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Kado CI. Historical account on gaining insights on the mechanism of crown gall tumorigenesis induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:340. [PMID: 25147542 PMCID: PMC4124706 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The plant tumor disease known as crown gall was not called by that name until more recent times. Galls on plants were described by Malpighi (1679) who believed that these extraordinary growth are spontaneously produced. Agrobacterium was first isolated from tumors in 1897 by Fridiano Cavara in Napoli, Italy. After this bacterium was recognized to be the cause of crown gall disease, questions were raised on the mechanism by which it caused tumors on a variety of plants. Numerous very detailed studies led to the identification of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as the causal bacterium that cleverly transferred a genetic principle to plant host cells and integrated it into their chromosomes. Such studies have led to a variety of sophisticated mechanisms used by this organism to aid in its survival against competing microorganisms. Knowledge gained from these fundamental discoveries has opened many avenues for researchers to examine their primary organisms of study for similar mechanisms of pathogenesis in both plants and animals. These discoveries also advanced the genetic engineering of domesticated plants for improved food and fiber.
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- Clarence I Kado
- Davis Crown Gall Group, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA
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Thomashow MF, Nutter R, Postle K, Chilton MD, Blattner FR, Powell A, Gordon MP, Nester EW. Recombination between higher plant DNA and the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 77:6448-52. [PMID: 16592915 PMCID: PMC350302 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.77.11.6448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Ti plasmid sequences (T-DNA) from the octopine-producing crown gall tumor A6S/2 were isolated by molecular cloning, using the bacteriophage lambda vector Charon 4A. Analysis of the cloned DNA segments indicates that the Ti plasmid sequences are covalently joined to plant nuclear DNA. These data demonstrate that genetic recombination between a eukaryote and a prokaryote can occur as a natural phenomenon.
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- M F Thomashow
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Yadav NS, Vanderleyden J, Bennett DR, Barnes WM, Chilton MD. Short direct repeats flank the T-DNA on a nopaline Ti plasmid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 79:6322-6. [PMID: 16593241 PMCID: PMC347113 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.20.6322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Crown gall disease results from the insertion of a segment of the Agrobacterium Ti plasmid, called T-DNA, into host plant nuclear DNA. We have subjected to sequence analysis the border regions of pTi T37 (ends of T-DNA) and one left T-DNA/plant DNA border fragment isolated from BT37 tobacco teratoma by molecular cloning. These sequence studies, taken together with published sequence of a right T-DNA/plant DNA border fragment, allowed us to identify the positions of left and right borders at the DNA sequence level. Comparison of left and right border regions of the Ti plasmid revealed a "core" direct repeat of 13 of 14 bases (12 contiguous) precisely at the borders of T-DNA. An extended repeat of 21 of 25 bases overlaps this core repeat. T-DNA on the Ti plasmid exhibits no longer direct or inverted repeats in the border regions, based on Southern hybridization studies. The physical structure of T-DNA differs from that of known prokaryotic and eukaryotic transposable elements but bears a structural resemblance to the prophage of bacteriophage lambda.
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- N S Yadav
- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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Chilton MD, Saiki RK, Yadav N, Gordon MP, Quetier F. T-DNA from Agrobacterium Ti plasmid is in the nuclear DNA fraction of crown gall tumor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 77:4060-4. [PMID: 16592850 PMCID: PMC349769 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.77.7.4060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The crown gall teratoma tumor line BT37, incited by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain T37, has been found to contain part of the tumor-inducing plasmid, pTi T37, of the inciting strain. This foreign DNA segment, called T-DNA, is maintained at several copies per diploid tumor cell. We have examined subcellular DNA fractions from this tumor line in an effort to determine whether T-DNA is in chloroplasts, mitochondria, or nuclei. Tumor cell chloroplast DNA exhibited EcoRI and Bst I endonuclease cleavage patterns identical to those of normal tobacco chloroplast DNA. Tumor cell mitochondrial DNA exhibited a complex Bst I cleavage pattern that did not differ detectably from that of normal tobacco mitochondrial DNA. Southern blots of tumor chloroplast and mitochondrial cleavage products did not hybridize with labeled pTi T37 DNA, whereas blots of tumor cell nuclear DNA cleavage products hybridized strongly. We conclude that T-DNA is located not in chloroplasts or mitochondria but rather in the nuclear fraction of this tumor line.
