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The present study aimed to obtain analgesic-antitumor peptide (AGAP) gene expression in plants. The analgesic-antitumor peptide (AGAP) gene was from the venom of Buthus martensii Karsch. Previous studies showed that AGAP has both analgesic and antitumor activities, suggesting that AGAP would be useful in clinical situations as an antitumor drug. Given that using a plant as an expression vector has more advantages
than prokaryotic expression, we tried to obtain transgenic plants containing AGAP. In the present study, the AGAP gene was cloned into the plasmid pBI121 to obtain the plant expression vector pBI-AGAP. By tri-parental mating and freeze–thaw transformation, pBI-AGAP was transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and tomato (Lycopersicom esculentum) were transformed by the method of Agrobacterium-mediated leaf disc transformation. The transformants were then screened to grow and root on media containing kanamycin. Finally,
transformations were confirmed by analysis of PCR, RT-PCR and western blotting. The results showed that the AGAP gene was integrated into the genomic DNA of tobacco and tomato and was successfully expressed. Therefore, the present study
suggests a potential industrial application of AGAP expressed in plants. 相似文献
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Complex signal transduction pathways underlie the myriad plant responses to attack by pathogens. Ca2+ is a universal second messenger in eukaryotes that modulates various signal transduction pathways through stimulus-specific
changes in its intracellular concentration. Ca2+-binding proteins such as calmodulin (CaM) detect Ca2+ signals and regulate downstream targets as part of a coordinated cellular response to a given stimulus. Here we report the
characterization of a tomato gene (APR134) encoding a CaM-related protein that is induced in disease-resistant leaves in response to attack by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. We show that suppression of APR134 gene expression in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS), compromises the plant’s immune response. We isolated APR134-like genes from Arabidopsis, termed CML42 and CML43, to investigate whether they serve a functionally similar role. Gene expression analysis revealed that CML43 is rapidly induced in disease-resistant Arabidopsis leaves following inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. Overexpression of CML43 in Arabidopsis accelerated the hypersensitive response. Recombinant APR134, CML42, and CML43 proteins all bind Ca2+ in vitro. Collectively, our data support a role for CML43, and APR134 as important mediators of Ca2+-dependent signals during the plant immune response to bacterial pathogens.
This work was supported by a research grant (WAS) and postgraduate scholarships (DC, SLD) from the Natural Science and Engineering
Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation (IBN-0109633; GBM), and the Swedish Research Council (SKE). 相似文献
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The DCL (defective chloroplasts and leaves) gene of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is required for chloroplast development, palisade cell morphogenesis, and embryogenesis. Previous work suggested that DCL protein is involved in 4.5S rRNA processing. The Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. genome contains five sequences encoding for DCL-related proteins. In this paper, we investigate the function of AtDCL protein, which shows the highest amino acid sequence similarity with tomato DCL. AtDCL mRNA was expressed in all tissues examined and a fusion between AtDCL and green fluorescent protein (GFP) was sufficient to target GFP to plastids in vivo, consistent with the localization of AtDCL to chloroplasts. In an effort to clarify the function of AtDCL, transgenic plants with altered expression of this gene were constructed. Deregulation of AtDCL gene expression caused multiple phenotypes such as chlorosis, sterile flowers and abnormal cotyledon development, suggesting that this gene is required in different organs. The processing of the 4.5S rRNA was significantly altered in these transgenic plants, indicating that AtDCL is involved in plastid rRNA maturation. These results suggest that AtDCL is the Arabidopsis ortholog of tomato DCL, and indicate that plastid function is required for normal plant development.Abbreviations DCL Defective chloroplasts and leaves - GFP Green fluorescent protein 相似文献
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We isolated several mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. that accumulated less anthocyanin in the plant tissues, but had seeds with a brown color similar to the wild-type.
