• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.637-645
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• 1999

Two putative regulator genes, mocR and mocS, of the moc (mannityl opine catabolism) operons in pTi15955 of the octopine-/mannityl opine-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain 15955, were tested for their possible roles as repressors in the moc operons. The regions upstream of macC and mocD, the first structural genes in the two divergently oriented moc operons, were transcriptionally fused into the promoterless lacZ reporter gene. Each of the lacZ-fusions was introduced into Agrobacterium strain UIA5, a Ti plasmid-cured derivative, harboring either a mocR or a mocS clone. The resulting strains were grown in media containing various sugar sources, and the $\beta$-galactosidase activities were quantitatively measured. The results suggested that MocR repressed the expression of macC and macD. The expression of the fused $\beta$-galactosidase was not induced by mannopine (MOP) or possible catabolic intermediates of the opine, e.g. santhopine (SOP), glucose, mannose, or glutamine. However, the repression was significantly relieved by the supplementation of MOP and the concomitant introduction of the agcA gene encoding MOP cyclase that catalyzes the lactonization of MOP to agropine (AGR). These results suggested that AGR, rather than MOP or the other catabolic intermediates, is the inducer for the expression of the operon. On the contrary to previous report showing that the induction levels of macC and macD were lowered by the supplementation of inorganic nitrogen in media, the expression of these genes was not affected by the level of nitrogen in our reporter system. MocS did not strongly repress the expressions of macC and mocD. It is possible that MocS may be involved in the regulation of the operons present downstream of the moc operon, which are responsible for the utilization of mannopinic acid and agropinic acid.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제77권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 1988

포플러류(類)에 대(對)한 유용유전자(有用遺傳子) 삽입에 관(關)한 기초(基礎) 연구(研究)로서, 북미(北美)의 자연잡종(自然雜種) 포플러, P. alba ${\times}$ P. grandidentata 3 클론을 대상으로 Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281과 A348 strain의 감염력을 조사(調査)하였다. Kanamycin 저항성(低抗性)의 neomycin phosphotransferase (NPT-II) 유전자(遺傳子)를 가진 Agrobacterium binary pGA 472 vector와 이들 조직배양(組織培養)된 세 클론의 잎조각을 함께 배양(培養)하여, 형질전환(形質轉換)된 부위(部位)를 선발(選拔)하기 위해서 kanamycin sulfate의 적정농도(適正濃度)를 조사(調査)하였다. A281과 A348 strain 중(中) A281 strain이 가지고 있는 pTiBo542가 binary vector system의 helper plasmid로서의 역할에 가장 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 비교적 저농도(低濃度)(10mg/l)의 kanamycin sulfate가 잎조각배양으로 부터 식물체(植物體) 유도를 억제하였다. Kanamycin 저항성(低抗性) 유전자(遺傳子)가 내포된 Agrobacterium binary vector와 잎조각을 함께 배양(培養)한 후(後) kanamycin에 대한 저항성(低抗性)을 가진 callus가 kanamycin(60mg/l)이 들어있는 식물체 유도배지에서 선발(選拔)되었다. Kanamycin 저항성(低抗性) 유전자(遺傳子)에 의해 형질전환된 이들 kanamycin 저항성(低抗性) callus와 정상적인 비교 callus를 kanamycin이 들어있는 식물체(植物體) 유도배지에서 배양(培養)했을때 정상적인 비교 callus는 50mg/l의 kanamycin 농도(濃度)에서 생장(生長)이 억제된 반면, 형질전환(形質轉換)된 kanamycin 저항성(低抗性) callus는 200mg/l의 kanamycin 농도(濃度)에서도 생장(生長)을 계속하였다.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.331-339
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• 1991

