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In vivo modification of a maize engineered minichromosome 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Robert T. Gaeta Rick E. Masonbrink Changzeng Zhao Abhijit Sanyal Lakshminarasimhan Krishnaswamy James A. Birchler 《Chromosoma》2013,122(3):221-232
Engineered minichromosomes provide efficient platforms for stacking transgenes in crop plants. Methods for modifying these chromosomes in vivo are essential for the development of customizable systems for the removal of selection genes or other sequences and for the addition of new genes. Previous studies have demonstrated that Cre, a site-specific recombinase, could be used to modify lox sites on transgenes on maize minichromosomes; however, these studies demonstrated somatic recombination only, and modified minichromosomes could not be recovered. We describe the recovery of an engineered chromosome composed of little more than a centromere plus transgene that was derived by telomere-mediated truncation. We used the fiber fluorescence in situ hybridization technique and detected a transgene on the minichromosome inserted among stretches of CentC centromere repeats, and this insertion was large enough to suggest a tandem insertion. By crossing the minichromosome to a plant expressing Cre-recombinase, the Bar selection gene was removed, leaving behind a single loxP site. This study demonstrates that engineered chromosomes can be modified in vivo using site-specific recombinases, a demonstration essential to the development of amendable chromosome platforms in plants. 相似文献
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Induction of telomere‐mediated chromosomal truncation and behavior of truncated chromosomes in Brassica napus
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Xiaohong Yan Chen Li Jie Yang Lijun Wang Chenghong Jiang Wenhui Wei 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2017,91(4):700-713
Engineered minichromosomes could be stably inherited and serve as a platform for simultaneously transferring and stably expressing multiple genes. Chromosomal truncation mediated by repeats of telomeric sequences is a promising approach for the generation of minichromosomes. In the present work, direct repetitive sequences of Arabidopsis telomere were used to study telomere‐mediated truncation of chromosomes in Brassica napus. Transgenes containing alien Arabidopsis telomere were successfully obtained, and Southern blotting and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) results show that the transgenes resulted in successful chromosomal truncation in B. napus. In addition, truncated chromosomes were inherited at rates lower than that predicted by Mendelian rules. To determine the potential manipulations and applications of the engineered chromosomes, such as the stacking of multiple transgenes and the Cre/lox and FRT/FLP recombination systems, both amenable to genetic manipulations through site‐specific recombination in somatic cells, were tested for their ability to undergo recombination in B. napus. These results demonstrate that alien Arabidopsis telomere is able to mediate chromosomal truncation in B. napus. This technology would be feasible for chromosomal engineering and for studies on chromosome structure and function in B. napus. 相似文献
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Hoa TT Bong BB Huq E Hodges TK 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2002,104(4):518-525
The Cre/lox site-specific recombination controls the excision of a target DNA segment by recombination between two lox sites flanking it, mediated by the Cre recombinase. We have studied the functional expression of the Cre/lox system to excise a transgene from the rice genome. We developed transgenic plants carrying the target gene, hygromycin phosphotransferase
(hpt) flanked by two lox sites and transgenic plants harboring the Cre gene. Each lox plant was crossed with each Cre plant reciprocally. In the Cre/lox hybrid plants, the Cre recombinase mediates recombination between two lox sites, resulting in excision of the hpt gene. The recombination event could be detected because it places the CaMV 35S promoter of the hpt gene adjacent to a promoterless gusA gene; as a result the gusA gene is activated and its expression could be visualized. In 73 Cre/lox hybrid plants from various crosses of T0 transgenic plants, 19 expressed GUS, and in 132 Cre/lox hybrid plants from crosses of T2 transgenic plants, 77 showed GUS expression. Molecular data proved the excision event occurred
in all the GUS+ plants. Recombination occurred with high efficiency at the early germinal stage, or randomly during somatic development stages.
