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McCarty DR Settles AM Suzuki M Tan BC Latshaw S Porch T Robin K Baier J Avigne W Lai J Messing J Koch KE Hannah LC 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2005,44(1):52-61
We implement a novel strategy for harnessing the power of high-copy transposons for functional analysis of the maize genome, and report behavioral features of the Mutator system in a uniform inbred background. The unique UniformMu population and database facilitate high-throughput molecular analysis of Mu-tagged mutants and gene knockouts. Key features of the population include: (i) high mutation frequencies (7% independent seed mutations) and moderation of copy number (approximately 57 total Mu elements; 1-2 MuDR copies per plant) were maintained by continuous back-crossing into a phenotypically uniform inbred background; (ii) a bz1-mum9 marker enabled selection of stable lines (loss of MuDR), inhibiting further transpositions in lines selected for molecular analysis; (iii) build-up of mutation load was prevented by screening Mu-active parents to exclude plants carrying pre-existing seed mutations. To create a database of genomic sequences flanking Mu insertions, selected mutant lines were analyzed by sequencing of MuTAIL PCR clone libraries. These sequences were annotated and clustered to facilitate bioinformatic subtraction of ancestral elements and identification of insertions unique to mutant lines. New insertions targeted low-copy, gene-rich sequences, and in silico mapping revealed a random distribution of insertions over the genome. Our results indicate that Mu populations differ markedly in the occurrence of Mu insertion hotspots and the frequency of suppressible mutations. We suggest that controlled MuDR copy number in UniformMu lines is a key determinant of these differences. The public database (http://uniformmu.org; http://endosperm.info) includes pedigree and phenotypic data for over 2000 independent seed mutants selected from a population of 31 548 F2 lines and integrated with analyses of 34 255 MuTAIL sequences. 相似文献
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The ability to integrate biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches makes Chlamydomonas reinhardtii the premier model organism for studies of the eukaryotic flagellum and its associated molecular motors. Hundreds of motility mutations have been identified in Chlamydomonas, including many that affect dyneins and kinesins. These mutations have yielded much information on the structure and function of the motors as well as the roles of individual subunits within the motors. The development of insertional mutagenesis has opened the door to powerful new approaches for genetic analysis in Chlamydomonas. Insertional mutants are created by transforming cells with DNA-containing selectable markers. The DNA is randomly integrated throughout the genome and usually deletes part of the chromosome at the site of insertion, thereby creating mutations that are marked by the integrated DNA. These mutations can be used for forward genetic approaches where one characterizes a mutant phenotype and then clones the relevant gene using the integrated DNA as a tag. The insertional mutants also may be used in a reverse genetic approach in which mutants lacking a gene of interest are identified by DNA hybridization. We describe methods to generate and characterize insertional mutants, using mutations that affect the outer dynein arm as examples. 相似文献
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Joan M. Krakowsky Raymond E. Boissy Jon C. Neumann Jerry B. Lingrel 《Transgenic research》1993,2(1):14-20
Transgenic mice were produced by microinjection of a humanA-globin gene construct containing site 2 of the locus control region and theA-globin gene with its 3 enhancer sequence. One transgenic mouse line 95HS2en91) displayed an altered phenotype when the insertion event of this transgenic line was homozygous. These animals lack the normal pigmentation seen in their hemizygous and non-transgenic littermates, thus appearing white with unpigmented eyes. In addition, their eyes are underdeveloped, consistent with the phenotype associated with mutations at themicrophthalmia (mi) locus. Backcrosses of transgenic mice withmi mutant mice result in phenotypes showing a lack of complementation, demonstrating that the site of transgene insertion is allelic withmi. Electron microscopic analysis of hair follicles and culturing of melanocytes from the skin of transgenic animals reveals an absence of cutaneous melanocytes in homozygotes and aberrant growth and morphology of the melanocytes isolated from hemizygous animals. The results presented here summarize the effects of this new allele of themi locus. 相似文献
