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Karpov M, Strizhov N, Novikova L, Lobastova T, Khomutov S, Shutov A, Kazantsev A, Donova M. Pregnenolone and progesterone production from natural sterols using recombinant strain of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mc 2 155 expressing mammalian steroidogenesis system. Microb Cell Fact 2024; 23:105. [PMID: 38594656 PMCID: PMC11005228 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-024-02385-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Pregnenolone and progesterone are the life-important steroid hormones regulating essential vital functions in mammals, and widely used in different fields of medicine. Microbiological production of these compounds from sterols is based on the use of recombinant strains expressing the enzyme system cholesterol hydroxylase/C20-C22 lyase (CH/L) of mammalian steroidogenesis. However, the efficiency of the known recombinant strains is still low. New recombinant strains and combination approaches are now needed to produce these steroid hormones. RESULTS Based on Mycolicibacterium smegmatis, a recombinant strain was created that expresses the steroidogenesis system (CYP11A1, adrenodoxin reductase, adrenodoxin) of the bovine adrenal cortex. The recombinant strain transformed cholesterol and phytosterol to form progesterone among the metabolites. When 3-methoxymethyl ethers of sterols were applied as bioconversion substrates, the corresponding 3-ethers of pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) were identified as major metabolites. Under optimized conditions, the recombinant strain produced 85.2 ± 4.7 mol % 3-methoxymethyl-pregnenolone within 48 h, while production of 3-substituted DHEA was not detected. After the 3-methoxymethyl function was deprotected by acid hydrolysis, crystalline pregnenolone was isolated in high purity (over 98%, w/w). The structures of steroids were confirmed using TLC, HPLC, MS and 1H- and 13C-NMR analyses. CONCLUSION The use of mycolicybacteria as a microbial platform for the expression of systems at the initial stage of mammalian steroidogenesis ensures the production of valuable steroid hormones-progesterone and pregnenolone from cholesterol. Selective production of pregnenolone from cholesterol is ensured by the use of 3-substituted cholesterol as a substrate and optimization of the conditions for its bioconversion. The results open the prospects for the generation of the new microbial biocatalysts capable of effectively producing value-added steroid hormones.
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- Mikhail Karpov
- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia.
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/40, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia
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- Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, 142290, Russia.
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Szabados L, Ábrahám E, Ökész L, Strizhov N, Zilberstein A, Schell J, Koncz C. Structure, Function and Regulation ofATP5CSGenes inArabidopsis. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.1998.10818979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Székely G, Abrahám E, Cséplo A, Rigó G, Zsigmond L, Csiszár J, Ayaydin F, Strizhov N, Jásik J, Schmelzer E, Koncz C, Szabados L. Duplicated P5CS genes of Arabidopsis play distinct roles in stress regulation and developmental control of proline biosynthesis. Plant J 2008; 53:11-28. [PMID: 17971042 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03318.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 380] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Delta-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase enzymes, which catalyse the rate-limiting step of proline biosynthesis, are encoded by two closely related P5CS genes in Arabidopsis. Transcription of the P5CS genes is differentially regulated by drought, salinity and abscisic acid, suggesting that these genes play specific roles in the control of proline biosynthesis. Here we describe the genetic characterization of p5cs insertion mutants, which indicates that P5CS1 is required for proline accumulation under osmotic stress. Knockout mutations of P5CS1 result in the reduction of stress-induced proline synthesis, hypersensitivity to salt stress, and accumulation of reactive oxygen species. By contrast, p5cs2 mutations cause embryo abortion during late stages of seed development. The desiccation sensitivity of p5cs2 embryos does not reflect differential control of transcription, as both P5CS mRNAs are detectable throughout embryonic development. Cellular localization studies with P5CS-GFP gene fusions indicate that P5CS1 is sequestered into subcellular bodies in embryonic cells, where P5CS2 is dominantly cytoplasmic. Although proline feeding rescues the viability of mutant embryos, p5cs2 seedlings undergo aberrant development and fail to produce fertile plants even when grown on proline. In seedlings, specific expression of P5CS2-GFP is seen in leaf primordia where P5CS1-GFP levels are very low, and P5CS2-GFP also shows a distinct cell-type-specific and subcellular localization pattern compared to P5CS1-GFP in root tips, leaves and flower organs. These data demonstrate that the Arabidopsis P5CS enzymes perform non-redundant functions, and that P5CS1 is insufficient for compensation of developmental defects caused by inactivation of P5CS2.
