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Pouvreau B, Blundell C, Vohra H, Zwart AB, Arndell T, Singh S, Vanhercke T. A Versatile High Throughput Screening Platform for Plant Metabolic Engineering Highlights the Major Role of ABI3 in Lipid Metabolism Regulation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:288. [PMID: 32256511 PMCID: PMC7090168 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Traditional functional genetic studies in crops are time consuming, complicated and cannot be readily scaled up. The reason is that mutant or transformed crops need to be generated to study the effect of gene modifications on specific traits of interest. However, many crop species have a complex genome and a long generation time. As a result, it usually takes several months to over a year to obtain desired mutants or transgenic plants, which represents a significant bottleneck in the development of new crop varieties. To overcome this major issue, we are currently establishing a versatile plant genetic screening platform, amenable to high throughput screening in almost any crop species, with a unique workflow. This platform combines protoplast transformation and fluorescence activated cell sorting. Here we show that tobacco protoplasts can accumulate high levels of lipid if transiently transformed with genes involved in lipid biosynthesis and can be sorted based on lipid content. Hence, protoplasts can be used as a predictive tool for plant lipid engineering. Using this newly established strategy, we demonstrate the major role of ABI3 in plant lipid accumulation. We anticipate that this workflow can be applied to numerous highly valuable metabolic traits other than storage lipid accumulation. This new strategy represents a significant step toward screening complex genetic libraries, in a single experiment and in a matter of days, as opposed to years by conventional means.
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- Benjamin Pouvreau
- Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- *Correspondence: Benjamin Pouvreau,
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- Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University College of Health and Medicine, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Nanjareddy K, Arthikala MK, Blanco L, Arellano ES, Lara M. Protoplast isolation, transient transformation of leaf mesophyll protoplasts and improved Agrobacterium-mediated leaf disc infiltration of Phaseolus vulgaris: tools for rapid gene expression analysis. BMC Biotechnol 2016; 16:53. [PMID: 27342637 PMCID: PMC4919892 DOI: 10.1186/s12896-016-0283-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Phaseolus vulgaris is one of the most extensively studied model legumes in the world. The P. vulgaris genome sequence is available; therefore, the need for an efficient and rapid transformation system is more imperative than ever. The functional characterization of P. vulgaris genes is impeded chiefly due to the non-amenable nature of Phaseolus sp. to stable genetic transformation. Transient transformation systems are convenient and versatile alternatives for rapid gene functional characterization studies. Hence, the present work focuses on standardizing methodologies for protoplast isolation from multiple tissues and transient transformation protocols for rapid gene expression analysis in the recalcitrant grain legume P. vulgaris. RESULTS Herein, we provide methodologies for the high-throughput isolation of leaf mesophyll-, flower petal-, hypocotyl-, root- and nodule-derived protoplasts from P. vulgaris. The highly efficient polyethylene glycol-mannitol magnesium (PEG-MMG)-mediated transformation of leaf mesophyll protoplasts was optimized using a GUS reporter gene. We used the P. vulgaris SNF1-related protein kinase 1 (PvSnRK1) gene as proof of concept to demonstrate rapid gene functional analysis. An RT-qPCR analysis of protoplasts that had been transformed with PvSnRK1-RNAi and PvSnRK1-OE vectors showed the significant downregulation and ectopic constitutive expression (overexpression), respectively, of the PvSnRK1 transcript. We also demonstrated an improved transient transformation approach, sonication-assisted Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (SAAT), for the leaf disc infiltration of P. vulgaris. Interestingly, this method resulted in a 90 % transformation efficiency and transformed 60-85 % of the cells in a given area of the leaf surface. The constitutive expression of YFP further confirmed the amenability of the system to gene functional characterization studies. CONCLUSIONS We present simple and efficient methodologies for protoplast isolation from multiple P. vulgaris tissues. We also provide a high-efficiency and amenable method for leaf mesophyll transformation for rapid gene functional characterization studies. Furthermore, a modified SAAT leaf disc infiltration approach aids in validating genes and their functions. Together, these methods help to rapidly unravel novel gene functions and are promising tools for P. vulgaris research.