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The swimming behaviour of the green flagellated protist Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is influenced by several different external stimuli including light and chemical attractants. Common components are involved in both the photo- and chemo-sensory transduction pathways, although the nature and organisation of these pathways are poorly understood. To learn more about the mechanism of chemotaxis in Chlamydomonas, we have generated nonchemotactic strains by insertional mutagenesis. The arginine-requiring strain arg7-8 was transformed with DNA carrying the wild-type ARG7 gene. Of the 8630 arginine-independenttransformants obtained, five are defective in their chemotaxis towards various sugars. Two of the mutants (CTX2 and CTX3) are blocked only in their response to xylose. Mutant CTX1 is blocked in its response to xylose, maltose and mannitol, but displays normal taxis to sucrose. Mutants CTX4 and CTX5 lack chemotactic responses to all sugars tested. CTX1, CTX4 and CTX5 represent novel chemotactic phenotypes not previously obtained using ultra-violet or chemical mutagenesis. Genetic analysis confirms that each mutation maps to a single nuclear locus that is unlinked to the mating-type locus. Further analysis of CTX4 indicates that the mutant allele is tagged by the transforming ARG7 DNA. CTX4 appears to be defective in a component specific for chemotactic signal transduction since it exhibits wild-type photobehavioural responses (phototaxis and photoshock) as well as the wild-type responses of EGTA-induced trans-flagellum inactivation and acid-induced deflagellation. Insertional mutagenesis has thus permitted the generation of novel chemotactic mutants that will be of value in the molecular dissection of the signalling machinery. 相似文献
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The nuclear genome of Arabidopsis thaliana was sequenced to near completion a few years ago, and ahead lies the challenge of understanding its meaning and discerning its potential. How many genes are there? What are they? What do they do? Computer algorithms combined with genome array technologies have proven efficient in addressing the first two questions as shown in a recent report ( Yamada et al., 2003 ). However, assessing the function of every gene in every cell will require years of careful analyses of the phenotypes caused by mutations in each gene. Current progress in generating large numbers of molecular markers and near‐saturation insertion mutant collections has immensely facilitated functional genomics studies in Arabidopsis. In this review, we focus on how gene function can be revealed through the analysis of mutants by either forward or reverse genetics. These mutants generally fall into two distinct classes. The first class typically includes point mutations or small deletions derived from chemical or fast neutron mutagenesis whereas the second class includes insertions of transferred‐DNA or transposon elements. We describe the current methods that are used to identify the gene corresponding to these mutations, which can then be used as a probe to further dissect its function. 相似文献
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甜瓜蔓枯病是当前危害瓜类的主要病害,严重影响甜瓜的产量和品质,但是蔓枯病菌Didymella bryoniae病原学研究还非常落后,关于该菌功能基因的研究还未见报道。本研究以携带潮霉素B磷酸转移酶基因(hph)的pBIG2RHPH2作为转化载体,根癌农杆菌C58C1作为转化介体,转化甜瓜蔓枯病菌的强致病菌株DB11。研究发现,甜瓜蔓枯病菌的最优转化体系为:甜瓜蔓枯病菌的分生孢子悬浮液浓度为1×106个孢子/mL,农杆菌悬浮液OD600为0.15,共培养时间48h,诱导培养基中添加200μg/mL乙酰丁香酮,选择培养基添加100μg/mL潮霉素B、200μg/mL头孢噻肟钠、200μg/mL氨苄青霉素和200μg/mL四环素。1×105个蔓枯病菌分生孢子可以产生45个左右的转化子,随机挑取3个转化子进行PCR和RT-PCR检测发现,在不含潮霉素B的PDA培养基平板上转化子连续培养5代后,hph基因仍能稳定存在和转录,Southern blotting检测发现,T-DNA都是单拷贝插入3个转化子的染色体内。本研究建立的甜瓜蔓枯病菌的转化体系将为该病菌的功能基因研究和寄主与病原菌的互作研究提供重要技术支撑。 相似文献
