转基因植物中的卡那霉素抗性

在转基因植物中一个经常使用的标记基因就是卡那霉素抗性基因。对转基因植物的安全性估价将对于现代植物育种的普及和接受十分有利。对于这个标记基因的生物安全性进行估测认为,没有必要对含这个基因的转基因植物进行注册的限制。     

卡那霉素在植物转基因中的应用及其抗性基因的生物安全性评价

介绍了卡那霉素在转基因植物筛选中的作用机理及其在植物转化过程和转化后代中的应用现状。卡那霉素不仅在植物转化过程中可起到筛选作用,而且在转化后代中可通过其对后代进行遗传分析和测定种子纯度,同时还可用于后代田间成株的筛选。随着卡那霉素的广泛使用,卡那霉素抗性基因的安全性问题日益受到重视。概述了转基因植物的杂草化、卡那霉素抗性基因的水平扩散、抗生素医疗安全性和食用安全性等方面的研究进展 。     

转基因植物选择标记基因及其安全性问题

就目前使用的选择标记基因和提高选择标记基因安全性的策略进行了评述.     

转基因植物中标记基因的安全性新策略

转基因植物中的除草剂和抗生素抗性标记基因潜在的生态环境和食用安全性令人担忧。解决转基因植物中抗性标记基因安全性问题有两种途径：一是转化时仍使用抗性标记基因,转基因植物再生成功后,在释放大田前将标记基因剔除;二是发展安全性标记基因用于植物遗传转化。本文综述了三种标记基因剔除系统和几种安全性标记基因在植物转化中的应用进展。     

转基因植物中标记基因的消除

随着转基因植物的商业化,植物遗传转化技术将为农业生产带来一场新的革命,新的基因转化程序要求转基因为单拷贝,不带有标记基因,并在不同的转化体中表达一致,稳定遗传,本文讨论了转基因植物中有关标记基因及其安全性和标记基因消除的方法等问题。     

转基因植物中标记基因研究概况

标记基因在植物基因工程中具有重要的作用。它在遗传转化中的关键作用是区分转化和非转化的细胞,以筛选并鉴定出转化的细胞、组织和转基因植株。目前,已报道的标记基因种类很多,划分标准也各不相同。出于对生态环境和转基因食品的生物安全性考虑,从传统的选择标记基因、与激素代谢相关的基因、与氨基酸代谢相关的基因、与糖类代谢相关的基因、能解除化合物毒性（或胁迫）的基因、编码能产生特定荧光物质的蛋白酶类的基因、利用颜色差异性筛选转化体的相关基因及抗性标记基因的敲除技术八个不同的方面,综述了标记基因的种类、作用原理、应用价值及存在的问题。在标记基因的综合应用方面,详细总结了标记基因与组织（或器官）特异性启动子和MAT载体系统的结合应用,以及P．葡萄糖苷酸酶作为多功能标记基因的综合应用。最后,对标记基因的发展前景进行了探讨分析。     

转基因植物标记基因的安全技术

转基因植物中抗性标记基因潜在的生态和食用安全性一直是颇有争论且悬而未决的问题。解决的途径有2条：一是选用安全性标记基因;二是开发、应用删除抗性标记基因新技术。综述了这两方面的研究进展。     

转基因植物中的标记基因

概述并评价了转基因植物研究中所采用的标记基因,利用它们都无法实时、无伤地筛选出转化细胞,但新近用作标记基因的绿色荧光蛋白（ＧＦＰ）,与流式细胞仪（ＦＡＣＳ）联用,便弥补了上述标记基因的不足。     

安全标记基因在转基因植物中的应用

转基因植物的抗性标记一直是转基因生物安全性争论的焦点,是限制转基因植物应用的瓶颈之一。筛选安全标记基因替代抗生素标记基因已成为解决转基因植物安全性和促进转基因植物应用的重要策略。综述了生物安全标记基因的产生背景、系统分类、筛选原理及不同起源的标记基因在植物基因工程中的应用和存在问题。选用植物内源标记基因已成为转基因植物安全标记基因研究的重要方向。     

去除转基因植物标记基因的研究进展

得到转基因植物以后 ,标记基因就失去了筛选的作用。但它的存在引起公众对转基因植物的安全性以及环境效应的担心 ,所以在目的基因转入后 ,要去除标记基因。该文主要就利用共转化、转座子、同源重组、位点特异重组酶等去除标记基因的方法进行了总结 ,并对各种方法的优缺点进行了比较 ,对该技术未来的发展趋势也进行了展望。     

