转基因植物中RNA介导病毒抗性

1986年以来,利用病毒外壳蛋白及其它基因转化植物,获得具抗病毒能力的植株,已有大量成功的报道。以前,一直认为是病原体来源的基因引发抗性,但在实验过程中,发现转基因植物中转化基因的表达水平与病毒抗性程度之间没有直接联系,因此有人提出转基因植物抗性获得与病毒RNA特异性降解有关的机制。本文对RNA介导抗性机制进行讨论。     

转基因植物中RNA介导病毒抗性

１９８６年以来,利用病毒外壳蛋白及其它基因转化植物,获得具抗病毒能力的植株,已有大量成功的报道。以前,一直认为是病原体来源的基因引发抗性,但在实验过程中,发现转基因植物中转化基因的表达水平与病毒抗性程度之间没有直接联系,因此有人提出转基因植物抗性获得与病毒ＲＮＡ特异性降解有关的机制。本文对ＲＮＡ介导抗性机制进行讨论     

植物生物技术的现状及展望

1　大田转基因植物研究现状1.1　病原体诱导的病毒抗性自从Beachy等发现转基因植物表达烟草花叶病毒外壳蛋白基因可以抑制或延缓病毒病的发生之后 ,又发现许多病毒序列可以产生一定水平的抗病性。病原体诱导的病毒抗性 (PDR)基因包括一些非编码蛋白序列 (如缺陷干扰型RNAs和DNA     

兰花抗病毒基因工程研究进展(综述)

兰花病毒病严重影响兰花产业的发展,研究和探索防治兰花病毒病的新技术、新途径已成为众多研究者普遍关注的焦点。本文综述目前抗兰花病毒研究中应用的各种抗病毒基因工程策略,包括病毒来源基因中的外壳蛋白基因和运动蛋白基因介导的抗性策略,RNA介导的抗病毒策略,植物自身的抗病毒基因介导的抗性策略,利用多基因介导的抗性策略,以及抗体基因介导的抗性策略等。最后对兰花抗病毒基因工程的发展及应用进行了展望。     

抗病毒植物基因工程的研究进展

病毒病害一直是农业生产的一大问题,分子生物学的发展,特别是基因工程的发展为防治病毒病带来了希望。就目前的情况看,有效的抗基因主要来源于病毒本身,如外壳蛋白基因、卫星RNA基因、正义RNA序列,反义RNA序列等。除此之外,一些其它的策略也被采用,如核酶(Ribozyme)策略等。人们也正在试图从植物本身分离抗病毒基因和探索新的抗病毒策略,这一切都有助于推动抗病毒植物基因工程的发展。本     

病毒来源的抗病毒基因的构建和在植物中的表达

寄主植物对病毒感染产生各种类型的抗病性,包括高度抗病的免疫性,抗侵染,抗扩展和抗增殖的抗病性,过敏性抗病性,耐病性以及对传毒介体的抗性。但是至今我们还不能把编码这些抗性的基因分离出来,进行基因转移。所以在植物基因工程中应用植植物来源的抗病毒基因为时尚早。由于病毒分了生物学的发展,已阐明了一些病毒的基因组的结构与功能,为利用病毒来源的抗病毒基因开辟了道路。随着DNA重组和克隆技术的发展,以及双子叶植物基因转化技术的日趋完善,使植物抗病毒的基因工程得以突破。已由病毒外壳蛋白基因、病毒卫星RNA的cDNA和病毒弱株系的全长cDNA转化植物,获得抗病性的表达。探索病毒来源的反意RNA和中和抗体基因作为抗病毒基因的可能性也在进行中。     

烟草花叶病毒复制酶介导抗性的研究进展

在抗病毒植物基因工程中,利用病毒的复制酶基因是一种很有前途的方法。本对烟草花叶病毒（TMV）的基因组结构及其编码的蛋白的功能作了简介,同时较详细地阐述了由TMV复制本科的通读部分、全长复制酶以及突变或缺失的复制酶介导的对病毒抗性的研究进展。     

双链RNA和植物对病毒的抗性

双链RNA能诱导转录后的基因沉默,是生物抵御病毒入侵、维持自身基因稳定的一种自我保护机制.把源自病毒的基因构建成反向重复结构转入植物体内,其转录出的RNA会通过分子内序列互补形成双链,将入侵病毒的同源序列降解,使转基因植株获得对病毒的高抗性.RNA干扰型抗病毒转基因植株中,转病毒基因的mRNA不存在或存在量很少,也不会翻译成有功能的病毒蛋白,因此不存在病毒RNA重组、异源包装及协生作用的潜在风险,具有较高的生物安全性.双链RNA抗病毒转基因正在成为一种高效、安全的植物抗病毒策略.     

