农杆菌介导单子叶植物遗传转化问题与对策

尽管十几年来农杆菌介导的单子叶植物遗传转化研究取得了较大的进步, 但仍存在着基因型限制、转化率不高和外源基因表达活性低等问题。本文综述了近几年来此项研究在感受态细胞选择与调节、预培养及共培养体系优化、转化子的筛选及外源基因表达调控等方面的主要进展。     

转基因植物外源基因的整合分析

外源基因表达的不稳定性和多样性是制约转基因作物育种研发进度的关键因素,外源基因的整合情况与外源基因的表达直接相关,充分了解外源基因的整合情况可为构建高效表达载体、获得外源基因稳定一致表达转基因材料提供参考,同时为转基因作物的安全利用提供保障.就外源基因整合情况的分析方法、不同转化方法外源基因的整合特点及利用定点整合技术提高外源基因表达稳定一致性的研究进展作一概述.     

巴斯德毕赤酵母外源基因表达系统

巴斯德毕赤酵母是目前最为成功的外源基因表达系统之一。有关研究主要涉及以下几个方面。宿主菌株、表达载体、转化方法、外源基因的整合与影响外源蛋白表达的因素等。     

不同启动子调控外源基因在斑玉蕈中的表达分析

启动子是控制基因转录的重要顺式元件,也是遗传转化实验中驱动外源基因表达的重要工具.在同一真菌中,不同启动子驱动外源基因表达水平可能存在明显差异.因此,选择合适的启动子是提高外源基因表达水平的关键.本研究分别应用花椰菜病毒35S RNA (cauliflower mosaic virus 35S RNA,CaMV35S)...     

赤霉菌原生质体DNA转化

DNA转化是基因表达和其它分子生物学研究的一项重要内容。原核生物（如细菌）的DNA转化技术已相当成熟,作为真核生物的丝状真菌其DNA转化过程要相对复杂一些,且转化效率一般也不如细菌的高。但丝状真菌DNA转化的研究对于深入探讨真菌基因表达调控的机理、尤其是研究外源基因在丝状真菌中的表达有着重要意义（唐国敏,1992）。赤霉菌（Gibberellajirjtheroi）在实验室条件下易培养、生长快,是研究赤霉素储类生物合成途径的必需材料,在作为表达体系表达外源基因尤其是储类合成的关键基因方面亦有着潜在的用途。但作为赤霉菌基础研究…     

不同启动子驱动下转基因盐藻外源基因的稳定表达

摘要：为了探讨外源性与内源性启动子对转基因盐藻外源基因表达的影响,将含外源性启动子CMV35S的表达载体CMV35S-bar（G12）和含内源双拷贝碳酸酐酶启动子DCA1的表达载体DCA1-bar（D-B）分别转化盐藻,筛选稳定转化株后,观察在不同启动子驱动下外源基因的表达情况及对转基因盐藻生长的影响。 通过电击法分别将表达载体G12 和D-B转化盐藻,经PPT筛选后,各得到了3株PPT抗性藻株,经PCR及测序分析证实外源基因bar已经整合到盐藻的基因组中,半定量RT-PCR结果显示,在内源性启动子DCA1驱动下,bar基因的表达强度明显高于在外源性启动子驱动下bar的表达,并且D-B转化株的bar基因表达在盐诱导下其表达明显提高,而G12转化株中bar基因的表达对盐诱导无反应。Southern blot 分析显示,外源基因的拷贝数与不同启动子间无相关性。转化株的生长特性分析显示,D-B转化株的生长速度明显高于G12转化株。本研究的结果指出,内源诱导型启动子在驱动转基因盐藻外源基因的高效稳定表达中比外源组成型启动子更具有优势。     

植物质体基因工程:新的优化策略及应用

植物质体转化技术通过同源重组实现定点整合,与细胞核基因工程相比,使外源基因表达更为精确、安全和高效。该技术在基础研究中为叶绿体功能基因组研究提供了有效手段,同时在应用方面为外源基因表达提供了理想的平台,已成为植物遗传育种的一种新策略。本文总结了近年来质体基因工程在转化体系的建立和优化上的新思路,着重阐述了利用质体转化技术在遗传育种中提高作物抗性、改良品质等应用领域的最新研究进展。克服质体转化技术在作物遗传育种中面临的难题,必将为作物育种的发展带来新的绿色革命。     

叶绿体转化及其用于疫苗表达研究的最新进展

随着植物转基因研究的不断深入,核基因组转化的转基因沉默现象严重影响了基因工程的应用效果。植物叶绿体遗传转化以叶绿体基因组为平台对植物进行遗传操作,外源基因定点整合及母性遗传特性能较好地解决"顺式失活"和"位置效应"等类的基因沉默问题和转基因逃逸等安全问题,成为植物基因工程发展的新方向,在工业、农业及医药生物领域发挥了重要作用,也为生产廉价、安全的植物疫苗提供了新思路。本文在简要介绍叶绿体转化的原理、转化方法与优势的基础上,重点综述了近年来通过该技术表达的一些重要的病毒抗原和细菌抗原。最后,对叶绿体转化技术在表达外源基因方面存在的问题进行分析。未来随着叶绿体基因表达、调控机制研究的逐渐深入及相关技术体系的日臻完善,叶绿体转化有望成为疫苗生产的生力军。     