D-Lactate dehydrogenase as a marker gene allows positive selection of transgenic plants

D-Lactate negatively affects Arabidopsis thaliana seedling development in a concentration-dependent manner. At media D-lactate concentrations greater than 5-10mM the development of wild-type plants is arrested shortly after germination whereas plants overexpressing the endogenous D-lactate dehydrogenase (D-LDH) detoxify D-lactate to pyruvate and survive. When the transgenic plants are further transferred to normal growth conditions they develop indistinguishably from the wild type. Thus, D-LDH was successfully established as a new marker in A. thaliana allowing selecting transgenic plants shortly after germination. The selection on D-lactate containing media adds a new optional marker system, which is especially useful if the simultaneous selection of multiple constructs is desired.     

Co-transformation using a negative selectable marker gene for the production of selectable marker gene-free transgenic plants

A negative selectable marker gene, codA, was successfully co-transformed with a GUS reporter gene to develop selectable marker gene-free transgenic plants. The pNC binary vector contained a T-DNA harboring the codA gene next to the nptII gene, while a second binary vector, pHG, contained a GUS reporter gene. Tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Samsun NN) were co-transformed via the mixture method with Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 strains harboring pNC and pHG, respectively. Seeds harvested from the co-transformants were sown on germination media containing 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC). Analysis of the progeny by GUS staining and PCR amplification revealed that all of the 5-FC-resistant R₁ plants were codA free, and that the codA gene segregated independently of the GUS gene. Because codA-free seedlings developed normally on 5-FC-containing medium, we suggest that co-transformation with negatively selectable markers is a viable method for the production of easily distinguished, selectable marker gene-free transgenic plants.     

Excision of selectable marker genes from transgenic plants

Selectable marker genes are required to ensure the efficient genetic modification of crops. Economic incentives and safety concerns have prompted the development of several strategies (site-specific recombination, homologous recombination, transposition, and co-transformation) to eliminate these genes from the genome after they have fulfilled their purpose. Recently, chemically inducible site-specific recombinase systems have emerged as valuable tools for efficiently regulating the excision of transgenes when their expression is no longer required. The implementation of these strategies in crops and their further improvement will help to expedite widespread public acceptance of agricultural biotechnology     

A Cre/loxP-mediated self-activating gene excision system to produce marker gene free transgenic soybean plants

Marker-gene-free transgenic soybean plants were produced by isolating a developmentally regulated embryo-specific gene promoter, app1, from Arabidopsis and developing a self-activating gene excision system using the P1 bacteriophage Cre/loxP recombination system. To accomplish this, the Cre recombinase gene was placed under control of the app1 promoter and, together with a selectable marker gene (hygromycin phosphotransferase), were cloned between two loxP recombination sites. This entire sequence was then placed between a constitutive promoter and a coding region for either β-glucuronidase (Gus) or glyphosate acetyltransferase (Gat). Gene excision would remove the entire sequence between the two loxP sites and bring the coding region to the constitutive promoter for expression. Using this system marker gene excision occurred in over 30% of the stable transgenic events as indicated by the activation of the gus reporter gene or the gat gene in separate experiments. Transgenic plants with 1 or 2 copies of a functional excision-activated gat transgene and without any marker gene were obtained in T0 or T1 generation. This demonstrates the feasibility of using developmentally controlled promoters to mediate marker excision in soybean.     

Green fluorescent protein as a marker for expression of a second gene in transgenic plants.

The use of transgenic crops has generated concerns about transgene movement to unintended hosts and the associated ecological consequences. Moreover, the in-field monitoring of transgene expression is of practical concern (e.g., the underexpression of an herbicide tolerance gene in crop plants that are due to be sprayed with herbicide). A solution to these potential problems is to monitor the presence and expression of an agronomically important gene by linking it to a marker gene, such as GFP. Here we show that GFP fluorescence can indicate expression of the Bacillus thuringiensus cry1Ac gene when co-introduced into tobacco and oilseed rape, as demonstrated by insect bioassays and western blot analysis. Furthermore we conducted two seasons of field experiments to characterize the performance of three different GFP genes in transgenic tobacco. The best gene tested was mGFP5er, a mutagenized GFP gene that is targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum. We also demonstrated that host plants synthesizing GFP in the field suffered no fitness costs.