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- Kalpana Nanjareddy
- />Ciencias Agrogenómicas, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), León, C.P.37684 Guanajuato Mexico
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- />Ciencias Agrogenómicas, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), León, C.P.37684 Guanajuato Mexico
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- />Ciencias Agrogenómicas, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), León, C.P.37684 Guanajuato Mexico
- />Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan, Ciudad de México C.P. 62210 Mexico
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- />Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Av. Universidad 655, Col. Santa Maria, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62100 Mexico
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- />Ciencias Agrogenómicas, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), León, C.P.37684 Guanajuato Mexico
- />Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan, Ciudad de México C.P. 04510 Mexico
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Rancour DM, Hatfield RD, Marita JM, Rohr NA, Schmitz RJ. Cell wall composition and digestibility alterations in Brachypodium distachyon achieved through reduced expression of the UDP-arabinopyranose mutase. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:446. [PMID: 26136761 PMCID: PMC4470266 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 05/31/2015] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Nucleotide-activated sugars are essential substrates for plant cell-wall carbohydrate-polymer biosynthesis. The most prevalent grass cell wall (CW) sugars are glucose (Glc), xylose (Xyl), and arabinose (Ara). These sugars are biosynthetically related via the UDP-sugar interconversion pathway. We sought to target and generate UDP-sugar interconversion pathway transgenic Brachypodium distachyon lines resulting in CW carbohydrate composition changes with improved digestibility and normal plant stature. Both RNAi-mediated gene-suppression and constitutive gene-expression approaches were performed. CWs from 336 T0 transgenic plants with normal appearance were screened for complete carbohydrate composition. RNAi mutants of BdRGP1, a UDP-arabinopyranose mutase, resulted in large alterations in CW carbohydrate composition with significant decreases in CW Ara content but with minimal change in plant stature. Five independent RNAi-RGP1 T1 plant lines were used for in-depth analysis of plant CWs. Real-time PCR analysis indicated that gene expression levels for BdRGP1, BdRGP2, and BdRGP3 were reduced in RNAi-RGP1 plants to 15-20% of controls. CW Ara content was reduced by 23-51% of control levels. No alterations in CW Xyl and Glc content were observed. Corresponding decreases in CW ferulic acid (FA) and ferulic acid-dimers (FA-dimers) were observed. Additionally, CW p-coumarates (pCA) were decreased. We demonstrate the CW pCA decrease corresponds to Ara-coupled pCA. Xylanase-mediated digestibility of RNAi-RGP1 Brachypodium CWs resulted in a near twofold increase of released total carbohydrate. However, cellulolytic hydrolysis of CW material was inhibited in leaves of RNAi-RGP1 mutants. Our results indicate that targeted manipulation of UDP-sugar biosynthesis can result in biomass with substantially altered compositions and highlights the complex effect CW composition has on digestibility.
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- David M. Rancour
- U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, MadisonWI, USA
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- U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, MadisonWI, USA
- *Correspondence: Ronald D. Hatfield, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, 1925 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA,
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- U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, MadisonWI, USA
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Silva AT, Nguyen A, Ye C, Verchot J, Moon JH. Conjugated polymer nanoparticles for effective siRNA delivery to tobacco BY-2 protoplasts. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2010; 10:291. [PMID: 21192827 PMCID: PMC3023792 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 12/30/2010] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is a mechanism harnessed by plant biologists to knock down gene expression. siRNAs contribute to PTGS that are synthesized from mRNAs or viral RNAs and function to guide cellular endoribonucleases to target mRNAs for degradation. Plant biologists have employed electroporation to deliver artificial siRNAs to plant protoplasts to study gene expression mechanisms at the single cell level. One drawback of electroporation is the extensive loss of viable protoplasts that occurs as a result of the transfection technology. RESULTS We employed fluorescent conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNs) to deliver siRNAs and knockdown a target gene in plant protoplasts. CPNs are non toxic to protoplasts, having little impact on viability over a 72 h period. Microscopy and flow cytometry reveal that CPNs can penetrate protoplasts within 2 h of delivery. Cellular uptake of CPNs/siRNA complexes were easily monitored using epifluorescence microscopy. We also demonstrate that CPNs can deliver siRNAs targeting specific genes in the cellulose biosynthesis pathway (NtCesA-1a and NtCesA-1b). CONCLUSIONS While prior work showed that NtCesA-1 is a factor involved in cell wall synthesis in whole plants, we demonstrate that the same gene plays an essential role in cell wall regeneration in isolated protoplasts. Cell wall biosynthesis is central to cell elongation, plant growth and development. The experiments presented here shows that NtCesA is also a factor in cell viability. We show that CPNs are valuable vehicles for delivering siRNAs to plant protoplasts to study vital cellular pathways at the single cell level.
