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DEVELOPMENT OF METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF PLANT ; CHLOROPLAST TECHNOLOGY OF CHILAMYDOMONAS

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09450305
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 生物・生体工学
Research InstitutionNara Institute of Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

SHINMYO Atsuhiko  Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Science, Professor, バイオサイエンス研究科, 教授 (30029235)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KATO Ko  Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Science, Assistant Professor, 助手 (80283935)
SEKINE Masami  Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Science, Assistant Professor, 助手 (70226653)
YOSHIDA Kazuya  Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Science, Associate Professor, 助教授 (50252622)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥6,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,600,000)
KeywordsChloroplast / Chloroplast Transformation / Regulation of Gene Expression / Chlamydomonas / Foreign Gene Expression / β-Glucuronidase / Promoter / Untranslated Region / β-グルクロニターゼ / 形質転換 / 遺伝子発現 / 代謝工学 / 葉緑体工学
Research Abstract

The chloroplast is one of the most important organelles in plant cells. Genetic manipulation of the chloroplast genome might be an important technique for construction of useful transgenic plants in the future. In order to express a foreign gene efficiently in the chloroplast, we have to obtain a thorough understanding of the regulation of chloroplast gene expression.
Chimeric genes for expression of a foreign gene in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast were constructed. There chimeric genes are composed of the promoter from chloroplast genes, rbcL, psbA, psbD, and atpA, 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions, and the Escherichia coli b-glucuronidase (GUS) structural gene idA) as a foreign gene. Four types of chloroplast transformants (RG, PG, PDG, and AG) were generated. The AG transformant showed the highest GUS activity so far reported in C.reinhardtii, and the accumulated GUS protein accounted for 1.4% of the total soluble proteins. However, the pattern of gene expression was not the same as that of the endogenous genes in the chloroplast, in order to express a foreign gene efficiently in the chloroplast, it was necessary to fuse a coding region from chloroplast gene.
We analyzed the effect of nucleoties immediately upstream of the initiation codon (AUG) on the translation efficiency. In the case of chmeric-uidA (atpA), the substitution of two nucleoties immediately upstream of the AUG changed the translation efficiency. On the other hand, in the case of chimeric-uidA (psbD), that had no effect. We also tried to construct a translation system from polycistronic mRNA, and partially successed.
Study on the control mechanisms of gene expression of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast genome in detail will be applied to transformation of the chloroplast genome in higher agriculturally and industrially important plants in the near future.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] Ishikura Kiyohide: "Expression of a Foreign Gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast"Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 87・3. 307-314 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ishikura,K. Takaoka,Y. Sekine,M. Yoshida,K. and Shinmyo,A.: "Expression of a Foreign Gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplast"Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 87(3). 307-314 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ishikura Kiyohide: "Expression of a Foregin Geme in Chlamydomonas reingardtii Chloroplast"Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 87.3. 307-314 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 石倉清秀: "Expression of a Foreign Gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardfii Chloroplast" J.Biosci.Bioeng.87・3. (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Ko Kato: "Chloroplast Technology of a Green Algae,Chlamydomonas ; Functional Expression of a Foreign EuKaryotic RuBisCO Gene" Abstracts ; Symposium on Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 72-72 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Ko Kato: "Functional expression of a foreign eukaryotic ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygerase large subunit gene in Chlamydomonas chloroplast" Abstracts ; 5th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology. 491-491 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kiyohide Ishikura: "The coding regions of RuBisCO large subunit gene effects on its gene expression." Abstracts ; 5th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology. 1190-1190 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1997-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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