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Hee-Jong Woo Seok-Cheol Suh Yong-Gu Cho 《Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering》2011,16(6):1053-1064
The development of marker-free transgenic plants has responded to public concerns over the safety of biotechnology crops.
It seems that continued work in this area will soon remove the question of unwanted marker genes from the debate concerning
the public acceptability of transgenic crop plants. Selectable marker genes are co-introduced with genes of interest to identify
those cells that have integrated the DNA into their genome. Despite the large number of different selection systems, marker
genes that confer resistance to the antibiotics, hygromycin (hpt) and kanamycin (nptII) or herbicide phosphinothricin (bar), have been used in most transgenic research and crop development techniques. The techniques that remove marker gene are
under development and will eventually facilitate more precise and subtle engineering of the plant genome, with widespread
applications in both fundamental research and biotechnology. In addition to allaying public concerns, the absence of resistance
genes in transgenic plants could reduce the costs of developing biotechnology crops and lessen the need for time-consuming
safety evaluations, thereby speeding up the commercial production of biotechnology crops. Many research results and various
techniques have been developed to produce marker-free transgenic plants. This review describes the strategies for eliminating
selectable marker genes to generate marker-free transgenic plants, focusing on the three significant marker-free technologies,
co-transformation, site-specific recombinase-mediated excision, and non-selected transformation. 相似文献
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Selectable marker genes that usually encode antibiotic or herbicide resistances are widely used for the selection of transgenic plants, but they become unnecessary and undesirable after transformation selection. An important strategy to improve the transgenic plants' biosafety is to eliminate the marker genes after successful selection. In the FLP/frt site-specific system of 2-μm plasmid from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the FLP enzyme efficiently catalyzes recombination between two directly repeated FLP recombination target (frt) sites, eliminating the sequence between them. By controlled expression of the FLP recombinase and specific allocation of the frt sites within transgenic constructs, the system can be applied to eliminate the marker genes after selection. Through a series of procedures, the plant FLP/frt site-specific recombination system was constructed, which included the frt-containing vector pCAMBIA1300-betA-frt-als-frt and the FLP expression vector pCAMBIA1300-hsp-FLP-hpt. The FLP recombinase gene was introduced into transgenic (betA-frt-als-frt) tobacco plants by re-transformation. In re-transgenic plants, after heat-shock treatment, the marker gene als flanked by two identical orientation frt sites could be excised by the inducible expression of FLP recombinase under the control of hsp promoter. Excision of the als gene was found in 41 % re-transgenic tobacco plants, which indicated that this system could make a great contribution obtaining the marker-free transgenic plants. 相似文献
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N. S. Zakharchenko S. V. Pigoleva A. A. Yukhmanova Ya. I. Buryanov 《Russian Journal of Genetics》2009,45(8):929-933
The marker-free transgenic tobacco plants carrying a synthetic gene encoding the antimicrobial peptide cecropin P1 (cecP1) under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S RNA promoter were produced. The binary vector pBM, free of any selective
genes of resistance to antibiotics or herbicides intended for selecting transgenic plants, was used for transformation. The
transformants were screened on a nonselective medium by detecting cecropin P1 in plant cells according to the antibacterial
activity of plant extracts and enzyme immunoassay. According to the two used methods, 2% of the analyzed regenerants were
transformants. The resulting marker-free plants displayed a considerably increased resistance to microbial phytopathogens—the
bacterium Erwinia carotovora and fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Thus, the gene cecP1 can be concurrently used as a target gene and a screening marker. The utility of cecP1 as a selective gene for direct selection of transformed plants is discussed. 相似文献
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The presence of marker genes conferring antibiotic resistance in transgenic plants represents a serious obstacle for their public acceptance and future commercialization. In citrus, selection using the selectable marker gene nptII, that confers resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin, is in general very effective. An attractive alternative is offered by the MAT system (Multi-Auto-Transformation), which combines the ipt gene for positive selection with the recombinase system R/RS for removal of marker genes from transgenic cells after transformation. Transformation with a MAT vector has been attempted in two citrus genotypes, Pineapple sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osb.) and Carrizo citrange (C. sinensis L. Osb. × Poncirus trifoliata L. Raf.). Results indicated that the IPT phenotype was clearly distinguishable in sweet orange but not in citrange, and that excision was not always efficient and precise. Nevertheless, the easy visual detection of the IPT phenotype combined with the higher transformation efficiency achieved in sweet orange using this system open interesting perspectives for the generation of marker-free transgenic citrus plants. 相似文献
