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Li S, Wang C, You C, Zhou X, Zhou H. T-LOC: A comprehensive tool to localize and characterize T-DNA integration sites. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 190:1628-1639. [PMID: 35640125 PMCID: PMC9614469 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Scientists have developed many approaches based on PCR or next-generation sequencing to localize and characterize integrated T-DNAs in transgenic plants generated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated T-DNA transfer. However, none of these methods has the robust ability to handle all transgenic plants with diversified T-DNA patterns. Utilizing the valuable information in the whole-genome sequencing data of transgenic plants, we have developed a comprehensive approach (T-LOC) to localize and characterize T-DNA integration sites (TISs). We evaluated the performance of T-LOC on genome sequencing data from 48 transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) plants that provide real and unbiased resources of T-DNA integration patterns. T-LOC discovered 75 full TISs and reported a diversified pattern of T-DNA integration: the ideal single-copy T-DNA between two borders, multiple-copy of T-DNAs in tandem or inverted repeats, truncated partial T-DNAs with or without the selection hygromycin gene, the inclusion of T-DNA backbone, the integration at the genome repeat region, and the concatenation of multiple ideal or partial T-DNAs. In addition, we reported that DNA fragments from the two A. tumefaciens plasmids can be fused with T-DNA and integrated into the plant genome. Besides, T-LOC characterizes the genomic changes at TISs, including deletion, duplication, accurate repair, and chromosomal rearrangement. Moreover, we validated the robustness of T-LOC using PCR, Sanger sequencing, and Nanopore sequencing. In summary, T-LOC is a robust approach to studying the TISs independent of the integration pattern and can recover all types of TISs in transgenic plants.
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Sciences and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Plant Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Kaur M, Manchanda P, Kalia A, Ahmed FK, Nepovimova E, Kuca K, Abd-Elsalam KA. Agroinfiltration Mediated Scalable Transient Gene Expression in Genome Edited Crop Plants. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:10882. [PMID: 34639221 PMCID: PMC8509792 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is one of the most commonly used genetic transformation method that involves transfer of foreign genes into target plants. Agroinfiltration, an Agrobacterium-based transient approach and the breakthrough discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 holds trending stature to perform targeted and efficient genome editing (GE). The predominant feature of agroinfiltration is the abolishment of Transfer-DNA (T-DNA) integration event to ensure fewer biosafety and regulatory issues besides showcasing the capability to perform transcription and translation efficiently, hence providing a large picture through pilot-scale experiment via transient approach. The direct delivery of recombinant agrobacteria through this approach carrying CRISPR/Cas cassette to knockout the expression of the target gene in the intercellular tissue spaces by physical or vacuum infiltration can simplify the targeted site modification. This review aims to provide information on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and implementation of agroinfiltration with GE to widen the horizon of targeted genome editing before a stable genome editing approach. This will ease the screening of numerous functions of genes in different plant species with wider applicability in future.
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- Maninder Kaur
- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab 141004, India;
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- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab 141004, India;
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- Electron Microscopy and Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab 141004, India;
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- Biotechnology English Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt;
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic;
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic;
- Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, 50005 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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- Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center (ARC), 9-Gamaa St., Giza 12619, Egypt;
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Ohmine Y, Kiyokawa K, Yunoki K, Yamamoto S, Moriguchi K, Suzuki K. Successful Transfer of a Model T-DNA Plasmid to E. coli Revealed Its Dependence on Recipient RecA and the Preference of VirD2 Relaxase for Eukaryotes Rather Than Bacteria as Recipients. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:895. [PMID: 29892270 PMCID: PMC5985610 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) of plants, a single-strand (ss) T-DNA covalently linked with a VirD2 protein moves through a bacterial type IV secretion channel called VirB/D4. This transport system originates from conjugal plasmid transfer systems of bacteria. The relaxase VirD2 and its equivalent protein Mob play essential roles in T-DNA transfer and mobilizable plasmid transfer, respectively. In this study, we attempted to transfer a model T-DNA plasmid, which contained no left border but had a right border sequence as an origin of transfer, and a mobilizable plasmid through the VirB/D4 apparatus to Escherichia coli, Agrobacterium and yeast to compare VirD2-driven transfer with Mob-driven one. AMT was successfully achieved by both types of transfer to the three recipient organisms. VirD2-driven AMT of the two bacteria was less efficient than Mob-driven AMT. In contrast, AMT of yeast guided by VirD2 was more efficient than that by Mob. Plasmid DNAs recovered from the VirD2-driven AMT colonies showed the original plasmid structure. These data indicate that VirD2 retains most of its important functions in recipient bacterial cells, but has largely adapted to eukaryotes rather than bacteria. The high AMT efficiency of yeast suggests that VirD2 can also efficiently bring ssDNA to recipient bacterial cells but is inferior to Mob in some process leading to the formation of double-stranded circular DNA in bacteria. This study also revealed that the recipient recA gene was significantly involved in VirD2-dependent AMT, but only partially involved in Mob-dependent AMT. The apparent difference in the recA gene requirement between the two types of AMT suggests that VirD2 is worse at re-circularization to complete complementary DNA synthesis than Mob in bacteria.