These mutants were allelic with the anthocyaninless1 (anl1) mutant that has been mapped at 15.0 cM of chromosome 5. We performed fine mapping of the anl1 locus and determined that ANL1 is located between the nga106 marker and a marker corresponding to the MKP11 clone. About 70 genes are located between these
two markers, including three UDP-glucose:flavonoid-3-O-glucosyltransferase-like genes and a glutathione transferase gene (TT19). A mutant of one of the glucosyltransferase genes (At5g17050) was unable to complement the anl1 phenotype, showing that the ANL1 gene encodes UDP-glucose:flavonoid-3-O-glucosyltransferase. ANL1 was expressed in all tissues examined, including rosette leaves, stems, flower buds and roots. ANL1 was not regulated by TTG1. 相似文献
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Tae-Ho?Park Vivianne G.A.A.?Vleeshouwers Ronald C.B.?Hutten Herman J.?van Eck Edwin?van der Vossen Evert?Jacobsen Richard G.F.?Visser
Introduction of more durable resistance against Phytophthora infestans causing late blight into the cultivated potato is of importance for sustainable agriculture. We identified a new monogenically inherited resistance locus that is localized on chromosome 4. The resistance is derived from an ABPT clone, which is originally a complex quadruple hybrid in which Solanum acaule, S. bulbocastanum, S. phureja and S. tuberosum were involved. Resistance data of the original resistant accessions of the wild species and analysis of mobility of AFLP markers linked to the resistance locus suggest that the resistance locus is originating from S. bulbocastanum. A population of 1383 genotypes was screened with two AFLP markers flanking the Rpi-abpt locus and 98 recombinants were identified. An accurate high-resolution map was constructed and the Rpi-abpt locus was localized in a 0.5 cM interval. One AFLP marker was found to co-segregate with the Rpi-abpt locus. Its DNA sequence was highly similar with sequences found on a tomato BAC containing several resistance gene analogues on chromosome 4 and its translated protein sequence appeared to be homologous to several disease resistance related proteins. The results indicated that the Rpi-abpt gene is a member of an R gene cluster. 相似文献
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Fujino K Matsuda Y Ozawa K Nishimura T Koshiba T Fraaije MW Sekiguchi H 《Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG》2008,279(5):499-507
Elucidation of the genetic basis of the control of leaf shape could be of use in the manipulation of crop traits, leading
to more stable and increased crop production. To improve our understanding of the process controlling leaf shape, we identified
a mutant gene in rice that causes a significant decrease in the width of the leaf blade, termed narrow leaf 7 (nal7). This spontaneous mutation of nal7 occurred during the process of developing advanced backcrossed progeny derived from crosses of rice varieties with wild type
leaf phenotype. While the mutation resulted in reduced leaf width, no significant morphological changes at the cellular level
in leaves were observed, except in bulliform cells. The NAL7 locus encodes a flavin-containing monooxygenase, which displays sequence homology with YUCCA. Inspection of a structural model of NAL7 suggests that the mutation results in an inactive enzyme. The IAA content in the
nal7 mutant was altered compared with that of wild type. The nal7 mutant overexpressing NAL7 cDNA exhibited overgrowth and abnormal morphology of the root, which was likely to be due to auxin overproduction. These
results indicate that NAL7 is involved in auxin biosynthesis.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession numbers AB354301 and AB354302. 相似文献
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Expression of the Cry2Aa2 protein was targeted specifically to the green tissues of transgenic tobacco Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi plants. This deployment was achieved by using the promoter region of the gene encoding the Solanum tuberosum leaf and stem specific (ST-LS1) protein. The accumulated levels of toxin in the leaves were found to be effective in achieving 100 mortality of Heliothis virescens larvae. The levels of Cry2Aa2 expression in the leaves of these transgenic plants were up to 0.21 of the total soluble proteins. Bioassays with R1 transgenic plants indicated the inheritance of cry2Aa2 in the progeny plants. Tissue-specific expression of the Bt toxin in transgenic plants may help in controlling the potential occurrence of insect resistance by limiting the amount of toxin to only predated tissues. The results reported here validate the use of the ST-LS1 gene promoter for a targeted expression of Bt toxins in green tissues of plants. 相似文献
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Young Tae Kim Kang Seon Lee Moon Jung Kim Seung Bum Kim 《Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)》2009,47(1):33-39
The effects of Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) carrying cry1AC derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) on leaf bacterial community were examined by analyzing the horizontal transfer of trans-gene fragments from plants to
bacteria. The effect of plant pathogenic bacteria on the gene transfer was also examined using Pseudomonas syringae pathovar. maculicola. The frequency of hygromycin-resistant bacteria did not alter in Bt leaves, though slight increase was observed in Pseudomonas-infected Bt leaves with no statistical significance. The analysis of bacterial community profiles using the denaturing gradient
gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprinting indicated that there were slight differences between Bt and control Chinese cabbage,
and also that infected tissues were dominated by P. syringae pv. maculicola. However, the cultured bacterial pools were not found to contain any transgene fragments. Thus, no direct evidence of immediate
gene transfer from plant to bacteria or acquisition of hygromycin resistance could be observed. Still, long-term monitoring
on the possibility of gene transfer is necessary to correctly assess the environmental effects of the Bt crop on bacteria. 相似文献
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Several root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) resistance genes have been discovered in different pepper (Capsium annuum L.) lines; however, none of them has yet been cloned. In this study, a candidate root-knot nematode resistance gene (designated
as CaMi) was isolated from the resistant pepper line PR 205 by degenerate PCR amplification combined with the RACE technique. Expression
profiling analysis revealed that this gene was highly expressed in roots, leaves, and flowers and expressed at a lower level
in stems and was not detectable in fruits. To verify the function of CaMi, a sense vector containing the genomic DNA spanning the full coding region of CaMi was constructed and transferred into root-knot nematode susceptible tomato plants. Sixteen transgenic plants carrying one
to five copies of T-DNA inserts were generated from two nematode susceptible tomato cultivars. RT-PCR analysis revealed that
the expression levels of CaMi gene varied in different transgenic plants. Nematode assays showed that the resistance to root-knot nematodes was significantly
improved in some transgenic lines compared to untransformed susceptible plants, and that the resistance was inheritable. Ultrastructure
analysis showed that nematodes led to the formation of galls or root knots in the susceptible lines while in the resistant
transgenic plants, the CaMi gene triggered a hypersensitive response (HR) as well as many necrotic cells around nematodes.
Rugang Chen and Hanxia Li are contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Three constructs harbouring novel Bacillus thuringiensis genes (Cry1C, Cry2A, Cry9C) and bar gene were transformed into four upland cotton cultivars, Ekangmian10, Emian22, Coker201 and YZ1 via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. With the bar gene as a selectable marker, about 84.8 % of resistant calli have been confirmed positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
tests, and totally 50 transgenic plants were regenerated. The insertions were verified by means of Southern blotting. Bioassay
showed 80 % of the transgenic plantlets generated resistance to both herbicide and insect. We optimized conditions for improving
the transformation efficiency. A modified in vitro shoot-tip grafting technique was introduced to help entire transplantation. This result showed that bar gene can replace antibiotic marker genes (ex. npt II gene) used in cotton transformation. 相似文献
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In legumes, ENOD40 expression is increased upon interaction of plants with rhizobia. Little is known of the expression pattern of ENOD40 during other stages of the plant life cycle. Studies of ENOD40 expression in non-legume development may give an indication of the function of the gene. To investigate the ENOD40 expression pattern during plant development, a fusion between the -glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene and 150 bp of the 5 untranslated region plus 3,000 bp of 5 untranscribed tomato ENOD40 sequence was constructed and introduced into Lycopersicon esculentum Miller. Based on the observed GUS expression patterns in transgenic tomato we speculate that ENOD40 in tomato has a role in counteracting ethylene-provoked responses.Abbreviations GUS -glucuronidase - FISH fluorescence in situ hybridisation - RACE rapid amplification of cDNA ends - RFLC restriction fragment length polymorphism 相似文献
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To elucidate the physiological adaptation of Escherichia coli due to cra gene knockout, a total of 3,911 gene expressions were investigated by DNA microarray for continuous culture. About 50 genes
were differentially regulated for the cra mutant. TCA cycle and glyoxylate shunt were down-regulated, while pentose phosphate (PP) pathway and Entner Doudoroff (ED)
pathway were up-regulated in the cra mutant. The glucose uptake rate and the acetate production rate were increased with less acetate consumption for the cra mutant. To identify the genes controlled by Cra protein, the Cra recognition weight matrix from foot-printing data was developed
and used to scan the whole genome. Several new Cra-binding sites were found, and some of the result was consistent with the
DNA microarray data. The ED pathway was active in the cra mutant; we constructed cra.edd double genes knockout mutant to block this pathway, where the acetate overflowed due to the down-regulation of aceA,B and icd gene expressions. Then we further constructed cra.edd.iclR triple genes knockout mutant to direct the carbon flow through the glyoxylate pathway. The cra.edd.iclR mutant showed the least acetate production, resulting in the highest cell yield together with the activation of the glycolysis
pathway, but the glucose consumption rate could not be improved.
