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Towards reducing the immunogenic potential of wheat flour: silencing of alpha gliadin genes in a U.S. wheat cultivar

ABSTRACT: The alpha gliadins are a complex group of proteins with very similar sequences that comprise about 15-20% of the total flour protein and contribute to the functional properties of wheat flour dough. Some alpha gliadins also contain immunodominant epitopes relevant to celiac disease, a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly 1.4% of the worldwide population. In an attempt to reduce the immunogenic potential of wheat flour in the U.S. spring wheat cultivar Butte 86, RNA interference was used to silence a subset of alpha gliadin genes encoding proteins containing celiac disease epitopes. Two of the resulting transgenic lines were analyzed in detail by quantitative two-dimensional gel electrophoresis combined with tandem mass spectrometry. Although only some genes were targeted by the RNA interference construct, all alpha gliadins were effectively silenced in the transgenic plants. Some off-target silencing of high molecular weight glutenin subunits also was detected in both transgenic lines even though there was no homology with the target sequence. Reactivities of IgG and IgA serum antibodies from a cohort of patients with confirmed cases of celiac disease were decreased in flour from the two transgenic lines relative to the non-transgenic line. However, functional properties of the flour were also altered in the transgenic lines as evidenced by decreases in both mixing times and SDS sedimentation values. Although it may be possible to reduce the immunogenic potential of the flour and retain the viscoelastic properties essential for the utilization of wheat by eliminating only the most immunogenic alpha gliadins, the data suggest that it will be very difficult to selectively silence specific genes within families as complex as the wheat alpha gliadins.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap Elite

ORGANISM(S): Triticum Aestivum (wheat)

TISSUE(S): Seed

SUBMITTER: Annamaria Simon-Buss

LAB HEAD: dr Susan B. Altenbach

PROVIDER: PXD016930 | Pride | 2020-02-28

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Reducing the Immunogenic Potential of Wheat Flour: Silencing of Alpha Gliadin Genes in a U.S. Wheat Cultivar.

Altenbach Susan B SB Chang Han-Chang HC Rowe Matthew H MH Yu Xuechen B XB Simon-Buss Annamaria A Seabourn Bradford W BW Green Peter H PH Alaedini Armin A

Frontiers in plant science 20200225

The alpha gliadins are a group of more than 20 proteins with very similar sequences that comprise about 15%-20% of the total flour protein and contribute to the functional properties of wheat flour dough. Some alpha gliadins also contain immunodominant epitopes that trigger celiac disease, a chronic autoimmune disease that affects approximately 1% of the worldwide population. In an attempt to reduce the immunogenic potential of wheat flour from the U.S. spring wheat cultivar Butte 86, RNA interf ...[more]

PMID: 32161604

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Project description:Within the complex wheat flour proteome, the gluten proteins have attracted most of the attention because of their importance in determining the functional properties of wheat flour doughs and their roles in human health conditions such as celiac disease and food allergies. However, certain non-gluten proteins also trigger immunological responses but may be present in flour in low amounts or obscured by the more abundant gluten proteins in two-dimensional gels of total protein preparations. Non-gluten proteins were preferentially extracted from the flour with a dilute salt solution and separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Proteins in 172 gel spots were identified by tandem mass spectrometry after cleavage with trypsin or chymotrypsin. Fifty-seven different types of non-gluten proteins were identified, including 14 types that are known or suspected immunogenic proteins. The predominant proteins in 18 gel spots were gluten proteins. Transgenic wheat lines in which specific groups of gluten proteins were suppressed by RNA interference were used to estimate the amount of carry-over of gluten proteins in the salt-soluble protein fraction. Analysis of salt-soluble proteins from a transgenic line missing omega-1,2 gliadins demonstrated that certain omega-1,2 gliadins were present in large amounts in the salt-soluble fraction and obscured relatively small amounts of beta-amylase and protein disulfide isomerase. In comparison, analysis of a transgenic line in which alpha gliadins were absent revealed that glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate dehydrogenase was a moderately abundant protein that co-migrated with several alpha gliadins. The proteomic map of the non-gluten protein fraction of wheat flour developed in this study complements a proteomic map of the total flour proteins developed previously for the same cultivar. Knowing the identities of low abundance proteins in the flour as well as proteins that are hidden by some of the major gluten proteins on two-dimensional gels is critical for studies aimed at assessing the immunogenic potential of wheat flour and determining how the growth conditions of the plants affect the levels of specific immunogenic proteins in the flour.

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Towards reducing the immunogenic potential of wheat flour: silencing of alpha gliadin genes in a U.S. wheat cultivar

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Reducing the Immunogenic Potential of Wheat Flour: Silencing of Alpha Gliadin Genes in a U.S. Wheat Cultivar.

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