病毒诱导烟草的基因沉默

病毒诱导基因沉默是利用RNA介导病毒防卫机制的一项技术。构建含有目的基因片段的人工改造病毒载体,通过农杆菌侵染导致植物内源目的基因沉默。为建立病毒诱导基因沉默体系,选用烟草脆裂病毒（TRV）和烟草为实验材料。构建了八氢番茄红素去饱和酶基因（PDS）的基因沉默病毒载体,病毒载体侵染结果显示目的基因PDS沉默导致烟草幼苗出现光漂白现象。采用RT-PCR的方法检测目的基因PDS的沉默效果,结果显示PDS基因mRNA被显著降解。该体系的建市有利于将来对植物基因进行高通量功能分析。     

TRV病毒诱导大豆基因沉默体系优化及应用

病毒诱导的基因沉默（virus-induced gene silencing,VIGS）技术已广泛用于植物基因功能研究,以烟草脆裂病毒（tobacco rattle virus, TRV）为载体的沉默体系介导大豆基因沉默效率有待明确,采用无缝克隆技术构建TRV-VIGS沉默体系,探索不同接种方法对大豆靶基因在不同组织间的沉默效率,为大豆基因功能研究提供依据。以八氢番茄红素去饱和酶（phytoene desaturase, GmPDS）及泛素连接酶（GmATL3）基因为靶基因,将含有pTRV1和重组载体菌液采用注射、灌根（agroinoculation）、注射与灌根相结合3种方法分别接种大豆中黄13,接种28 d观察沉默表型现象,并使用RT-qPCR技术检测根部与叶部基因相对表达量,明确不同方法沉默效果。注射接种的大豆叶边缘及叶内出现黄化褪绿,灌根接种与注射加灌根接种的叶片表面出现褪绿斑点及褶皱褪绿表型。RT-qPCR结果表明,3种接种方法对沉默GmPDS效果接近100%;注射接种对GmATL3的沉默效率在叶部为80%-95%,根部为40%-60%;灌根与注射加灌根接种,根部沉默效率为7...     

烟草脆裂病毒诱导的基因沉默在植物基因功能研究中的应用

烟草脆裂病毒(tobaccorattlevirus,TRV)是一类应用比较广泛而且效率和持久性较好的病毒载体,能够介导基因沉默同时不会带来病毒诱导的症状。改造后的病毒能够促进非病毒序列的插入以及对植物的后续感染,也可以鉴定宿主植物生长点的基因,因此TRV在植物基因功能鉴定中具有广泛的应用。该文介绍TRV沉默载体的构建、诱导基因沉默原理、在植物基因功能研究中的应用以及优缺点。     

植物中病毒诱导基因沉默的研究进展

研究表明TGS往往与目的基因启动子的甲基化密切相关,RNA沉默则由目的基因的mRNA特异,挫降解引起。植物体中诱导RNA沉默的外部因素有转基因和病毒。与传统的转基因技术相比,病毒诱导的基因沉默（Virus-induced gene silencing VIGS）是一种瞬时表达体系,能在较短的时间里取得良好的效果,目前被广泛地用来研究植物基因的功能。就VIGS的研究进展做一个比较全面的综述。阐述了DNA和RNA病毒诱导植物基因沉默的机理,同时讨论了利用病毒诱导的基因沉默（VIGS）鉴定植物基因功能的优缺点和将来的发展趋势。     

病毒诱导的基因沉默及其在植物基因功能研究中的应用

RNA介导的基因沉默是近年来在生物体中发现的一种基于核酸水平高度保守的特异性降解机制.病毒诱导的基因沉默（virus induced gene silencing, VIGS）是指携带植物功能基因cDNA的病毒在侵染植物体后,可诱导植物发生基因沉默而出现表型突变,进而可以研究该目的基因功能.至今,已经建立了以RNA病毒、DNA病毒、卫星病毒和DNA卫星分子为载体的VIGS体系,这些病毒载体能在多种寄主植物（包括拟南芥、番茄和大麦）上有效抑制功能基因的表达.VIGS已开始应用于N基因和Pto基因介导的抗性信号途径中关键基因的功能研究、抗病毒相关的寄主因子研究以及植物代谢和发育调控研究.在当前植物基因组或EST序列大量测定的情况下,VIGS为植物基因功能鉴定提供了有效的技术平台.     

病毒诱导番茄的基因沉默

该实验通过RT-PCR获得了番茄八氢番茄红素脱氢酶(Phytoene desaturase,PDS)基因的部分序列,双酶切PDS片段和烟草脆裂病毒载体(pTV00),构建重组载体pTV00-PDS,经农杆菌GV3101介导侵染番茄叶片并观察植株表型变化.结果显示,被侵染的番茄表现出明显的光漂白现象.半定量RT-PCR检测表明,PDS的mRNA被显著降解.该沉默体系的建立为下一步大规模验证番茄基因功能奠定了基础.     