Received. 2 April 2001 / Accepted: 29 June 2001 相似文献
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N. Shcherbak O. Kishchenko L. Sakhno I. Komarnytsky M. Kuchuk 《Cytology and Genetics》2013,47(3):145-155
Lox sites of the Cre/lox recombination system from bacteriophage P1 were analyzed for their ability to affect on transgene expression when inserted upstream from a gene coding sequence adjacent to the right border (RB) of T-DNA. Wild and mutated types of lox sites were tested for their effect upon bar gene expression in plants obtained via Agrobacterium-mediated and biolistic transformation methods. Lox-mediated expression of bar gene, recognized by resistance of transgenic plants to PPT, occurred only in plants obtained via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. RT-PCR analysis confirms that PPT-resistant phenotype of transgenic plants obtained via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was caused by activation of bar gene. The plasmid with promoterless gus gene together with the lox site adjacent to the RB was constructed and transferred to Nicotiana tabacum as well. Transgenic plants exhibited GUS activity and expression of gus gene was detected in plant leaves. Expression of bar gene from the vectors containing lox site near RB allowed recovery of numerous PPT-resistant transformants of such important crops as Beta vulgaris, Brassica napus, Lactuca sativa and Solanum tuberosum. Our results demonstrate that the lox site sequence adjacent to the RB can be used to control bar gene expression in transgenic plants. 相似文献
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Selection markers are often indispensable during the process of plant transformation, but dispensable once transgenic plants
have been established. The Cre/lox site-specific recombination system has been employed to eliminate selectable marker genes from transgenic plants. Here we
describe the use of a movement function-improved Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) vector, m30B, to express Cre recombinase for elimination
of the selectable marker gene nptII from transgenic tobacco plants. The transgenic tobacco plants were produced by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation with a specially designed binary vector pGNG which contained in its T-DNA region a sequence complex
of 35S promoter-lox-the gfp coding sequence-rbcS terminator-Nos promoter-nptII-Nos terminator-lox-the gus coding region-Nos terminator. The expression of the recombinant viral vector m30B:Cre in plant cells was achieved by placing the viral vector
under the control of the 35S promoter and through agroinoculation. After co-cultivating the pGNG-leaf discs with agro35S-m30B:Cre
followed by shoot regeneration without any selection, plants devoid of the lox-flanked sequences including nptII were obtained with an efficiency of about 34% as revealed by histochemical GUS assay of the regenerants. Three of 11 GUS
expressing regenerants, derived from two independent transgenic lines containing single copy of the pGNG T-DNA, proved to
be free of the lox-flanked sequences by Southern blot analysis. Excision of the lox-flanked sequences in the three plants could be attributed to transient expression of Cre from the viral vector at the early
stage of co-cultivation, since the cre sequence could not be detected in the viral RNA molecules accumulated in the plants, nor in their genomic DNA. The parental
marker-free genotype was inherited in their selfed progeny, and all of the progeny were virus-free, apparently because TMV
is not seed-transmissible. Therefore, expression of Cre from a TMV-based vector could be used to eliminate selectable marker
genes from transgenic tobacco plants without sexual crossing and segregation, and this strategy could be extended to other
TMV-infected plant species and applicable to other compatible virus–host plant systems. 相似文献
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Single-site manipulation of tomato chromosomes in vitro and in vivo using Cre-lox site-specific recombination 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Jeroen Stuurman Marianne J. de Vroomen H. John J. Nijkamp Mark J. J. van Haaren 《Plant molecular biology》1996,32(5):901-913
With the aim of developing new techniques for physical and functional genome analysis, we have introduced the Cre-lox site-specific recombination system into the cultivated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Local transposition of a Ds(lox) transposable element from a T-DNA(lox) on the long arm of chromosome 6 was used to position pairs of lox sites on different closely linked loci. In vitro Cre-lox recombination between chromosomal lox sites and synthetic lox oligonucleotides cleaved the 750 Mb tomato genome with 34 pb specificity to release unique 65 kb and 130 kb fragments of chromosome 6. Parallel in vitro experiments on Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes show the efficiency of cleavage to be 50% per chromosomal lox site at maximum. By expressing the Cre recombinase in tomato under control of a constitutive CaMV 35S promoter, efficient and specific somatic and germinal in planta inversion of the 130 kb fragment is demonstrated. The combined use of in vitro and in vivo recombination on genetically mapped lox sites will provide new possibilities for long range restriction mapping and in vivo manipulation of selected tomato genome segments. 相似文献