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- Yuta Ohmine
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Hwang HH, Yu M, Lai EM. Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation: biology and applications. THE ARABIDOPSIS BOOK 2017; 15:e0186. [PMID: 31068763 PMCID: PMC6501860 DOI: 10.1199/tab.0186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plant genetic transformation heavily relies on the bacterial pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a powerful tool to deliver genes of interest into a host plant. Inside the plant nucleus, the transferred DNA is capable of integrating into the plant genome for inheritance to the next generation (i.e. stable transformation). Alternatively, the foreign DNA can transiently remain in the nucleus without integrating into the genome but still be transcribed to produce desirable gene products (i.e. transient transformation). From the discovery of A. tumefaciens to its wide application in plant biotechnology, numerous aspects of the interaction between A. tumefaciens and plants have been elucidated. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of the biology and the applications of Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation, which may be useful for both microbiologists and plant biologists who desire a better understanding of plant transformation, protein expression in plants, and plant-microbe interaction.
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- Hau-Hsuan Hwang
- Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 402
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 115
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 115
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Identification of T-DNA Integration Sites: TAIL-PCR and Sequence Analysis. Fungal Biol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10503-1_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Li X, Yang Q, Tu H, Lim Z, Pan SQ. Direct visualization of Agrobacterium-delivered VirE2 in recipient cells. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 77:487-95. [PMID: 24299048 PMCID: PMC4282531 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 11/27/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a natural genetic engineer widely used to deliver DNA into various recipients, including plant, yeast and fungal cells. The bacterium can transfer single-stranded DNA molecules (T-DNAs) and bacterial virulence proteins, including VirE2. However, neither the DNA nor the protein molecules have ever been directly visualized after the delivery. In this report, we adopted a split-GFP approach: the small GFP fragment (GFP11) was inserted into VirE2 at a permissive site to create the VirE2-GFP11 fusion, which was expressed in A. tumefaciens; and the large fragment (GFP1-10) was expressed in recipient cells. Upon delivery of VirE2-GFP11 into the recipient cells, GFP fluorescence signals were visualized. VirE2-GFP11 was functional like VirE2; the GFP fusion movement could indicate the trafficking of Agrobacterium-delivered VirE2. As the natural host, all plant cells seen under a microscope received the VirE2 protein in a leaf-infiltration assay; most of VirE2 moved at a speed of 1.3-3.1 μm sec⁻¹ in a nearly linear direction, suggesting an active trafficking process. Inside plant cells, VirE2-GFP formed filamentous structures of different lengths, even in the absence of T-DNA. As a non-natural host recipient, 51% of yeast cells received VirE2, which did not move inside yeast. All plant cells seen under a microscope transiently expressed the Agrobacterium-delivered transgene, but only 0.2% yeast cells expressed the transgene. This indicates that Agrobacterium is a more efficient vector for protein delivery than T-DNA transformation for a non-natural host recipient: VirE2 trafficking is a limiting factor for the genetic transformation of a non-natural host recipient. The split-GFP approach could enable the real-time visualization of VirE2 trafficking inside recipient cells.