病毒诱导的基因沉默及其在植物功能基因组研究中的应用

病毒诱导的基因沉默已成为研究植物功能基因组的重要工具. VIGS 体系因其方法简便、周期性短以及避免植物转化等诸多优点, 已在利用正向遗传学和反向遗传学寻找和鉴定基因功能方面发挥了日益重要的作用. 越来越多的植物病毒被改造成为VIGS 载体, 并已在植物发育、生物逆境、非生物逆境、细胞代谢、信号传导等基因功能研究方面得到了应用. 本文围绕VIGS的发展以及在植物功能基因鉴定中的应用及前景提出了展望.     

植物病毒诱导的基因沉默效应的分子机制

主要从病毒诱导的基因沉默体系中植物与病毒的相互作用、VIGS涉及的信号分子和移动方式以及靶基因的沉默和病毒载体的复制关系介绍和分析植物病毒诱导的基因沉默效应的分子机制,并进一步分析此种体系在植物基因功能研究中应用的研究进展。     

病毒诱导的基因沉默技术及其在植物中的研究进展

病毒诱导的基因沉默(virus-induced gene silencing,VIGS)是近年来发现的一种转录后基因沉默现象,是植物抵抗病毒侵染的一种自然机制。现已被开发为快速鉴定植物基因功能的一种反向遗传学新技术。与传统的植物转基因技术相比,VIGS无需构建转基因植株,而且具有操作简便、获得表型快速等优点,目前已广泛应用于与植物抗病、逆境胁迫、细胞信号转导以及生长发育等相关基因功能的研究。该文就VIGS技术的作用机理、主要操作规程、在植物基因功能研究方面的应用以及存在的问题进行综述。     

病毒诱导的基因沉默技术用于植物色素代谢机制的研究进展

色彩是评价园艺植物观赏性状的重要指标,而植物色素是影响植物色彩表型的关键因子。植物色素及其代谢产物在植物观赏器官颜色形成、植株生长发育调节及对逆境胁迫的响应等方面发挥着重要的作用,是植物研究领域长期关注的热点问题。病毒诱导基因沉默(virus-induced gene silencing,VIGS)是利用植物同源依赖性防御机制,特异性降低宿主内源性基因表达的一种重要基因组学工具,能够通过快速诱导植物基因沉默表型的产生,表征基因的功能,为缺乏遗传转化体系的植物的基因功能鉴定提供高效可行的替代方案。本文综述了VIGS技术在植物色素的生物合成、降解和调控机制上的应用现状,并探讨了VIGS技术在探究色素调控机制上的潜力和未来前景,以期进一步完善对不同植物色素的代谢过程和调控机制的理解,为改良植物色彩性状提供参考依据。     

A geminivirus-induced gene silencing system for gene function validation in cassava

We have constructed an African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) based gene-silencing vector as a reverse genetics tool for gene function analysis in cassava. The vector carrying a fragment from the Nicotiana tabacumsulfur gene (su), encoding one unit of the chloroplast enzyme magnesium chelatase, was used to induce the silencing of the cassava orthologous gene resulting in yellow–white spots characteristic of the inhibition of su expression. This result suggests that well developed sequence databases from model plants like Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana, N. tabacum, Lycopersicon esculentum and others could be used as a major source of information and sequences for functional genomics in cassava. Furthermore, a fragment of the cassava CYP79D2endogenous gene, sharing 89% homology with CYP79D1endogenous gene was inserted into the ACMV vector. The resultant vector was inducing the down regulation of the expression of these two genes which catalyze the first-dedicated step in the synthesis of linamarin, the major cyanogenic glycoside in cassava. At 21 days post-inoculation (dpi), a 76% reduction of linamarin content was observed in silenced leaves. Using transgenic plants expressing antisense RNA of CYP79D1and CYP79D2, Siritunga and Sayre (2003) obtained several lines with a reduction level varying from 60% to 94%. This result provides the first example of direct comparison of the efficiency of a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) system and the transgenic approach for suppression of a biosynthetic pathway. The ACMV VIGS system will certainly be a complement and in some cases an alternative to the transgenic approach, for gene discovery and gene function analysis in cassava.     

cry3A和vhb基因在转基因马铃薯中的表达

分别构建了含cry3A和cry3A+vhb基因的植物表达载体pBCry3A和pBC₃Vhb,并通过根癌农杆菌介导转化了马铃薯. 对转化再生植株进行PCR和DNA印迹分析表明,外源基因已整合到马铃薯基因组中, 且连续三代无性繁殖后转基因仍存在. ELISA分析表明cry3A基因在转基因植株中得到了高效表达, 在单转cry3A植株中最高表达量达0.1%, 转cry3A与vhb双基因株系中为0.065%. 水涝试验显示,转双基因且vhb mRNA的RT-PCR呈阳性的马铃薯植株,对低氧胁迫有较好的耐受性, 表明获得的上述转双基因马铃薯株系可能会具有很好的抗虫和耐涝性能.     