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Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of maize (Zea mays) with Cre-lox site specific recombination cassettes in BIBAC vectors 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Vega JM Yu W Han F Kato A Peters EM Zhang ZJ Birchler JA 《Plant molecular biology》2008,66(6):587-598
The Cre/loxP site-specific recombination system has been applied in various plant species including maize (Zea mays) for marker gene removal, gene targeting, and functional genomics. A BIBAC vector system was adapted for maize transformation
with a large fragment of genetic material including a herbicide resistance marker gene, a 30 kb yeast genomic fragment as
a marker for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and a 35S-lox-cre recombination cassette. Seventy-five transgenic lines were generated from Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of a maize Hi II line with multiple B chromosomes. Eighty-four inserts have been localized among
all 10 A chromosome pairs by FISH using the yeast DNA probe together with a karyotyping cocktail. No inserts were found on
the B chromosomes; thus a bias against the B chromosomes by the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was revealed. The expression of a cre gene was confirmed in 68 of the 75 transgenic lines by a reporter construct for cre/lox mediated recombination. The placement of the cre/lox site-specific recombination system in many locations in the maize genome will be valuable materials for gene targeting and
chromosome engineering. 相似文献
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Shawn R Carlson Gary W Rudgers Helge Zieler Jennifer M Mach Song Luo Eric Grunden Cheryl Krol Gregory P Copenhaver Daphne Preuss 《PLoS genetics》2007,3(10)
Autonomous chromosomes are generated in yeast (yeast artificial chromosomes) and human fibrosarcoma cells (human artificial chromosomes) by introducing purified DNA fragments that nucleate a kinetochore, replicate, and segregate to daughter cells. These autonomous minichromosomes are convenient for manipulating and delivering DNA segments containing multiple genes. In contrast, commercial production of transgenic crops relies on methods that integrate one or a few genes into host chromosomes; extensive screening to identify insertions with the desired expression level, copy number, structure, and genomic location; and long breeding programs to produce varieties that carry multiple transgenes. As a step toward improving transgenic crop production, we report the development of autonomous maize minichromosomes (MMCs). We constructed circular MMCs by combining DsRed and nptII marker genes with 7–190 kb of genomic maize DNA fragments containing satellites, retroelements, and/or other repeats commonly found in centromeres and using particle bombardment to deliver these constructs into embryogenic maize tissue. We selected transformed cells, regenerated plants, and propagated their progeny for multiple generations in the absence of selection. Fluorescent in situ hybridization and segregation analysis demonstrated that autonomous MMCs can be mitotically and meiotically maintained. The MMC described here showed meiotic segregation ratios approaching Mendelian inheritance: 93% transmission as a disome (100% expected), 39% transmission as a monosome crossed to wild type (50% expected), and 59% transmission in self crosses (75% expected). The fluorescent DsRed reporter gene on the MMC was expressed through four generations, and Southern blot analysis indicated the encoded genes were intact. This novel approach for plant transformation can facilitate crop biotechnology by (i) combining several trait genes on a single DNA fragment, (ii) arranging genes in a defined sequence context for more consistent gene expression, and (iii) providing an independent linkage group that can be rapidly introgressed into various germplasms. 相似文献
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Zhang W Subbarao S Addae P Shen A Armstrong C Peschke V Gilbertson L 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2003,107(7):1157-1168