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- M D Chilton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Yang F, Simpson RB. Revertant seedlings from crown gall tumors retain a portion of the bacterial Ti plasmid DNA sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 78:4151-5. [PMID: 16593055 PMCID: PMC319746 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.7.4151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BT37 is a crown gall teratoma incited on tobacco by Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing pTi-T37, a nopaline-type Ti plasmid. Treatment of this cloned tumor tissue with kinetin at 1 mg/liter results in the formation of relatively normal-appearing shoots. These shoots can be induced to root and set viable seed. In contrast to BT37 tissue, the derived tissues are not phytohormone independent and do not produce nopaline. The reverted plants, like normal tobacco plants, are susceptible to infection by A. tumefaciens. This loss of tumorous traits is accompanied by the loss of most of the Ti plasmid sequences (T-DNA) found in BT37 DNA. Southern blot analysis indicates that the revertant tissues have lost the central portion of the T-DNA, which contains the "common DNA" sequences, a highly conserved region of the Ti plasmid that has been found to be incorporated into all tumors studied. Thus, these sequences appear necessary for oncogenicity and tumor maintenance and their loss is probably directly related to tumor reversal. The reverted plants as well as the plants obtained from seed, however, do retain sequences homologous to the ends of the T-DNA present in the parental teratoma. The persistence of foreign DNA sequences during the process of meiosis and seed formation has important implications for the possibility of the genetic engineering of plants.
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- F Yang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Bandyopadhyay RS, Bruce WB, Gurley WB. Regulatory elements within the agropine synthase promoter of T-DNA. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47315-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Transformation with a mutant Arabidopsis acetolactate synthase gene renders tobacco resistant to sulfonylurea herbicides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00330603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Promoter domains required for transcriptional expression of the 780 gene of T-right (pTi15955) were identified by deletion mutagenesis. Accurate quantitation of transcriptional activity of a series of 5' and internal deletion mutants was achieved by using a double gene vector containing a reference 780 gene as an internal standard. Results of the 5' deletions delineated an activator element located between -440 and -229 base pairs (bp) from the start of transcription. Removal of this region resulted in a 100-fold decrease in promoter activity. Two relatively small internal deletion/substitution mutations at positions -74 to -76 and -98 to -112 reduced promoter activity to 38 and 42%, respectively. In most cases large-scale internal deletions (38 to 151 bp) occurring in various locations from positions -12 to -348 bp caused a significant loss in major promoter activity. However, three internal deletions starting at position -37 and extending upstream as far as -153 bp either had little effect on transcriptional activity or resulted in increased activity. Removal of the TATA motif drastically reduced promoter activity to less than 0.1% of the wild type. A minor start of transcription was detected 60 bases upstream from the major transcriptional start site. This minor promoter shares the same activator element as the major promoter for full activity. Deletion and insertion mutations downstream of the minor promoter TATA demonstrated the role of the TATA box in positioning the start of transcription.
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A soybean gene (Gmhsp17.5-E) encoding a small heat shock protein was introduced into primary sunflower tumors via T-DNA-mediated transformation. RNA blot hybridizations and S1-nuclease hybrid protection studies indicated that the heat shock gene containing 3.25 kilobases of 5'-flanking sequences was strongly transcribed in a thermoinducible (40 degrees C) manner. Transcriptional induction also occurred to a lesser extent upon treatment of whole tumors with sodium arsenite and CdCl2. Basal (26 degrees C) transcription was not detected in soybean seedlings, but it was quite evident in transformed tumor tissue. A 5' deletion to -1,175 base pairs with respect to the CAP site had no effect on the levels of thermoinducible transcription, but it resulted in a large increase in basal transcription. Further removal of DNA sequences (including the TATA-distal heat shock consensus element) to -95 base pairs reduced thermoinducible transcription by 95% and also greatly decreased basal transcription. The termini of the Gmhsp17.5-E RNA in the tumor were generally the same as those present in soybean RNA, with the exception of several additional 3' termini.
