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Transgenic Plants
Methods of production of Transgenic
plants
• Microprojectile bombardment: shooting
DNA-coated tungsten or gold particles into
plant cells.
• Electroporation: use of a short burst of
electricity to put the DNA into cells.
• Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated
transformation
A. tumefaciens
• A. tumefaciens is a soil bacterium responsible
for crown gall disease of dicotyledonous
plants. The galls or tumors are formed at the
junction between the root and the stem of
infected plants.
Crown Gall Disease
Agrobacterium tumifaciencs
• The ability of A. tumefaciens to induce crown galls in plants
is controlled by genetic information carried on Ti plasmid
(tumor-inducing plasmid).
• Ti plasmid has two components the T-DNA (Transferred
DNA) and
• the vir region, which are essential for the transformation of
plant cells.
• During the transformation process, the T-DNA is excised
from the Ti plasmid, transferred to a plant cell, and
integrated into the DNA of the plant cell.
• The integration of the T-DNA occurs at random
chromosomal sites. In some cases, multiple T-DNA
integration events occur in the same cell.
Structure of Ti Plasmid
• T DNA: In nopaline-type Ti plasmids the T-DNA is a
23,000-nucleotide-pair segment
• It carries 13 known genes including genes encoding
enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of phytohormones
(the auxin indoleacetic acid and the cytokinin
isopentenyl adenosine).
• These phytohormones are responsible for the
tumorous growth of cells in crown galls.
• The T-DNA region is bordered by 25-nucleotide-pair
imperfect repeats
• One of this must be present in cis for T-DNA excision
and transfer.
Structure of Ti Plasmid
The vir (virulence) region
• It contains the genes required for the T-DNA transfer
process.
• These genes encode the DNA processing enzymes
required for excision, transfer, and integration of the T-
DNA segment.
• They are expressed at very low levels in A. tumefaciens
cells growing in soil.
• Exposure of the bacteria to wounded plant cells or
exudates from plant cells induces enhanced levels of
expression of the vir genes.
• This induction process is very slow for bacteria, taking
10 to 15 hours to reach maximum levels of expression.
• Phenolic compounds such as acetosyringone act as
inducers of the vir genes.
Structure of the nopaline Ti plasmid pTi
C58, showing
ori, origin of replication; Tum, genes
responsible for tumor formation; Nos,
genes involved in nopaline biosynthesis;
Noc, genes involved in the catabolism of
nopaline; vir, virulence genes required
for T-DNA transfer. The nucleotide-pair
sequences of the left and right terminal
repeats are shown at the top; the
asterisks mark the four base pairs that
differ in the two border sequences
Ti plasmid vector for creating
transgenic plants
• Foreign genes could be inserted into the T-
DNA and then transferred to the plant.
• In the modified Ti plasmid the genes
responsible for tumor formation are deleted
• Selectable markeris added along with
appropriate regulatory elements.
Ti plasmid vector for creating
transgenic plants
• The kanr gene from the E. coli transposon Tn5 has been
used extensively as a selectable marker.
• it encodes an enzyme called neomycin
phosphotransferase type II (NPTII), it detoxify the
kanamycin.
• The NPTII coding sequence are provided with a plant
promoter and plant termination and polyadenylation
signals.
• Such constructions with prokaryotic coding sequences
flanked by eukaryotic regulatory sequences are called
chimeric selectable marker genes.
• One widely used chimeric selectable marker gene
contains the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S
promoter, the NPTII coding sequence, and the Ti
nopaline synthase (nos) termination sequence;
this chimeric gene is usually symbolized
35S/NPTII/nos.
• The Ti vectors used to transfer genes into plants
have the tumor-inducing genes of the plasmid
replaced with a chimeric selectable marker gene
such as 35S/NPTII/nos.
Limitations as routine Ti plasmid
vectors
• The production of phytohormones by transformed cells
prevents them from being regenerated into mature
plants.
• A gene encoding opine synthesis is not useful to a
transgenic plant and may lower the final plant yield
• Ti plasmids are large (approximately 200 to 800 kb).
• Ti plasmid does not replicate in Escherichia coli,
therefore it cannot be cloned in E. coli.
• Transfer of the T-DNA, which begins from the right
border, does not always end at the left border. Rather,
vector DNA sequences past the left border are often
transferred.

