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We have previously reported the graft transmission of target specificity for RNA silencing using transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants expressing the coat protein gene (CP, including the 3′ non-translated region) of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus. Transgenic plants carrying the 5′ 200 and 400 bp regions of CP were newly produced. From these plants, two silenced and two non-silenced lines were selected to investigate the manifestation of transitive RNA silencing by graft experiments. Non-silenced scions carrying the entire transgene were grafted onto either 5′ or 3′ silencing inducer rootstocks. When non-silenced scions were grafted onto 5′ silencing inducer rootstocks, RNA silencing was induced in the non-silenced scions and spread toward the 3′ region of the transgene mRNA. Similarly, when non-silenced scions were grafted onto 3′ silencing inducer rootstocks, RNA silencing was induced in the non-silenced scions, but was restricted to the 3′ region of the transgene and did not spread to the 5′ region. In addition, results from crossing experiments, involving non-silenced and 3′ silencing inducer plants, confirmed the above finding. This indicates that RNA silencing spreads in the 5′–3′ direction, not in the 3′–5′ direction, along the transgene mRNA. 相似文献
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del Rosario Abraham-Juárez M del Carmen Rocha-Granados M López MG Rivera-Bustamante RF Ochoa-Alejo N 《Planta》2008,227(3):681-695
Capsaicinoids are responsible for the pungent taste of chili pepper fruits of Capsicum species. Capsaicinoids are biosynthesized through both the phenylpropanoid and the branched-fatty acids pathways. Fragments
of Comt (encoding a caffeic acid O-methyltransferase), pAmt (a putative aminotransferase), and Kas (a β-keto-acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase) genes, that are differentially expressed in placenta tissue of pungent chili
pepper, were individually inserted into a Pepper huasteco yellow veins virus (PHYVV)-derived vector to determine, by virus-induced gene silencing, irrespective of whether these genes are involved in
the biosynthesis of capsaicinoids. Reduction of the respective mRNA levels as well as the presence of related siRNAs confirmed
the silencing of these three genes. Morphological alterations were evident in plants inoculated with PHYVV::Comt and PHYVV::Kas constructs; however, plants inoculated with PHYVV::pAmt showed no evident alterations. On the other hand, fruit setting was normal in all cases. Biochemical analysis of placenta
tissues showed that, indeed, independent silencing of all three genes led to a dramatic reduction in capsaicinoid content
in the fruits demonstrating the participation of these genes in capsaicinoid biosynthesis. Using this approach it was possible
to generate non-pungent chili peppers at high efficiency. 相似文献
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Arabidopsis ACT2 represents an ancient class of vegetative plant actins and is strongly and constitutively expressed in almost all Arabidopsis sporophyte vegetative tissues. Using the beta glucuronidase report system, the studies showed that ACT2 5′ regulatory region was significantly more active than CaMV 35S promoter in Arabidopsis seedlings and gametophyte vegetative tissues of Physcomitrella patens. Its activity was also observed in rice and maize seedlings. Thus, the ACT2 5′ regulatory region could potentially serve as a strong regulator to express a transgene in divergent plant species. ACT2 5′ regulatory region contained 15 conserved sequence elements, an ancient intron in its 5′ un-translated region (5′ UTR),
and a purine-rich stretch followed by a pyrimidine-rich stretch (PuPy). Mutagenesis and deletion analysis illustrated that
some of the conserved sequence elements and the region containing PuPy sequences played regulatory roles in Arabidopsis. Interestingly, mutation of the conserved elements did not lead a dramatic change in the activity of ACT2 5′ regulatory region. The ancient intron in ACT2 5′ UTR was required for its strong expression in both Arabidopsis and P. patens, but did not fully function as a canonical intron. Thus, it was likely that some of the conserved sequence elements and gene
structures had been preserved in ACT2 5′ regulatory region over the course of land plant evolution partly due to their functional importance. The studies provided
additional evidences that identification of evolutionarily conserved features in non-coding region might be used as an efficient
strategy to predict gene regulatory elements. 相似文献
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Vanderschuren H Akbergenov R Pooggin MM Hohn T Gruissem W Zhang P 《Plant molecular biology》2007,64(5):549-557