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Promoter domains required for transcriptional expression of the 780 gene of T-right (pTi15955) were identified by deletion mutagenesis. Accurate quantitation of transcriptional activity of a series of 5' and internal deletion mutants was achieved by using a double gene vector containing a reference 780 gene as an internal standard. Results of the 5' deletions delineated an activator element located between -440 and -229 base pairs (bp) from the start of transcription. Removal of this region resulted in a 100-fold decrease in promoter activity. Two relatively small internal deletion/substitution mutations at positions -74 to -76 and -98 to -112 reduced promoter activity to 38 and 42%, respectively. In most cases large-scale internal deletions (38 to 151 bp) occurring in various locations from positions -12 to -348 bp caused a significant loss in major promoter activity. However, three internal deletions starting at position -37 and extending upstream as far as -153 bp either had little effect on transcriptional activity or resulted in increased activity. Removal of the TATA motif drastically reduced promoter activity to less than 0.1% of the wild type. A minor start of transcription was detected 60 bases upstream from the major transcriptional start site. This minor promoter shares the same activator element as the major promoter for full activity. Deletion and insertion mutations downstream of the minor promoter TATA demonstrated the role of the TATA box in positioning the start of transcription.
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Hood EE, Chilton WS, Chilton MD, Fraley RT. T-DNA and opine synthetic loci in tumors incited by Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 on soybean and alfalfa plants. J Bacteriol 1986; 168:1283-90. [PMID: 3023301 PMCID: PMC213635 DOI: 10.1128/jb.168.3.1283-1290.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We report here the molecular characterization of transferred DNA (T-DNA) in leguminous tumors incited by Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 harboring the tumor-inducing plasmid pTiBo542. The T-DNA is composed of two regions named TL (left portion)-DNA and TR (right portion)-DNA, in accordance with the nomenclature for the octopine strains. TL-DNA is defined by several internal HindIII restriction fragments totaling 10.8 kilobase pairs (kbp) in uncloned soybean and alfalfa tumors. Alfalfa tumor DNA may contain one more HindIII fragment at the left end of TL-DNA than does soybean tumor DNA. TR-DNA has a 5.8-kbp BamHI-EcoRI internal fragment. All borders other than the left border of TL-DNA appear to be the same within the detection limits of Southern blot hybridization experiments. The two T-DNA regions are separated by 16 to 19 kbp of DNA not stably maintained in tumors. The distance from the left border of TL-DNA to the right border of TR-DNA is approximately 40 kbp. Loci for the mannityl opines are situated in TR-DNA, based on genetic and biochemical criteria.
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Czernilofsky AP, Hain R, Herrera-Estrella L, Lörz H, Goyvaerts E, Baker BJ, Schell J. Fate of selectable marker DNA integrated into the genome of Nicotiana tabacum. DNA (MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.) 1986; 5:101-13. [PMID: 3519133 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1986.5.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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To compare the effects of different transformation methods on the integration behavior and structural stability of integrated foreign genes in plant cells, tobacco protoplasts were transformed with Escherichia coli plasmid pLGV2103neo DNA using the Ca phosphate DNA coprecipitation technique. Parallel transformations were done by cocultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring the Ti plasmid derivatives pGV3850::2103neo or pGV3850::1103neo. A comparison of the fine structure of the integrated donor DNA obtained by direct gene transfer and by cocultivation indicates that the donor DNA in cells transformed by the former technique undergoes structural changes and concatemerizations, while the DNA integrated by the latter procedure is often unaltered. The cotransformed nopaline synthase gene, which is present in the donor Ti plasmid DNA, was inactivated in two out of nine cases. Once integrated, the arrays of selectable marker DNA appear to be structurally stable under different cell culture and selection conditions, as well as after genetic transmission.