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We report on generation of marker-free (‘clean DNA’) transgenic rice (Oryza sativa), carrying minimal gene-expression-cassettes of the genes of interest, and evaluation of its resistance to yellow stem borerScirpophaga incertulas (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). The transgenicindica rice harbours a translational fusion of 2 differentBacillus thuringiensis (Bt) genes, namelycry1B-1Aa, driven by the green-tissue-specific phosphoenol pyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) promoter. Mature seed-derived calli of an eliteindica rice cultivar Pusa Basmati-1 were co-bombarded with gene-expression-cassettes (clean DNA fragments) of the Bt gene and the
markerhpt gene, to generate marker-free transgenic rice plants. The clean DNA fragments for bombardment were obtained by restriction
digestion and gel extraction. Through biolistic transformation, 67 independent transformants were generated. Transformation
frequency reached 3.3%, and 81% of the transgenic plants were co-transformants. Stable integration of the Bt gene was confirmed,
and the insert copy number was determined by Southern analysis. Western analysis and ELISA revealed a high level of Bt protein
expression in transgenic plants. Progeny analysis confirmed stable inheritance of the Bt gene according to the Mendelian (3∶1)
ratio. Insect bioassays revealed complete protection of transgenic plants from yellow stem borer infestation. PCR analysis
of T2 progeny plants resulted in the recovery of up to 4% marker-free transgenic rice plants. 相似文献
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Samanta Zelasco Valentina Ressegotti Massimo Confalonieri Daniela Carbonera Paolo Calligari Martina Bonadei Stefano Bisoffi Keiko Yamada Alma Balestrazzi 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2007,91(1):61-72
Genetic transformation of an elite white poplar genotype (Populus alba L., cv. ‘Villafranca’) was performed with MAT vectors carrying the ipt and rol genes from Agrobacterium spp. as morphological markers. The effects associated with the use of different gene promoters and distinct in vitro regeneration
protocols were evaluated. Poplar plantlets showing abnormal ipt and rol phenotypes were produced only in the presence of exogenous growth regulators. The occurrence of abnormal ipt and rol phenotypes allowed the visual selection of transformants. The ipt-type MAT vector pEXM2 was used to monitor the activity of the yeast site-specific recombination R/RS system in the transformed
white poplar cells. Results from these experiments demonstrated that recombinase-mediated excision events occurred during
the early stages of in vitro culture, thus causing the direct production of ipt marker-free transgenic plants with normal phenotype at an estimated frequency of 36.4%. Beside this unexpected finding, transgenic
ipt-shooty plants were obtained at a frequency of 63.6% and normal shoots were subsequently recovered after a prolonged period
of in vitro culture. Although the transformation efficiency observed in this study, using both ipt and nptII genes as selection markers, was similar to that previously reported with standard vectors carrying only the nptII gene, the easy identification of ipt transformants, the early recombinase-mediated excision events and finally the relatively short time period required to produce
ipt marker-free transgenic plants support for the choice of MAT vectors as a reliable strategy for the future production of marker-free
GM poplars. 相似文献
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Yue Zhang Hua Liu Bei Li Jian-Tao Zhang Yizhou Li Hongxia Zhang 《Transgenic research》2009,18(4):607-619
The aim of this research was to generate selectable marker-free transgenic tomato plants with improved tolerance to abiotic
stress. An estradiol-induced site-specific DNA excision of a selectable marker gene using the Cre/loxP DNA recombination system was employed to develop transgenic tomato constitutively expressing AtIpk2β, an inositol polyphosphate 6-/3-kinase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana. Transgenic tomato plants containing a selectable marker were also produced as controls. The expression of AtIpk2β conferred improved resistance to drought, cold and oxidative stress in both sets of transgenic tomato plants. These results
demonstrate the feasibility of using this Cre/loxP-based marker elimination strategy to generate marker-free transgenic crops with improved stress tolerance. 相似文献
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Use of the GFP reporter as a vital marker for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Zhang CL Chen DF McCormac AC Scott NW Elliott MC Slater A 《Molecular biotechnology》2001,17(2):109-117
Molecular approaches to sugar beet improvement will benefit from an efficient transformation procedure that does not rely
upon exploitation of selectable marker genes such as those which confer antibiotic or herbicide resistance upon the transgenic
