期刊
PLANT JOURNAL
卷 103, 期 6, 页码 2318-2329出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14864
关键词
plastid transformation; dicistronic plastid markers; dicistronic operons; translational coupling; spectinomycin resistance; kanamycin resistance; tobacco; Nicotiana tabacum; technical advance
资金
- USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grant Program Award [2008-03012]
- Waksman Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
- Rutgers F&A Special Project
We designed a dicistronic plastid marker system that relies on the plastid's ability to translate polycistronic mRNAs. The identification of transplastomic clones is based on selection for antibiotic resistance encoded in the first open reading frame (ORF) and accumulation of the reporter gene product in tobacco chloroplasts encoded in the second ORF. The antibiotic resistance gene may encode spectinomycin or kanamycin resistance based on the expression ofaadAorneogenes, respectively. The reporter gene used in the study is the green fluorescent protein (GFP). The mRNA level depends on the 5 '-untranslated region of the first ORF. The protein output depends on the strengths of the ribosome binding, and is proportional with the level of translatable mRNA. Because the dicistronic mRNA is not processed, we could show that protein output from the second ORF is independent from the first ORF. High-level GFP accumulation from the second ORF facilitates identification of transplastomic events under ultraviolet light. Expression of multiple proteins from an unprocessed mRNA is an experimental design that enables predictable protein output from polycistronic mRNAs, expanding the toolkit of plant synthetic biology.
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