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Gurley WB, Czarnecka E, Nagao RT, Key JL. Upstream sequences required for efficient expression of a soybean heat shock gene. Mol Cell Biol 1986; 6:559-65. [PMID: 3023855 PMCID: PMC367546 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.6.2.559-565.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A soybean gene (Gmhsp17.5-E) encoding a small heat shock protein was introduced into primary sunflower tumors via T-DNA-mediated transformation. RNA blot hybridizations and S1-nuclease hybrid protection studies indicated that the heat shock gene containing 3.25 kilobases of 5'-flanking sequences was strongly transcribed in a thermoinducible (40 degrees C) manner. Transcriptional induction also occurred to a lesser extent upon treatment of whole tumors with sodium arsenite and CdCl2. Basal (26 degrees C) transcription was not detected in soybean seedlings, but it was quite evident in transformed tumor tissue. A 5' deletion to -1,175 base pairs with respect to the CAP site had no effect on the levels of thermoinducible transcription, but it resulted in a large increase in basal transcription. Further removal of DNA sequences (including the TATA-distal heat shock consensus element) to -95 base pairs reduced thermoinducible transcription by 95% and also greatly decreased basal transcription. The termini of the Gmhsp17.5-E RNA in the tumor were generally the same as those present in soybean RNA, with the exception of several additional 3' termini.
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Restriction Endonuclease Map of pTi Bo542, a Potential Ti Plasmid Vector for Genetic Engineering of Plants. Nat Biotechnol 1984. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt0884-702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Winter JA, Wright RL, Gurley WB. Map locations of five transcripts homologous to TR-DNA in tobacco and sunflower crown gall tumors. Nucleic Acids Res 1984; 12:2391-406. [PMID: 6200831 PMCID: PMC318670 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.5.2391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Polyadenylated RNA from two octopine type tumor lines (E1, PSCG-15955) was analyzed by RNA blot hybridization and shown to contain five major transcripts homologous to TR DNA. In tobacco E1 tissue, the molecular weights of the TR homologous RNAs are 1.65 kb, 1.55 kb, 1.45 kb, 1.05 kb, and 0.78 kb. The 5' - and 3'-termini of each of the five E1 tumor transcripts were determined by S1 nuclease hybrid protection mapping. The polarity of transcription for the 0.78, 1.05 and 1.65 kb RNAs is from left to right, while the 1.55 and 1.45 kb RNAs are transcribed from right to left. Although we see the same size transcripts in sunflower PSCG-15955 tissue (with the exception of a 0.89 kb RNA in place of the 1.55 kb transcript of E1) there is an apparent difference in the relative abundance of the various RNAs between the two tumor lines.
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David C, Chilton MD, Tempé J. Conservation of T-DNA in Plants Regenerated from Hairy Root Cultures. Nat Biotechnol 1984. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt0184-73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Barker RF, Idler KB, Thompson DV, Kemp JD. Nucleotide sequence of the T-DNA region from theA grobacterium tumefaciens octopine Ti plasmid pTi15955. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1983; 2:335-350. [PMID: 24318453 DOI: 10.1007/bf01578595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/1983] [Revised: 10/14/1983] [Accepted: 10/14/1983] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The complete nucleotide sequence of the transferred region (T-DNA) of an octopine tumor inducing (Ti) plasmid fromAgrobacterium tumefaciens (pTi15955) has been determined. A total of 24 595 nucleotides extending approximately 900 bases to either side of the outermost, T-DNA boundaries was sequenced. Computer analysis of the sequenced portion of the Ti plasmid revealed that recognition sites for 72 restriction endonucleases are present in the DNA sequence at least once; no site forEcoK exists in this DNA sequence. Two imperfect 24 base repeats border the T-DNA sequence; the left starts at position 909 and the right ends at position 23 782, giving the T-DNA region a total length, of 22 874 nucleotides. Another two similar 24 base repeats lie within T-DNA and divide it, into three distinct domains: T-left (TL-DNA) 13 175 bp of apparently eukaryotic origin; T-center (TC-DNA) 1816 bp of prokaryotic origin; and T-right (TR-DNA) 7 883 bp of eukaryotic origin. The T-DNA contains nine reported transcripts, however, 26 open reading frames longer than 300 bases that start with an ATG initiation codon were found. Fourteen open reading frames are bounded by putative eukaryotic promoters, ribosome binding sites, and poly(A) addition sites and occur only in TL-and TR-DNAs. No open reading frames showing eukaryotic promoter sequences are located within the TC-DNA.