Expression of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) homologous to virus sequences can effectively interfere with RNA virus infection
in plant cells by triggering RNA silencing. Here we applied this approach against a DNA virus, African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV), in its natural host cassava. Transgenic cassava plants were developed to express small interfering RNAs (siRNA) from
a CaMV 35S promoter-controlled, intron-containing dsRNA cognate to the common region-containing bidirectional promoter of
ACMV DNA-A. In two of three independent transgenic lines, accelerated plant recovery from ACMV-NOg infection was observed, which correlates with the presence of transgene-derived siRNAs 21–24 nt in length. Overall, cassava
mosaic disease symptoms were dramatically attenuated in these two lines and less viral DNA accumulation was detected in their
leaves than in those of wild-type plants. In a transient replication assay using leaf disks from the two transgenic lines,
strongly reduced accumulation of viral single-stranded DNA was observed. Our study suggests that a natural RNA silencing mechanism
targeting DNA viruses through production of virus-derived siRNAs is turned on earlier and more efficiently in transgenic plants
expressing dsRNA cognate to the viral promoter and common region. 相似文献
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Bioballistic transformation of carrot (Daucus carota L.) callus cultures with a plasmid containing the aadA (aminoglycoside 3′-adenyltransferase) gene and subsequent selection of transformants on a selective medium containing spectinomycin
(100–500 mg/l) yielded ten callus lines resistant to this antibiotic. PCR analysis did not detect exogenous DNA in the genomes
of spectinomycin-resistant calluses. Resistance proved to be due to spontaneous mutations that occurred in two different regions
of the chloroplast rrn16 gene, which codes for the 16S rRNA. Six lines displayed the G > T or G > C transverions in position 1012 of the rrn16 gene, and three lines had the A > G transition in position 1138 of the gene. Chloroplast mutations arising during passages
of callus cultures in the presence of spectinomycin were described in D. carota for the first time. The cause of spectinomycin resistance was not identified in one line. The mutations observed in the D. carota plastid genome occurred in the region that is involved in the formation of a double-stranded region at the 3′ end of the
16S rRNA and coincided in positions with the nucleotide substitutions found in spectinomycin-resistant plants of tobacco Nicotiana tabacum L. and bladderpod Lesquerella fendleri L. 相似文献
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Xiangbin Xu Jufang Bian Songbai Liu Hongmiao Song Nongnong Shi Yuezhi Tao Huizhong Wang 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2011,27(3):337-346
The PROMOTION OF CELL SURVIVAL 1 (PCS1) gene, encoding an aspartic protease, has an important role in determining the fate of cells in embryonic development and
reproduction processes in Arabidopsis. To explore the potential function of the PCS1 gene in generating reproductive sterility, we placed the PCS1 gene under the control of an 1,869-bp nucleotide sequence from the 3′ end of the second intron (AG-I) of Arabidopsis AGAMOUS and CaMV 35S (–60) minimal promoter [AG-I-35S (–60)::PCS1], and introduced it into tobacco. RT–PCR results demonstrated that the PCS1 gene driven by AG-I-35S (–60) chimeric promoter was expressed only in anthers and carpels in the reproductive tissues of transgenic tobacco. Compared to
wild-type plants, all AG-I-35S (–60) and AG-I-35S (–60)::PCS1 transgenic lines showed a normal phenotype throughout the vegetative growth phase. However, during the reproductive stage,
most AG-I-35S (–60)::PCS1 transgenic plant anthers displayed delayed dehiscence, failed dehiscence, petalody and hypoplasia, and the pollen grains
had different shapes and sizes with a distorted, shrunken, or collapsed morphology. Moreover, three transgenic lines, PCS1-1,
PCS1-3 and PCS1-4, showed higher sterility than wild-type and AG-I-35S (–60) transgenic plants, respectively. These results showed that the construct of AG-I-35S (–60)::PCS1 was partially effective at preventing seed set and provided a novel sterility strategy. 相似文献
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The dwarf pomegranate (Punica granatum L. var. nana) is a dwarf ornamental plant that has the potential to be the model plant of perennial fruit trees because it bears fruits
within 1 year of seedling. We established an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the dwarf pomegranate. Adventitious shoots regenerated from leaf segments were inoculated