夏枯草PvGGPPS基因的克隆和诱导表达分析

为探究夏枯草中GGPPS基因的生物学特性及功能,该文在夏枯草转录组测序的基础上设计特异性引物,采用逆转录PCR技术获得夏枯草中GGPPS基因的全长核苷酸序列,并进行生物信息学分析;采用qPCR法分析PvGGPPS基因在不同外源性物质诱导下在夏枯草果穗中的表达量以及该基因在夏枯草不同组织中的表达量。结果表明:PvGGPPS基因开放阅读框1 092 bp,编码363个氨基酸,理论分子量为38 815.68 D,等电点为5.69。PvGGPPS蛋白具有异戊烯基焦磷酸合酶家族的特征结构域。系统进化树表明PvGGPPS蛋白与丹参、毛喉鞘蕊花GGPPS蛋白具有较高的亲缘关系。qPCR分析表明,PvGGPPS基因在叶中表达量高于果穗及茎。对果穗施加7种外源性物质处理24 h后,GA3处理组该基因表达量升高。PvGGPPS基因在夏枯草不同组织中表达量差异较大,且受外源物质诱导表达。该研究结果为进一步研究PvGGPPS基因对夏枯草萜类成分合成途径中的功能及表达调控奠定基础。     

Hairpin-RNA mediated silencing of endogenous FAD2 gene combined with heterologous expression of Crambe abyssinica FAE gene causes an increase in the level of erucic acid in transgenic Brassica carinata seeds

The 3′-UTR of the FAD2 gene from Brassica carinata was cloned by PCR and used to prepare an intron-spliced hairpin RNA (ihpRNA) construct. Compared to that of the wild type (WT) background, this construct, when expressed in B. carinata, resulted in a high degree of FAD2 gene silencing accompanied by strong increases of up to 16 and 10% in oleic acid and erucic acid proportions, respectively. The increase in 18:1 was accompanied by a concomitant proportional reduction in 18:2. A second construct containing ihpRNA targeted to the endogenous FAD2 gene in addition to the heterologous Crambe abyssinica FAE gene under the control of seed specific napin promoter, was used to transform B. carinata. This approach resulted in an even greater increase in erucic acid proportions, by up to 16% in T₁ segregating seeds as compared to that of the WT control. To our knowledge, this is currently the highest accumulation of erucic acid achieved in B. carinata seeds using transgenic approaches, making it an increasingly-attractive alternative to high erucic B. napus cultivars as an industrial oil crop. Database: The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been submitted to the EMBL/GenBank under accession number DQ250814.     

Virus-induced gene silencing of PEAM4 affects floral morphology by altering the expression pattern of PsSOC1a and PsPVP in pea

pea-MADS4 (PEAM4) regulates floral morphology in Pisum sativum L., however, its molecular mechanisms still remain unclear. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a recently developed reverse genetic approach that facilities an easier and more rapid study of gene functions. In this study, the PEAM4 gene was effectively silenced by VIGS using a pea early browning virus (PEBV) in wild type pea JI992. The infected plants showed abnormal phenotypes, as the floral organs, especially the sepals and petals changed in both size and shape, which made the corolla less closed. The petals changed in morphology and internal symmetry with, the stamens reduced and carpel dehisced. Larger sepals and longer tendrils with small cauline leaves appeared, with some sepals turning into bracts, and secondary inflorescences with fused floral organs were formed, indicating a flower-to-inflorescence change. The infected plants also displayed a delayed and prolonged flowering time. The PEAM4-VIGS plants with altered floral morphology were similar to the pim (proliferating inflorescence meristem) mutant and also mimicked the phenotypes of ap1 mutants in Arabidopsis. The expression pattern of the homologous genes PsSOC1a and PsSVP, which were involved in flowering time and florescence morphological control downstream of PEAM4, were analyzed by real-time RT-PCR and mRNA in situ hybridization. PsSOC1a and PsSVP were ectopically expressed and enhanced in the floral meristems from PEAM4-silenced plants. Our data suggests that PEAM4 may have a similar molecular mechanism as AtAP1, which inhibits the expression of PsSOC1a and PsSVP in the floral meristem from the early stages of flower development. As such, in this way PEAM4 plays a crucial role in maintaining floral organ identity and flower development in pea.     