After the initial transformation and tissue culture process is complete, selectable marker genes, which are used in virtually all transformation approaches, are not required for the expression of the gene of interest in the transgenic plants. There are several advantages to removing the selectable marker gene after it is no longer needed, such as enabling the reuse of selectable markers and simplifying transgene arrays. We have tested the Cre/lox system from bacteriophage P1 for its ability to precisely excise stably integrated marker genes from chromosomes in transgenic maize plants. Two strategies, crossing and autoexcision, have been tested and demonstrated. In the crossing strategy, plants expressing the Cre recombinase are crossed with plants bearing a transgene construct in which the selectable marker gene is flanked by directly repeated lox sites. Unlike previous reports in which incomplete somatic and germline excision were common, in our experiments complete somatic and germline marker gene excision occurred in the F1 plants from most crosses with multiple independent Cre and lox lines. In the autoexcision strategy, the cre gene, under the control of a heat shock-inducible promoter, is excised along with the nptII marker gene. Our results show that a transient heat shock treatment of primary transgenic callus is sufficient for inducing cre and excising the cre and nptII genes. Genetic segregation and molecular analysis confirmed that marker gene removal is precise, complete and stable. The autoexcision strategy provides a way of removing the selectable marker gene from callus or other tissues such as embryos and kernels.Communicated by D. Hoisington 相似文献
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Site-specific integration of DNA into wild-type and mutant lox sites placed in the plant genome 总被引:20,自引:1,他引:19
Henrik Albert Emily C. Dale Elsa Lee David W. Ow 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》1995,7(4):649-659
The bacteriophage P1 Cre—lox site-specific recombination system has been used to integrate DNA specifically at lox sites previously placed in the tobacco genome. As integrated molecules flanked by wild-type lox sites can readily excise in the presence of Cre recombinase, screening for mutant lox sites that can resist excisional recombination was performed. In gene integration experiments, wild-type and mutant lox sites were used in conjunction with two strategies for abolishing post-integration Cre activity: (i) promoter displacement of a cre-expression construct present in the target genome; and (ii) transient expression of cre. When the promoter displacement strategy was used, integrant plants were recovered after transformation with constructs containing mutant lox sequences, but not with constructs containing wild-type lox sites. When cre was transiently expressed, integrant plants were obtained after transformation with either mutant or wild-type lox sites. DNA rearrangements at the target locus were less frequent when mutant lox sites were used. DNA integration at the genomic lox site was usually without additional insertions in the genome. Thus, the Cre—lox site-specific recombination system is useful for the single-copy integration of DNA into a chromosomal lox site. 相似文献
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Inducible Excision of Selectable Marker Gene from Transgenic Plants by the Cre/<Emphasis Type="Italic">lox</Emphasis> Site-specific Recombination System 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
In a plant transformation process, it is necessary to use marker genes that allow the selection of regenerated transgenic
plants. However, selectable marker genes are generally superfluous once an intact transgenic plant has been established. Furthermore,
they may cause regulatory difficulties for approving transgenic crop release and commercialization. We constructed a binary
expression vector with the Cre/lox system with a view to eliminating a marker gene from transgenic plants conveniently. In the vector, recombinase gene cre under the control of heat shock promoter and selectable marker gene nptII under the control of CaMV35S promoter were placed between two lox P sites in direct orientation, while the gene of interest was inserted outside of the lox P sites. By using this vector, both cre and nptII genes were eliminated from most of the regenerated plants of primary transformed tobacco through heat shock treatment, while
the gene of interest was retained and stably inherited. This autoexcision strategy, mediated by the Cre/lox system and subjected to heat shock treatment to eliminate a selectable marker gene, is easy to adopt and provides a promising
approach to generate marker-free transgenic plants. 相似文献
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Eva Boszorádová Jana Libantová Ildikó Matušíková Jana Moravčíková 《Acta Physiologiae Plantarum》2014,36(6):1399-1409