with A. tumefaciens strain EHA105 harboring the binary vector pBin19-sgfp, which contains neomycin phosphotransferase (npt II) and green fluorescent protein (gfp) gene as a selectable and visual marker, respectively. After co-cultivation, the inoculated adventitious shoots were cut
into small pieces to induce regeneration, and then selected on MS medium supplemented with 0.5 μM α-naphthaleneacetic acid
(NAA), 5 μM N6-benzyladenine (BA), 0.3% gellan gum, 50 mg/l kanamycin, and 10 mg/l meropenem. Putative transformed shoots were regenerated
after 6–8 months of selection. PCR and PCR-Southern blot analysis revealed the integration of the transgene into the plant
genome. Transformants bloomed and bore fruits within 3 months of being potted, and the inheritance of the transgene was confirmed
in T1 generations. The advantage of the transformation of dwarf pomegranate was shown to be the high transformation rate. The establishment
of this transformation system is invaluable for investigating fruit-tree-specific phenomena. 相似文献
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Nitraria retusa and Atriplex halimus (xero-halophytes) plants were grown in the range 0–800 mM NaCl while Medicago arborea (glycophyte) in 0–300 mM NaCl. Salt stress caused a marked decrease in osmotic potential and a significant accumulation of
Na+ and Cl− in leaves of both species. Moderate salinity had a stimulating effect on growth rate, net CO2 assimilation, transpiration and stomatal conductance for the xero-halophytic species. At higher salinities, these physiological
parameters decreased significantly, and their percentages of reduction were higher in A. halimus than in N. retusa whereas, in M. arborea they decreased linearly with salinity. Nitraria retusa PSII photochemistry and carotenoid content were unaffected by salinity, but a reduction in chlorophyll content was observed
at 800 mM NaCl. Similar results were found in A. halimus, but with a decrease in the efficiency of PSII (F′v/F′m) occurred at 800 mM. Conversely, in M. arborea plants we observed a significant reduction in pigment concentrations and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters. The marked
toxic effect of Na+ and/or Cl− observed in M. arborea indicates that salt damage effect could be attributed to ions’ toxicity, and that the reduction in photosynthesis is most
probably due to damages in the photosynthetic apparatus rather than factors affecting stomatal closure. For the two halophyte
species, it appears that there is occurrence of co-limitation of photosynthesis by stomatal and non-stomatal factors. Our
results suggest that both N. retusa and A. halimus show high tolerance to both high salinity and photoinhibition while M. arborea was considered as a slightly salt tolerant species. 相似文献
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Jee SH Kim GE Hong SH Seo SB Shim JK Park SC Choo JK 《Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG》2007,278(4):479-486
The maT family is a unique clade within the Tc1-mariner superfamily, and their distribution is to date known as being limited to invertebrates. A novel transposon named EamaT1 is described from the genome of the earthworm Eisenia andrei. The full sized EamaT1 was obtained by degenerate and inverse PCR-based amplification. Sequence analysis of multiple copies of the EamaT1, which consisted of 0.9 and 1.4 kb elements, showed that the consensual EamaT1 with inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) of 69 bp was 1,422 bp long and flanked by a duplicated TA dinucleotide. The EamaT1 is present in approximately 120–250 copies per diploid genome but undergoes an inactivation process as a result of accumulating
multiple mutations and is nonfunctional. The open reading frame (ORF) of the EamaT1 consensus encoding 356 amino acid sequences of transposase contained a DD37D signature and a conserved paired-like DNA binding
motif for the transposition mechanism. The result of ITRs comparison confirmed their consensus terminal sequences (5′-CAGGGTG-3′)
and AT-rich region on the internal bases for ITRs-transposase interaction. 相似文献
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Recently, the prenyltransferase SirD was found to be responsible for the O-prenylation of tyrosine in the biosynthesis of sirodesmin PL in Leptosphaeria maculans. In this study, the behavior of SirD towards phenylalanine/tyrosine and tryptophan derivatives was investigated. Product
formation has been observed with 12 of 19 phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives. It was shown that the alanine structure attached
to the benzene ring and an electron donor, e.g., OH or NH2, at its para-position are essential for the enzyme activity. Modifications were possible both at the side chain and the benzene ring.