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- Gyöngyi Székely
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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Székely G, Abrahám E, Cséplo A, Rigó G, Zsigmond L, Csiszár J, Ayaydin F, Strizhov N, Jásik J, Schmelzer E, Koncz C, Szabados L. Duplicated P5CS genes of Arabidopsis play distinct roles in stress regulation and developmental control of proline biosynthesis. Plant J 2008; 53:541-53. [PMID: 17971042 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03360.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Delta-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase enzymes, which catalyse the rate-limiting step of proline biosynthesis, are encoded by two closely related P5CS genes in Arabidopsis. Transcription of the P5CS genes is differentially regulated by drought, salinity and abscisic acid, suggesting that these genes play specific roles in the control of proline biosynthesis. Here we describe the genetic characterization of p5cs insertion mutants, which indicates that P5CS1 is required for proline accumulation under osmotic stress. Knockout mutations of P5CS1 result in the reduction of stress-induced proline synthesis, hypersensitivity to salt stress, and accumulation of reactive oxygen species. By contrast, p5cs2 mutations cause embryo abortion during late stages of seed development. The desiccation sensitivity of p5cs2 embryos does not reflect differential control of transcription, as both P5CS mRNAs are detectable throughout embryonic development. Cellular localization studies with P5CS-GFP gene fusions indicate that P5CS1 is sequestered into subcellular bodies in embryonic cells, where P5CS2 is dominantly cytoplasmic. Although proline feeding rescues the viability of mutant embryos, p5cs2 seedlings undergo aberrant development and fail to produce fertile plants even when grown on proline. In seedlings, specific expression of P5CS2-GFP is seen in leaf primordia where P5CS1-GFP levels are very low, and P5CS2-GFP also shows a distinct cell-type-specific and subcellular localization pattern compared to P5CS1-GFP in root tips, leaves and flower organs. These data demonstrate that the Arabidopsis P5CS enzymes perform non-redundant functions, and that P5CS1 is insufficient for compensation of developmental defects caused by inactivation of P5CS2.
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- Gyöngyi Székely
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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Hartmann MD, Bourenkov GP, Oberschall A, Strizhov N, Bartunik HD. Mechanism of phosphoryl transfer catalyzed by shikimate kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Mol Biol 2006; 364:411-23. [PMID: 17020768 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2006] [Revised: 08/31/2006] [Accepted: 09/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The structural mechanism of the catalytic functioning of shikimate kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis was investigated on the basis of a series of high-resolution crystal structures corresponding to individual steps in the enzymatic reaction. The catalytic turnover of shikimate and ATP into the products shikimate-3-phosphate and ADP, followed by release of ADP, was studied in the crystalline environment. Based on a comparison of the structural states before initiation of the reaction and immediately after the catalytic step, we derived a structural model of the transition state that suggests that phosphoryl transfer proceeds with inversion by an in-line associative mechanism. The random sequential binding of shikimate and nucleotides is associated with domain movements. We identified a synergic mechanism by which binding of the first substrate may enhance the affinity for the second substrate.
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- Marcus D Hartmann
- Max Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology, MPG-ASMB c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
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Strizhov N, Li Y, Rosso MG, Viehoever P, Dekker KA, Weisshaar B. High-throughput generation of sequence indexes from T-DNA mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana lines. Biotechniques 2004; 35:1164-8. [PMID: 14682050 DOI: 10.2144/03356st01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A pipeline has been created for the characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants by generating flanking sequence tags (FSTs) and optimized for economic, high-throughput production. The GABI-Kat collection of T-DNA mutagenized A. thaliana plants was used as a source of independent transgenic lines. The pipeline included robotized extraction of genomic DNA in a 96-well format, an adapter-ligation PCR method for amplification of plant sequences adjacent to T-DNA borders, automated purification and sequencing of PCR products, and computational trimming of the resulting sequence files. Data quality was significantly improved by (i) restriction digestion of the adaptor-ligation products to reduce trivial sequences caused by co-amplification of fragments derived from the free plasmid, and (ii) the design of the adaptor primers for the second amplification step to enhance selective generation of single PCR fragments, even from lines with multiple T-DNA insertions. Gel-purification was avoided by including these steps, the number of amplification reactions per line was reduced from four to three, and the percentage of lines that yielded at least one FST was increased from 66% to 86%. More than 58,000 FSTs have been submitted to GenBank and are available at http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/GABI-Kat/.