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- Asitha T Silva
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA 74078
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA 74078
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA 74078
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Hassanein A, Hamama L, Loridon K, Dorion N. Direct gene transfer study and transgenic plant regeneration after electroporation into mesophyll protoplasts of Pelargonium x hortorum, 'Panaché Sud'. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2009; 28:1521-1530. [PMID: 19652973 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-009-0751-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2009] [Revised: 07/15/2009] [Accepted: 07/17/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Direct genetic transformation of mesophyll protoplasts was studied in Pelargonium x hortorum. Calcein and green-fluorescent protein (GFP) gene were used to set up the process. Electroporation (three electric pulses from a 33-microF capacitor in a 250-V cm(-1) electric field) was more efficient than PEG 6000 for membrane permeation, protoplast survival and cell division. Transient expression of GFP was detected in 33-36% of electroporated protoplasts after 2 days and further in colonies. A protoplast suspension conductivity of >1,500 microS cm(-1) allowed high colony formation and plant regeneration. Stable transformation was obtained using the plasmid FAJ3000 containing uidA and nptII genes. When selection (50 mg l(-1) kanamycin) was achieved 6 weeks after electroporation, regenerated shoots were able to grow and root on 100 mg l(-1) kanamycin. The maximum transformation efficiency was 4.5%, based on the number of colonies producing kanamycin-resistant rooted plants or 0.7% based on the number of cultured protoplasts. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis on in vitro micropropagated plants showed that 18 clones out of 20 contained the nptII gene, while the uidA gene was absent. These results were confirmed after PCR analyses of five glasshouse-acclimatized clones.
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Saulis G, Satkauskas S, Praneviciūte R. Determination of cell electroporation from the release of intracellular potassium ions. Anal Biochem 2007; 360:273-81. [PMID: 17134671 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2006.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2006] [Revised: 10/16/2006] [Accepted: 10/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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When cells are exposed to a strong enough external electric field, transient aqueous pores are formed in the membrane. The fraction of electroporated cells can be determined by measuring the release of intracellular potassium ions. The current work is the first study where such a method was employed successfully not only with cells suspended in the medium with a rather high concentration of potassium (4-5 mM) but also with cells that release some part of intracellular potassium responding, in this way, to the stress caused by manipulation procedures during the preparation of the cell suspension. Experiments were carried out on mouse hepatoma MH-A22 cells exposed to a square-wave electric pulse. The curves showing the dependence of the fraction of the cells that have become permeable to bleomycin, a membrane-impermeable cytotoxic drug, are close to the ones showing the release of intracellular potassium ions.
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- Gintautas Saulis
- Biophysical Research Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Nature Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas LT-44246, Lithuania.
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Wang L, Eggenberger A, Hill J, Bogdanove AJ. Pseudomonas syringae effector avrB confers soybean cultivar-specific avirulence on Soybean mosaic virus adapted for transgene expression but effector avrPto does not. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2006; 19:304-12. [PMID: 16570660 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-19-0304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) was adapted for transgene expression in soybean and used to examine the function of avirulence genes avrB and avrPto of Pseudomonas syringae pvs. glycinea and tomato, respectively. A cloning site was introduced between the P1 and HC-Pro genes in 35S-driven infectious cDNAs of strains SMV-N and SMV-G7. Insertion of the uidA gene or the green fluorescent protein gene into either modified cDNA and bombardment into primary leaves resulted in systemic expression that reflected the pattern of viral movement into uninoculated leaves. Insertion of avrB blocked symptom development and detectable viral movement in cv. Harosoy, which carries the Rpg1-b resistance gene corresponding to avrB, but not in cvs. Keburi or Hurrelbrink, which lack Rpg1-b. In Keburi and Hurrelbrink, symptoms caused by SMV carrying avrB appeared more quickly and were more severe than those caused by the virus without avrB. Insertion of avrPto enhanced symptoms in Harosoy, Hurrelbrink, and Keburi. This result was unexpected because avrPto was reported to confer avirulence on P. syringae pv. glycinea inoculated to Harosoy. We inoculated Harosoy with P syringae pv. glycinea expressing avrPto, but observed no hypersensitive reaction, avrPto-dependent induction of pathogenesis-related protein la, or limitation of bacterial population growth. In Hurrelbrink, avrPto enhanced bacterial multiplication and exacerbated symptoms. Our results establish SMV as an expression vector for soybean. They demonstrate that resistance triggered by avrB is effective against SMV, and that avrB and avrPto have general virulence effects in soybean. The results also led to a reevaluation of the reported avirulence activity of avrPto in this plant.
