酿酒酵母海藻糖-6-磷酸合成酶基因克隆及植物表达载体的构建

从耐热性极强的酿酒酵母菌株AS21416中分离纯化出总RNA和mRNA,以AMV逆转录酶合成cDNA,采用保守引物,从该cDNA中扩增克隆出tps1基因,对该基因的全序列分析表明,该基因含有1507个核苷酸,与国外报道相关基因的同源性达99.6%。利用BamHⅠ和SacⅠ切点将tps1基因插入植物表达载体pBin438多克隆位点上,得到tps1基因植物表达载体重组质粒。     

云南红豆杉紫杉烯合成酶基因克隆、序列分析与植物表达载体的构建

利用分段RT—PCR法成功地从云南红豆杉叶片总RNA中分离出两条长约1．4kb和1．5kb的cDNA片段,克隆到pUCm—T载体中,序列拼接分析表明,该cDNA片段与Wildung MR等发表的紫杉二烯合成酶基因编码区2586bp有41个核苷酸不同,同源性为98．42％,具有编码862个氨基酸蛋白质的能力．为了检测所克隆的基因编码产物是否具有活性,并进一步制备抗体以便于将来转基因植物的检测,构建了一个酵母表达载体GAPA-T14;为了转化植物构建了两个具有不同启动子的植物表达载体,pBI121-T14(含35S启动子)和pBIH-T14(在pBI121的基础上以胶乳特异启动子取代35S启动子)．     

麦冬OjRCA基因植物表达载体的构建

Rubisco活化酶(RCA)对光合关键酶Rubisco具有重要的调节作用.以植物表达裁体pBI121为基础,设计分别带有酶切位点Sma Ⅰ和Sac Ⅰ的一对特异引物,以麦冬叶片总RNA反转录得到的第一条cDNA链为模板,扩增得到目的基因OjRCA.用Sma Ⅰ和Sac Ⅰ双酶切目的基因及表达载体pBI121,回收后利用T4DNA连接酶连接,获得植物表达载体pBI121-OjRCA.通过冻融法将所获得的植物表达裁体导入根癌农杆茵EHA105菌株中,为该基因的功能鉴定及通过农杆菌介导法将OjRCA基因导入植物提高相关抗性提供参考.     

木糖异构酶基因xylA的克隆及其表达载体的构建

木糖异构酶基因xylA是一种正向选择标记基因,在植物基因工程中使用该标记可以获得安全的转基因植物.构建了以xylA基因为选择标记的植物表达载体.从大肠杆菌Top10中扩增出xylA基因,插入到质粒pCAMBIA2301的Xho Ⅰ位点,通过酶切和PCR检测插入片段的正确性,得到载体pCAMBIA2301-xylA,将pBI121载体上的‘35S-GUS-Nos'表达框插入到pCAMBIA2301-xylA的EcoR Ⅰ和Hind Ⅲ位点.得到中间载体pCAMBIA2301-xylA-GUS,用Sac Ⅰ和Sma Ⅰ切下克隆载体上的CBF1基因替代pCAMBIA2301-xylA-GUS中的GUS片段,用电转化法将获得的表达载体转化到农杆菌中,为将来获得安全的转基因抗寒植株奠定基础.     

转录因子DREB1A基因的克隆与植物表达载体的构建

根据GenBank中已发表的转录因子DREB1A基因的cDNA序列设计并合成了一对引物,通过RT-PCR的方法从低温处理的拟南芥总RNA中扩增出DREB1A基因的全长cDNA片段。将其克隆到pMD18 T-vector中。经测序证明该片段与GenBank上报道的序列具有99.8%的同源性。2个碱基的置换导致了一处氨基酸的差异,但这一氨基酸并不在基因的功能结构域上,推测其不会影响基因功能。以植物表达载体pBch为基础,构建了由组成型启动子35S调控的DREB1A基因的植物表达载体pBDR35S,为利用DREB1A基因改良植物抗逆性奠定了物质基础。     

玉米蔗糖磷酸合成酶(SPS)基因的克隆及表达载体的构建

利用RT-PCR方法从玉米幼苗叶片总RNA中克隆出玉米的蔗糖磷酸合成酶(SPS)基因的全长cDNA片段。该片段与文献报道的序列具有99%的同源性。并分别构建了以双CaMV35S为启动子,以Tnos为终止子的植物双元表达载体PBISPS和以Pcab为启动子,以T35S为终止子的植物表达载体PBSPS,其中PBISPS含有NPTⅡ选择标记基因,PBSPS不含选择标记基因。     

植物表达载体pKC—3的构建及大分子DNA连接策略

以根癌农杆菌双元载体ｐＣＡＭＢＬＡ１３００为基础,先后连接含有马铃薯蛋白酶抑制剂－Ⅱ基因（ＰⅡ）、苏云金杆菌毒蛋白基因（Ｂ．ｔ ｃｒｙＩ（Ａ））及雪花莲外源凝集素基因（ＧＮＡ）的完整表达片段,构建了抗多种稻田害虫的表达载体ｐＫＣ－３,将其导入根癌农杆菌ＬＢＡ４４０４,可进一步用于水稻抗虫基因转化的研究。载体构建进程采用多次的大分子ＤＮＡ片段连接,总结出了一套适合大片段连接转化的可行策略。     