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- R F Barker
- Agrigenetics Advanced Research Division, 5649. E. Buckeye Road, 53716, Madison, WI, USA
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Ursic D, Slightom JL, Kemp JD. Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA integrates into multiple sites of the sunflower crown gall genome. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00331082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Agrobacterium Tumor Induction. Mob Genet Elements 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-638680-6.50015-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] Open
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Greve HD, Leemans J, Hernalsteens JP, Thia-Toong L, Beuckeleer MD, Willmitzer L, Otten L, Montagu MV, Schell J. Regeneration of normal and fertile plants that express octopine synthase, from tobacco crown galls after deletion of tumour-controlling functions. Nature 1982. [DOI: 10.1038/300752a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hadley RG, Szalay AA. DNA sequences homologous to the T DNA region of Agrobacterium tumefaciens are present in diverse Rhizobium species. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1982. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00330035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens incites crown gall tumors when bacterial DNA integrates into plant nuclear DNA. Plant cells can express these integrated bacterial genes. Following insertion of desired genes into bacterial DNA using recombinant DNA techniques, this system permits introduction of these new genes into plant DNA. We discuss the potential for genetic manipulation of plants using Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the related organism Agrobacterium rhizogenes.
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Van Slogteren GM, Hooykaas PJ, Planqué K, De Groot B. The lysopinedehydrogenase gene used as a marker for the selection of octopine crown gall cells. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1982; 1:133-142. [PMID: 24317894 DOI: 10.1007/bf00024976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/1981] [Revised: 09/11/1981] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Plant cells transformed into octopine-synthesizing tumour cells by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens survive when cultured in the presence of homo-arginine (HA), whereas both normal plant cells and nopaline producing plant tumour cells do not. Survival of octopine crown gall cells is due to the activity of the enzyme lysopinedehydrogenase (LpDH) in these cells, which converts toxic homo-arginine into non-toxic homo-octopine. The selective toxicity of homo-arginine for normal cells can be applied for the enrichment of octopine Ti plasmid transformed plant cells vs normal plant cells in mixed cultures.
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- G M Van Slogteren
- J.A. Cohen Institute for Radiopathology and Radiation Protection, Leiden
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Ooms G, Hooykaas PJ, Van Veen RJ, Van Beelen P, Regensburg-Tuïnk TJ, Schilperoort RA. Octopine Ti-plasmid deletion mutants of agrobacterium tumefaciens with emphasis on the right side of the T-region. Plasmid 1982; 7:15-29. [PMID: 6283573 DOI: 10.1016/0147-619x(82)90023-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Cardarelli M, Pomponi M, Risuleo G, Di Mauro E. Agrobacterium tumefaciens RNA polymerase: a new purification procedure and a study of the stable binding sites on homologous deoxyribonucleic acid. Biochemistry 1981; 20:6097-102. [PMID: 7306497 DOI: 10.1021/bi00524a028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6) of Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been purified according to a fast and efficient procedure. The method involves only two chromatographic steps and yields a highly active enzyme. The RNA polymerase was studied with respect to the ability to bind its homologous genome. A. tumefaciens deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binds the enzyme even when fragmented at undergenic size (300 base pairs). The general binding is unspecific and very labile at low concentrations of heparin (0.66 micrograms/mL). The number and distribution of the stable binding sites, class A sites [Hinkle, D., & Chamberlin, M. J. (1972) J. Mol. Biol. 70, 157-185], have been calculated from the heparin-induced dissociation kinetics of binary complexes formed between the enzyme and DNA fragments of various sizes. A total of 3.5 x 10(3) class A sites (forming binary complexes with a half-life of 16.6 min) are present on A. tumefaciens genome, a large number of which show a distribution of 800-1000 base pairs. The rest have a more widely spaced distribution. The interactions between Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and the A. tumefaciens template have also been examined, and it has been observed that E. coli holoenzyme forms stable complexes with a shorter half-life and recognizes a lower number of class A sites on A. tumefaciens genome.
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Wullems GJ, Molendijk L, Ooms G, Schilperoort RA. Retention of tumor markers in F1 progeny plants from in vitro induced octopine and nopaline tumor tissues. Cell 1981; 24:719-27. [PMID: 7249079 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(81)90098-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Tumorous tobacco shoots have been derived from callus tissues produced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens--induced transformation of tobacco protoplasts and by fusion of normal protoplasts with those from crown gall tumors. The continued presence of T-DNA sequences in shoots is directly demonstrated by Southern blotting and is also revealed by the presence of the tumor markers octopine and nopaline. When grafted onto normal tobacco plants, both octopine- and nopaline-type shoots (including those from somatic hybrids) produced flowers and set seed. Germination of these seeds gave F1 progeny that showed retention of morphological markers of their parental shoots, and one seedling retained the ability to synthesize nopaline. The data demonstrate that T-DNA markers can be retained during meiosis and are expressed in F1 plants.