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- Li Wang
- Department of Plant Pathology, 351 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
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Gaudin V, Libault M, Pouteau S, Juul T, Zhao G, Lefebvre D, Grandjean O. Mutations in LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1 affect flowering time and plant architecture in Arabidopsis. Development 2001; 128:4847-58. [PMID: 11731464 DOI: 10.1242/dev.128.23.4847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In plants, recent studies have demonstrated links between the regulation of developmental processes and chromatin dynamics and organisation. Analysis of new mutations affecting overall plant architecture, leaf development and flowering time in Arabidopsis has allowed us to clone and characterise LHP1, the Drosophila heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) homologue. LHP1 has the chromo and chromo shadow domains central to the function of animal proteins. Yeast two hybrid studies and in planta deletion experiments suggest similar modes of action in plants and animals via homodimer formation. In vivo localisation experiments revealed a specific subnuclear protein distribution in foci throughout the nucleus. Our data suggest that LHP1 may act as a main regulator of gene expression in plants, through formation of heterochromatin-like repressive complexes, to control developmental pathways involved in organ and cell size, and the vegetative to reproductive phase transition.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Arabidopsis/growth & development
- Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry
- Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Cell Nucleus/genetics
- Chromobox Protein Homolog 5
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- Dimerization
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plant Leaves/growth & development
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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- V Gaudin
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, route de St Cyr, 78026 Versailles cedex, France.
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Methods of Genetic Transformation: Electroporation and Polyethylene Glycol Treatment. MOLECULAR IMPROVEMENT OF CEREAL CROPS 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4802-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chen GY, Conner AJ, Wang J, Fautrier AG, Field RJ. Energy dissipation as a key factor for electroporation of protoplasts. Mol Biotechnol 1998; 10:209-16. [PMID: 9951699 DOI: 10.1007/bf02740840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Energy dissipation (epsilon) during electroporation was theoretically determined to be epsilon = 0.5CV02 for the various combinations of capacitance (C) and initial voltage (V0). Experiments on asparagus protoplasts established that electroporation efficiency (EE) and survival rate were directly proportional to energy dissipation during electroporation. A positive linear relationship exists between energy dissipation per unit volume and EE, whereas energy dissipation per unit volume and survival rate of protoplasts are related in a negative linear manner. At the same energy level, longer time constants were more effective at increasing EE. This suggests that energy dissipation approximating rectangular waveforms is more important than that dissipated as sharply decaying exponential waveforms. With energy as the key parameter, the optimization of electrical parameters for efficient electroporation is greatly simplified, is not machine-dependent, and generally applies to all species.
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- G Y Chen
- Department of Plant Sciences, Lincoln University, Canterburry, New Zealand
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Electroporation of cells in the presence of DNA is widely used for the introduction of transgenes either stably or transiently into bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells. A review of the literature shows that electroporation parameters are often reported in an incomplete or incorrect manner, forcing researchers to rely too much on a purely empirical trial and error approach. The goal of this article is to provide the reader with an understanding of electrical circuits used in electroporation experiments as well as physical and biological aspects of the electroporation process itself. Further, a simple paradigm is provided which unites all electroporation parameters. This article should be particularly useful to those new to the technique.
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- P F Lurquin
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4234, USA
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Grappin P, Audeon C, Chupeau MC, Grandbastien MA. Molecular and functional characterization of Slide, an Ac-like autonomous transposable element from tobacco. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 252:386-97. [PMID: 8879239 DOI: 10.1007/bf02173003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A new transposable element of tobacco, Slide, was isolated from the tl mutant line, which shows somatic instability, after its transposition into a locus encoding nitrate reductase (NR). The Slide-124 element is 3733 bp long and its coding sequences show similarities with conserved domains of the transposases of Ac, Tam3 and hobo. Excision from the NR locus is detectable in somatic leaf tissues and Slide mobility is triggered by in vitro tissue culture. Slide excision events create footprints similar to those left by Ac and Tam3. Tobacco lines derived from the tl mutant line seem characterized by unmethylated copies of a few members of the highly repetitive Slide family. Slide mobility was monitored in transient expression assays. In wild-type tobacco protoplasts, the complete Slide element, as well as a defective copy, is able to excise. The complete Slide element, but not the defective version, is able to excise in protoplasts of the heterologous species lettuce (Lactuca sativa). These results show that Slide carries the functions required for its own mobility, and represents the first autonomous Ac-like element characterized in Solanaceae species.