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- Nicolai Strizhov
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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Jacobs AK, Lipka V, Burton RA, Panstruga R, Strizhov N, Schulze-Lefert P, Fincher GB. An Arabidopsis Callose Synthase, GSL5, Is Required for Wound and Papillary Callose Formation. Plant Cell 2003; 15:2503-13. [PMID: 14555698 PMCID: PMC280557 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.016097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2003] [Accepted: 09/12/2003] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Arabidopsis was transformed with double-stranded RNA interference (dsRNAi) constructs designed to silence three putative callose synthase genes: GLUCAN SYNTHASE-LIKE5 (GSL5), GSL6, and GSL11. Both wound callose and papillary callose were absent in lines transformed with GSL5 dsRNAi and in a corresponding sequence-indexed GSL5 T-DNA insertion line but were unaffected in GSL6 and GSL11 dsRNAi lines. These data provide strong genetic evidence that the GSL genes of higher plants encode proteins that are essential for callose formation. Deposition of callosic plugs, or papillae, at sites of fungal penetration is a widely recognized early response of host plants to microbial attack and has been implicated in impeding entry of the fungus. Depletion of callose from papillae in gsl5 plants marginally enhanced the penetration of the grass powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis on the nonhost Arabidopsis. Paradoxically, the absence of callose in papillae or haustorial complexes correlated with the effective growth cessation of several normally virulent powdery mildew species and of Peronospora parasitica.
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- Andrew K Jacobs
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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Rosso MG, Li Y, Strizhov N, Reiss B, Dekker K, Weisshaar B. An Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA mutagenized population (GABI-Kat) for flanking sequence tag-based reverse genetics. Plant Mol Biol 2003; 53:247-59. [PMID: 14756321 DOI: 10.1023/b:plan.0000009297.37235.4a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 533] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The GABI-Kat population of T-DNA mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana lines with sequence-characterized insertion sites is used extensively for efficient progress in plant functional genomics. Here we provide details about the establishment of the material, demonstrate the population's functionality and discuss results from quality control studies. T-DNA insertion mutants of the accession Columbia (Col-0) were created by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. To allow selection of transformed plants under greenhouse conditions, a sulfadiazine resistance marker was employed. DNA from leaves of T1 plants was extracted and used as a template for PCR-based amplification of DNA fragments spanning insertion site borders. After sequencing, the data were placed in a flanking sequence tag (FST) database describing which mutant allele was present in which line. Analysis of the distribution of T-DNA insertions revealed a clear bias towards intergenic regions. Insertion sites appeared more frequent in regions in front of the ATG and after STOP codons of predicted genes. Segregation analysis for sulfadiazine resistance showed that 62% of the transformants contain an insertion at only one genetic locus. In quality control studies with gene-specific primers in combination with T-DNA primers, 76% of insertions could be confirmed. Finally, the functionality of the GABI-Kat population was demonstrated by exemplary confirmation of several new transparent testa alleles, as well as a number of other mutants, which were identified on the basis of the FST data.
