanthin during maturation in citrus juice sacs</title><p>β-Cryptoxanthin is an intermediate of a two-step hydroxylation by HYb. Thus, it seems that the massive accumulation of β-cryptoxanthin in juice sacs is controlled by not only transcriptional factors but also other factors, such as enzymatic characteristics. <xref rid="b50-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sun <italic>et al.</italic> (1996)</xref> demonstrated that β-cryptoxanthin, rather than zeaxanthin, was mainly accumulated in <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> cells carrying the truncated HYb gene. On the basis of this result, they indicated that HYb hydroxylates the β-rings of β-carotene more efficiently than the not-yet-hydroxylated β-ring of β-cryptoxanthin. <xref rid="b21-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Li <italic>et al.</italic> (2010)</xref> also analyzed the function of two HYb cDNAs (Zmbch1 and Zmbch2), which were isolated from maize, in <italic>E. coli</italic> cells that carried their cDNAs without truncation. ZmBCH1 could convert β-carotene into β-cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin, but ZmBCH2 could form β-cryptoxanthin alone and had lower overall activity than ZmBCH1. Taken together, these observations in truncated HYb and ZmBCH2 suggest that the accumulation of β-cryptoxanthin predominated in two-step hydroxylation by HYb when the enzyme activity was insufficient. Moreover, these observations suggest that HYb preferred the first-step conversion from β-carotene to β-cryptoxanthin rather than the second-step conversion from β-cryptoxanthin to zeaxanthin under low HYb activity and/or excessive β-carotene supply.</p><p>In citrus fruit, the substrate specificity of HYb seems important for regulating β-cryptoxanthin accumulation. <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> investigated the mechanism causing the diversity of carotenoid profiles in the juice sacs of citrus species, satsuma mandarin (a β-cryptoxanthin abundant species) and ‘Valencia’ orange (a violaxanthin abundant species), on the basis of the gene expression profiles of carotenoid-biosynthetic enzymes (<xref rid="f2-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref>). This study showed that the gene expression of upstream carotene synthesis (PSY, PDS, ZDS, and LCYb) in satsuma mandarin exceeded that in sweet orange, whereas the gene expression of downstream xanthophyll synthesis (HYb and ZEP) in satsuma mandarin was lower than that in sweet orange (<xref rid="f2-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref>). The higher expression of upstream synthesis genes and lower expression of the HYb gene suggested a higher supply of β-carotene and lower HYb activity in the juice sacs of satsuma mandarin than in those of sweet orange. Therefore, <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> concluded that, amid an equilibrium of a high gene expression of upstream synthesis and low gene expression of HYb (high supply of β-carotene and low HYb activity), HYb predominantly catalyzed the first-step conversion due to its high substrate specificity to β-carotene, leading to a marked accumulation of β-cryptoxanthin in the juice sacs of satsuma mandarin.</p><p>In contrast, <xref rid="b16-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2004)</xref> suggested that, in the juice sacs of sweet orange, HYb was likely to sufficiently catalyze the reaction to zeaxanthin via β-cryptoxanthin due to the low gene expression of upstream synthesis and high gene expression of HYb (low supply of β-carotene and high HYb activity). Moreover, they suggested that zeaxanthin was rapidly converted to violaxanthin by ZEP in the juice sacs of sweet orange, as the intensity in the gene expression of ZEP was much higher in the juice sacs of sweet orange than in those of satsuma mandarin. Recently, <xref rid="b52-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Wei <italic>et al.</italic> (2014)</xref> investigated carotenoid accumulation and gene expression for carotenoid biosynthesis during fruit maturation in ‘Valencia’ sweet orange (common type) and its more deeply colored mutant, ‘Rohde Red Valencia’ sweet orange. This study showed that in the juice sacs, the common type mainly accumulated violaxanthin, but the mutant accumulated β-cryptoxanthin and violaxanthin during orange stages. Moreover, the study showed that several members of upstream genes (PDS, ZDS, and LCYb) were expressed at higher levels in the mutant than in the common type, although distinct differences in the level of gene expression for HYb were not observed among these genotypes. Thus, it seems that the substrate specificity of HYb is also responsible for the high β-cryptoxanthin content of the juice sacs in the mutant, as the gene expression profiles suggest that a supply of β-carotene for HYb is higher in the mutant than in the common type of ‘Valencia’ sweet orange.