Journal
PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
Volume 90, Issue 1, Pages 85-91Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-007-9258-8
Keywords
nuclear transformation; fusion protein; phaseolin; zein
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The specific features of plants make them particularly suitable for the production of recombinant proteins and alfalfa is one of the recommended plant production systems. We have transformed alfalfa with a gene coding for a chimaeric protein made previously by fusing phaseolin to the N-terminal region of gamma-zein and have analyzed the accumulation of this fusion protein, named zeolin. Zeolin was expressed both in T0 Regen SY alfalfa plants and in the progeny resulting from the sexual cross between Regen SY transformants and alfalfa cv. Adriana plants. In some alfalfa plants a 95 kDa zeolin glycosylated polypeptide is the most abundant polypeptide detected by Western-blot analysis, whereas in tobacco the most abundant zeolin polypeptide has a molecular mass around 60 kDa, expected for intact zeolin. Zeolin has been stably accumulated in alfalfa leaves because it forms endoplasmic reticulum-located protein bodies in the cell. As regards zeolin quantisation, in the progeny alfalfa plants a value of about 0.22-0.28 mg of zeolin / g of fresh leaf weight has been estimated.
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