M. Lorenzen et al., SINAPIC ACID ESTER METABOLISM IN WILD-TYPE AND A SINAPOYLGLUCOSE-ACCUMULATING MUTANT OF ARABIDOPSIS, Plant physiology, 112(4), 1996, pp. 1625-1630
Sinapoylmalate is one of the major phenylpropanoid metabolites that is
accumulated in the vegetative tissue of Arabidopsis thaliana. A thin-
layer chromatography-based mutant screen identified two allelic mutant
lines that accumulated sinapoylglucose in their leaves in place of si
napoylmalate. Both mutations were found to be recessive and segregated
as single Mendelian genes. These mutants define a new locus called SN
G1 for sinapoylglucose accumulator. Plants that are homozygous for the
sng1 mutation accumulate normal levels of malate in their leaves but
lack detectable levels of the final enzyme in sinapate ester biosynthe
sis, sinapoylglucose:malate sinapoyltransferase. A study of wild-type
and sng1 seedlings found that sinapic acid ester biosynthesis in Arabi
dopsis is developmentally regulated and that the accumulation of sinap
ate esters is delayed in sng1 mutant seedlings.