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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 59, Issue 7, Pages 1909-1921Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erm311
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CO2 fixation; mutagenesis; photosynthesis; plastome transformation; Rubisco
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The inability to assemble Rubisco from any photosynthetic eukaryote within Escherichia coli has hampered structure-function studies of higher plant Rubisco. Precise genetic manipulation of the tobacco chloroplast genome (plastome) by homologous recombination has facilitated the successful production of transplastomic lines that have either mutated the Rubisco large subunit (L) gene, rbcL, or replaced it with foreign variants. Here the capacity of a new tobacco transplastomic line, (cm)trL, to augment future Rubisco engineering studies is demonstrated. Initially the rbcL was replaced with the selectable marker gene, aadA, and an artificial codon-modified (cm)rbcM gene that codes for the structurally novel Rubisco dimer (L-2, similar to 100 kDa) from Rhodosprillum rubrum. To obtain (cm)trL, the aadA was excised by transiently introducing a T-DNA encoding CRE recombinase biolistically. Selection using aadA enabled transplantation of mutated and wild-type tobacco Rubisco genes into the (cm)trL plastome with an efficiency that was 3-to 10-fold higher than comparable transformations into wild-type tobacco. Transformants producing the re-introduced form I tobacco Rubisco variants (hexadecamers comprising eight L and eight small subunits, similar to 520 kDa) were identified by non-denaturing PAGE with fully segregated homoplasmic lines ( where no L-2 Rubisco was produced) obtained within 6-9 weeks after transformation which enabled their Rubisco kinetics to be quickly examined. Here the usefulness of cmtrL in more readily examining the production, folding, and assembly capabilities of both mutated tobacco and foreign form I Rubisco subunits in tobacco plastids is discussed, and the feasibility of quickly assessing the kinetic properties of those that functionally assemble is demonstrated.
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