Dayanidhi Sarkar and Khandaker Al Zaid Siddiquee have contributed equally. 相似文献
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Tomato is one of the most important crop plants; however, attacks by pathogens can cause serious losses in production. In this report, we explore the potential of using the Arabidopsis thionin (Thi2.1) gene to genetically engineer enhanced resistance to multiple diseases in tomato. Potential thionin toxicity in fruits was negated by the use of a fruit-inactive promoter to drive the Thi2.1 gene. In transgenic lines containing RB7/Thi2.1, constitutive Thi2.1 expression was detected in roots and incidentally in leaves, but not in fruits. Disease assays revealed that the transgenic lines that were tested conferred significant levels of enhanced resistance to bacterial wilt (BW) and Fusarium wilt (FW). Further studies indicated that BW disease progression in transgenic lines was delayed by a systemic suppression of bacterial multiplication. By adopting a safe genetic engineering strategy, the present investigation is another step forward demonstrating thionin practicality in crop protection. 相似文献
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Silvia Flores-Benítez Juan F. Jiménez-Bremont Sergio Rosales-Mendoza Gerardo R. Argüello-Astorga Rosalba Castillo-Collazo Ángel Gabriel Alpuche-Solís 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2007,91(3):215-224
Agave salmiana was transformed using two different protocols: co-cultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens and particle bombardment. The uidA (β-glucuronidase) gene was used as a reporter gene for both methods whereas the nptII and bar genes were used as selectable markers for A. tumefaciens and biolistic transformation respectively. Previous reports for in vitro regeneration of A. salmiana have not been published; therefore the conditions for both shoot regeneration and rooting were optimized using leaves and
embryogenic calli of Agave salmiana. The transgenes were detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in 11 month old plants. The transgenic nature of the plants
was also confirmed using GUS histochemical assays. Transformation via co-cultivation of explants with Agrobacterium harbouring the pBI121 binary vector was the most effective method of transformation, producing 32 transgenic plants and giving
a transformation efficiency of 2.7%. On the other hand, the biolistic method produced transgenic calli that tested positive
with the GUS assay after 14 months on selective medium while still undergoing regeneration. 相似文献
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E. A. Popowich A. P. Firsov T. Y. Mitiouchkina V. L. Filipenya S. V. Dolgov V. N. Reshetnikov 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2007,90(3):237-244
Transgenic plants of hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis L.) cvs. Edisson and Chine Pink have been obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Leaf explants of the both hyacinth cultivars regenerated shoots on MS medium containing 2.2 μM BAP
and 0.3 μM NAA at a frequency of 95%. A. tumefaciens strain CBE21 carrying binary vector pBIThau35 was used for transformation. Plasmid pBIThau35 has been produced by cloning
preprothaumatin II cDNA into pBI121 instead of uidA gene. Inoculated leaf explants formed calli and shoots at high frequency on selective medium with 100 mg l−1 kanamycin. Four hyacinth transgenic lines of cv. Chine Pink and one line of cv. Edisson have been selected on medium containing 200 mg l−1 kanamycin. The insertion of thaumatin II gene into hyacinth genome has been confirmed by PCR-analysis. All transgenic plants
expressed substantial amounts of thaumatin II (between 0.06 and 0.28% of the total soluble protein). Hyacinth transgenic lines
were assayed for resistance to the pathogenic fungi Fusarium culmorum and Botrytis cinerea. There were no significant differences between nontransformed control and transgenic leaves of both cultivars. At the same
time the bulbs of the transgenic line Н7401 cv. Chine Pink showed the higher level of resistance to B. cinerea, the bulbs of the transgenic line Н7404 were more resistant to F. culmorum. In both cases the signs of the fungal disease were developed more slowly. The resistance of the bulbs cv. Edisson line to these fungi was not changed. All transgenic hyacinth plant were successfully transferred to soil for further evaluation. 相似文献
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Jerzy K. Kulski Atsuko Shigenari Takashi Shiina Kazuyoshi Hosomichi Makoto Yawata Hidetoshi Inoko 《Immunogenetics》2009,61(4):257-270
The study of the association of the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) alleles and polymorphic retrotransposons such as Alu, HERV, and LTR at various loci within the Major Histocompatibility Complex allows for a better identification and stratification of disease associations and the origins of HLA haplotypes in different populations. This paper provides sequence and association data on two structurally polymorphic MER9-LTR retrotransposons that are located 54 kb apart and in close proximity to the multiallelic HLA-A gene involved in the regulation of the human immune system. Direct DNA sequencing and analysis of the PCR products identified DNA nucleotide variations between the MER9-LTR sequences at the two loci and their associations with HLA-A alleles as potential haplotype and evolutionary markers. All MER9-LTR sequences were haplotypic when associated with common HLA-A alleles. The number of SNP loci was 2.5 times greater for the solo LTR at the AK locus, which is located closer to the HLA-A gene than the solo or 3′ LTR at the HG locus. Our study shows that the nucleotide variations of the MER9-LTR DNA sequences are additional informative markers in fine mapping HLA-A genomic haplotypes for future population, evolutionary, and disease studies. 相似文献
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Abscisic acid (ABA) has been implicated in determining the outcome of interactions between many plants and their pathogens.