Enzyme products from seven phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives were isolated and characterized by MS and NMR analyses including
HSQC and HMBC and proven to be O- or N-prenylated derivatives at position C4 of the benzene rings. K
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values of six selected derivatives were found in the range of 0.10–0.68 mM. Catalytic efficiencies (K
cat/K
M
) were determined in the range of 430–1,110 s−1·M−1 with l-tyrosine as the best substrate. In addition, 7 of 14 tested tryptophan analogs were also accepted by SirD and converted to
C7-prenylated derivatives, which was confirmed by comparison with products obtained from enzyme assays using a 7-dimethylallyltryptophan
synthase 7-DMATS from Aspergillus fumigatus. 相似文献
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Aminoglycoside resistance in six clinically isolated Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated. Genotypical examination revealed that three isolates (HLGR-10, HLGR-12, and MSSA-21) have aminoglycoside-modifying
enzyme (AME) coding genes and another three (GRSA-2, GRSA-4, and GRSA-6) lacked these genes in their genome. Whereas isolates
HLGR-10 and HLGR-14 possessed bifunctional AME coding gene aac(6′)-aph(2′′), and aph(3′)-III and showed high-level resistance to gentamycin and streptomycin, MSSA-21 possessed aph(3′)-III and exhibited low resistance to gentamycin, streptomycin, and kanamycin. The remaining three isolates (GRSA-2, GRSA-4, and
GRSA-6) exhibited low resistance to all the aminoglycosides because they lack aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme coding genes
in their genome. The transmission electron microscopy of the three isolates revealed changes in cell size, shape, and septa
formation, supporting the view that the phenomenon of adaptive resistance is operative in these isolates. 相似文献
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Several matrix-attachment regions (MARs) from animals have been shown to block interactions between an enhancer and promoter
when situated between the two. Since a similar function for plant MARs has not been discerned, we tested the Zea mays
ADH1 5′ MAR, Nicotiana tabacum
Rb7 3′ MAR and a transformation booster sequence (TBS) MAR from Petunia hybrida for their ability to impede enhancer–promoter interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Stable transgenic lines containing vectors in which one of the three MAR elements or a 4 kb control sequence were interposed
between the cauliflower mosaic virus
35S enhancer and a flower-specific AGAMOUS second intron-derived promoter (AGIP)::β-glucuronidase (GUS) fusion were assayed for GUS expression in vegetative tissues. We demonstrate that the TBS MAR element, but not the ADH1 or Rb7 MARs, is able to block interactions between the 35S enhancer and AGIP without compromising the function of either with elements from which they are not insulated.
Accession numbers: TBS from Petunia hybrida cultivar V26, GenBank accession number EU864306. 相似文献
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Livingstone JR Yoshida I Tarui Y Hirooka K Yamamoto Y Tsutui N Hirasawa E 《Journal of plant research》2002,115(5):393-400
NAD-dependent aminoaldehyde dehydrogenase (AMADH, EC 1.2.1.-) from Avena shoots was purified by DEAE Sephacel, hydroxyapatite, 5′-AMP Sepharose 4B, Mono Q, and TSK-GEL column chromatographies to
homogeneity by the criterion of native PAGE. SDS–PAGE yielded a single band at a molecular mass of 55 kDa. IEF studies showed
a band with a pI value of 5.3. In contrast to AMADHs from other species, the TSK-GEL chromatography showed that Avena AMADH exists as a monomer in the native state. The purified enzyme catalyzed the oxidations of 3-aminopropionaldehyde (APAL),
4-aminobutyraldehyde (ABAL) N-(3-aminopropyl)-4-aminobutyraldehyde (APBAL), and 4-guanidinobutyraldehyde (GBAL), but not of betaine aldehyde or indoleacetaldehyde.
The K
m values for APAL, ABAL, and GBAL were 1.5×10–6, 2.2×10–6, and 1.3×10–5 M, respectively. Although N-terminal amino acid sequence of Avena AMADH could not be determined due to a modification of the amino residue, the sequence of the fragment of AMADH cleaved by
V8 protease showed greater similarity to the barley BADH than to the pea AMADH.
Electronic Publication 相似文献