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- P Grappin
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA-Centre de Versailles, France
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Torbert KA, Rines HW, Somers DA. Use of paromomycin as a selective agent for oat transformation. PLANT CELL REPORTS 1995; 14:635-40. [PMID: 24194311 DOI: 10.1007/bf00232728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/1994] [Revised: 11/10/1994] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Friable, embryogenic oat (Avena sativa L.) tissue cultures were stably transformed with two different plasmids containing the E. coli tn5 neomycin phosphotransferase II gene (npt II). Selection was accomplished using the antibiotic paromomycin sulfate following microprojectile bombardment. From two independent experiments, 88 paromomycin-resistant tissue cultures were shown to be transgenic based on Southern blot analysis and detection of the neomycin phosphotransferase (NPT II) protein using ELISA. Copy numbers of the npt II gene ranged from one to eight copies per haploid oat genome integrated into high molecular weight DNA of the paromomycin-resistant cultures. Plants were regenerated from 32 of the 88 transgenic tissue cultures. Plants from 17 of the 32 regenerable cultures exhibited fertility. Stable transformation was shown by segregation patterns of the NPT II protein in R1 seedlings produced from 16 fertile culture lines that were tested. The overall results demonstrate that the combination of the npt II gene and paromomycin provides efficient selection of transgenic oat tissue cultures. Oat plants transformed with the npt II gene present reduced ecological risk compared to the previously used herbicide-resistance selection system.
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- K A Torbert
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 55108, St. Paul, MN
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Gaudin V, Jouanin L. Expression of Agrobacterium rhizogenes auxin biosynthesis genes in transgenic tobacco plants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 28:123-36. [PMID: 7787177 DOI: 10.1007/bf00042044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Plant oncogenes aux1 and aux2 carried by the TR-DNA of Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4 encode two enzymes involved in the auxin biosynthesis pathway in transformed plant cells. The short divergent promoter region between the two aux-coding sequences contains the main regulatory elements. This region was fused to the uidA reporter gene and introduced into Nicotiana tabacum in order to investigate the regulation and the tissue specificity of these genes. Neither wound nor hormone induction could be detected on transgenic leaf discs. However, phytohormone concentration and auxin/cytokinin balance controlled the expression of the chimaeric genes in transgenic protoplasts. The expression was localised in apical meristems, root tip meristems, lateral root primordia, in cells derived from transgenic protoplasts and in transgenic calli. Histological analysis showed that the expression was located in cells reactivated by in vitro culture. Experiments using cell-cycle inhibitors such as hydroxyurea or aphidicolin on transgenic protoplast cultures highly decreased the beta-glucuronidase activity of the chimaeric genes. These results as well as the histological approach suggest a correlation between expression of the aux1 and aux2 genes and cell division.