苏云金芽孢杆菌杀虫蛋白基因克隆及油菜叶绿体遗传转化研究

向细胞核导入外源基因的核转化技术是植物基因工程的主要方法。然而,外源基因表达效率低,表达不稳定,基因易失活和因随机插入而造成的位置效应等是该方法不足之处。而且,由于外源基因可随花粉扩散,细胞核转化体的生物安全性问题已在全球范围内引起世人的关注和担忧。将外源基因导入叶绿体基因组有望克服细胞核转化中存在的某些弊端。油菜作为世界上重要的油料作物,其叶绿体遗传转化研究还未见报道。本研究从苏云金芽孢杆菌克隆得到野生型杀虫晶体蛋白基因,构建了用于油菜叶绿体定点转化的植物表达载体,并用基因枪法将杀虫蛋白基因导入油菜,…     

毕赤酵母外源基因表达系统研究进展

巴斯德毕赤酵母Pichia pastoris外源基因表达系统已经成功表达了很多胞间型和胞内型蛋白质。与酿酒酵母Saccharomyces ceresiviae相比,该系统所具有的很多优势使其应用越来越广泛。有关研究主要涉及以下几个方面：宿主菌株,表达载体,转化方法,外源基因整合,外源蛋白糖基化和高密度发酵培养等。     

农杆菌介导的单子叶植物转基因研究进展

农杆菌介导法是目前应用最为广泛的植物转基因方法。简单介绍了农杆菌遗传转化的原理,并从农杆菌携带外源基因进入植物的角度对农杆菌转化单子叶植物的关键和相关影响因素进行了论述,同时对近年来利用农杆菌介导法转化的单子叶植物的成功范例做了总结。     

Development of DNA-mediated transformation systems for plants

The genetic engineering of plants by DNA-mediated gene transfer requires that efficient transformation systems be developed. Considerable progress has been made in manipulating the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a vehicle for delivery of foreign genes into protoplasts of dicotyle-donous plants. Part of the Ti plasmid, the T-DNA, can be incorporated into the genome of the host cell; the T-DNA can carry a foreign DNA sequence which co-integrates with it; under normal conditions, the tumorigenic-causing portion of the T-DNA can be inactivated so that transformed protoplasts can be regenerated and T-DNA with an inserted foreign gene can be stably maintained during regeneration, meiosis and gamete formation. A foreign gene has yet to be expressed in regenerated plants although a T-DNA gene for opine synthesis can function in regenerates. Developing a more ubiquitous transformation system for monocotyledons is further from fruition. Based on transformation systems for simple eukaryotic organisms, it is reasonable to expect that a DNA vector which is capable of amplifying a novel plant gene and which contains both a drug resistance marker to facilitate the selection of transformed plant protoplasts and a species-specific autonomously replicating sequence to ensure the stable maintenance of the input gene in the recipient cell can be constructed.     

Direct DNA transfer to plant cells

A range of somatic cell and molecular techniques are now available to supplement conventional plant breeding. The introduction and expression of foreign DNA has been used to modify basic aspects of physiology and development, to introduce commercially important characteristics such as herbicide and insect resistance into plants and to insert genes suitable as dominant selectable markers for somatic hybridisation. Several techniques for direct DNA delivery are available, ranging from uptake of DNA into isolated protoplasts mediated by chemical procedures or electroporation, to injection and the use of high-velocity particles to introduce DNA into intact tissues. Direct DNA uptake is applicable to both stable and transient gene expression studies and utilises a range of vectors, including those employed for gene cloning. Although the frequency of stable transformation is low, direct DNA uptake is applicable to those plants not amenable to Agrobacterium transformation, particularly monocotyledons.     

Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been routinely utilized in gene transfer to dicotyledonous plants, but monocotyledonous plants including important cereals were thought to be recalcitrant to this technology as they were outside the host range of crown gall. Various challenges to infect monocotyledons including rice with Agrobacterium had been made in many laboratories, but the results were not conclusive until recently. Efficient transformation protocols mediated by Agrobacterium were reported for rice in 1994 and 1996. A key point in the protocols was the fact that tissues consisting of actively dividing, embryonic cells, such as immature embryos and calli induced from scutella, were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium in the presence of acetosyringonc, which is a potent inducer of the virulence genes. It is now clear that Agrobacterium is capable of transferring DNA to monocotyledons if tissues containing competent cells are infected. The studies of transformation of rice suggested that numerous factors including genotype of plants, types and ages of tissues inoculated, kind of vectors, strains of Agrobacterium, selection marker genes and selective agents, and various conditions of tissue culture, are of critical importance. Advantages of the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in rice, like on dicotyledons, include the transfer of pieces of DNA with defined ends with minimal rearrangements, the transfer of relatively large segments of DNA, the integration of small numbers of copies of genes into plant chromosomes, and high quality and fertility of transgenic plants. Delivery of foreign DNA to rice plants via A. tumefaciens is a routine technique in a growing number of laboratories. This technique will allow the genetic improvement of diverse varieties of rice, as well as studies of many aspects of the molecular biology of rice.     