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- Xiaoyang Li
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, 117543, Singapore
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Chumakov MI. Protein apparatus for horizontal transfer of agrobacterial T-DNA to eukaryotic cells. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2013; 78:1321-32. [DOI: 10.1134/s000629791312002x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Vector integration in triple R gene transformants and the clustered inheritance of resistance against potato late blight. Transgenic Res 2012; 22:315-25. [DOI: 10.1007/s11248-012-9644-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2012] [Accepted: 08/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Tomlinson AD, Fuqua C. Mechanisms and regulation of polar surface attachment in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Curr Opin Microbiol 2009; 12:708-14. [PMID: 19879182 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2009] [Accepted: 09/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen that transfers a segment of its own DNA into host plants to cause Crown Gall disease. The infection process requires intimate contact between the infecting bacteria and the host tissue. A. tumefaciens attaches efficiently to plant tissues and to abiotic surfaces, and can establish complex biofilms at colonization sites. The dominant mode of attachment is via a single pole in contact with the surface. Several different appendages, adhesins and adhesives play roles during attachment, and foster the transition from free-swimming to sessile growth. This polar surface interaction reflects a more fundamental cellular asymmetry in A. tumefaciens that influences and is congruent with its attached lifestyle.
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Gelvin SB. Agrobacterium in the genomics age. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 150:1665-76. [PMID: 19439569 PMCID: PMC2719113 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.139873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2009] [Accepted: 05/06/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Stanton B Gelvin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1392, USA.
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Kado CI. Horizontal gene transfer: sustaining pathogenicity and optimizing host-pathogen interactions. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2009; 10:143-50. [PMID: 19161360 PMCID: PMC6640513 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2008.00518.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Successful host-pathogen interactions require the presence, maintenance and expression of gene cassettes called 'pathogenicity islands' (PAIs) and 'metabolic islands' (MAIs) in the respective pathogen. The products of these genes confer on the pathogen the means to recognize their host(s) and to efficiently evade host defences in order to colonize, propagate within the host and eventually disseminate from the host. Virulence effectors secreted by type III and type IV secretion systems, among others, play vital roles in sustaining pathogenicity and optimizing host-pathogen interactions. Complete genome sequences of plant pathogenic bacteria have revealed the presence of PAIs and MAIs. The genes of these islands possess mosaic structures with regions displaying differences in nucleotide composition and codon usage in relation to adjacent genome structures, features that are highly suggestive of their acquisition from a foreign donor. These donors can be other bacteria, as well as lower members of the Archaea and Eukarya. Genes that have moved from the domains Archaea and Eukarya to the domain Bacteria are true cases of horizontal gene transfer. They represent interdomain genetic transfer. Genetic exchange between distinct members of the domain Bacteria, however, represents lateral gene transfer, an intradomain event. Both horizontal and lateral gene transfer events have been used to facilitate survival fitness of the pathogen.
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- Clarence I Kado
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Tsai HH, Huang CH, Lin AM, Chen CW. Terminal proteins of Streptomyces chromosome can target DNA into eukaryotic nuclei. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:e62. [PMID: 18480119 PMCID: PMC2425503 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Streptomyces species are highly abundant soil bacteria that possess linear chromosomes (and linear plasmids). The 5′ ends of these molecules are covalently bound by terminal proteins (TPs), that are important for integrity and replication of the telomeres. There are at least two types of TPs, both of which contain a DNA-binding domain and a classical eukaryotic nuclear localization signal (NLS). Here we show that the NLS motifs on these TPs are highly efficient in targeting the proteins along with covalently bound plasmid DNA into the nuclei of human cells. The TP-mediated nuclear targeting resembles the inter-kingdom gene transfer mediated by Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, in which a piece of the Ti plasmid DNA is targeted to the plant nuclei by a covalently bound NLS-containing protein. The discovery of the nuclear localization functions of the Streptomyces TPs not only suggests possible inter-kingdom gene exchanges between Streptomyces and eukaryotes in soil but also provides a novel strategy for gene delivery in humans and other eukaryotes.
