Development of an airgun device for particle bombardment |
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Authors: | James Oard |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Agronomy, Louisiana State University, 104 Sturgis Hall, 70803 Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
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Abstract: | Construction and operation of an airgun device for transient gene-expression studies in monocots is described. Compressed air in a cylinder of an airgun was used as the source of propulsion for DNA-coated gold or tungsten particles. Under a partial vacuum of 700 mm Hg, velocity of the macrocarrier was measured at 520 m sec?1 and 432 m sec?1 at atmospheric pressure. Optimum distance from the stopping plate to different target cells during bombardment ranged from 4 to 7 cm. Mean transformation efficiency of the GUS-gene marker was estimated at 350 transformants per 65 mg fresh weight of the maize cultured cells. Up to 200 GUS transformed cells were detected per 100 mg of embryogenic rice callus. Use of gold flakes or tungsten powder as microcarriers resulted in similar transformation rates. No transformation was observed in any cells when DNA constructs contained prokaryotic translation initiation sequences for the GUS gene. Based on transient GUS assays, further modification of the airgun device will likely be necessary to obtain high stable transformation rates. |
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Keywords: | gene transfer GUS gene-marker particle acceleration transient expression |
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