QTL mapping of the production of wine aroma compounds by yeast

BMC Genomics

Research Article

Jean-Luc Legras¹  Pierre Delobel¹  Chloe Ambroset¹  Christian Brion¹  Isabelle Sanchez¹  Bruno Blondin¹  Patricia Claudel²  Francis Karst²  Damien Steyer³  Claude Erny⁴ 

[1] INRA, UMR1083, F-34060, Montpellier, France;Montpellier SupAgro, UMR1083, F-34060, Montpellier, France;Université Montpellier 1, UMR1083, F-34060, Montpellier, France;INRA, UMR1131, F-68021, Colmar, France;Université de Strasbourg, UMR1131, F-68021, Strasbourg, France;INRA, UMR1131, F-68021, Colmar, France;Université de Strasbourg, UMR1131, F-68021, Strasbourg, France;Twistaroma, F-68021, Colmar, France;Université de Haute Alsace, EA3991 Laboratoire Vigne Biotechnologies et Environnement, F-68021, Colmar, France;

关键词: Saccharomyces cerevisiae;    QTL mapping;    Wine aroma;    Citronellol;    Rose oxide;    Nerolidol;    Farnesene;    Ethyl esters;    2-phenyl ethanol;    PDR8;    ABZ1;    PLB2;    QDR2;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-13-573

 received in 2012-05-29, accepted in 2012-10-04,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundWine aroma results from the combination of numerous volatile compounds, some produced by yeast and others produced in the grapes and further metabolized by yeast. However, little is known about the consequences of the genetic variation of yeast on the production of these volatile metabolites, or on the metabolic pathways involved in the metabolism of grape compounds. As a tool to decipher how wine aroma develops, we analyzed, under two experimental conditions, the production of 44 compounds by a population of 30 segregants from a cross between a laboratory strain and an industrial strain genotyped at high density.ResultsWe detected eight genomic regions explaining the diversity concerning 15 compounds, some produced de novo by yeast, such as nerolidol, ethyl esters and phenyl ethanol, and others derived from grape compounds such as citronellol, and cis-rose oxide. In three of these eight regions, we identified genes involved in the phenotype. Hemizygote comparison allowed the attribution of differences in the production of nerolidol and 2-phenyl ethanol to the PDR8 and ABZ1 genes, respectively. Deletion of a PLB2 gene confirmed its involvement in the production of ethyl esters. A comparison of allelic variants of PDR8 and ABZ1 in a set of available sequences revealed that both genes present a higher than expected number of non-synonymous mutations indicating possible balancing selection.ConclusionsThis study illustrates the value of QTL analysis for the analysis of metabolic traits, and in particular the production of wine aromas. It also identifies the particular role of the PDR8 gene in the production of farnesyldiphosphate derivatives, of ABZ1 in the production of numerous compounds and of PLB2 in ethyl ester synthesis. This work also provides a basis for elucidating the metabolism of various grape compounds, such as citronellol and cis-rose oxide.

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© Steyer et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.