</p></sec><sec><title>The relationship between carotenoid accumulation and gene expression of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase in citrus juice sacs</title><p>Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs) are a group of enzymes that catalyze the oxidative cleavage of carotenoids (<xref rid="b39-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ryle and Hausinger 2002</xref>). In <italic>Arabidopsis</italic>, the CCD family contains 9 members (CCD1, NCED2, NCED3, CCD4, NCED5, NCED6, CCD7, CCD8, and NCED9); orthologs in other plant species are typically named according to their homology with an <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> CCD (<xref rid="b14-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Huang <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>). In the initial stage of studying CCDs in citrus, 9-<italic>cis-</italic>epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) was isolated and characterized (<xref rid="b17-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>, <xref rid="b36-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). NCED catalyzes the cleavage of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin or 9′-<italic>cis-</italic>neoxanthin at the 11–12 position to form C<sub>25</sub> epoxy-apocarotenal and xanthoxin (C<sub>15</sub>), a precursor of the plant hormone abscisic acid (<xref rid="b41-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Schwartz <italic>et al.</italic> 1997</xref>, <xref rid="b42-66_139" ref-type="bibr">2001</xref>, <xref rid="b43-66_139" ref-type="bibr">2003</xref>). It was also demonstrated that citrus NCEDs, which were isolated from satsuma mandarin (<xref rid="b17-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>), cleaved 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin to form xanthoxin by using their recombinant proteins.</p><p>From satsuma mandarin, cDNAs for NCED3 and NCED5 were isolated (<xref rid="b17-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). NCED3 and NCED5 were previously described as CitNCED3 and CitNCED2, respectively (<xref rid="b17-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). On the basis of these nucleotide sequences, gene expression of NCED3 and NCED5 was investigated in the juice sacs of satsuma mandarin, lemon, and sweet orange. In the juice sacs, increased abscisic acid levels were observed in the satsuma mandarin during fruit maturation. As the abscisic acid accumulated, the gene expressions of NCED3 and NCED5 also increased. In the juice sacs of lemon, the levels of the NCED5 gene expression soared as abscisic acid accumulated during the green stage (from August to October), whereas NCED3 gene expression changed regardless of the abscisic acid level. These results suggest that NCED3 and NCED5 gene expression in satsuma mandarin and NCED5 gene expression in lemon were primarily responsible for the abscisic acid accumulation in their juice sacs. In the juice sacs of sweet orange, the abscisic acid level was much lower than those in satsuma mandarin and lemon. In sweet orange, no noticeable increase in NCED5 gene expression was observed. In addition, NCED3 gene expression changed regardless of the abscisic acid level. This result suggests that, in sweet orange, the extremely low level of NCED5 was primarily responsible for the low level of abscisic acid. Taken together, it seems that in the juice sacs, NCED5 is likely to play a primary role in the cleavage of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin to form C<sub>25</sub> epoxy-apocarotenal and xanthoxin. In contrast, <xref rid="b36-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> (2006)</xref> suggested that in the leaves and flavedos of sweet orange, the cleavage reaction was primarily catalyzed by NCED3. NECD3 was previously described as CsNCED1 (<xref rid="b36-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). Thus, NCEDs would be differentially expressed in citrus tissues.</p><p>In mature fruit, the juice sacs of satsuma mandarin accumulated a low level of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin, whereas those of sweet orange accumulated a high level. <xref rid="b17-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Kato <italic>et al.</italic> (2006)</xref> explained the mechanism for different 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin content among species. In sweet orange, 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin in the juice sacs was not cleaved efficiently by NCED because NCED5 gene expression remained minimal (<xref rid="f2-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref>). Therefore, in sweet orange, the content of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin was high in the juice sacs. In satsuma mandarin and lemon, the 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin was cleaved immediately by NCED because an increase in NCED5 gene expression was observed in the juice sacs (<xref rid="f2-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref>). Therefore, the content of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin in satsuma mandarin and lemon was much lower than that in sweet orange. Overall, it was thought that the oxidative cleavage of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin catalyzed by NCED affected the 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin content and, consequently, the carotenoid profiles in the juice sacs of the three citrus species during fruit maturation. The oxidative cleavage of 9-<italic>cis</italic>-violaxanthin by NCED would also be responsible for the specific accumulation of β-cryptoxanthin in the juice sacs of satsuma mandarin.