番茄LeNHX1基因植物过量表达载体的构建及表达分析

从番茄幼苗中提取RNA,根据NCBI中番茄LeNHX1基因序列设计引物,通过RT-PCR获得了番茄LeNHX1基因的cDNA序列,包含一个1 605 bp的开放阅读框,编码534个氨基酸。将cDNA序列连接到植物过量表达载体PBI121上,对所获得的重组质粒进行双酶切鉴定,结果表明,植物过量表达载体PBI121-LeNHX1已构建成功。半定量RT-PCR结果表明LeNHX1基因在根、茎和叶中均表达,盐、低温和脱落酸的诱导能提高LeNHX1基因的表达量,推测番茄LeNHX1基因在逆境应答中可能起着重要作用。     

康乃馨ACC氧化酶cDNA的克隆及其反义植物表达载体的构建

以康乃馨（Dianthus caryophyllus L.)花瓣为材料,用改进的异硫氰酸胍一步法提取总RNA,根据已报道的康乃馨ACC氧化酶（1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase,CO)基因的序列设计产合成一对引物,通过RT-PCR方法获得一约1.2kb特异片段,把该片段连接pGEM^(R)-Teasy vector上进行测序,其全长共1156bp,编码区915bp。共编码304个氨基酸残基,序列分析结果表明该序列与GenBankL35152中的康乃馨ACC氧化酶基因的cDNA序列完全相符,推断该基因在康乃馨种内可能是完全或高度保守的,随 后将此片段反向插入植物表达载体pBI121的35S启动子和NOS终止子之间,构建了一反义植物表达载体pBO;又把花特异表达启动子PchsA插入pBI121的HindⅢ Xbal位点构建中间载体pGHB,再把康乃馨ACC氧化酶基因反向插入中间载体pCHB的XbaI Satl位点构建成另一反义植物表达载体pCBO。     

香蕉MuMADS1基因表达产物的亚细胞定位

MuMADS1是从香蕉果实cDNA文库中筛选分离到的一个MADS—box基因．通过生物信息学分析表明,该基因编码的蛋白可能作为转录因子定位于细胞核中,而且芯片分析表明：该基因在果实成熟早期表达上调．是乙烯的上游调控因子,可能与花的发育、果实发育及成熟相关．为进一步深入研究该基因功能。构建了以绿色荧光蛋白（Green fluorescent protein．GFP）为报告基因的融合植物表达载体pCAMBIA1304 MuMADS1．利用基因枪转化法将重组载体转入洋葱表皮细胞瞬时表达．荧光显微镜检测结果表明。该基因表达产物定位于细胞核中．符合转录因子特性．     

The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein S19

The covalent structure of rat ribosomal protein S19 was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA and confirmed from the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein. Ribosomal protein S19 contains 144 amino acids (the NH2-terminal methionine is removed after translation of the mRNA) and has a molecular weight of 15,944. Hybridization of the cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA suggests that there are 15-18 copies of the S19 gene. The mRNA for the protein is about 640 nucleotides in length. Rat S19 is related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae S16A and to Halobacterium marismortui S12.     

The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein S28.

The amino acid sequence of the rat 40S ribosomal subunit protein S28 was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA. Ribosomal protein S28 has 69 amino acids and has a molecular weight of 7,836. Hybridization of the cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA suggests that there are 8-10 copies of the S28 gene. The mRNA for S28 is about 450 nucleotides in length. Rat S28 is homologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae S33.     

The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein S13

The covalent structure of the rat 40S ribosomal subunit protein S13 was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA and confirmed from the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein. Rat S13 contains 150 amino acids (the NH2-terminal methionine is removed after translation of the mRNA) and has a molecular weight of 17,080. Hybridization of a S13 cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA suggests that there are 8-10 copies of the gene for the protein. The mRNA for the protein is about 620 nucleotides in length. Rat S13 is related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae YS15 and to Halobacterium marismortui S11. The protein contains a possible internal duplication of 12 residues.     

Structure and regulation of a Candida albicans RP10 gene which encodes an immunogenic protein homologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal protein 10.

The Candida albicans clone cDNA10 was isolated on the basis that it encodes a protein which is immunogenic during infections in humans (R. K. Swoboda, G. Bertram, H. Hollander, D. Greenspan, J. S. Greenspan, N. A. R. Gow, G. W. Gooday, and A. J. P. Brown, Infect. Immun. 61:4263-4271, 1993). cDNA10 was used to isolate its cognate gene, and both the cDNA and gene were sequenced, revealing a major open reading frame with the potential to encode a basic protein of 256 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 29 kDa. Over its entire length, the open reading frame showed strong homology at both the nucleic acid (75 to 78%) and amino acid (79 to 81%) levels to two Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes encoding the 40S ribosomal protein, Rp10. Therefore, our C. albicans gene was renamed RP10. Northern (RNA) analyses in C. albicans 3153 revealed that RP10 expression is regulated in a manner very similar to that of S. cerevisiae ribosomal genes. The level of the RP10 mRNA decreased upon heat shock (from 25 to 45 degrees C) and was tightly regulated during growth. Maximal levels of the mRNA were reached during mid-exponential phase before they decreased to negligible levels in stationary phase. The level of the RP10 mRNA was induced only transiently during the yeast-to-hyphal morphological transition but did not appear to respond to hyphal development per se.     