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Ooms G, Hooykaas PJ, Moolenaar G, Schilperoort RA. Grown gall plant tumors of abnormal morphology, induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying mutated octopine Ti plasmids; analysis of T-DNA functions. Gene 1981; 14:33-50. [PMID: 6266929 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(81)90146-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Ti plasmid mutants derived from Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain Ach5 that induce tumors of abnormal morphology have been analyzed. On tobacco, A. tumefaciens mutant strain LBA4060 induces tumors that specifically give rise to shoots. Shoots continue to grow from in vitro cultured bacteria-free tumor tissue derived from such tumors. The mutant character is shown to be correlated with the insertion of an A. tumefaciens IS element, IS60, into the left arm of the T-region of the octopine Ti plasmid. Evidence is presented showing that IS60 is transferred into the plant cell DNA as part of the T-DNA. A second Ti plasmid insertion mutant A. tumefaciens strain LBA4210, with a Tn904 transposon in the center of the T-region, induces tumors that specifically exhibit a root development on tobacco plants. T-DNA has been detected in sterile amorphous crown-gall tissue derived from these tumors. The transposon Tn904 insertion was shown to result a changed "core" T-DNA. Abnormal tumor morphologies induced by these mutant strains have been observed also on Kalanchoë stems. On tomato plants the mutants induce small unorganized tumors while on Nicotiana rustica unorganized tumors, nearly equal in size to those caused by the wild-type strain have been induced. LBA4060 was shown to be avirulent on Kalanchoë leaves and LBA4210 was weakly virulent. Infection of Kalanchoë leaves or tomato plants with a mixture of separately grown cultures of both mutants resulted in the formation of more or less normal tumors. The exposure of a tomato plant to naphthalene acetic acid (NAA), a synthetic auxin, during development of tumors induced by LBA4060 stimulated tumor formation. Tumor growth induced by LBA4210 was found to be stimulated by kinetin.
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De Beuckeleer M, Lemmers M, De Vos G, Willmitzer L, Van Montagu M, Schell J. Further insight on the transferred-DNA of octopine crown gall. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1981; 183:283-8. [PMID: 6276681 DOI: 10.1007/bf00270630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Six octopine tumour lines incited by pTiB6S3, pTiAch5 and pTiA6 on tobacco, Arabidopsis and Petunia were studied by the Southern blotting hybridisation technique in order to define accurately the dimensions of the segments of plasmid origin transferred to the tumourous cell and their organisation in the plant genome. Emphasis has been put on the comparison between octopine and nopaline T-DNAs and on the lines presented here compared with those studied previously (Thomashow et al. 1980). The length of the transferred DNA segment does not depend on the plasmids used, nor on the host plants. The octopine T-DNA organisation in the cell nucleus is significantly different from that of nopaline T-DNAs: tandem arrangements of T-DNA segments could not be detected and the T-DNA itself is much shorter. The tumour lines described here can be compared to some extent with those studied by another group (Thomashow et al. 1980) by the same technique. However, some differences were observed. The transferred DNA was seen as a unique stretch of about 11 kb present only once per cell. No amplification of any part was noticed in any of these six lines. Examination of the restriction patterns presented by the boundary fragments of the T-DNA in these lines suggested that some of them were of common origin.