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- V Gaudin
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Versailles, France
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Marechal-Drouard L, Small I, Weil JH, Dietrich A. Transfer RNA import into plant mitochondria. Methods Enzymol 1995; 260:310-27. [PMID: 8592456 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(95)60148-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
MESH Headings
- Biological Transport
- Cell Fractionation/methods
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA, Mitochondrial/isolation & purification
- DNA, Mitochondrial/metabolism
- DNA, Plant/isolation & purification
- DNA, Plant/metabolism
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional/methods
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel/methods
- Electroporation/methods
- Gene Expression
- Genes, Plant
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Mitochondria/ultrastructure
- Plants/metabolism
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- RNA/isolation & purification
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/isolation & purification
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Mitochondrial
- RNA, Plant/isolation & purification
- RNA, Plant/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal/isolation & purification
- RNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/isolation & purification
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- Solanum tuberosum/metabolism
- Transformation, Genetic
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- L Marechal-Drouard
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plante du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Pauls PK, Kunert K, Huttner E, Grandbastien MA. Expression of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon promoter in heterologous species. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 26:393-402. [PMID: 7948885 DOI: 10.1007/bf00039548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The expression of the tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) retrotransposon Tnt1 has previously been shown to be strongly regulated and driven from the 5' long terminal repeat (LTR). We report here that the Tnt1 LTR can promote activity of the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene in two heterologous species of the Brassicaceae family, namely rapeseed (Brassica napus) and Arabidopsis thaliana. The translational LTR-GUS fusion was active in transient expression studies performed with tobacco and rapeseed protoplasts, indicating that the LTR sequences are recognized in heterologous species. Our results also showed that Tnt1 LTR-promoted GUS expression in transgenic Arabidopsis is strongly regulated, and that, in contrast to tobacco, hormonal activation plays a significant role in the expression of the Tnt1 LTR in Arabidopsis. LTR sequences were shown to be more effective than the CaMV 35S enhancer region in transient expression studies performed with tobacco or rapeseed protoplasts, and substitution of the LTR sequences upstream from the major transcriptional start with the CaMV 35S enhancer region gave high levels of expression in transgenic tobacco and Arabidopsis leaves, suggesting that a Tnt1 element with similar substitutions in its 5' LTR might be suited for gene-tagging experiments in heterologous species.
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- P K Pauls
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA-Versailles, France
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Chaudhury A, Maheshwari SC, Tyagi AK. Transient expression of electroporated gene in leaf protoplasts of indica rice and influence of template topology and vector sequences. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 1993; 89:842-846. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1993.tb05294.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/19/2023]
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Carneiro VT, Pelletier G, Small I. Transfer RNA-mediated suppression of stop codons in protoplasts and transgenic plants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1993; 22:681-90. [PMID: 8343603 DOI: 10.1007/bf00047408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We have developed a simple, rapid and sensitive assay for tRNA gene expression in plant cells. A plant tRNA(Leu) gene was site-specifically mutated to encode each of the three anticodon sequences (CUA, UUA and UCA) that recognize, respectively, the amber, ochre and opal stop codons. The suppression activity of these genes was detected by their ability to restore transient beta-glucuronidase (GUS) expression in tobacco protoplasts electroporated with GUS genes containing premature stop codons. Protoplasts co-electroporated with the amber suppressor tRNA gene and a GUS gene containing a premature amber stop codon showed up to 20-25% of the activity found in protoplasts transfected with the functional control GUS gene. Ochre and opal suppressors presented maximum efficiencies of less than 1%. This system could be adapted to examine transcription, processing or aminoacylation of tRNAs in plant cells. In addition, phenotypically normal, fertile tobacco plants expressing a stably incorporated amber suppressor tRNA gene have been obtained. This suppressor tRNA can be used to transactivate a target gene containing a premature amber stop codon by a factor of at least several hundred-fold.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anticodon/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Codon/genetics
- Fabaceae/genetics
- Glucuronidase/genetics
- Kanamycin Resistance/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Peptide Chain Termination, Translational/genetics
- Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics
- Plants, Medicinal
- Plants, Toxic
- Protoplasts
- RNA, Transfer, Leu/biosynthesis
- RNA, Transfer, Leu/genetics
- Suppression, Genetic
- Nicotiana/genetics
- Transformation, Genetic
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- V T Carneiro
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Versailles, France
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Casacuberta JM, Grandbastien MA. Characterisation of LTR sequences involved in the protoplast specific expression of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:2087-93. [PMID: 8389038 PMCID: PMC309469 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.9.2087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon is the only plant retrotransposon that has been shown to be transcriptionally active, and its transcription is strongly induced when preparing leaf-derived protoplasts. We have analysed in this paper the LTR sequences important for Tnt1 expression in tobacco protoplasts. We show that LTR sequences upstream of the TATA box are sufficient to confer protoplast-dependent induction to a heterologous promoter. We also show that this region contains two short activator elements, and that one of these sequences, BII, interacts with protoplast-specific nuclear factors.