plants. The expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) signal has been investigated during a program of research that
was designed to address the need to increase the speed and efficiency of selection of sugar beet transformants. It was envisaged
that the GFP reporter could be used initially as a supplement to current selection regimes in order to help eliminate “escapes”
and perhaps eventually as a replacement marker in order to avoid the public disquiet associated with antibiotic/herbicide-resistance
genes in field-released crops. The sgfp-S65T gene has been modified to have a plant-compatible codon usage, and a serine to threonine mutation at position 65 for
enhanced fluorescence under blue light. This gene, under the control of the CaMV 35S promoter, was introduced into sugar beet
via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Early gene expression in cocultivated sugar beet cultures was signified by green fluorescence several
days after cocultivation. Stably transformed calli, which showed green fluorescence at a range of densities, were obtained
at frequencies of 3–11% after transferring the inoculated cultures to selection media. Cocultivated shoot explants or embryogenic
calli were regularly monitored under the microscope with blue light when they were transferred to media without selective
agents. Green fluorescent shoots were obtained at frequencies of 2–5%. It was concluded that the sgfp-S65T gene can be used as a vital marker for noninvasive screening of cells and shoots for transformation, and that it has
potential for the development of selectable marker-free transgenic sugar beet. 相似文献
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Raza Ahmad Yun-Hee Kim Myoung Duck Kim Minh-Ngoc Phung Won-Il Chung Haeng-Soon Lee Sang-Soo Kwak Suk-Yoon Kwon 《Journal of Plant Biology》2008,51(6):401-407
A binary vector devoid of a plant selection-marker gene (designated as pSSA-F) was constructed to overcome bio-safety concerns
about genetically modified plants. This vector carried chloroplast-targeted superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase
(APX) genes under the control of an oxidative stress-inducible(SWPA2) promoter, and was utilized to transform potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Integration of these foreign genes into transgenic plants was primarily performed via PCR with genomic DNA. Twelve marker-free
transgenic lines were obtained by inoculating stem explants. The maximum transformation efficiency was 6.25% and averaged
2.2%. Successful integration of the SOD and APX genes rendered transgenic plants tolerant to methyl viologen-mediated oxidative
stress at the leaf-disc and whole-plant levels. Our findings suggest that this technique for developing selection marker-free
transgenic plants is feasible and can be employed with other crop species. 相似文献
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The use of antibiotic or herbicide resistant genes as selection markers for production of transgenic plants and their continuous
presence in the final transgenics has been a serious problem for their public acceptance and commercialization. MAT (multi-auto-transformation)
vector system has been one of the different strategies to excise the selection marker gene and produce marker-free transgenic
plants. In the present study, ipt (isopentenyl transferase) gene was used as a selection marker gene. A chitinase gene, ChiC (isolated from Streptomyces griseus strain HUT 6037) was used as a gene of interest. ChiC gene was cloned from the binary vector, pEKH1 to an ipt-type MAT vector, pMAT21 by gateway cloning and transferred to Agrobacterium
tumefaciens strain EHA105. The infected tuber discs of potato were cultured on hormone- and antibiotic-free MS medium. Seven of the 35
explants infected with the pMAT21/ChiC produced shoots. The same antibiotic- and hormones-free MS medium was used in subcultures of the shoots (ipt like and normal shoots). Molecular analyses of genomic DNA from transgenic plants confirmed the integration of gene of interest
and excision of the selection marker in 3 of the 7 clones. Expression of ChiC gene was confirmed by Northern blot and western blot analyses. Disease-resistant assay of the marker-free transgenic, in
vitro and greenhouse-grown plants exhibited enhanced resistance against Alternaria solani (early blight), Botrytis cinerea (gray mold) and Fusarium oxysporum (Fusarium wilt). From these results it could be concluded that ipt gene can be used as a selection marker to produce marker-free disease-resistant transgenic potato plants on PGR- and antibiotic-free
MS medium. 相似文献
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Matthias Fladung Tobias M. H. Schenk Olaf Polak Dirk Becker 《Tree Genetics & Genomes》2010,6(2):205-217
Marker gene elimination was investigated in hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. × Populus tremuloides Michx.) using the FLP/FRT recombination system. The construct contained the FLP recombinase under control of a heat inducible promoter, the antibiotic
resistance gene nptII driven by the CaMV 35S promoter, and a promoterless uidA gene. The construct was integrated into poplar via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The active FLP recombinase excised the nptII marker gene and combined the promoterless uidA gene with the CaMV 35S promoter to form an active uidA gene. For targeted transgene integration, two constructs were used. The first one carried FLP under control of the heat-inducible
