关键词:转基因水稻; 信号肽; 谷蛋白; 胚乳; 基因表达 Enhancing Expression and Accumulation of Foreign Proteins by Using the Signal Peptide of Glutelin GluA-2 in Endosperm of Transgenic Rice WANG Hong-Mei1, ZHANG Chang-Quan1, LI Qian-Feng1, SUN Samuel Sing-Min2, LIU Qiao-Quan1,*, XU Ming-Liang1,3 1Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Physiology / Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education / Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
2Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
3College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
AbstractIt is one of the key important techniques to enhance the expression of foreign proteins in target tissue/organ of transgenic plants. Glutelin is the major component of storage proteins in rice seeds, and its expression was tightly temporal and tissue- specific, which is controlled by several mechanisms. To further reveal the function of the Glutelin signal peptide on expression of target gene, in present study, we isolated the promoter and signal peptide-coding sequences of the glutelin GluA-2 gene, and fused them transcriptionally to the GUS coding sequences. Beside, the construct without the GluA-2 signal peptide-coding sequences was also generated as a control. Both constructs with the GUS chimeric genes, named as p13GSG and p13GG, were introduced into the same rice variety by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. More than twenty independent transgenic lines were generated for each construct, and the integration of the GUS chimeric gene was confirmed by PCR technique. The results from Northern blot analysis showed that, after fusing the GluA-2 signal peptide coding sequences between the GluA-2 promoter and the GUS coding sequence, the transcription of GUS chimeric gene could be dramatically increased. Then, Western blot was carried out by using the GUS-specific antibody, and the results obviously revealed that the accumulation of foreign proteins was significantly enhanced in the endosperm of transgenic rice with the signal peptide. However, there was no or very low GUS activity in the endosperm of transgenic rice plants with the signal peptide. These results were very useful to improve the grain quality of rice via genetic engineering, especially produce foreign proteins in the seeds of rice as bioreactor.
Keyword:Transgenic rice; Signal peptide; Glutelin; Endosperm; Gene expression Show Figures Show Figures
图1 谷蛋白GluA-2信号肽序列(a)及双元载体p13GSG (b)和p13GG (c)中T-DNA区的结构 P35S和T35S分别代表CaMV35S启动子和终止子, Hyg代表潮霉素抗性基因, TNOS代表NOS终止子。Fig. 1 Sequences of rice GluA-2 signal peptide (a), and the T-DNA structure of binary vectors p13GSG (b) and p13GG (c) P35S and T35S represent the promoter and terminator of CaMV35S gene, respectively; Hyg means the hygromycin resistance gene, TNOS means the terminator of NOS gene.
图2 转基因水稻的PCR (a)和未成熟种子总RNA的Northern杂交分析(b) 图a为转基因水稻植株总DNA的PCR分析, 所用引物为GUS基因特异引物。图b上图为Northern杂交结果, 下图显示总RNA中的28S核糖体RNA。总RNA分别抽提自GG和GSG类转基因水稻植株或未转化植株(标记为WT)的未成熟种子。杂交所用的探针为地高辛标记的反义GUS编码区片段。Fig. 2 PCR (a) and Northern blot (b) analyses of transgenic rice Panels a and b show the PCR analysis using GUS specific primers of total leaf DNA and Northern blot analysis of total RNA from developing seeds of rice plants, respectively. WT means wild type plant, GG and GSG mean the transgenic plants derived from the GG and GSG constructs, respectively. The probe for Northern blot is DIG-labeled anti-GUSDNA fragment.
图4 转基因水稻植株成熟种子蛋白的Western杂交分析 种子蛋白分别抽提自GG和GSG类转基因水稻植株或未转化植株(WT)的成熟种子, 其中a为种子总蛋白, b为种子可溶性蛋白, c为去除可溶性蛋白后的其他蛋白。每个泳道所加的蛋白量一致。图左侧箭头所指为GUS蛋白。Fig. 4 Western blot analyses of proteins from mature seeds of transgenic rice Proteins were extracted from the mature seeds of GG and GSG transgenic plants or their wild type (WT), respectively. Panels a, b, and c mean the total proteins, soluble proteins and the remaining total proteins after extraction of soluble proteins, respectively. The amount of proteins for each lane is same. The arrow at left indicates the expressed GUS protein.
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