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- J M Casacuberta
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Centre de Versailles, France
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Gaudin V, Camilleri C, Jouanin L. Multiple regions of a divergent promoter control the expression of the Agrobacterium rhizogenes aux1 and aux2 plant oncogenes. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 239:225-34. [PMID: 8510649 DOI: 10.1007/bf00281622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The two auxin biosynthesis genes, aux1 and aux2 of Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4, are located on opposite DNA strands with a short integenic region (394 bp) between their coding sequences. A functional analysis of this divergent promoter is presented. The transcription initiation sites of the two aux genes were determined and regions important for promoter activity were identified by deletion and transient expression analyses in tobacco protoplasts. The promoter activity of the aux intergenic region was demonstrated. A strong enhancer element contained within an 84 bp promoter fragment was identified. Far upstream regions were shown to have negative effects on the promoter activity of the short intergenic region. Interactions between positive elements in the intergenic region and negative effects of the upstream sequences may be the basis of strict control of the auxin biosynthesis necessary for the induction and maintenance of hairy root growth.
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- V Gaudin
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Versailles, France
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Vaucheret H, Marion-Poll A, Meyer C, Faure JD, Marin E, Caboche M. Interest in and limits to the utilization of reporter genes for the analysis of transcriptional regulation of nitrate reductase. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1992; 235:259-68. [PMID: 1334527 DOI: 10.1007/bf00279369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Reporter gene techniques and mutant analysis were used to identify the molecular basis of the regulation of the expression of nitrate reductase (NR) by nitrate and nitrate-, or ammonium-derived metabolites (N-metabolites), in the true diploïd species Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and in the amphidiploïd species Nicotiana tabacum. The N. plumbaginifolia mutant E23 results from the insertion of a Tnt1-like retrotransposon (Tnp2) in the first exon of the single-copy nia gene, which encodes nitrate reductase. One of the resulting transcripts ends in the 5' LTR (long terminal repeat) sequence of this retrotransposon, and another one in the 3' LTR. Nitrate and N-metabolites modulate the expression of these truncated transcripts, indicating that intron splicing and termination processes are not essential to these regulatory events. A GUS reporter sequence was transcriptionally linked to the promoter of the nia-1 gene of N. tabacum. This fusion was functional in transient expression assays done with protoplasts derived from mesophyll cells of N. tabacum. However none of the regulatory mechanisms known to affect steady-state levels of the nia-1 transcript were operative under these experimental conditions. Transgenic plants carrying either this fusion or translational fusions of GUS linked to the promoter of either the nia-1 or nia-2 gene of N. tabacum were obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transfer. A low proportion of the transgenic plants (22 out of 105 independent transformants) expressed GUS activity although at a low level. Only 4 plants exhibited a detectable level of GUS mRNA. The concentration of this mRNA increased significantly in an NR-deficient background, indicating regulation by N-metabolites. Only 2 plants, however, showed regulation (induction) by nitrate. Attempts to use aux2 or nptII reporter sequences linked to either the nia-1 or nia-2 promoter as marker genes for the selection of regulatory mutants of the nitrate assimilation pathway were unsuccessful because of our inability to isolate transgenic plants in which these reporter genes were properly regulated by nitrate. The implications of these results are discussed.
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- H Vaucheret
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Versailles, France
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Paszkowski J, Peterhans A, Bilang R, Filipowicz W. Expression in transgenic tobacco of the bacterial neomycin phosphotransferase gene modified by intron insertions of various sizes. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1992; 19:825-36. [PMID: 1322741 DOI: 10.1007/bf00027078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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A plant selectable marker gene consisting of cauliflower mosaic virus expression signals and the protein-coding sequence of bacterial neomycin phosphotransferase was modified by insertion of an intron sequence from a storage protein gene, phaseolin. Correct and efficient splicing of the resulting mosaic RNA was observed in transgenic tobacco plants. The insertion of various linkers or gradual increase of intron size by addition in both orientations of internal intron sequences from another plant gene (parsley, 4-coumarate ligase) had little or no effect on the precision of slicing. The gene activity measured by selectability assay in the protoplast transformation showed that only introns enlarged to 1161 bases and longer caused decreased selectability. The suitability of such mosaic marker genes for studies of RNA splicing, DNA recombination and early events after infection of plants with Agrobacterium is discussed.
