Patent Application: US-36251295-A

Abstract:
there are described dna sequences that contain the coding region of amino acid transporters whose introduction in a plant genome modifies the transfer of metabolites in transgenic plants , plasmids , bacteria , yeasts and plants containing these dna sequences , as well as their use .

Description:
the following examples describe the cloning and identification , as well as the function and use of a plant amino acid transporter . for complementation of the proline transport mutation of the yeast strain 22574d ( jauniaux et al ., 1987 , eur j biochem 164 : 601 - 606 ) and / or the histidine synthesis and transport mutation of the strain jt16 ( tanaka & amp ; fink 1985 , gene 38 : 205 - 214 ), a cdna of young germ lines from arabidopsis thaliana ( two leaf stage ) in the yeast expression vector pfl61 ( minet & amp ; lacroute ), 1990 curr genet 18 : 287 - 291 ) which had been made available by minet ( minet et al ., 1992 , plant j 2 : 417 - 422 ) was used . around 1 μg of the vector with the cdna - insert was transformed in the yeast strain 22574d and / or jt16 by the method of dohmen et al . ( 1991 , yeast 7 : 691 - 692 ). yeast transformands , which could grow in media with 4 mm proline as the sole nitrogen source or in media with 6 mm histidine , were propagated . from the lines plasmid - dna was prepared by standard methods . clones that could complement the particular mutation contained plasmids with similar restriction type of the cdna insert . these varied in size between 1 . 6 and 1 . 7 kb . from a yeast line ppp1 - 20 , obtained in a similar manner to example 1 , which , in spite of the 22574d mutation , could grow with proline as the only nitrogen source , the plasmid pfl61 - ppp1 - 20 was isolated . its cdna insert was prepared as a noti fragment and cloned in the vector pbluescriptsk . in this way , the plasmid pppp1 - 20 was obtained ( see fig1 ). using synthetic oligonucleotides , the insert was sequenced by the method of sanger et al . ( 1977 , proc natl acad sci usa 74 : 5463 - 5467 ). the sequence is given above ( seq id no . 1 ). in a similar way , from a yeast line that , in spite of the his4 / hip1 double mutation , could be grown in a medium with histidine addition , the plasmid pfl61 - aap2 was isolated whose insert was also cloned as a noti fragment in pbluescriptsk . the resulting plasmid paap2 was sequenced and the sequence ( seq id no . 2 ) is given above . the plasmid paap2 has a similar structure to pppp1 - 20 ( see fig1 ), but instead of the insert seq id no . 1 , carries the insert seq id no . 2 ( see fig3 ). uptake studies with 14 c - labeled protein into the yeast line ppp1 - 20 and aap2 the yeast lines 22574d :: ppp1 - 20 and 22574d :: aap2 that were obtained in a similar manner to example 1 were grown in liquid medium until the culture reached the logarithmic phase . after centrifuging the culture , the cells are washed and taken up in 100 mm tris / hcl ph 4 . 5 , 2 mm mgcl 2 and 0 . 6m sorbitol . around 100 μl of the suspension was added to a solution of 0 . 5mm l - proline plus 1 μci 14 c labeled l - proline in 100 μl of the same buffer . the uptake of the labeled amino acid was measured by the process described by cirillo ( 1989 , meth enzymol 174 : 617 - 622 ). the uptake of the labeled amino acid was compared , on the one hand , in co - incubation with protein modifying substance diethyl pyrocarbonate which is an inhibitor of the amino acid transport in membrane vesicles from beta vulgaris , and , on the other hand , in co - incubation with other protein modifying substances . the calculated reduction is shown in tables i and / or iii . a competition experiment in which the specificity of the transporter could be read off with various amino acids and analogues is shown in table ii for ppp1 - 20 and in fig4 for aap2 . an analogous experiment in which a competition for histidine uptake in the line jt16 :: aap2 was tested is described in example 5 . the time period for ppp1 - 20 is shown in fig2 . transformation of plants with a construct for overexpression of the coding region of amino acid transporters from the plasmid pppp1 - 20 that contains the cdna for the amino acid transporter from arabidopsis , an internal fragment of the insert was isolated after bamhi cleavage and cloned in the bamhi cleavage position from paj that was first linearized with the enzyme bamhi . then the cdna was prepared as the ecori / hindiii fragment from pa7 and cloned in the vector pbin - hyg . after transformation by . agrobacteria , this was inserted for infection of leaf segments of tobacco and potato . ten independently obtained transformands in which the presence of the intact non - rearranged chimeric gene was demonstrated using southern blot analysis were tested for modifications of amino acid and nitrogen content . besides this , amino acid synthesis , photosynthesis rate and transportation were tested . studies in the uptake of 14 c - labeled histidine in the yeast line aap2 the yeast line jt16 :: aap2 , obtained in a similar manner to example 1 , was grown in liquid medium until the culture reached the logarithmic phase . after centrifuging the culture , the cells were washed and taken up in 10 mm tris / hcl ph 4 . 5 , 2 mm mgcl 2 and 0 . 6m sorbitol . around 100 ml of the suspension was added to a solution of 0 . 5 mm l - histidine plus 1 μci 14 c - labeled l - histidine in 100 μl of the same buffer . the uptake of the labeled amino acid was measured according to the method described by von cirillo ( 1989 , meth enzymol 174 : 617 - 622 ). the uptake of the labeled amino acid was compared in a competition experiment with that from different amino acids and analogues in tenfold excess . the relationships are shown in fig5 . table i______________________________________inhibition of the amino acid transport in 22574d :: ppp1 - 20yeast strains by protein modifying substances % of transport without inhibitor______________________________________0 . 1 mm depc 65 ( diethyl pyrocarbonate ) 10 μm cccp & lt ; 3 ( carbonyl cyanide m - chlorophenylhydrazone ) 10 μm 2 , 4 dnp & lt ; 3 ( dinitrophenol ) 1 mm sodium arsenate 3510 μm antimycin a 29500 μm pcmbs 78 ( p - chloromercuribenzenesulfonic acid ) ______________________________________ table ii______________________________________competition by one , fourfold and tenfold excess of aminoacids and analogues in 22574d :: ppp1 - 20 - yeast strainexcess % remainingtransport activity : 1 × 4 × 10 × ______________________________________glutamic acid 64 27 30aspartic acid 78 27lysine 86 83histidine 81 79 58arginine 85 88 74threonine -- 50 -- l - proline 49 21 14d - proline 98 953 , 4 - di - oh proline 86 49azetidine - 2 - carboxylic acid 91 48oh - proline 81 45valine -- 77 47isoleucine -- 67 -- asparagine 64 57glutamine -- 27 -- serine 53 18cysteine -- 21 -- methionine 28 8glycine 69 16alanine 55 29 23leucine -- -- tyrosine -- -- tryptophan 82 71 48phenylalanine 45 16citrulline 44gamma - aminobutyric acid 90______________________________________ table iii______________________________________inhibition of the amino acid transports in jt16 :: aap2 - yeast strain by protein modifying substances % of transport without inhibitor______________________________________1 mm depc 3 . 1 ± 1 . 6 ( diethyl pyrocarbonate ) 10 μm cccp 15 . 6 ± 2 . 1 ( carbonyl cyanidem - chlorophenylhydrazone ) 10 μm 2 , 4 dnp ( dinitrophenol ) 7 . 6 ± 1 . 6______________________________________ although the present invention has been described in relation to particular embodiments thereof , many other variations and modifications and other uses will become apparent to those skilled in the art . therefore , the present invention is to be limited not by the specific disclosure herein , but only by the appended claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 4 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 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