Heat-shock-mediated elimination of the nptII marker gene in transgenic apple (Malus 脳 domestica Borkh.)

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• 作者：Katja Herzog^a ; ¹ ; Henryk Flachowsky^a ; Holger B. Deising^b ; ^c ; Magda-Viola Hanke^a ; ^{viola.hanke@jki.bund.de}
• 关键词：CAMV35S ; 35S gene of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus ; cv ; cultivar ; dao1 ; D-amino acid oxidase gene from Rhodotorula gracilis ; EDTA ; ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ; EF1伪 ; ELONGATION FACTOR 1伪 ; FRT ; flp recognition target site ; GM ; genetically modified ; Gm
• 刊名：Gene
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：73_03781119
• 类别：bio
• 出版时间：25 April, 2012
• 卷：498
• 期：1
• 页码：41-49
• 文件大小：998 K

摘要

Production of marker-free genetically modified (GM) plants is one of the major challenges of molecular fruit breeding. Employing clean vector technologies, allowing the removal of undesired DNA sequences from GM plants, this goal can be achieved. The present study describes the establishment of a clean vector system in apple Malus 脳 domestica Borkh., which is based on the use of the neomycin phosphotransferase II gene (nptII) as selectable marker gene and kanamycin/paramomycin as selective agent. The nptII gene can be removed after selection of GM shoots via site-specific excision mediated by heat-shock-inducible expression of the budding yeast FLP recombinase driven by the soybean Gmhsp17.5-E promoter. We created a monitoring vector containing the nptII and the flp gene as a box flanked by two direct repeats of the flp recognition target (FRT) sites. The FRT-flanked box separates the gusA reporter gene from the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S (CaMV 35S) promoter. Consequently, GUS expression does only occur after elimination of the FRT-flanked box. Transformation experiments using the monitoring vector resulted in a total of nine transgenic lines. These lines were investigated for transgenicity by PCR, RT-PCR and Southern hybridization. Among different temperature regimes tested, exposure to 42 掳C for 3.5 to 4 h led to efficient induction of FLP-mediated recombination and removal of the nptII marker gene. A second round of shoot regeneration from leaf explants led to GM apple plants completely free of the nptII gene.