</p></sec><sec><title>Accumulation of specific carotenoids, lycopene and β-citraurin, and the expression of genes related to specific carotenoids</title><p>Lycopene is an uncommon carotenoid in citrus fruit. Most lycopene-accumulating cultivars are mutant grapefruits, pummelos, and oranges (<xref rid="b55-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Xu <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). Grapefruit have the greatest number of lycopene-accumulating mutants, including famous cultivars ‘Marsh Pink’, ‘Ruby Red’, and ‘Star Ruby’ (<xref rid="b12-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Gmitter 1993</xref>, <xref rid="b55-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Xu <italic>et al.</italic> 2006</xref>). Since characterization of the mutants is a useful experimental system for identifying the molecular mechanism that regulates lycopene accumulation, many studies have been conducted with lycopene-accumulating grapefruit mutants. β-Cyclization of lycopene, catalyzed by LCYb, seems to be a key regulatory step of lycopene accumulation. Thus, two types of LCYb, LCYb1 and LCYb2, have been characterized in grapefruit (<xref rid="b2-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Alquézar <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>, <xref rid="b27-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Mendes <italic>et al.</italic> 2011</xref>). The function, cyclization of lycopene, of LCYb1 and LCYb2 from satsuma mandarin was confirmed by using their recombinant protein expressed in <italic>E. coli</italic> cells (<xref rid="b59-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Zhang <italic>et al.</italic> 2012</xref>). <xref rid="b27-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Mendes <italic>et al.</italic> (2011)</xref> showed that the gene expression of LCYb1 was not significantly different between two grapefruit mutants, ‘Flame’ (lycopene-accumulating mutant) and ‘Marsh’ (non-lycopene-accumulating mutant), was much lower than that of LCYb2, and was nearly constant during fruit maturation. In contrast, they indicated that the gene expression of LCYb2 in ‘Flame’ was significantly lower than that in ‘Marsh’. <xref rid="b2-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Alquézar <italic>et al.</italic> (2009)</xref> compared the gene expression of LCYb2 between high lycopene-accumulating ‘Star Ruby’ grapefruit and the non-lycopene-accumulating ‘Washington’ navel orange. This study revealed that the gene expression of LCYb2 in the flavedo and juice sacs was inhibited more in the high lycopene-accumulating grapefruit than in the non-lycopene-accumulating navel orange. Overall, these results suggest that the inhibited expression of the LCYb2 gene is predominantly responsible for lycopene accumulation in the fruit of grapefruit mutants. Moreover, <xref rid="b2-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Alquézar <italic>et al.</italic> (2009)</xref> isolated two different alleles of LCYb2, b-LCY2a and b-LCY2b, and demonstrated by functional assays that the LCYb activity of allele b was almost null. In their study, it was noticed that ‘Star Ruby’ grapefruit predominantly expressed the nonfunctional b-LCY2b allele during fruit ripening, whereas navel orange preferably expressed the functional allele. On the other hand, <xref rid="b5-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Costa <italic>et al.</italic> (2012)</xref> investigated the expression of PSY, PDS, and ZDS genes in the lycopene-accumulating grapefruit mutant, ‘Flame’, and suggested that the mechanism controlling lycopene accumulation in red grapefruit involved not only the transcriptional downregulation of LCYb2 but also the transcriptional upregulation of PSY, which controls flux into the carotenoid pathway, during fruit ripening in lycopene-accumulating grapefruit. In lycopene-accumulating navel orange mutant, ‘Cara Cara’, and sweet orange mutant, ‘Hong Anliu’, the mechanism for lycopene accumulation has also been studied (<xref rid="b1-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Alquézar <italic>et al.</italic> 2008</xref>, <xref rid="b10-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Fanciullino <italic>et al.</italic> 2008</xref>, <xref rid="b22-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Liu <italic>et al.</italic> 2007</xref>, <xref rid="b51-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Tao <italic>et al.</italic> 2007</xref>, <xref rid="b56-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Xu <italic>et al.</italic> 2009</xref>, <xref rid="b57-66_139" ref-type="bibr">2010</xref>).</p><p>β-Citraurin, a C<sub>30</sub> apocarotenoid, is an uncommon carotenoid that accumulates specifically in the peel of some citrus cultivars (<xref rid="b29-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Oberholster <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>). The color is responsible for the reddish color of citrus peel (<xref rid="b11-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Farin <italic>et al.