First published online April 22, 2004; 10.1105/tpc.019778
The Plant Cell 16:1288-1301 (2004)
© 2004 American Society of Plant Biologists
maternally expressed gene1 Is a Novel Maize Endosperm Transfer Cell–Specific Gene with a Maternal Parent-of-Origin Pattern of Expression
Jose F. Gutiérrez-Marcosa,1,
Liliana M. Costaa,
Corinne Biderre-Petitb,
Bouchaib Khbayab,
Donal M. O'Sullivanc,
Mark Wormaldd,
Pascual Perezb and
Hugh G. Dickinsona
a Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
b Biogemma, 63170 Aubiere, France
c School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, United Kingdom
d Oxford Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail jose.gutierrez{at}plants.ox.ac.uk; fax 44 1865 275805.
Growth of the maize (Zea mays) endosperm is tightly regulated by maternal zygotic and sporophytic genes, some of which are subject to a parent-of-origin effect. We report here a novel gene, maternally expressed gene1 (meg1), which shows a maternal parent-of-origin expression pattern during early stages of endosperm development but biallelic expression at later stages. Interestingly, a stable reporter fusion containing the meg1 promoter exhibits a similar pattern of expression. meg1 is exclusively expressed in the basal transfer region of the endosperm. Further, we show that the putatively processed MEG1 protein is glycosylated and subsequently localized to the labyrinthine ingrowths of the transfer cell walls. Hence, the discovery of a parent-of-origin gene expressed solely in the basal transfer region opens the door to epigenetic mechanisms operating in the endosperm to regulate certain aspects of nutrient trafficking from the maternal tissue into the developing seed.
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