To elucidate the regulatory mechanism of virE operon from vir regions (virA, virB, virC, virD, virG, virE) of pTiA6 which have been known to be essential for efficient crown gall tumorigenesis in plants, the activity of the truncated virE, promoter was analyzed. pSM358cd, a recombinant plasmid in which virE :: Tn3-HoHo1 (Tn3-promoterless lacZ) was cloned into SalI site of pVK102, was digested with SalI, and virE :: Tn3-HoHo1 was seperated from pVK102. To construct the truncted virE recombinant plasmids (pJS031, pJS051, pJS102, pJS201, pJS301), 5'-end of vireE promoter was deleted with BAL31 and cloned into pVK102 and then transferred into a. tumefaciens A348(pTiA6). According to the activity of the truncated virE promoter in recombinant plasmids, they were classified into two groups, pJS031, pJS051, pJS101 and pJS201 belong to a functional group and pJS301 is a non-functional. The size of deleted nucleotides of pJS201 and pJS301 seemed to be about 130 nucleotides and about 250 nucleotides from 5'-end of virE promoter, respectively. Hence it was thought that the essential site of the virE promoter was located between about 130th nucleotide and 250th nucleotide from 5'-end of the virE promoter.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.374-379
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• 1995

The cDNA of tobacco mosaic virus-pepper strain (TMV-P) coat protein (CP) genes were introduced into tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Samsun nn) using a binary Ti plasmid vector of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. these cDNAs introduced into tobacco plants were detected by polymerase chain reaction. Symptom development was distinctly suppressed in the transgenic plant introduced buy sense CP cDNA when the plant was inoculated with TMV-P, while in transgenic tobacco plants of antisense CP gene, symptom development was not suppressed as in non-transgenic plants. TMV-P concentration in the sense CP transgenic tobacco plant was decreased to 1/14 of the concentration in non-transgenic plants. Expression of the kanamycin resistance gene of these transgenic plants could be detected in the progeny.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.683-688
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• 2005

A transformation system mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is routinely used for the genetic engineering of plants. Here, we report an efficient and stable method for transformation of heterogeneous genes into an industrial Cephalosporium acremonium by using a similar transformation system established in plants. Both the phleomycin-resistant gene and vgb gene were used as screening markers to confirm the success of transformation by either Southern hybridization or PCR amplification. It was found that acetosyringone (AS) was necessary only for protoplast transformation and the heterogeneous genes transferred were integrated into the genome of C. acremonium. The transformation efficiency obtained with this system was much higher than the conventional techniques used for transformation of C. acremonium.

• 미생물과산업
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.18-20
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• 1990

현재 전세계적으로 10,000여개 이상의 실험실에서 생물공학적인 연구가 진행중에 있고, 200여개 이상의 회사에서 생물공학을 이용한 제품이 만들어지고 있다.(Saftlas, 1984). 이와같은 제품으로 생물농약(예, 모기억제에 사용되는 Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis 등)이라든가 insulin, 성장호르몬, lymphotoxin및 항암제등의 의약품(Saftlas, 1984)과 식물품종개량제(예, 질소 공정의 vector로 사용되는 Agrobacterium tumerfaciens의 Ti Plasmid)(McDanial, 1981 ; Shaw, 1986) 등이 있다. 그러나 최근 미생물 생태분야에서는 이와같이 만들어진 미생물들 (genetically engineered microorganisms : GEMs)이 자연 생태계에 유출되었을때 야기될 가능성이 있는 biohazaed에 대하여 관심이 집중되고 있다. (Curtiss, 1976 ; Sharples, 1983 ; Rissler, 1984). 토양환경에서 GEM이 유전물질을 전달항 수 있는 기작은 크게 conjugation, transduction, transformation 등이 알려지고 있다. 여기서는 주로 토양환경에서 transformation에 의한 유전물질의 전달과정에 대한 최근 연구동향을 간단히 기술하고자 한다.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 1985년도 워크샵 및 심포지엄 북한산국립공원의 식생
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• pp.23-33
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• 1985

Plant cell culture is emerging to express bioactive foreign proteins because it has several advantages in that it is safe, economical, genetically stable and eukaryotic expression system comparing with other expression systems. However several limitations such as slow growth rate, low expression level and lack of well established down stream process need to be answered. As a preliminary approach to produce the immunologically interested molecules through the plant cell culture, we tested if granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factors (GM-CSFs) from both murine (mGM-CSF) and human (hGM-CSF) are produced as a biologically active form through plant cell culture. The murine and human GM-CSF genes were cloned into the plant expression vector, pBI121, and Ti-plasmid mediated transformation of tobacco leaves was conducted using Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring both recombinant GM-CSF (rGM-CSF) genes. Cell suspension culture was established from the leaf-derived calli of transgenic tobacco plant. Northern blot analysis indicated the expression of the introduced mGM-CSF gene in both transgenic plant and cell suspension cultures. In addition, the biological activities of both murine and human GM-CSF from plant cell culture were confirmed by measuring the proliferation of the GM-CSF dependent FDC-PI and TF-1 cells, respectively.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 1993