</italic> 1983</xref>, <xref rid="b29-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Oberholster <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>). Although β-citraurin was presumed to be a degradation product of β-cryptoxanthin or zeaxanthin (<xref rid="b29-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Oberholster <italic>et al.</italic> 2001</xref>, <xref rid="b33-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ríos <italic>et al.</italic> 2010</xref>, <xref rid="b35-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2004</xref>) on the basis of the similarity in the structures among these carotenoids, the biosynthetic pathway could not be determined until recently. In 2013, two groups independently elucidated that CCD4, a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase, was responsible for β-citraurin biosynthesis (<xref rid="b24-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>, <xref rid="b37-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>). In these studies, functional analyses <italic>in vitro</italic> showed that the recombinant protein of CCD4 cleaved zeaxanthin at its 7, 8 or 7′, 8′ position, leading to β-citraurin production (<xref rid="b24-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>, <xref rid="b37-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>, <xref rid="f3-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3</xref>). These analyses also demonstrated that the recombinant protein of CCD4 cleaved β-cryptoxanthin at its 7, 8 or 7′, 8′ position, leading to β-apo-8′-carotenal production and β-citraurin production, respectively (<xref rid="b24-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>, <xref rid="b37-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>, <xref rid="f3-66_139" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3</xref>). Moreover, the gene expression of CCD4 was investigated in two satsuma mandarin cultivars of ‘Yamashitabeni-wase’, which accumulates β-citraurin predominantly, and ‘Miyagawa-wase’, which does not accumulate β-citraurin (<xref rid="b24-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al.</italic> 2013</xref>). In this study, increased expression of CCD4 was consistent with accumulation of β-citraurin in the flavedo of ‘Yamashitabeni-wase’. In contrast, the expression of CCD4 remained at an extremely low level during the ripening process in the flavedo of ‘Miyagawa-wase’, resulting in the absence of β-citraurin. <xref rid="b37-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Rodrigo <italic>et al.</italic> (2013)</xref> also observed that in the flavedos of 3 citrus cultivars, the increase in β-citraurin content was consistent with upregulation of CCD4 gene expression. <xref rid="b60-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Zheng <italic>et al.</italic> (2015)</xref> revealed that in the flavedos of some citrus cultivars, there was a positive correlation between CCD4 expression levels and the presence of β-citraurin. Taken together, these observations in functional analyses of CCD4 and the gene expression of CCD4 in flavedos suggest that the accumulation of β-citraurin is controlled by the cleavage of β-cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin by CCD4.</p></sec><sec><title>Quantitative trait locus analysis for carotenoid content and expression levels of carotenoid-biosynthetic genes in citrus fruit</title><p>An increase in carotenoids, especially the β-cryptoxanthin content, is an important breeding objective for citrus in Japan. However, there have been few detailed genetic analyses of carotenoid content in citrus until recently. Analysis of quantitative trait locus (QTL) using a segregating population is an effective means of obtaining genetic information on agronomically important traits. This method allows the identification of genetic regions associated with certain quantitative traits on linkage groups, whereupon genetically linked selection markers can be obtained for breeding.</p><p>QTL analyses of carotenoid content have been reported for the tomato (<xref rid="b3-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Blauth <italic>et al.</italic> 1998</xref>) and carrot (<xref rid="b40-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Santos and Simon 2002</xref>). In maize kernels, two QTLs were detected, and their locations on the genetic map were associated with the loci of phytoene synthase and ζ-carotene desaturase genes (<xref rid="b54-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Wong <italic>et al.</italic> 2004</xref>). In the cauliflower, <xref rid="b23-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Lu <italic>et al.</italic> (2006)</xref> showed that the Or gene, which regulates the synthesis of a chaperone protein of the DnaJ cysteine-rich domain, regulates β-carotene accumulation. Thus, these previous studies detected QTLs related to the accumulation of various carotenoids such as β-carotene and lycopene. However, QTL analysis had not been conducted on a plant with high β-cryptoxanthin content.