Transformation of tobacco protoplasts with DNA entrapped in pH-sensitive liposomes |
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Authors: | Zhen Zhu Karen Woodbury Hughes Leaf Huang |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Genetics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China;(2) Dept. of Botany, University of Tennessee, 37996 Knoxville, TN, USA;(3) Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, 37996 Knoxville, TN, USA |
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Abstract: | A system for the transformation of tobacco mesophyll protoplasts using pH-sensitive liposomes was developed. Plasmid DNA (plGVneo23) encoding the NPT-II gene for kanamycin resistance was entrapped in pH-sensitive liposomes composed of dioleolphosphatidylethanolamine, cholesterol and oleic acid. These liposomes release their contents at low pH and are capable of delivering their contents into the cytoplasm of protoplasts. Kanamycin-resistant colonies were reproducibly recovered from transformed protoplasts at an average frequency of 1.62×10-4 at pH 7.5. Plants regenerated from transformed cell lines were normal in appearance and were fertile. NPT-II activity was detected in leaf extracts of transformed, kanamycin-resistant plants and the presence of NPT-II DNA in the tobacco genome was shown by Southern blots. Analysis of self-pollinations and reciprocal crosses to non-transformed plants indicated that kanamycin resistance segregated as a dominant nuclear marker. Co-transformation of protoplasts with liposomes containing two selectable markers indicated that co-transformation occurred with a frequency of approximately 23%.Abbreviations DOPE dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine - DOPC dioleoylphosphatidylcholine - Chol cholesterol - OA oleic acid - PEG polyethylene glycol 6000 - NAA -napthaleneacetic acid - BAP 6-benzylaminopurine |
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Keywords: | co-transformation liposomes tobacco transformation |
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