A double - stranded cDNA fragment (436bp) encoding coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus(TMV) was derived from the total 480nucleotides gene after reverse transcription of TMV RNA, and subclorled into a plant expression vector pBl 121, resulting in pBL 430. The plasmid DNA containing this chimeric gene was moved from E. cofi to Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A28l, and was introduced in시 the tobacco plant by the Agrobocterium Ti - mediated transformtion system. The transformants were selected on a selection media containing kanamycin. The shoots add roots could be differentiated from the explants and whole plants were obtained. From Southern blot hybridization analysis, DNA extracted from transformants, it could be conformed that the chimeric gene fragment was inserted into the genomic DNA of tobacco plant.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2003

인삼의 형질전환 시스템의 개발과 내병성관련 유전자의 도입에 관한 연구의 일환으로 soybean에서 cloning한 chitinase 유전자와 내병성 관련유전자(DR gene)가 식물에서 발현 및 형질전환될 수 있도록 운반체를 재조합하여 Agrobacterium을 이용해서 인삼에 형질전환시키고자 수행하였다. 식물세포에서 발현될 수 있는 promoter(35S-35S-AMV)에 내병성유전자인 DR-49 gene을 부착한 후 다시 식물형질전환용 binary vector에 도입하여 인삼에 도입되어 발현될 수 있도록 재조합하였으며, Disarmed Ti-plasmid 함유 Agrobacterium에 내병성유전자인 chitinase(pCH18)와 disease resistant gene(pDR)가 도입되었다. 인삼 callus 배양 과정을 거치지 않고 바로 multi-shoots를 생산하여 형질전환체 획득에 사용하고자 인삼 embryo와 petiole를 이용하여 direct shoots 생산을 유도한 결과 2,4-D 1 mg/ι와 kinetin 0.5 mg/ι 복합처리구에서 multi-shoot가 형성되었다. 또한 인삼 자엽을 이용한 형질전환에서도 MS 기본배지에 2,4-D 1 mg/ι와 kinetin 0.5 mg/ι를 첨가한 복합처리구에서 가장 효과적이었으며, dieases resistant와 chitinase 유전자에 의한 형질전환율은 각각 14%,그리고 18%를 나타내었다. 자엽으로부터 유기된 형질전환된 조직은 pre-embryoid 상태이기 때문에 성숙배의 과정을 거쳐 정상적인 shoot의 형성이 필요하였다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2006

2002년에서 2005년 동안 경북김천, 천안, 경기지역의 포도재배지로부터 채집한 300여점의 포도 혹병반으로부터 A. vitis의 PCR 특이검출 Phe A primer를 이용하여 포도혹병균의 대량분리를 실시하여 0.25kb의 PCR 특이밴드가 증폭된 51균주가 포도 혹병균으로 선발되었다. 이 균주들을 Ti-Plasmid 유래의 Vir A primer로 적용한 결과 40균주에서 0.5kb의 특이밴드가 검출되었다. 거봉포도와 당근절편에서 다양한 양상의 병원성을 보였으며 25균주가 거봉포도에 강한 병원성을 나타내었으며, 다른 균주는 약하거나 비 병원성을 보였다. 본 연구에서 분리한 10개 균주를 대상으로한 세균의 이화학적 특성은 균주간에 약간은 달랐으나, 3-Ketolactose의 비생성, 2%NaC 첨가 배지에서의 성장, Melezitose로부터의 산을 생성하지 못하는 등 비교균주와 대체적으로 일치하는 경향을 보였다. 따라서, PheA and Vir A primer를 이용하여 Agrobacterium vitis 균주를 대량 분리할 수 있으며 신속, 정확하게 동정할 수 있을 것으로 생각되었다.