转基因植物中RNA介导的病毒抗性研究进展

利用病毒核酸序列培育抗病毒的转基因植物是一个重要的抗病毒基因工程策略。虽然很多种病毒的不同核酸序列已被使用并证明转基因植物有不同程度的抗病毒效果，但其抗病机制大多不清楚。目前至少有两种明显不同的抗病机制类型：一种是要求病毒编码的蛋白质的表达；另一种是仅仅依靠转基因的ＴＮＡ转录。本文综述了这种ＲＮＡ介导的抗性特点、分子生物学、抗病机制，以及与共抑制的相似性，并对ＲＮＡ介导的病毒抗性的意义加以讨论。     

Application of recombinant DNA technology to plant protection: molecular approaches to engineering virus resistance in crop plants

Developments in plant tissue culture, plant transformation and regeneration, and improvements in techniques to isolate and manipulate viral genes have led to the exploitation of the concept of cross protection: turning the virus onto itself and controlling it with its own genes. By introducing and expressing genes of viral origin in crop plants, scientists have engineered resistance to several plant viruses. Some of the approaches, used singly or in combination, include expression of viral-coat protein, untranslatable sense or antisense RNA, satellite RNA, virusspecific neutralizing antibody genes, plant viral replicase, protease or movement proteins and defective, interfering RNA. All of these approaches have resulted in manifestation of virus resistance to varying degrees in several commercially important crop plants. This review summarizes the recent advances in engineering virus resistance using the above approaches, and lists specific examples of their use in cultivated crop plants of economic importance.H.R. Pappu and C.L. Niblett are with the Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL 32611-0680, USA; R.F. Lee is with the Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. R-04558.     

Antiviral strategies in plants based on RNA silencing

One of the challenges being faced in the twenty-first century is the biological control of plant viral infections. Among the different strategies to combat virus infections, those based on pathogen-derived resistance (PDR) are probably the most powerful approaches to confer virus resistance in plants. The application of the PDR concept not only revealed the existence of a previously unknown sequence-specific RNA-degradation mechanism in plants, but has also helped to design antiviral strategies to engineer viral resistant plants in the last 25 years. In this article, we review the different platforms related to RNA silencing that have been developed during this time to obtain plants resistant to viruses and illustrate examples of current applications of RNA silencing to protect crop plants against viral diseases of agronomic relevance. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: MicroRNAs in viral gene regulation.     

Engineering resistance to geminiviruses--review and perspectives

Following the conceptual development of virus resistance strategies ranging from coat protein-mediated interference of virus propagation to RNA-mediated virus gene silencing, much progress has been achieved to protect plants against RNA and DNA virus infections. Geminiviruses are a major threat to world agriculture, and breeding resistant crops against these DNA viruses is one of the major challenges faced by plant virologists and biotechnologists. In this article, we review the most recent transgene-based approaches that have been developed to achieve durable geminivirus resistance. Although most of the strategies have been tested in model plant systems, they are ready to be adopted for the protection of crop plants. Furthermore, a better understanding of geminivirus gene and protein functions, as well as the native immune system which protects plants against viruses, will allow us to develop novel tools to expand our current capacity to stabilize crop production in geminivirus epidemic zones.     

植物抗病毒基因工程育种策略及其进展

简要讨论了近年来植物抗病毒基因工程育种策略。这些策略包括利用植物自身的抗病毒基因;利用病毒宙蛋白基因、动物蛋白基因、复制酶基因、卫星ＲＮＡ、反义链ＲＮＡ和缺陷干扰型ＲＮＡ;利用抗体基因、核酶和干扰素。并以各种策略的抗病毒机理及其在农业生产上的应用前景进行了讨论。     

Development of plants resistant to tomato geminiviruses using artificial trans‐acting small interfering RNA

RNA interference (RNAi), a conserved RNA‐mediated gene regulatory mechanism in eukaryotes, plays an important role in plant growth and development, and as an antiviral defence system in plants. As a counter‐strategy, plant viruses encode RNAi suppressors to suppress the RNAi pathways and consequently down‐regulate plant defence. In geminiviruses, the proteins AC2, AC4 and AV2 are known to act as RNAi suppressors. In this study, we have designed a gene silencing vector using the features of trans‐acting small interfering RNA (tasiRNA), which is simple and can be used to target multiple genes at a time employing a single‐step cloning procedure. This vector was used to target two RNAi suppressor proteins (AC2 and AC4) of the geminivirus, Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV). The vector containing fragments of ToLCNDV AC2 and AC4 genes, on agro‐infiltration, produced copious quantities of AC2 and AC4 specific siRNA in both tobacco and tomato plants. On challenge inoculation of the agro‐infiltrated plants with ToLCNDV, most plants showed an absence of symptoms and low accumulation of viral DNA. Transgenic tobacco plants were raised using the AC2 and AC4 tasiRNA‐generating constructs, and T₁ plants, obtained from the primary transgenic plants, were tested for resistance separately against ToLCNDV and Tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus. Most plants showed an absence of symptoms and low accumulation of the corresponding viruses, the resistance being generally proportional to the amounts of siRNA produced against AC2 and AC4 genes. This is the first report of the use of artificial tasiRNA to generate resistance against an important plant virus.     

Engineering virus resistance using a modified potato gene

Natural mutations in translation initiation factor eIF4E confer resistance to potyviruses in many plant species. Potato is a staple food crop plagued by several potyviruses, yet to date no known eIF4E-mediated resistance genes have been identified. In this study, we demonstrate that transgenic expression of the pvr1(2) gene from pepper confers resistance to Potato virus Y (PVY) in potato. We then use this information to convert the susceptible potato ortholog of this allele into a de novo allele for resistance to PVY using site-directed mutagenesis. Potato plants overexpressing the mutated potato allele are resistant to virus infection. Resistant lines expressed high levels of eIF4E mRNA and protein. The resistant plants showed growth similar to untransformed controls and produced phenotypically similar tubers. This technique disrupts a key step in the viral infection process and may potentially be used to engineer virus resistance in a number of economically important plant-viral pathosystems. Furthermore, the general public may be more amenable to the 'intragenic' nature of this approach because the transferred coding region is modified from a gene in the target crop rather than from a distant species.