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- J Paszkowski
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH-Zentrum, Zürich
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Schnorf M, Neuhaus-Url G, Galli A, Iida S, Potrykus I, Neuhaus G. An improved approach for transformation of plant cells by microinjection: molecular and genetic analysis. Transgenic Res 1991; 1:23-30. [PMID: 1668908 DOI: 10.1007/bf02512993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A new culture method for the injection of tobacco mesophyll protoplasts has been established. The protoplasts are embedded in a thin layer of alginate and are nourished from the medium in the underlying basis layer. In the alginate layer the protoplasts regenerate to calli at a frequency of up to 80%. Embedded protoplasts can be selected either with 50 mg l-1 kanamycin or 5 mg l-1 paromomycin. Single resistant cells can be recovered from about 10,000 sensitive cells in one alginate layer. Injection of the neo gene (coding for neomycin phosphotransferase II) into protoplast derived single cells in the alginate layer results in kanamycin resistant colonies that can be regenerated to mature plants. These plants express the neomycin phosphotransferase as shown by enzyme activity assay. The integration of the transgene into the plant genome could be proved by Southern hybridization to high molecular weight DNA. With this culture method 100 cells can be injected per hour. Transformation frequencies range from 2 to 20%. In crossing experiments, it was shown that the foreign gene is transmitted to the next generation in a Mendelian fashion.
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- M Schnorf
- Institute for Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
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Sautter C, Waldner H, Neuhaus-Url G, Galli A, Neuhaus G, Potrykus I. Micro-targeting: high efficiency gene transfer using a novel approach for the acceleration of micro-projectiles. BIO/TECHNOLOGY (NATURE PUBLISHING COMPANY) 1991; 9:1080-5. [PMID: 1369343 DOI: 10.1038/nbt1991-1080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We have constructed a novel micro-projectile accelerating system for efficient gene transfer into cells in situ that avoids binding DNA to micro-projectiles and keeps the DNA in solution. Further, instead of a macro-projectile (or the equivalent), it accelerates the particles in a Bernoulli air stream. The micro-targeting approach directs highly dispersed particles to sites with diameters as little as 0.15 mm, allowing precise aiming to restricted tissues. The system is physically flexible and should therefore be adaptable to different tissues and species. Transient expression of the Escherichia coli beta-glucuronidase gene in immature wheat embryo scutella was obtained at a frequency of up to 3% of the treated cells in the surface layer. In tobacco SR1, we achieved many transgenic plants, and the efficiency of stable transformation with the neomycin phosphotransferase (NPTII) gene was approximately 10(-3) per exposed cell.
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- C Sautter
- Institute of Plant Sciences, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
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Functional complementation of tobacco and Nicotiana plumbaginifolia nitrate reductase deficient mutants by transformation with the wild-type alleles of the tobacco structural genes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00391755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Perez P, Tiraby G, Kallerhoff J, Perret J. Phleomycin resistance as a dominant selectable marker for plant cell transformation. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1989; 13:365-73. [PMID: 2485087 DOI: 10.1007/bf00015548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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Tobacco cells are sensitive to bleomycin and phleomycin. The Tn5 and the Streptoalloteichus hindustanus (Sh) bleomycin resistance ('Ble') genes conferring resistance to these antibiotics have each been inserted into two plant expression vectors. They are flanked by the nopaline synthase (nos) or the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoters on one side, and by the nos polyadenylation signal on the other. These four chimaeric genes were introduced into the binary transformation vector pGA 492, which were thereafter mobilized into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA 4404. The resulting strains were used to transform Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi nc using the leaf disc transformation procedure. In all cases, phleomycin- and bleomycin-resistant tobacco plants were regenerated from transformed cells under selective conditions; however, the highest frequency of rooted plants was obtained when transformation was carried out with the 'Sh Ble' gene under the control of the 35S promoter. Phleomycin resistance was stably transmitted to sexual offspring as a dominant nuclear trait as confirmed by Southern blotting.
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- P Perez
- BIOSEM, Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, Aubiere, France
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Masson J, Lancelin D, Bellini C, Lecerf M, Guerche P, Pelletier G. Selection of somatic hybrids between diploid clones of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) transformed by direct gene transfer. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 1989; 78:153-159. [PMID: 24227138 DOI: 10.1007/bf00288791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/1989] [Accepted: 04/12/1989] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Five diploid potato clones have been transformed by electroporation of protoplasts with different selectable markers. The resulting diploid regenerated plants have been used in somatic hybridization. It has been shown that hybrid cell selection on the basis of antibiotic or herbicide resistances brought by the two parents of fusion is an efficient method for the recovery of tetraploid somatic hybrids.
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- J Masson
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Centre de Versailles, F-78026, Versailles Cedex, France
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Transgenic Plants of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) Obtained Through Electroporation of Protoplasts. Nat Biotechnol 1989. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt0589-503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- H Potter
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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