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- Mario G Rosso
- GABI-Kat, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Köln, Germany
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Li Y, Rosso MG, Strizhov N, Viehoever P, Weisshaar B. GABI-Kat SimpleSearch: a flanking sequence tag (FST) database for the identification of T-DNA insertion mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics 2003; 19:1441-2. [PMID: 12874060 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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SUMMARY GABI-Kat SimpleSearch is a database of flanking sequence tags (FSTs) of T-DNA mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana lines that were generated by the GABI-Kat project. Sequences flanking the T-DNA insertion sites were aligned to the A.thaliana genome sequence, annotated with information about the FST, the insertion site and the line from which the FST was derived. A web interface permits text-based as well as sequence-based searches for relevant insertions. GABI-Kat SimpleSearch aims to help biologists to quickly find T-DNA insertion mutants for their research. AVAILABILITY http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/GABI-Kat/
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- Yong Li
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, D-50829 Koeln, Germany
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Ginzberg I, Stein H, Kapulnik Y, Szabados L, Strizhov N, Schell J, Koncz C, Zilberstein A. Isolation and characterization of two different cDNAs of delta1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase in alfalfa, transcriptionally induced upon salt stress. Plant Mol Biol 1998; 38:755-764. [PMID: 9862493 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006015212391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Two different cDNA clones, MsP5CS-1 and MsP5CS-2, encoding delta1 -pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase (P5CS). the first enzyme of the proline biosynthetic pathway, were isolated from a lambdaZap-cDNA library constructed from salt stressed Medicago sativa roots. MsP5CS-1 (2.6 kb) has an open reading frame of 717 amino acids, as well as a non-spliced intron at a position corresponding to the evolutionary fusion point of the bacterial proA and proB genes. MsP5CS-2 (1.25 kb) is a partial clone. The clones share 65% identity in nucleotide sequences, 74% homology in deduced amino acid sequences, and both show a high similarity to Vigna aconitifolia and Arabidopsis thaliana P5CS cDNA clones. Southern blot analysis confirmed the presence of two different P5CS genes. The effect of salinity on the transcription of MsP5CS-1 and MsP5CS-2 in roots was studied, using northern blot analysis and a RT-PCR approach. A rapid increase in the steady-state transcript level of both genes in roots was observed by RT-PCR upon exposure of hydroponically grown 6-day old seedlings to 90 mM NaCl, suggesting that both are salt-inducible genes, yet a higher response was observed for MsP5CS-2.
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- I Ginzberg
- Department of Botany, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Strizhov N, Abrahám E, Okrész L, Blickling S, Zilberstein A, Schell J, Koncz C, Szabados L. Differential expression of two P5CS genes controlling proline accumulation during salt-stress requires ABA and is regulated by ABA1, ABI1 and AXR2 in Arabidopsis. Plant J 1997; 12:557-69. [PMID: 9351242 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1997.00557.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Proline is a common compatible osmolyte in higher plants. Proline accumulation in response to water stress and salinity is preceded by a rapid increase of the mRNA level of delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase (P5CS) controlling the rate-limiting step of glutamate-derived proline biosynthesis. P5CS is encoded by two differentially regulated genes in Arabidopsis. Gene AtP5CS1 mapped to chromosome 2-78.5 is expressed in most plant organs, but silent in dividing cells. Gene AtP5CS2 located close to marker m457 on chromosome 3-101.3 contributes 20-40% of total P5CS mRNA in plant tissues, but is solely responsible for the synthesis of abundant P5CS mRNA in rapidly dividing cell cultures. Accumulation of AtP5CS transcripts is regulated in a tissue specific manner and inducible by drought, salinity, ABA, and to a lesser extent by auxin. Induction of AtP5CS1 mRNA accumulation in salt-treated seedlings involves an immediate early transcriptional response regulated by ABA signalling that is not inhibited by cycloheximide, but abolished by the deficiency of ABA biosynthesis in the aba1 Arabidopsis mutant. However, inhibition of protein synthesis by cycloheximide prevents the induction of AtP5CS2 mRNA accumulation, and blocks further increase of AtP5CS1 mRNA levels during the second, slow phase of salt-induction. Mutations abi1 and axr2, affecting ABA-perception in Arabidopsis, reduce the accumulation of both AtP5CS mRNAs during salt-stress, whereas ABA-signalling functions defined by the abi2 and abi3 mutations have no effect on salt-induction of the AtP5CS genes.