</p><p><xref rid="b48-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiyama <italic>et al.</italic> (2011)</xref> performed QTL analysis to identify loci related to carotenoid content in the juice sacs of citrus fruit. In their study, QTL of a mapping population derived from a cross between two citrus parents, ‘Okitsu-46’ and ‘Nou-5’, were investigated. The study showed that the strongest QTL for β-cryptoxanthin content was broadly located from 4.1 to 7.0 cM on linkage group 6 of Nou-5, including the Gn0005 locus. The study also demonstrated that the mean of the β-cryptoxanthin content in the juice sacs was 1.3 mg/100 g for homozygous progenies genotyped with the Gn0005 marker, whereas that for heterozygous genotypes was 0.9 mg/100 g. When comparing Gn0005 marker genotypes, a significant difference in the means of the β-cryptoxanthin content of the juice sacs was detected.</p><p>Moreover, to identify the regulatory factors of gene expression for carotenoid-biosynthetic enzymes, <xref rid="b49-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiyama <italic>et al.</italic> (2014)</xref> investigated the expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) by using the above-mentioned population. In their study, significant eQTLs for PSY, PDS, ZDS, HYb, and ZEP were detected. The results indicated that the expression levels of HYb and ZEP were influenced by <italic>cis-</italic>elements in their upstream regions, since the eQTLs for HYb and ZEP were located on their responsible gene loci. In contrast, the results showed that the eQTLs for PDS and ZDS were located in different loci from those of the responsible genes, indicating that the loci were <italic>trans</italic>-regulating factors. In addition, the results suggested that the expression levels of PDS and ZDS were regulated by a common transcription factor because their eQTLs were co-localized. Thus, it was thought that eQTL analysis was a powerful tool for identifying <italic>cis</italic>- or <italic>trans</italic>-regulation for carotenoid-biosynthetic genes. Conclusively, it seems that information regarding QTL and eQTL is useful for the development of DNA markers to select progeny with higher carotenoid content. However, the results in these studies (<xref rid="b48-66_139" ref-type="bibr">Sugiyama <italic>et al.</italic> 2011</xref>, <xref rid="b49-66_139" ref-type="bibr">2014</xref>) were preliminary because they obtained data in only one season and from a limited number of individuals (n = 51).</p></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions"><title>Conclusion</title><p>In this paper, the diversity of carotenoid profiles among citrus genotypes was discussed. The mechanism of carotenoid accumulation in citrus fruit was also explained by comparing the expression of genes related to carotenoid biosynthesis and catabolism among citrus species and mutants. Moreover, we showed genetic information for regulating carotenoid accumulation by QTL and eQTL analyses. 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Genet. Genomics</source><volume>290</volume>: <fpage>1589</fpage>–<lpage>1603</lpage>.<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25749981</pub-id></mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back><floats-group><fig id="f1-66_139" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Fig. 1</label><caption><p>Principal pathway of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants. Abbreviations of carotenoid-biosynthetic enzymes: PSY, phytoene synthase; PDS, phytoene desaturase; ZDS, ζ-carotene desaturase; LCYe, lycopene ɛ-cyclase; LCYb, lycopene β-cyclase; HYe, ɛ-ring hydroxylase; HYb, β-ring hydroxylase; ZEP, zeaxanthin epoxidase.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="66_139_1"></graphic></fig><fig id="f2-66_139" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Fig. 2</label><caption><p>Comparison of gene expression for carotenoid biosynthesis between the Satsuma mandarin and Valencia orange in juice sacs during massive carotenoid accumulation. The width of the arrows indicates the relative gene expression levels for carotenoid-biosynthetic enzymes. Carotenoids written in white characters were abundant in each citrus species. Abbreviations of carotenoid-biosynthetic enzymes: PSY, phytoene synthase; PDS, phytoene desaturase; ZDS, ζ-carotene desaturase; LCYb, lycopene β-cyclase; HYb, β-ring hydroxylase; ZEP, zeaxanthin epoxidase; NCED, 9-<italic>cis</italic>-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="66_139_2"></graphic></fig><fig id="f3-66_139" orientation="portrait" position="float"><label>Fig. 3</label><caption><p>The pathway from β-cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin to β-citraurin catalyzed by carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 4 (CCD4) in citrus fruit. Dotted lines indicate the positions cleaved by CCD4.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="66_139_3"></graphic></fig></floats-group></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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