Degradation of xylan to D-xylose by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae coexpressing the Aspergillus niger beta-xylosidase (xlnD) and the Trichoderma reesei xylanase II (xyn2) genes.

The beta-xylosidase-encoding xlnD gene of Aspergillus niger 90196 was amplified by the PCR technique from first-strand cDNA synthesized on mRNA isolated from the fungus. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA fragment was verified to contain a 2,412-bp open reading frame that encodes a 804-amino-acid propeptide. The 778-amino-acid mature protein, with a putative molecular mass of 85.1 kDa, was fused in frame with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating factor alpha1 signal peptide (MFalpha1(s)) to ensure correct posttranslational processing in yeast. The fusion protein was designated Xlo2. The recombinant beta-xylosidase showed optimum activity at 60 degrees C and pH 3.2 and optimum stability at 50 degrees C. The K(i(app)) value for D-xylose and xylobiose for the recombinant beta-xylosidase was determined to be 8.33 and 6.41 mM, respectively. The XLO2 fusion gene and the XYN2 beta-xylanase gene from Trichoderma reesei, located on URA3-based multicopy shuttle vectors, were successfully expressed and coexpressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of the alcohol dehydrogenase II gene (ADH2) promoter and terminator. These recombinant S. cerevisiae strains produced 1,577 nkat/ml of beta-xylanase activity when expressing only the beta-xylanase and 860 nkat/ml when coexpressing the beta-xylanase with the beta-xylosidase. The maximum beta-xylosidase activity was 5.3 nkat/ml when expressed on its own and 3.5 nkat/ml when coexpressed with the beta-xylanase. Coproduction of the beta-xylanase and beta-xylosidase enabled S. cerevisiae to degrade birchwood xylan to D-xylose.     

Schistosoma mansoni: the IMP4 gene is involved in DNA repair/tolerance after treatment with alkylating agent methyl methane sulfonate

Using a functional complementation strategy, we have isolated a Schistosoma mansoni cDNA that complemented Escherichia coli mutant strains which are defective in the DNA base excision repair pathway. This cDNA partially complemented the MMS-sensitive phenotype of these strains. The sequence of the isolated cDNA was homologous to genes involved in the RNA metabolism pathway, especially ScIMP4 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To establish whether the S. mansoni cDNA clone could complement yeast ScIMP4-defective mutants, we constructed a yeast haploid strain that coded for a truncated Imp4p protein. This mutant strain was treated with different DNA damaging agents, but showed only MMS sensitivity. The functional homology between the ScIMP4 gene and the cDNA from S. mansoni was verified by partial complementation of the mutant yeast with the worm's gene. This gene appears to be involved in DNA repair and RNA metabolism in both S. mansoni and S. cerevisiae.     

The oxidative stress-sensitive yap1 null strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae becomes resistant due to increased carotenoid levels upon the introduction of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cDNA, coding for the 60S ribosomal protein L10a

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae yap1 null strain was transformed with a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cDNA expression library. A 688-bp cDNA fragment, coding for the 60S ribosomal protein L10a (RPL10a), restored the capacity of the S. cerevisiae yap1 null strain to resist oxidative stress. The rpl10a gene is a single-copy gene in C. reinhardtii and encodes a constitutively produced 1.35-kb mRNA. The deduced 214-residue amino acid sequence was highly related with RPL10a proteins from eukarya (between 46.1 and 63.7% identity) and archaea (between 24.5 and 29.2% identity). Resistant transformants were pink, due to increased carotenoid levels, with the same chemical structure as torularhodin, the main carotenoid of the pink yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. The pink transformants showed high resistance levels against H(2)O(2), paraquat, menadione, and UV light. Partial inhibition of the carotenoid synthesis by diphenylamine reduced the resistance levels, demonstrating the role of excess carotenoid synthesis in the resistance mechanism.     

Protection against cadmium toxicity in yeast by alcohol dehydrogenase.

A cDNA expression library from Schizosaccharomyces pombe was transformed into Saccharomyces cerevisiae to screen for genes capable of conferring cadmium resistance to S. cerevisiae cells. The cDNA library was cloned into the S. cerevisiae expression vector pDB20 which is designed to express cDNAs via the constitutively-expressed promoter of the gene for alcohol dehydrogenase I (ADH1). Terminator and polyadenylation signals are also provided by the ADH1 gene. Cadmium resistant colonies were shown to arise by a recombination event leading to the exchange of the S. pombe DNA with the chromosomal ADH1 gene and a consequent dramatic increase in the ADH1 gene expression due to the high copy number of the plasmid. The overexpression of ADH1 effectively buffered the cells for cadmium ions by formation of Cd-ADH.