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- N Strizhov
- Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany
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Strizhov N, Abrahám E, Okrész L, Blickling S, Zilberstein A, Schell J, Koncz C, Szabados L. Differential expression of two P5CS genes controlling proline accumulation during salt-stress requires ABA and is regulated by ABA1, ABI1 and AXR2 in Arabidopsis. Plant J 1997; 12:557-569. [PMID: 9351242 DOI: 10.1111/j.0960-7412.1997.00557.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Proline is a common compatible osmolyte in higher plants. Proline accumulation in response to water stress and salinity is preceded by a rapid increase of the mRNA level of delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase (P5CS) controlling the rate-limiting step of glutamate-derived proline biosynthesis. P5CS is encoded by two differentially regulated genes in Arabidopsis. Gene AtP5CS1 mapped to chromosome 2-78.5 is expressed in most plant organs, but silent in dividing cells. Gene AtP5CS2 located close to marker m457 on chromosome 3-101.3 contributes 20-40% of total P5CS mRNA in plant tissues, but is solely responsible for the synthesis of abundant P5CS mRNA in rapidly dividing cell cultures. Accumulation of AtP5CS transcripts is regulated in a tissue specific manner and inducible by drought, salinity, ABA, and to a lesser extent by auxin. Induction of AtP5CS1 mRNA accumulation in salt-treated seedlings involves an immediate early transcriptional response regulated by ABA signalling that is not inhibited by cycloheximide, but abolished by the deficiency of ABA biosynthesis in the aba1 Arabidopsis mutant. However, inhibition of protein synthesis by cycloheximide prevents the induction of AtP5CS2 mRNA accumulation, and blocks further increase of AtP5CS1 mRNA levels during the second, slow phase of salt-induction. Mutations abi1 and axr2, affecting ABA-perception in Arabidopsis, reduce the accumulation of both AtP5CS mRNAs during salt-stress, whereas ABA-signalling functions defined by the abi2 and abi3 mutations have no effect on salt-induction of the AtP5CS genes.
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- N Strizhov
- Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany
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Strizhov N, Keller M, Mathur J, Koncz-Kálmán Z, Bosch D, Prudovsky E, Schell J, Sneh B, Koncz C, Zilberstein A. A synthetic cryIC gene, encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin, confers Spodoptera resistance in alfalfa and tobacco. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:15012-7. [PMID: 8986755 PMCID: PMC26347 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.26.15012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/11/1996] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Spodoptera species, representing widespread polyphagous insect pests, are resistant to Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins used thus far as insecticides in transgenic plants. Here we describe the chemical synthesis of a cryIC gene by a novel template directed ligation-PCR method. This simple and economical method to construct large synthetic genes can be used when routine resynthesis of genes is required. Chemically phosphorylated adjacent oligonucleotides of the gene to be synthesized are assembled and ligated on a single-stranded, partially homologous template derived from a wild-type gene (cryIC in our case) by a thermostable pfu DNA ligase using repeated cycles of melting, annealing, and ligation. The resulting synthetic DNA strands are selectively amplified by PCR with short specific flanking primers that are complementary only to the new synthetic DNA. Optimized expression of the synthetic cryIC gene in alfalfa and tobacco results in the production of 0.01-0.2% of total soluble proteins as CryIC toxin and provides protection against the Egyptian cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) and the beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua). To facilitate selection and breeding of Spodoptera-resistant plants, the cryIC gene was linked to a pat gene, conferring resistance to the herbicide BASTA.
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- N Strizhov
- Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köin, Germany
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Strizhov N, Keller M, Koncz-Kálmán Z, Regev A, Sneh B, Schell J, Koncz C, Zilberstein A, Konez-Kálmán Z. Mapping of the entomocidal fragment of Spodoptera-specific Bacillus thuringiensis toxin CryIC. Mol Gen Genet 1996; 253:11-9. [PMID: 9003281 DOI: 10.1007/s004380050290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Insecticidal CryI protoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis are activated by proteolysis in the midgut of insects. A conservation of proteolytic cleavage sites in the CryI proteins facilitates the expression of active toxins in transgenic plants to obtain protection from various insects. However, the engineering of CryIC toxins has, thus far, failed to yield applicable resistance to armyworms of Spodoptera species representing common insect pests worldwide. To improve the production of recombinant CryIC toxins, we established a CryIC consensus sequence by comparative analysis of three cryIC genes and tested the stability and protease sensitivity of truncated CryIC toxins in Escherichia coli and in vitro. In contrast to previous data, the boundaries of trypsin-resistant CryIC core toxin were mapped to amino acid residues I28 and R627. Proteolysis of the truncated CryIC proteins showed that Spodoptera midgut proteases may further shorten the C-terminus of CryIC toxin to residue A615. However, C-terminal truncation of CryIC to residue L614, and a mutation causing amino acid replacement I610T, abolished the insecticidal activity of CryIC toxin to S. littoralis larvae, as well as its resistance to trypsin and Spodoptera midgut proteases. Because no CryIC toxin carrying a proteolytically processed N-terminus could be stably expressed in bacteria, our data indicate that, in contrast to other CryI proteins, an entomocidal fragment located between amino acid positions 1 and 627 is required for stable production of recombinant CryIC toxins.