Virus‐induced gene silencing in transgenic plants: transgene silencing and reactivation associate with two patterns of transgene body methylation

We used bisulfite sequencing to study the methylation of a viral transgene whose expression was silenced upon plum pox virus infection of the transgenic plant and its subsequent recovery as a consequence of so‐called virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS). VIGS was associated with a general increase in the accumulation of small RNAs corresponding to the coding region of the viral transgene. After VIGS, the transgene promoter was not methylated and the coding region showed uneven methylation, with the 5′ end being mostly unmethylated in the recovered tissue or mainly methylated at CG sites in regenerated silenced plants. The methylation increased towards the 3′ end, which showed dense methylation in all three contexts (CG, CHG and CHH). This methylation pattern and the corresponding silenced status were maintained after plant regeneration from recovered silenced tissue and did not spread into the promoter region, but were not inherited in the sexual offspring. Instead, a new pattern of methylation was observed in the progeny plants consisting of disappearance of the CHH methylation, similar CHG methylation at the 3′ end, and an overall increase in CG methylation in the 5′ end. The latter epigenetic state was inherited over several generations and did not correlate with transgene silencing and hence virus resistance. These results suggest that the widespread CG methylation pattern found in body gene bodies located in euchromatic regions of plant genomes may reflect an older silencing event, and most likely these genes are no longer silenced.     

番茄中Rpi-blb2同源基因的挖掘与鉴定

番茄晚疫病是番茄生产中的主要病害之一,经常会造成较大的经济损失。晚疫病生理小种的变异和进化常会导致番茄品种原有的遗传抗性丧失,因此不断挖掘新的抗性基因,改良番茄晚疫病抗性是番茄抗病育种的长期任务。该研究采用BLAST同源比对的方法,以马铃薯野生近缘种的晚疫病抗性蛋白序列Rpi-blb2为种子序列,在NCBI蛋白质序列数据库中检索得到11条番茄蛋白质序列,这些序列与种子序列相似性为78%~83%,属于番茄疾病抗性蛋白家族,并对该家族成员进行了基因结构、基因定位、序列保守结构域和进化关系等分析。结果表明:该家族中10条序列分布在第Ⅵ条染色体上,1条分布在第Ⅴ染色体上;6号染色体上的10序列呈现2个抗病基因簇分布,在染色体上分别占据2个和3个基因位点;10条同源蛋白是Rpi-blb2的共同垂直同源蛋白,但不具有平行同源关系,大多数成员定位于细胞质。按照蛋白质保守结构域和基因定位的不同可分为三类,第一类共4条系列,包含有DUF3542和NB-ARC两个保守结构域特征序列;第二类共6条序列,与马铃薯Rpi-blb2蛋白一样,仅包含NB-ARC保守结构域特征序列,在这2类蛋白序列的NB-ARC结构域均位于序列中部;第三类(仅包含XP_004239406.1)虽然也具有与第一类蛋白相似的DUF3542和NB-ARC结构域,但在结构域两端的非保守区序列较短,且位于5号染色体上,因此将其单独归为1类。前两类蛋白成员相应的基因具有1~2个内含子,第3类蛋白不含内含子。该研究结果为利用生物技术选育番茄抗性品种提供了理论基础。     

Virus‐induced gene silencing in Catharanthus roseus by biolistic inoculation of tobacco rattle virus vectors

Catharanthus roseus constitutes the unique source of several valuable monoterpenoid indole alkaloids, including the antineoplastics vinblastine and vincristine. These alkaloids result from a complex biosynthetic pathway encompassing between 30 and 50 enzymatic steps whose characterisation is still underway. The most recent identifications of genes from this pathway relied on a tobacco rattle virus‐based virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) approach, involving an Agrobacterium‐mediated inoculation of plasmids encoding the two genomic components of the virus. As an alternative, we developed a biolistic‐mediated approach of inoculation of virus‐encoding plasmids that can be easily performed by a simple bombardment of young C. roseus plants. After optimisation of the transformation conditions, we showed that this approach efficiently silenced the phytoene desaturase gene, leading to strong and reproducible photobleaching of leaves. This biolistic transformation was also used to silence a previously characterised gene from the alkaloid biosynthetic pathway, encoding iridoid oxidase. Plant bombardment caused down‐regulation of the targeted gene (70%), accompanied by a correlated decreased in MIA biosynthesis (45–90%), similar to results obtained via agro‐transformation. Thus, the biolistic‐based VIGS approach developed for C. roseus appears suitable for gene function elucidation and can readily be used instead of the Agrobacterium‐based approach, e.g. when difficulties arise with agro‐inoculations or when Agrobacterium‐free procedures are required to avoid plant defence responses.