The aim of the present study was to explore the usability of Arabidopsis cruciferin C (CRUC) promoter in the Cre/loxP self-excision strategy with the minimal rate of an ectopic expression of the cre recombinase. For this, a plant transformation vector containing the gus reporter gene driven by the light-sensitive Lhca3.St1 instead of double dCaMV 35S promoter and one pair loxP sites flanking the cre and the nptII genes was prepared. Agrobacterium-mediated transformations of three economically important oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) cultivars Campino, Hunter and Topas as well as tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) as a reference system were performed. The integration of the T-DNA into genome of all Brassica cultivars was accompanied by DNA deletions/rearrangements on the both T-DNA ends. The disruption of the Cre/loxP recombination system in oilseed rape was observed. On the contrary, no such events were detected in tobacco. The applied strategy did restrict an ectopic CRUC activity to some extent and a set of transgenic tobacco T0 plants without premature excision event was obtained. Our data showed that a choice of the promoter can limit undesired activation of the Cre/loxP cassette. 相似文献
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New Multiple-Deletion Method for the Corynebacterium glutamicum Genome, Using a Mutant lox Sequence 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Nobuaki Suzuki Hiroshi Nonaka Yota Tsuge Masayuki Inui Hideaki Yukawa 《Applied microbiology》2005,71(12):8472-8480
Due to the difficulty of multiple deletions using the Cre/loxP system, a simple, markerless multiple-deletion method based on a Cre/mutant lox system combining a right-element (RE) mutant lox site with a left-element (LE) mutant lox site was employed for large-scale genome rearrangements in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Eight distinct genomic regions that had been identified previously by comparative analysis of C. glutamicum R and C. glutamicum 13032 genomes were targeted for deletion. By homologous recombination, LE and RE mutant lox sites were integrated at each end of a target region. Highly efficient and accurate deletions between the two chromosomal mutant lox sites in the presence of Cre recombinase were realized. A deletion mutant lacking 190 kb of chromosomal regions, encoding a total of 188 open reading frames (ORFs), was obtained. These deletions represent the largest genomic excisions in C. glutamicum reported to date. Despite the loss of numerous predicted ORFs, the mutant exhibited normal growth under standard laboratory conditions. The Cre/loxP system using a pair of mutant lox sites provides a new, efficient genome rearrangement technique for C. glutamicum. It should facilitate the understanding of genome functions of microorganisms. 相似文献
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A new approach for the identification and cloning of genes: the pBACwich system using Cre/lox site-specific recombination
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Sangdun Choi Dilara Begum Heather Koshinsky David W. Ow Rod A. Wing 《Nucleic acids research》2000,28(7):e19
With current plant transformation methods (Agrobacterium, biolistics and protoplast fusion), insertion of DNA into the genome occurs randomly and in many instances at multiple sites. Associated position effects, copy number differences and multigene interactions can make gene expression experiments difficult to interpret and plant phenotypes less predictable. An alternative approach to random integration of large DNA fragments into plants is to utilize one of several site-specific recombination (SSR) systems, such as Cre/lox. Cre has been shown in numerous instances to mediate lox site-specific recombination in animal and plant cells. By incorporating the Cre/lox SSR system into a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vector, a more precise evaluation of large DNA inserts for genetic complementation should be possible. Site-specific insertion of DNA into predefined sites in the genome may eliminate unwanted ‘position effects’ caused by the random integration of exogenously introduced DNA. In an effort to make the Cre/lox system an effective tool for site-directed integration of large DNAs, we constructed and tested a new vector potentially capable of integrating large DNA inserts into plant and fungal genomes. In this study, we present the construction of a new BAC vector, pBACwich, for the system and the use of this vector to demonstrate SSR of large DNA inserts (up to 230 kb) into plant and fungal genomes. 相似文献
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Kapusi E Ma L Teo CH Hensel G Himmelbach A Schubert I Mette MF Kumlehn J Houben A 《Chromosoma》2012,121(2):181-190
Engineered minichromosomes offer an enormous opportunity to plant biotechnology as they have the potential to simultaneously
transfer and stably express multiple genes. Following a top-down approach, we truncated endogenous chromosomes in barley (Hordeum vulgare) by Agrobacterium-mediated transfer of T-DNA constructs containing telomere sequences. Blocks of Arabidopsis-like telomeric repeats were inserted into a binary vector suitable for stable transformation. After transfer of these constructs