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transgenic_plants.ppt

  • 2.
  • 3. Methods of production of Transgenic plants • Microprojectile bombardment: shooting DNA-coated tungsten or gold particles into plant cells. • Electroporation: use of a short burst of electricity to put the DNA into cells. • Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation
  • 4. A. tumefaciens • A. tumefaciens is a soil bacterium responsible for crown gall disease of dicotyledonous plants. The galls or tumors are formed at the junction between the root and the stem of infected plants.
  • 6.
  • 7. • The ability of A. tumefaciens to induce crown galls in plants is controlled by genetic information carried on Ti plasmid (tumor-inducing plasmid). • Ti plasmid has two components the T-DNA (Transferred DNA) and • the vir region, which are essential for the transformation of plant cells. • During the transformation process, the T-DNA is excised from the Ti plasmid, transferred to a plant cell, and integrated into the DNA of the plant cell. • The integration of the T-DNA occurs at random chromosomal sites. In some cases, multiple T-DNA integration events occur in the same cell.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10. Structure of Ti Plasmid • T DNA: In nopaline-type Ti plasmids the T-DNA is a 23,000-nucleotide-pair segment • It carries 13 known genes including genes encoding enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of phytohormones (the auxin indoleacetic acid and the cytokinin isopentenyl adenosine). • These phytohormones are responsible for the tumorous growth of cells in crown galls. • The T-DNA region is bordered by 25-nucleotide-pair imperfect repeats • One of this must be present in cis for T-DNA excision and transfer.
  • 11. Structure of Ti Plasmid The vir (virulence) region • It contains the genes required for the T-DNA transfer process. • These genes encode the DNA processing enzymes required for excision, transfer, and integration of the T- DNA segment. • They are expressed at very low levels in A. tumefaciens cells growing in soil. • Exposure of the bacteria to wounded plant cells or exudates from plant cells induces enhanced levels of expression of the vir genes. • This induction process is very slow for bacteria, taking 10 to 15 hours to reach maximum levels of expression. • Phenolic compounds such as acetosyringone act as inducers of the vir genes.
  • 12. Structure of the nopaline Ti plasmid pTi C58, showing ori, origin of replication; Tum, genes responsible for tumor formation; Nos, genes involved in nopaline biosynthesis; Noc, genes involved in the catabolism of nopaline; vir, virulence genes required for T-DNA transfer. The nucleotide-pair sequences of the left and right terminal repeats are shown at the top; the asterisks mark the four base pairs that differ in the two border sequences
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
  • 16.
  • 17. Ti plasmid vector for creating transgenic plants • Foreign genes could be inserted into the T- DNA and then transferred to the plant. • In the modified Ti plasmid the genes responsible for tumor formation are deleted • Selectable markeris added along with appropriate regulatory elements.
  • 18. Ti plasmid vector for creating transgenic plants • The kanr gene from the E. coli transposon Tn5 has been used extensively as a selectable marker. • it encodes an enzyme called neomycin phosphotransferase type II (NPTII), it detoxify the kanamycin. • The NPTII coding sequence are provided with a plant promoter and plant termination and polyadenylation signals. • Such constructions with prokaryotic coding sequences flanked by eukaryotic regulatory sequences are called chimeric selectable marker genes.
  • 19. • One widely used chimeric selectable marker gene contains the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter, the NPTII coding sequence, and the Ti nopaline synthase (nos) termination sequence; this chimeric gene is usually symbolized 35S/NPTII/nos. • The Ti vectors used to transfer genes into plants have the tumor-inducing genes of the plasmid replaced with a chimeric selectable marker gene such as 35S/NPTII/nos.
  • 20.
  • 21.
  • 22. Limitations as routine Ti plasmid vectors • The production of phytohormones by transformed cells prevents them from being regenerated into mature plants. • A gene encoding opine synthesis is not useful to a transgenic plant and may lower the final plant yield • Ti plasmids are large (approximately 200 to 800 kb). • Ti plasmid does not replicate in Escherichia coli, therefore it cannot be cloned in E. coli. • Transfer of the T-DNA, which begins from the right border, does not always end at the left border. Rather, vector DNA sequences past the left border are often transferred.