We had previously shown that increased concentrations of ABA within leaves of Arabidopsis induced susceptibility towards an avirulent strain of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar (pv.) tomato. We now show that ABA induces susceptibility via suppression of the accumulation of components crucial for a resistance response.
Lignin and salicylic acid concentrations in leaves were increased during a resistant interaction but reduced when plants were
treated with ABA. The reduction in lignin and salicylic acid production was independent of the development of the hypersensitive
response (HR), indicating that, in this host-pathogen system, HR is not required for resistance. Genome-wide gene expression
analysis using microarrays showed that treatment with ABA suppressed the expression of many defence-related genes, including
those important for phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and those encoding resistance-related proteins. Together, these results show
that resistance induction in Arabidopsis to an avirulent strain of P. syringae pv. tomato is regulated by ABA.
Electronic supplementary material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at and is accessible for authorized users. 相似文献
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Plant aquaporins are believed to facilitate water transport across cell membranes. However, the relationship between aquaporins
and drought resistance in plants remains unclear. VfPIP1, a putative aquaporin gene, was isolated from Vicia faba leaf epidermis, and its expression was induced by abscisic acid (ABA). Our results indicated that the VfPIP1 protein was
localized in the plasma membrane, and its expression in V. faba was induced by 20% polyethylene glycol 6000. To further understand the function of VfPIP1, we obtained VfPIP1-expressing transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants under the control of the CaMV35S promoter. As compared to the wild-type control plants, the transgenic plants exhibited
a faster growth rate, a lower transpiration rate, and greater drought tolerance. In addition, the stomata of the transgenic
plants closed significantly faster than those of the control plants under ABA or dark treatment. These results suggest that
VfPIP1 expression may improve drought resistance of the transgenic plants by promoting stomatal closure under drought stress. 相似文献
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Konstantin V. Kiselev Anna V. Turlenko Galina K. Tchernoded Yuri N. Zhuravlev 《Plant cell reports》2009,28(8):1273-1278
It has been shown previously that the rolC gene from Agrobacterium tumefaciens gene was stably and highly expressed in 15-year-old Panax ginseng transgenic cell cultures. In the present report, we analyze in detail the nucleotide composition of the rolC and nptII (neomycin phosphotransferase) genes, which is the selective marker used for transgenic cell cultures of P.
ginseng. It has been established that the nucleotide sequences of the rolC and nptII genes underwent mutagenesis during cultivation. Particularly, 1–4 nucleotide substitutions were found per sequence in the
540 and 798 bp segments of the complete rolC and nptII genes, respectively. Approximately half of these nucleotide substitutions caused changes in the structure of the predicted
gene product. In addition, we attempted to determine the rate of accumulation of these changes by comparison of DNA extracted
from P.
ginseng cell cultures from 1995 to 2007. It was observed that the frequency of nucleotide substitutions for the rolC and nptII genes in 1995 was 1.21 ± 0.02 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed, while in 2007, the nucleotide substitutions significantly increased
(1.37 ± 0.07 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed). Analyzing the nucleotide substitutions, we found that substitution to G or to
C nucleotides significantly increased (in 1.9 times) in the rolC and nptII genes compared with P.
ginseng
actin gene. Finally, the level of nucleotide substitutions in the rolC gene was 1.1-fold higher when compared with the nptII gene. Thus, for the first time, we have experimentally demonstrated the level of nucleotide substitutions in transferred
genes in transgenic plant cell cultures. 相似文献