Reference Report for RTN20180104.10
Title: | Identification of a New Soybean Kunitz Trypsin Inhibitor Mutation and Its Effect on Bowman?Birk Protease Inhibitor Content in Soybean Seed |
Authors: | Gillman, J.D., Kim, W-S., Krishnan, H.B. |
Source: | J. Agric Food Chem 2015, 63(5):1352-1359 |
Abstract: | Soybean seed contains antinutritional compounds that inactivate digestive proteases, principally corresponding to two families: Kunitz trypsin inhibitors (KTi) and Bowman?Birk inhibitors (BBI). High levels of raw soybean/soybean meal in feed mixtures can cause poor weight gain and pancreatic abnormalities via inactivation of trypsin/chymotrypsin enzymes. Soybean protein meal is routinely heat-treated to inactivate inhibitors, a practice that is energy-intensive and costly and can degrade certain essential amino acids. In this work, we screened seed from 520 soybean accessions, using a combination of sodium dodecyl sulfate?polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS?PAGE) and immunoblots with anti-Kunitz trypsin inhibitor antibodies. A soybean germplasm accession was identified with a mutation affecting an isoform annotated as nonfunctional (KTi1), which was determined to be synergistic with a previously identified mutation (KTi3?). We observed significant proteome rebalancing in all KTi mutant lines, resulting in dramatically increased BBI protein levels. |