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Farrand SK, Kado CI, Ireland CR. Suppression of tumorigenicity by the IncW R plasmid pSa in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00339003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lemmers M, De Beuckeleer M, Holsters M, Zambryski P, Depicker A, Hernalsteens JP, Van Montagu M, Schell J. Internal organization, boundaries and integration of Ti-plasmid DNA in nopaline grown gall tumours. J Mol Biol 1980; 144:353-76. [PMID: 7253020 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(80)90095-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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White FF, Nester EW. Relationship of plasmids responsible for hairy root and crown gall tumorigenicity. J Bacteriol 1980; 144:710-20. [PMID: 7430069 PMCID: PMC294721 DOI: 10.1128/jb.144.2.710-720.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Three strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes were examined for plasmids. Strains 15834 and A4 contained essentially identical large plasmids, pAr15834c and pArA4c, respectively (approximately 260 x 10(6) daltons). These plasmids can dissociate to two smaller plasmid species. Strain TR105 contained only a single plasmid, which was homologous with the dissociation product of pAr15834c, pAr15834b. Plasmid pAr15834c shared little overall sequence homology with other Ti plasmids. One region of conserved homology between pAr15834c and a region of the octopine type plasmid pTiB6806 which contains oncogenicity functions was detected. Lower levels of homology were detected with sequences which are distributed throughout 65% of pTiB6806. Homology with the so-called common deoxyribonucleic acid in the integrated plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid region was detected only after lowering the stringency of hybridization (Tm, -41 degrees C). Furthermore, the A. rhizogenes plasmid is compatible with other Ti plasmids. Therefore, the results suggest that the virulence plasmids of A. rhizogenes are functionally similar to other Ti plasmids, yet have diverged sufficiently from an ancestral Ti plasmid that they now represent a distinct plasmid type based on homology, compatibility, and virulence.
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Garfinkel DJ, Nester EW. Agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants affected in crown gall tumorigenesis and octopine catabolism. J Bacteriol 1980; 144:732-43. [PMID: 6253441 PMCID: PMC294723 DOI: 10.1128/jb.144.2.732-743.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Mutants of Agrobacterium tumefaciens which affect virulence or the ability to catabolize octopine were isolated after Tn5-induced mutagenesis. Of 8,900 colonies tested, 7 mutants with Tn5 insertions in a specific region of other Ti plasmid unable to catabolize octopine were isolated. Thirty-seven mutants affected in tumorigenesis resulted from insertions in the Ti plasmid and the Agrobacterium chromosome. Of these mutations, 12 were chromosomal and 25 mapped on the plasmid. Twenty-three mapped within a 20-megadalton region, which is distinct from the Ti plasmid sequences found stably integrated into the plant cell genome T-deoxyribonucleic acid). Included in these were mutants that were either a virulent or produced tumors with unusual morphologies. Three mutants contained insertions in the T-deoxyribonucleic acid. These three mutants incited tumors which synthesized octopine but had an altered morphology due to either extensive proliferation of shoots or roots from the tumor callus. Three additional mutants not caused by Tn5 contained mutations in the Ti plasmid.
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Yadav NS, Postle K, Saiki RK, Thomashow MF, Chilton MD. T-DNA of a crown gall teratoma is covalently joined to host plant DNA. Nature 1980; 287:458-61. [DOI: 10.1038/287458a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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DNA from Ti plasmid present in nucleus and absent from plastids of crown gall plant cells. Nature 1980. [DOI: 10.1038/287359a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Yang FM, Montoya AL, Nester EW, Gordon MP. Plant tumor reversal associated with the loss of foreign DNA. IN VITRO 1980; 16:87-92. [PMID: 7364453 DOI: 10.1007/bf02618202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Transformation of plant tissues into crown gall tumors has been associated with the transfer of a portion of a tumor-inducing plasmid (Ti-plasmid) into plant DNA. Various laboratories have regenerated normal-appearing plants from a number of crown gall tumors. This study investigates the fate of the foreign DNA in a series of tissues derived from various parts of a plant regenerated from the tumor BT-37 by Braum and his coworkers. It was found that all the foreign DNA sequences were lost from tissues that had lost all their tumorous traits; whereas the plasmid DNA sequences were still present in tissues that appeared normal but still exhibited tumorous traits when returned to tissue culture media. From these studies it would appear that the presence of the Ti-plasmid sequences in the plant DNA is required for the maintenance of the transformed state.
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Chilton MD. Agrobacterium Ti plasmids as a tool for genetic engineering in plants. BASIC LIFE SCIENCES 1980; 14:23-31. [PMID: 233066 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-3725-6_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Yang F, Montoya AL, Merlo DJ, Drummond MH, Chilton MD, Nester EW, Gordon MP. Foreign DNA sequences in crown gall teratomas and their fate during the loss of the tumorous traits. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1980; 177:707-14. [PMID: 6929944 DOI: 10.1007/bf00272683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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