Gmhsp17.5-E promoter from soybean as well as an active nptII gene flanked by two FRT sites; the second contained the promoterless bar selection marker gene also flanked by two FRT sites. Following transformation and induction of FLP, the enzyme mediated a site-specific recombination at the FRT sites of both constructs. This recombination leads to an excision of the FLP and nptII gene from the first as well as an excision of the promoterless bar gene from the second construct. The promoterless bar gene reintegrated exactly at the former position of the FLP and nptII genes in the first construct to form an active bar gene. The FLP/FRT recombination system from yeast forms a promising basis for the production of antibiotic-free transgenic plants and a useful
tool for directed integration of transgenes into plant genomes. 相似文献
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Plant transformation is an important tool for basic research and agricultural biotechnology. In most cases, selection of putative transformants is based on antibiotic or herbicide resistance. Overexpression of plant genes that provide protection from abiotic or biotic stresses can result in a conferred phenotype that can be used as a means for selection. We have demonstrated herein that specific methionine sulfoxide reductase B (MsrB) genes that are overexpressed in transgenic plants may constitute a new selectable marker with concomitantly increased tolerance to methyl viologen (MV) treatment. Arabidopsis transformants overexpressing cytosolic MsrB7, MsrB8 or MsrB9 are viable and survive after MV selection. To establish whether these native plant origin genes serve as new non-antibiotic markers that can be applied to crop transformation, tomato cotyledons were used as transformation materials. MsrB7 transgenic tomato plants were successfully obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and selection on medium supplemented with MV. We suggest that specific MsrB genes that are overexpressed in transgenic plants may constitute a new selectable marker with increased tolerance to oxidative stress concomitant with MV treatment. 相似文献
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Evaluation of a morphological marker selection and excision system to generate marker-free transgenic cassava plants 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Laddawan Saelim Salak Phansiri Malinee Suksangpanomrung Supatcharee Netrphan Jarunya Narangajavana 《Plant cell reports》2009,28(3):445-455
The efficacy of the ipt-type Multi-Auto-Transformation (MAT) vector system to transform the extensively grown cassava cultivar “KU50” was evaluated.
This system utilizes the isopentenyltransferase (ipt) gene as morphological marker for visual selection of transgenic lines. The extreme shooty phenotype (ESP) of transgenic
lines is lost due to the removal of ipt gene mediated by the yeast Rint/RS system. As a result, phenotypically normal shoots, considered marker-free transgenic plants,
could be obtained. When transforming KU50 cassava cultivar with two different ipt-type MAT vectors, transformation frequency at 19–21% was observed. Among the total number of ESP explants, 32–38% regained
normal extended shoot phenotype and 88–96% of which were confirmed to represent the marker-free transgenic plants. This is
the first demonstration of the efficacy of Rint/RS system in promoting excision of ipt marker gene in cassava specie, with the consequent rapid production of marker-free transgenic plants. The high efficiency
of this system should facilitate pyramiding a number of transgenes by repeated transformation without having to undergo through
laborious, expensive and time-consuming processes of sexual crossing and seed production. The generation of marker-free, thus
environmentally safe, genetically modified cassava clones should also ease the public concerns regarding the use of transgenic
cassava in both food and nonfood industries. 相似文献
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The presence of marker genes conferring antibiotic resistance in transgenic plants represents a serious obstacle for their
public acceptance and future commercialization. In addition, their elimination may allow gene stacking by the same selection
strategy. In apricot, selection using the selectable marker gene nptII, that confers resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics, is relatively effective. An attractive alternative is offered by
the MAT system (multi-auto-transformation), which combines the ipt gene for positive selection with the recombinase system R/RS for removal of marker genes from transgenic cells after transformation. Transformation with an MAT vector has been attempted
in the apricot cultivar ‘Helena’. Regeneration from infected leaves with Agrobacterium harboring a plasmid containing the ipt gene was significantly higher than that from non-transformed controls in a non-selective medium. In addition, transformation
efficiencies were much higher than those previously reported using antibiotic selection, probably due to the integration of
the regeneration-promoting ipt gene. However, the lack of an ipt expression-induced differential phenotype in apricot made difficult in detecting the marker genes excision and plants had
to be evaluated at different times. PCR analysis showed that cassette excision start occurring after 6 months approximately