into immature embryos of diploid and tetraploid barley, chromosome truncation by T-DNA-induced de novo formation of telomeres could be confirmed by fluorescent in situ hybridisation, primer extension telomere repeat amplification and DNA gel blot analysis in regenerated plants. Telomere seeding
connected to chromosome truncation was found in tetraploid plants only, indicating that genetic redundancy facilitates recovery
of shortened chromosomes. Truncated chromosomes were transmissible in sexual reproduction, but were inherited at rates lower
than expected according to Mendelian rules. 相似文献
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James A. Birchler Lakshminarasimhan Krishnaswamy Robert T. Gaeta Rick E. Masonbrink Changzeng Zhao 《植物科学评论》2010,29(3):135-147
Engineered minichromosomes provide the ability to target transgenes to a defined insertion position for predictable expression on an independent chromosome. This technology promises to provide a means to add many genes to a synthetic chromosome in sequential manner. An additional advantage is that the multiple transgenes will not be inserted into the normal chromosomes and thus will not exhibit linkage drag when converging the transgenes to different germplasm nor will they be mutagenic. Telomere truncation coupled with the introduction of site-specific recombination cassettes has proven to be an easy method to produce minichromosomes. Telomere truncation results from the transformation of plasmids carrying a block of telomere repeats at one end. Minichromosomes consisting of little more than a centromere have been produced for B chromosomes of maize. Such small chromosomes have been studied for their meiotic behavior, which differs from normal sized chromosomes in that homologue pairing is rare or nonexistent and sister chromatid cohesion fails at meiosis I. Potential modifications of the minichromosomes that can address these issues are discussed. Minichromosomes can be recovered from transformed plants that are polyploid or that carry an additional chromosome as the preferred target for truncation. Site-specific recombination has been demonstrated to operate on these terminally located sites. By introducing normal B chromosomes into lines with engineered mini-B chromosomes, the latter can be increased in copy number, which provides the potential to augment the expression of the introduced genes. Because the vast majority of plant species have the same telomere sequence, the truncating transgenes should be effective in most plants to generate engineered minichromosomes. Such chromosomes establish the means to add or subtract multiple transgenes, multigene complexes, or whole biochemical pathways to plants to change their properties for agronomic applications or to use plants as factories for the production of foreign proteins or metabolites. 相似文献
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Otsuji T Matsumura H Suzuki T Nakatsuji N Tada T Tada M 《Journal of molecular biology》2008,378(2):328-336
Loss of heterozygosity by whole or partial loss of chromosomal regions is crucial to genetic disorders, cancers and diseases. It is difficult to analyze the mechanisms of pathogenesis caused by large-scale chromosomal abnormalities due to the extreme rarity of this mutagenesis. Using a Cre/inverted loxP system, we have generated a chromosome elimination cassette (CEC) that induces a selective loss of embryonic-stem-cell-derived chromosomes in undifferentiated embryonic stem cell-somatic cell hybrids. Here, due to the increased expression of Cre, rapid formation of Cre recombination products and immediate loss of CEC-tagged chromosomes were detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Cre also initiated intrachromosomal recombination between identical short sequences outside loxP, leading to large chromosomal deletions of CEC-tagged regions. The Cre-mediated antiparallel synapses likely act as a scaffold to bring the identical short sequences into close proximity for recombination. This CEC technology might allow better understanding of the modulator sequences responsible for the tangled structure formation and its solution mechanism, inducing mitotic recombination leading to chromosomal deletions. 相似文献
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The introduction of telomere sequences during transformation of maize will cause chromosomal truncation. This technique has been used to create minichromosomes. With the simultaneous introduction of site specific recombination cassettes, the ability to add additional genes to the newly formed engineered minichromosome becomes possible. Targeting the supernumerary B chromosome produces truncations at a very high rate and produces minichromosomes with the additional property that they can be dosage manipulated by the reintroduction of full length B chromosomes. The uses of engineered minichromosomes are discussed. 相似文献