1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of gene expression system by artificial chromosome
Project/Area Number |
60480007
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
植物生理学
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Research Institution | Institute of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Tsukuba |
Principal Investigator |
UCHIMIYA H. Institute of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Tsukuba, 生物科学系, 講師 (50142229)
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Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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Keywords | PROTOPLASTS / TRANSFORMATION / TOBACCO / イネ |
Research Abstract |
Protoplasts isolated from suspension cultures of rice cells were treated with bacterial plasmid DNA carrying a chimeric gene consisting of the nopaline synthase promoter, the aminoglycoside phosphotransferase <II> (APH(3') <II> ) struchural gene from bacterial transposon Tn5 and the terminator region from cauliflower mosaic virus DNA. Colonies capable of proliferating in medium containing kanamycin were selected. A transformation frequency of approximately 2% to 3% was recorded in several expriments. The enzyme (APH(3') <II> ) was also detected in kanamycin-resistant callus, which had survived after repeated selection. There was some variation in the APH(3') <II> activity in the transformation which paralleled to the copy number of the inserted genes. In the case of Nicotiana transformation, the plasmid containing an intact nopaline synthase gene and a chimeric gene consisting of promoter and terminater region from cauliflower mosaic virus gene VI and a structural gene, APH(3') <II> from bacterial transposon Tn5 was used. After direct DNA transformation of mesophyll protoplasts with this plasmid, several kanamycin resistant transformation were obtained. Intensive studies on drug tolerance of transformts in relation to growth and differentiation implicate the stable expression of a chimeric gene.
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Research Products
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