and 1 year in culture was necessary for complete elimination of the cassette in all the transgenic lines. Excision was confirmed
by Southern blot analysis. We report here for the first time in a temperate fruit tree that the MAT vector system improves
regeneration and transformation efficiency and would allow complete elimination of marker genes from transgenic apricot plants
by site-specific recombination. 相似文献
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Inducible Excision of Selectable Marker Gene from Transgenic Plants by the Cre/<Emphasis Type="Italic">lox</Emphasis> Site-specific Recombination System 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
In a plant transformation process, it is necessary to use marker genes that allow the selection of regenerated transgenic
plants. However, selectable marker genes are generally superfluous once an intact transgenic plant has been established. Furthermore,
they may cause regulatory difficulties for approving transgenic crop release and commercialization. We constructed a binary
expression vector with the Cre/lox system with a view to eliminating a marker gene from transgenic plants conveniently. In the vector, recombinase gene cre under the control of heat shock promoter and selectable marker gene nptII under the control of CaMV35S promoter were placed between two lox P sites in direct orientation, while the gene of interest was inserted outside of the lox P sites. By using this vector, both cre and nptII genes were eliminated from most of the regenerated plants of primary transformed tobacco through heat shock treatment, while
the gene of interest was retained and stably inherited. This autoexcision strategy, mediated by the Cre/lox system and subjected to heat shock treatment to eliminate a selectable marker gene, is easy to adopt and provides a promising
approach to generate marker-free transgenic plants. 相似文献
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转基因植物中标记基因的剔除 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
在目前的植物转化系统中,要求在关注基因或目的基因转入细胞时,同时有标记基因存在.标记基因主要是抗生素或除草剂的抗性基因.借标记基因的表达可以将转化细胞从大量的未转化细胞中筛选出来,但标记基因的继续存在,特别是在转基因食品中,是人们广泛关注的问题.培育无标记基因的转基因植株已成为植物生物工程研究中的新课题.该文介绍了剔除标记基因的两种方法:分离剔除和重组剔除,并对近年来这两种方法在培育无标记基因的转基因植物中的应用和进展作了介绍. 相似文献
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Mature seed‐derived callus from an elite Chinese japonica rice cv. Eyl 105 was transformed with a plasmid containing the selectable marker hygromycin phosphotransferase (hpt) and the reporter β‐glucuronidase (gusA) genes via particle bombardment. After two rounds of selection on hygromycin (30 mg/l)‐containing medium, resistant callus was transferred to hygromycin (30 mg/l)‐containing regeneration medium for plant regeneration. Twenty‐three independent transgenic rice plants were regenerated from 127 bombarded callus with a transformation frequency of 18.1%. All the transgenic plants contained both gusA and hpt genes, revealed by PCR/Southern blot analysis. GUS assay revealed 18 out of 23 plants (78.3%) proliferated on hygromycin‐containing medium had GUS expression at various levels. Genetic analysis confirmed Mendelian segregation of transgenes in progeny. From R2 generations with their R1 parent plants showing 3:1 Mendelian segregation, we identified three independent homozygous transgenic rice lines. The homozygous lines were phenotypically normal and fertile compared to the control plants. We demonstrate that homozygous transgenic rice lines can be obtained via particle bombardment‐mediated transformation and through genetic analysis‐based selection. 相似文献
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Raham Sher Khan Syed Sartaj Alam Iqbal Munir Pejman Azadi Ikuo Nakamura Masahiro Mii 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2011,106(1):11-20
The presence of marker genes conferring antibiotic or herbicide resistance in transgenic plants has been a controversial issue
and a serious problem for their public acceptance and commercialization. The MAT (multi-auto-transformation) vector system
has been one of the strategies developed to excise the selection marker gene and produce marker-free transgenic plants. In
an attempt to produce transgenic marker-free Petunia hybrida plants resistant to Botrytis cinerea (gray mold), we used the ipt gene as a selectable marker gene and the wasabi defensin (WD) gene, isolated from Wasabia japonica (a Japanese horseradish which has been a potential source of antimicrobial proteins), as a gene of interest. The WD gene was cloned from the binary vector, pEKH-WD, to an ipt-type MAT vector, pMAT21, by gateway cloning technology and transferred to Agrobacterium
tumefaciens strain EHA105. Infected leaf explants of P.
hybrida were cultured on hormone- and antibiotic-free MS medium. Extreme shooty phenotype (ESP)/ipt shoots were produced by the explants infected with the pMAT21-WD. The same antibiotic- and hormone-free MS medium was used in subcultures of the ipt shoots. Ipt shoots subsequently produced morphologically normal shoots. Molecular analyses of genomic DNA from the transgenic plants
confirmed the integration of the gene of interest and excision of the selection marker. Expression of the WD gene was confirmed by northern blot and western blot analyses. A disease resistance assay of the marker-free transgenic plants
exhibited enhanced resistance against B. cinerea strain 40 isolated from P. hybrida. 相似文献