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Eleanor J Brant Mehmet Cengiz Baloglu Aalap Parikh Fredy Altpeter 《Biotechnology journal》2021,16(11):2100237
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is one of the world's most cultivated cereal crops. Biotechnology approaches have great potential to complement traditional crop improvement. Earlier studies in rice and maize revealed that LIGULELESS-1 (LG1) is responsible for formation of the ligule and auricle, which determine the leaf inclination angle. However, generation and analysis of lg1 mutants in sorghum has so far not been described. Here, we describe CRISPR/Cas9 mediated targeted mutagenesis of LG1 in sorghum and phenotypic changes in mono- and bi-allelic lg1 mutants. Genome editing reagents were co-delivered to sorghum (var. Tx430) with the nptII selectable marker via particle bombardment of immature embryos followed by regeneration of transgenic plants. Sanger sequencing confirmed a single nucleotide insertion in the sgRNA LG1 target site. Monoallelic edited plantlets displayed more upright leaves in tissue culture and after transfer to soil when compared to wild type. T1 progeny plants with biallelic lg1 mutation lacked ligules entirely and displayed a more severe reduction in leaf inclination angle than monoallelic mutants. Transgene-free lg1 mutants devoid of the genome editing vector were also recovered in the segregating T1 generation. Targeted mutagenesis of LG1 provides a rapidly scorable phenotype in tissue culture and will facilitate optimization of genome editing protocols. Altering leaf inclination angle also has the potential to elevate yield in high-density plantings. 相似文献
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Lorieux M Blein M Lozano J Bouniol M Droc G Diévart A Périn C Mieulet D Lanau N Bès M Rouvière C Gay C Piffanelli P Larmande P Michel C Barnola I Biderre-Petit C Sallaud C Perez P Bourgis F Ghesquière A Gantet P Tohme J Morel JB Guiderdoni E 《Plant biotechnology journal》2012,10(5):555-568
We report here the molecular and phenotypic features of a library of 31,562 insertion lines generated in the model japonica cultivar Nipponbare of rice (Oryza sativa L.), called Oryza Tag Line (OTL). Sixteen thousand eight hundred and fourteen T-DNA and 12,410 Tos17 discrete insertion sites have been characterized in these lines. We estimate that 8686 predicted gene intervals--i.e. one-fourth to one-fifth of the estimated rice nontransposable element gene complement--are interrupted by sequence-indexed T-DNA (6563 genes) and/or Tos17 (2755 genes) inserts. Six hundred and forty-three genes are interrupted by both T-DNA and Tos17 inserts. High quality of the sequence indexation of the T2 seed samples was ascertained by several approaches. Field evaluation under agronomic conditions of 27,832 OTL has revealed that 18.2% exhibit at least one morphophysiological alteration in the T1 progeny plants. Screening 10,000 lines for altered response to inoculation by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae allowed to observe 71 lines (0.7%) developing spontaneous lesions simulating disease mutants and 43 lines (0.4%) exhibiting an enhanced disease resistance or susceptibility. We show here that at least 3.5% (four of 114) of these alterations are tagged by the mutagens. The presence of allelic series of sequence-indexed mutations in a gene among OTL that exhibit a convergent phenotype clearly increases the chance of establishing a linkage between alterations and inserts. This convergence approach is illustrated by the identification of the rice ortholog of AtPHO2, the disruption of which causes a lesion-mimic phenotype owing to an over-accumulation of phosphate, in nine lines bearing allelic insertions. 相似文献
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Using various transformation methods, T-DNA constructions for insertional mutagenesis were introduced into Arabidopsis thaliana
and the pattern of segregation of hygromycin resistance selectable marker was followed in succeeding generations in individual
transgenic lines up to T4 generation. Despite the low frequency of transformation, T-DNA was often inserted in two or more independent sites. Mendelian
segregation ratios 3:1, 15:1, and irregular segregation ratios were observed. We have also shown continuous decrease of the