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- Hsiu-Hui Tsai
- Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Shih-Pai, Taipei 112, Taiwan
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Lee LY, Gelvin SB. T-DNA binary vectors and systems. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 146:325-32. [PMID: 18250230 PMCID: PMC2245830 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.113001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2007] [Accepted: 11/25/2007] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- Lan-Ying Lee
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1392, USA
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Duarte RTD, Staats CC, Fungaro MHP, Schrank A, Vainsten MH, Furlaneto-Maia L, Nakamura CV, de Souza W, Furlaneto MC. Development of a simple and rapid Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation system for the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum. Lett Appl Microbiol 2007; 44:248-54. [PMID: 17309500 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2006.02092.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIMS To examine the ability of Agrobacterium to attach to Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum strain CG423 under co-cultivation and to develop an Agrobacterium-mediated method of gene delivery into strain CG423, a promising agent for biological control of grasshoppers. METHODS AND RESULTS The co-cultivation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and M. anisopliae var. acridum was analysed under scanning electron microscopy. We observed that Agrobacterium attached to and formed aggregates around Metarhizium conidia and germ tubes. We also observed the occurrence of fibril-like structures connecting neighbouring bacterial-fungal cells. The Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was applied using two binary vectors carrying a benomyl resistance gene as a selection marker. The efficiency of transformation was up to 53 transformants per 10(5) target conidia. High mitotic stability of the transformants (89-97%) was demonstrated after five successive transfers on non-selective media. Molecular analysis revealed the occurrence of high frequency of gene conversion. CONCLUSIONS In our study, we report that A. tumefaciens strain AGL-1 attaches to and genetically transforms the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY We report for the first time, the attachment of Agrobacterium to fungal cells opening new avenues for the study of this essential step of the T-DNA transfer process. Considering the efficiency of the transformation protocol herein described, this is a useful tool for gene disruption in M. anisopliae var. acridum.
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- R T D Duarte
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina-PR, Brazil
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Anand A, Vaghchhipawala Z, Ryu CM, Kang L, Wang K, del-Pozo O, Martin GB, Mysore KS. Identification and characterization of plant genes involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation by virus-induced gene silencing. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2007; 20:41-52. [PMID: 17249421 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-20-0041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Genetic transformation of plant cells by Agrobacterium tumefaciens represents a unique case of trans-kingdom sex requiring the involvement of both bacterial virulence proteins and plant-encoded proteins. We have developed in planta and leaf-disk assays in Nicotiana benthamiana for identifying plant genes involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) as a genomics tool. VIGS was used to validate the role of several genes that are either known or speculated to be involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. We showed the involvement of a nodulin-like protein and an alpha-expansin protein (alpha-Exp) during Agrobacterium infection. Our data suggest that alpha-Exp is involved during early events of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation but not required for attaching A. tumefaciens. By employing the combination of the VIGS-mediated forward genetics approach and an in planta tumorigenesis assay, we identified 21 ACG (altered crown gall) genes that, when silenced, produced altered crown gall phenotypes upon infection with a tumorigenic strain of A. tumefaciens. One of the plant genes identified from the screening, Histone H3 (H3), was further characterized for its biological role in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. We provide evidence for the role of H3 in transfer DNA integration. The data presented here suggest that the VIGS-based approach to identify and characterize plant genes involved in genetic transformation of plant cells by A. tumefaciens is simple, rapid, and robust and complements other currently used approaches.
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- Ajith Anand
- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 73402, USA
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Lacroix B, Tzfira T, Vainstein A, Citovsky V. A case of promiscuity: Agrobacterium's endless hunt for new partners. Trends Genet 2005; 22:29-37. [PMID: 16289425 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2005] [Revised: 08/18/2005] [Accepted: 10/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a phytopathogenic bacterium that induces the 'crown gall' disease in plants by transfer and integration of a segment of its tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid DNA into the genome of numerous plant species that represent most of the higher plant families. Recently, it has been shown that, under laboratory conditions, the host range of Agrobacterium can be extended to non-plant eukaryotic organisms. These include yeast, filamentous fungi, cultivated mushrooms and human cultured cells. In this article, we present Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of non-plant organisms as a source of new protocols for genetic transformation, as a unique tool for genomic studies (insertional mutagenesis or targeted DNA integration) and as a useful model system to study bacterium-host cell interactions. Moreover, better knowledge of the DNA-transfer mechanisms from bacteria to eukaryotic organisms can also help in understanding horizontal gene transfer--a driving force throughout biological evolution.