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- N Strizhov
- Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany
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Regev A, Keller M, Strizhov N, Sneh B, Prudovsky E, Chet I, Ginzberg I, Koncz-Kalman Z, Koncz C, Schell J, Zilberstein A. Synergistic activity of a Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin and a bacterial endochitinase against Spodoptera littoralis larvae. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:3581-6. [PMID: 8837413 PMCID: PMC168163 DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3581-3586.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In an attempt to increase the insecticidal effect of the delta-endotoxin crystal protein CryIC on the relatively Cry-insensitive larvae of Spodoptera littoralis, a combination of CryIC and endochitinase was used. CryIC comprising the first 756 amino acids from Bacillus thuringiensis K26-21 and endochitinase ChiAII encoded by Serratia marcescens were separately produced in Escherichia coli carrying the genes in overexpression vectors. The endochitinase on its own, even at very low concentrations (0.1 microgram/ml), perforated the larval midgut peritrophic membrane. When applied together with low concentrations of CryIC, a synergistic toxic effect was obtained. In the absence of chitinase, about 20 micrograms of CryIC per ml was required to obtain maximal reduction in larval weight, while only 3.0 micrograms of CryIC per ml caused a similar toxic effect in the presence of endochitinase. Thus, a combination of the Cry protein and an endochitinase could result in effective insect control in transgenic systems in which the Cry protein is not expressed in a crystalline form.
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- A Regev
- Department of Botany, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Keller M, Sneh B, Strizhov N, Prudovsky E, Regev A, Koncz C, Schell J, Zilberstein A. Digestion of delta-endotoxin by gut proteases may explain reduced sensitivity of advanced instar larvae of Spodoptera littoralis to CryIC. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 1996; 26:365-373. [PMID: 8814783 DOI: 10.1016/0965-1748(95)00102-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The present study describes the correlation between gut protease activity of lepidopteran larvae of different instars, the inactivation of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins in crystalline and noncrystalline forms, and the reduced susceptibility of advanced larval instars of Spodoptera littoralis to the toxin. The original assembly of delta-endotoxins in a crystal structure is essential for causing efficient larval mortality. Denaturation and renaturation (D/R) of delta-endotoxin crystals increased the vulnerability of the toxin molecules to proteolysis, reduced their capability to kill neonate larvae of S. littoralis, but sustained most of their larval growth-inhibition activity. E. coli-produced CryIC delta-endotoxin applied as a fraction of inclusion bodies exerted a growth inhibition effect, similar to the molecules released from the crystals by denaturation and subsequent renaturation. Incubation of CryIC with gut juice of 1st or 2nd instar larvae, left part of the CryIC toxin intact, while the toxin was completely degraded when incubated with gut juice of 5th instar larvae. The degradation rate was consistent with the increase of protease specific activity of the gut juice during larval development. This increase in toxin degradation may account for the loss of sensitivity of 5th instar larvae to CryIC. Specific protease inhibitors such as PMSF and Leupeptin were shown to inhibit gut proteases activity in all instar larvae, while, 1,10 phenanthroline, TLCK and TPCK were effective only in young instar larvae. The differential effect of protease inhibitors on proteases obtained from different larval instars indicated that gut juice protease profiles change with larval age. The observed quantitative and qualitative differences in degradation of delta-endotoxin by larval gut proteases that occur during larval maturation may account for the difference in susceptibility to the delta-endotoxin. This finding should be taken into consideration when designing strategies for the development of transgenic crops expressing delta-endotoxins as potent insecticidal proteins.