expression of the resident hygromycin resistance transgenic trait in some lines.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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CRISPR-Cas are adaptable natural prokaryotic defense systems that act against invading viruses and plasmids. Among the six currently known major CRISPR-Cas types, the type VI CRISPR-Cas13 is the only one known to exclusively bind and cleave foreign RNA. Within the last couple of years, this system has been adapted to serve numerous, and sometimes not obvious, applications, including some that might be developed as effective molecular therapies. Indeed, Cas13 has been adapted to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In a cell-free environment, Cas13 has been used in the development of highly specific, sensitive, multiplexing-capable, and field-adaptable detection tools. Importantly, Cas13 can be reprogrammed and applied to eukaryotes to either combat pathogenic RNA viruses or in the regulation of gene expression, facilitating the knockdown of mRNA, circular RNA, and noncoding RNA. Furthermore, Cas13 has been harnessed for in vivo RNA modifications including programmable regulation of alternative splicing, A-to-I and C to U editing, and m6A modifications. Finally, approaches allowing for the detection and characterization of RNA-interacting proteins have also been demonstrated. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of the applications utilizing CRISPR-Cas13 that illustrate its versatility. We also discuss the most important limitations of the CRISPR-Cas13-based technologies, and controversies regarding them. This article is categorized under:
- RNA Methods > RNA Analyses in Cells
- RNA Processing > RNA Editing and Modification
- RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > Protein-RNA Interactions: Functional Implications
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Cai-Ping Feng John Mundy 《植物学报(英文版)》2006,48(1):5-14
The present mini-review describes newer methods and strategies, including transposon and T-DNA insertions, TILLING, Deleteagene, and RNA interference, to functionally analyze genes of interest in the model plant Arabidopsis. The relative advantages and disadvantages of the systems are also discussed. 相似文献
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gpr98基因突变与多种疾病相关,该基因在人类和斑马鱼中高度保守。建立斑马鱼gpr98基因突变体稳定系,可为阐释gpr98基因功能提供良好的动物模型和研究基础。本文利用CRISPR/Cas9基因敲除技术在斑马鱼gpr98基因2号外显子上选取两个相距42bp的靶位点,分别体外合成sgRNA,并与Cas9 mRNA一起共注射至斑马鱼胚胎单细胞期的胚胎内。随机挑选发育72h胚胎提取基因组DNA进行PCR分析,结果表明:除了有野生型DNA带外,部分胚胎有一条比野生型DNA小的带;进一步将F0代阳性个体与野生型的斑马鱼杂交,对杂交后代进行基因型分析,并成功筛选到缺失48bp(Δ48bp)的稳定遗传突变的gpr98基因敲除斑马鱼模型。该试验模型的构建为研究gpr98基因在心血管以及骨骼等组织器官的发育及相关疾病发生中的作用奠定了重要基础。 相似文献
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Abstract An integrating plasmid has been used to mutagenise the gene coding for endo-β-1,3-1,4-glucanase of Bacillus subtilis . The gene, named bgl , has been mapped by PBS-1 transduction to the sacA-pureA region of the B. subtilis chromosome and is closely linked to the hutP 1 locus. The order of markers in this region is sacA 321- thiC 5- bgl - hutP 1- purA 16. 相似文献
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Talamè V Bovina R Sanguineti MC Tuberosa R Lundqvist U Salvi S 《Plant biotechnology journal》2008,6(5):477-485
A sodium azide-mutagenized population of barley (cv. 'Morex') was developed and utilized to identify mutants at target genes using the 'targeting induced local lesions in genomes' (TILLING) procedure. Screening for mutations at four agronomically important genes (HvCO1, Rpg1, eIF4E and NR) identified a total of 22 new mutant alleles, equivalent to the extrapolated rate of one mutation every 374 kb. All mutations except one were G/C to A/T transitions and several (approximately 68%) implied a change in protein amino acid sequence and therefore a possible effect on phenotype. The high rate of mutation detected through TILLING is in keeping with the high frequency (32.7%) of variant phenotypes observed amongst the M(3) families. Our results indicate the feasibility of using this resource for both reverse and forward genetics approaches to investigate gene function in barley and related crops. 相似文献
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Shuailiang Lin Ben Ewen-Campen Xiaochun Ni Benjamin E. Housden Norbert Perrimon 《Genetics》2015,201(2):433-442