T-DNA integration into genomic DNA of rice following Agrobacterium inoculation of isolated shoot apices

This paper establishes that the isolated shoot meristem of monocotyledons can be infected and transformed using Agrobacterium. Since this explant from nearly any cereal cultivar can rapidly regenerate into a plant, using this explant effectively eliminates the genotype regeneration restrictions to cereal crop transformation allowing direct transformation of elite germplasm. Shoot apices of Oryza sativa L. Tropical Japonica, cv. Maybelle were explants used for cocultivation, and gene transfer was accomplished using Agrobacterium containing plasmids for the bar gene expression driven by the CaMV 35S promoter or by the rice actin 1 promoter. Experiments to determine the survival rates of isolated shoot apices on media containing the herbicide, glufosinate-ammonium (PPT), established that no shoot apices survived on 0.5 or 1.0 mg/l PPT. After shoot apices were cocultivated with Agrobacterium, 2.8% (overall 20 out of 721 shoot apices) survived on 0.5 mg/l PPT. Results demonstrated that the use of the actin 1 promoter-based expression vector and an extra-wounding treatment of the meristematic cells appeared to be most effective in promoting transformation. Integration, expression and transmission of the transferred foreign genes in primary, R1 and R2 generation plants were confirmed by molecular analyses and herbicide application tests. A germination test of R2 progeny from one of the transgenic plants (R1) established a phenotype segregation ratio showing a non-Mendelian inheritance pattern. Inactivation of the transferred foreign gene in R2 progeny appeared to result from transgene methylation.     

Promoter cassettes, antibiotic-resistance genes, and vectors for plant transformation

We have constructed a set of plant transformation vectors, promoter cassettes, and chimeric antibiotic-resistance genes for the transformation and expression of foreign genes in plants sensitive to Agrobacterium infection. The different vectors allow for either concurrent or consecutive selection for kanamycin and hygromycin resistance and have a number of unique restriction sites for the insertion of additional DNA. The promoter cassettes utilize the CaMV 19S and CaMV 35S promoters and are constructed to allow for the easy insertion of foreign genes. The cloned gene can then easily be inserted into the transformation vectors. We have utilized the promoter cassettes to express the hygromycin-resistance gene either from the CaMV 35S or the CaMV 19S promoters, with both chimeric resistance genes allowing for the selection of hygromycin-resistant tobacco plants.     

Transformation of maize using microprojectile bombardment: An update and perspective

Summary Using microprojectile bombardment of maize suspension cultures and bialaphos selection, transformed embryogenic calli have been recovered in numerous independent experiments. Fertile transgenic plants have been regenerated from several transformed callus lines. Stable inheritance and expression ofbar and functional activity of the enzyme phosphinothricin acetyl transferase were observed in three subsequent generations of transformed plants. Evidence to date indicates that the transformation process and the presence of the foreign gene per se do not detrimentally influence either plant vigor or fertility. This represents a practical method for introducing foreign genes into maize, which may be applicable to other monocot species. Presented in the Session-in-Depth Genetic Transformation and Genetic Analysis Using Microprojectile Bombardment at the Annual Meeting of the Tissue Culture Association, Houston, Texas, June 10–13, 1990.     

植物病毒表达载体研究进展

利用DNA或RNA植物病毒作载体表达外源蛋白是近几年发展较快的一种新的遗传转化方式,它具有以下几个优点:表达量大,表达速度快,易于进行基因操作和接种以及适用对象广泛。已发展的四种载体构建策略包括:基因取代,基因插入,融合抗原和基因互补。植物病毒表达载体可以用于基因的重组、病毒的移动和基因功能的检测等基础性研究,也可用于商业上表达多种药用蛋白或疫苗。植物病毒表达载体的稳定性主要取决于存在同源序列而引起的基因重组。本文还对病毒载体的生物安全性进行了讨论。     

农杆菌介导的植物遗传转化研究进展

农杆菌介导的转基因方法是目前植物遗传转化的重要方法之一。本文从农杆菌转化原理、菌株比较及载体发展入手,系统讨论了植物转化受体对转化效率的影响,同时分别综述了农杆菌介导转化技术在双子叶和单子叶植物转化应用中的最新进展。