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- M Keller
- Department of Botany, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Körber H, Strizhov N, Staiger D, Feldwisch J, Olsson O, Sandberg G, Palme K, Schell J, Koncz C. T-DNA gene 5 of Agrobacterium modulates auxin response by autoregulated synthesis of a growth hormone antagonist in plants. EMBO J 1991; 10:3983-91. [PMID: 1756712 PMCID: PMC453145 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb04973.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Oncogenes carried by the transferred DNA (T-DNA) of Agrobacterium Ti plasmids encode the synthesis of plant growth factors, auxin and cytokinin, and induce tumour development in plants. Other T-DNA genes regulate the tumorous growth in ways that are not yet understood. To determine the function of T-DNA gene 5, its coding region was expressed in Escherichia coli. Synthesis of the gene 5 encoded protein (26 kDa) correlated with a 28-fold increase in conversion of tryptophan to indole-3-lactate (ILA), an auxin analogue. Expression of chimeric gene 5 constructs in transgenic tobacco resulted in overproduction of ILA that enhanced shoot formation in undifferentiated tissues and increased the tolerance of germinating seedlings to the inhibitory effect of externally supplied auxin. Promoter analysis of gene 5 in plants revealed that its expression was inducible by auxin and confined to the vascular phloem cells. cis-regulatory elements required for auxin regulation and phloem specific expression of gene 5 were mapped to a 90 bp promoter region that carried DNA sequence motifs common to several auxin induced plant promoters, as well as a binding site for a nuclear factor, Ax-1. ILA was found to inhibit the auxin induction of the gene 5 promoter and to compete with indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) for in vitro binding to purified cellular auxin binding proteins. It is suggested therefore that ILA autoregulates its own synthesis and thereby modulates a number of auxin responses in plants.
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- H Körber
- Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, FRG
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Strizhov N, Soukovatitsin V, Ksenzenko V, Tikhomirova L, Bayev A. Functional analysis of hybrid plasmids carrying genes for lambda site-specific recombination. Gene 1980; 12:201-14. [PMID: 6265316 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(80)90102-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A number of hybrid plasmids, carrying lambda genes involved in site-specific integrative recombination, have been constructed in vitro. Analysis of protein synthesis in Escherichia coli minicells has shown that Int protein is synthesized only when int gene is expressed constitutively. The plasmids RSF2124::lambda-CD, RSF2124::lambda-Cint-c57, and pInt lambda were able to integrate into the chromosome of E.coli at the attB. The integration of hybrid plasmids into the genome of bacteria has also been shown for polA1 strains restricting the autonomous replication of ColE1 type plasmids. Genetic markers of hybrid plasmids are maintained in polA1 bacteria for at least 50 generations under nonselective conditions. The Southern blotting experiments using [32P]pBR322 DNA and EcoRI fragments of E. coli polA1 chromosome carrying integrated plasmid pInt lambda demonstrated that in this strain hybrid plasmids can be observed only when integrated into the attB of the chromosome according to Campbell's model of integration. In the cells, where autonomous replication of plasmids is possible, they can be observed both in extrachromosomal and integrated states. The integration of the ColE1 replication origin into the chromosome of bacteria is not lethal for the cells. Only attP and the int gene of lambda are necessary for the integration of hybrid plasmids under conditions of effective int gene expression. If the level of Int protein synthesis is high enough, the prophage excision can be observed in the absence of Xis product. The six-fold decrease of Int protein concentration in the cell (in case of pInt lambda 2 as compared to pInt lambda 1) is critical both for integration and excision.
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Strizhov N, Tikhomirova L. Construction of recombinant plasmid carrying the lambda DNA fragment responsible for prophage integration. Nucleic Acids Res 1978; 5:1767-77. [PMID: 353729 PMCID: PMC342124 DOI: 10.1093/nar/5.6.1767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The recombinant DNA molecules were constructed from plasmid RSF2124 and the EcoRI fragment of lambda DNA containing the genes responsible for prophage integration. The presence of these genes in recombinant plasmids was detected genetically. lambda int-gene was shown to be expressed in either orientation of insertion in the plasmid. We found that recombinant plasmid was able to integrate into chromosome of lambda lysogens. The integration of plasmid into host chromosome was demonstrated by contransduction of chromosome and plasmid markers using generalized transducer P1 and by specialized transduction with lambda phages.
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