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- Benoît Lacroix
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA.
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Thomas CM, Nielsen KM. Mechanisms of, and barriers to, horizontal gene transfer between bacteria. Nat Rev Microbiol 2005; 3:711-21. [PMID: 16138099 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1214] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bacteria evolve rapidly not only by mutation and rapid multiplication, but also by transfer of DNA, which can result in strains with beneficial mutations from more than one parent. Transformation involves the release of naked DNA followed by uptake and recombination. Homologous recombination and DNA-repair processes normally limit this to DNA from similar bacteria. However, if a gene moves onto a broad-host-range plasmid it might be able to spread without the need for recombination. There are barriers to both these processes but they reduce, rather than prevent, gene acquisition.
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- Christopher M Thomas
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Hwang HH, Gelvin SB. Plant proteins that interact with VirB2, the Agrobacterium tumefaciens pilin protein, mediate plant transformation. THE PLANT CELL 2004; 16:3148-67. [PMID: 15494553 PMCID: PMC527204 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.026476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2004] [Accepted: 09/01/2004] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens uses a type IV secretion system (T4SS) to transfer T-DNA and virulence proteins to plants. The T4SS is composed of two major structural components: the T-pilus and a membrane-associated complex that is responsible for translocating substrates across both bacterial membranes. VirB2 protein is the major component of the T-pilus. We used the C-terminal-processed portion of VirB2 protein as a bait to screen an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA library for proteins that interact with VirB2 in yeast. We identified three related plant proteins, VirB2-interacting protein (BTI) 1 (BTI1), BTI2, and BTI3 with unknown functions, and a membrane-associated GTPase, AtRAB8. The three BTI proteins also interacted with VirB2 in vitro. Preincubation of Agrobacterium with GST-BTI1 protein decreased the transformation efficiency of Arabidopsis suspension cells by Agrobacterium. Transgenic BTI and AtRAB8 antisense and RNA interference Arabidopsis plants are less susceptible to transformation by Agrobacterium than are wild-type plants. The level of BTI1 protein is transiently increased immediately after Agrobacterium infection. In addition, overexpression of BTI1 protein in transgenic Arabidopsis results in plants that are hypersusceptible to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Confocal microscopic data indicate that GFP-BTI proteins preferentially localize to the periphery of root cells in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, suggesting that BTI proteins may contact the Agrobacterium T-pilus. We propose that the three BTI proteins and AtRAB8 are involved in the initial interaction of Agrobacterium with plant cells.
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- Hau-Hsuan Hwang
- Department of Biolological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Rohde M, Püls J, Buhrdorf R, Fischer W, Haas R. A novel sheathed surface organelle of the Helicobacter pylori cag type IV secretion system. Mol Microbiol 2003; 49:219-34. [PMID: 12823823 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03549.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Type I strains of Helicobacter pylori (Hp) use a type IV secretion system (T4SS), encoded by the cag pathogenicity island (cag-PAI), to deliver the bacterial protein CagA into eukaryotic cells and to induce interleukin-8 secretion. Translocated CagA is activated by tyrosine phosphorylation involving Src-family kinases. The mechanism and structural basis for type IV protein secretion is not well understood. We describe here, by confocal laser scanning microscopy and field emission scanning electron microscopy, a novel filamentous surface organelle which is part of the Hp T4SS. The organelle is often located at one bacterial pole but can be induced by cell contact also along the lateral side of the bacteria. It consists of a rigid needle, covered focally or completely by HP0527 (Cag7 or CagY), a VirB10-homologous protein. HP0527 is also clustered in the outer membrane. The VirB7-homologous protein HP0532 is found at the base of this organelle. These observations demonstrate for the first time by microscopic techniques a complex T4SS-associated, sheathed surface organelle reminiscent to the needle structures of bacterial type III secretion systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Manfred Rohde
- Max von Pettenkofer Institut für Hygiene and Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, D-80336 München, Germany
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