Patent Application: US-66485596-A

Abstract:
the chemically - inducible 27 kd subunit of the enzyme glutathione - s - transferase , isoform ii and sequences encoding it are provided . in particular , a genomic dna sequence encoding the gene promoter for the gst - ii - 27 subunit is provided . then linked to an exogenous gene and introduced into a plant by transformation , and gst - ii - 27 promoter provides a means for the external regulation of expression of that exogenous gene . transformation with dna encoding glutathione - s - transferase polypeptides produces herbicide resistance transgenic plants .

Description:
for treatment of young maize seedlings , seeds were germinated on moist filter paper . after germination and growth ( up to one week ) the safener n , n - diallyl - 2 , 2 - dichloroacetamide ( hereinafter referred to as r - 25788 ) was added to the water in the filter paper and the seedlings grown for a further time period before harvesting of tissue . enzyme activity was measured spectrophotometrically at 340 nm using 1 - chloro - 2 , 4 - dinitrobenzene ( cdnb ) as a substrate . the reaction buffer contained 0 . 1m edta , 0 . 001m cdnb and 0 . 0025m glutathione . tissue was homogenised in 0 . 05m tris . hcl , ph 7 . 8 ; 0 . 001m edta ; 0 . 001m dtt ; and 7 . 5 % polyvinylpyrrolidone in a pestle and mortar , at 4 ° c ., andcentrifuged at 30 , 000 g to obtain a crude extract . separation of the gst isoforms from the crude extract was achieved as follows : the crude extract was applied to a deae sepharose column and washed with 0 . 01m tris . hcl , ph 7 . 8 ; 0 . 001m edta ; and 0 . 001m dtt . the boundgst was eluted with 0 . 3m potassium chloride . fractions containing gst activity were combined and desalted using pd10 gel filtration columns . separation of the gst i and gst ii isoforms was achieved by fplc on a mono - q column and a zero to 0 . 4m potassium chloride concentration gradient . pure samples of gst i and gst ii were obtained by applying desalted fractions of gst i and gst ii from the fplc to a glutathione - s - sepharose affinity column equilibrated with 0 . 05m phosphate buffer at ph 7 . 3 . after washing with buffer , bound gst was eluted with 0 . 005m glutathione . sds - page ( 17 . 5 %, 30 : 0 . 174 acrylamide : bisacrylamide ) of gst i or gst ii was achieved by concentrating pure gst samples using amicon centricon 10 microconcentrations ( trade mark ), denaturing samples in mercaptoethanol containing laemmli buffer , and staining the gels with coomassie blue . a time course experiment was carried out to examine the expression of gst &# 39 ; safter safener treatment . a 30 ppm solution of r - 25788 was applied to three - day old seedling roots and tissue harvested after various time intervals following safener treatment . samples were tested for gst activity using the enzyme assay described above . the results of this experiment are presented graphically in fig1 . this shows there was an approximate 2 . 5 fold increase in total gst activity after 48 hours incubation . the time course experiments revealed a peak of gst expression at 48 hours after treatment with safener . therefore , two cdna libraries were constructed from total rna extracted from root tissue at 24 and 48 hours after safener treatment . to ensure that the induction procedure had been successful , a one gram sample of 24 hour induced tissue was taken and assayed for gst ii . this experiment revealed that the tissue used to construct the cdna library hadindeed been successfully induced as gst ii accounted for about 25 % of the total gst activity . double - stranded cdna was prepared from oligo dt - cellulose - purified rna by amethod employing rnase and e coli dna polymerase i in the synthesis of the second strand , without prior purification of single - stranded cdna ( gubler and hoffman , 1983 ). lambda zap ii was chosen as the cloning vector . sufficient protein to enable the immunisation of sheep was obtained by pooling the enzyme subunit isolated as described above from a number of separate experiments . the 27 kd gst ii polypeptide was subsequently purified to apparent homogeneity by electroelution from polyacrylamide gelslices . antisera were prepared against the 27 kd polypeptide . the immunisation of sheep was carried out essentially according to stewart androwe ( 1975 , j immunological methods , 8 : 37 - 45 ). western blotting experiments showed that a specific recognition of the gst - ii 27 kd subunit was obtained using an antiserum . furthermore , no cross - reactivity with the gst - ii 29 kd subunit was obtained . the affinity and specificity of the primary antiserum was tested by immuno dot blottingand western blotting , showing no cross reactivity with other polypeptides in crude extracts . a variety of control experiments were carried out to optimise the primary and secondary antibody concentrations , to test various enzyme substrates , and to validate fusion protein induction conditions . conditions which maximised the signal to background noise ratio were identified , and allowed detection of 1 ng gst - ii 27 kd subunit . in order to identify a cdna clone encoding maize gst - ii - 27 , bacteriophage from the cdna library were screened . immuno - screening using a 125 i protein g detection system allowed detection of 0 . 1 ng of denatured gst - ii - 27 . 1 × 10 6 recombinants from the safener induced seedling library were screened at high plating densities ( 3 × 10 4 per plate ). 30 positive plaques were detected , picked and rescreened using overnight incubation with iptg soaked filters . six strongly positive candidates remained after 3 rounds of plaque purification . a fourth round of plaque purification was carried out using immuno - screening and dna hybridisation ( with the cdna probe isolated by pcr from the third screen ). six clones came through plaque purification with both detection methods . furthermore , the dna probe cross - hybridised at equal intensities with all 6 positive clones , indicating they probably represented the same sequence . the in vivo excision protocol ( stratagene ) was carried out to liberate bluescript phagemids . plasmid dna prepared from four different lysates wasdesignated pij13 , pij15 , pij17 and pij21 respectively . plasmid pij21 was deposited in the national collections of industrial and marine bacteria ( ncimb ), aberdeen , with the accession number ncimb 30 40413 . when digested with ecori all clones liberated a single insert of between 900 - 950 base pairs , which is the predicted insert size to encode a 27 kd protein . when the gel was blotted and hybridised with pij17 all inserts hybridised with equal intensities . the 950 base pair insert from one of the clones was hybridised to a southern blot of gst - i - 29 and gst - iii - 26 pcr products . the experiments showed no hybridisation to gst - iii - 26 and a very weak hybridisation to gst - i - 29 ( 1 μg target dna with overnight exposure ). when the southern was stripped and rehybridised with a gst - i - 29 specific probe , only a 15 minute exposure was required . the 950 base pair insert ( the putative gst - ii - 27 pcr product ) and the gst - i - 29 specific oligo were also used to probe library filters of 1 × 10 6 recombinants . different hybridisation patterns were obtained for each probe . these studies indicate the positive clone from the library was not gst - i - 29or gst - iii - 26 , but did share some weak homology with gst - i - 29 . between 200 - 300 bases of the 3 &# 39 ; and 5 &# 39 ; ends of each clone was sequenced using sk and ks primers . these data showed the four clones ( pij13 , pij15 , pij17 and pij21 ) to be identical , except for the position of the poly a tail . as with gst - i - 29 three possible poly a addition sites were identified . the longest clone pij17ks was fully sequenced : the cdna sequence ( 954 base pairs ) is shown in fig2 a - 2c . the sequence of pij17ks shows homology in the central region with maize gst - i - 29 and gst - iii - 26 , which provided strong evidence that this clone represents a maize gst . however , the region of high homology between gst - i - 29 and gst - iii - 26 at the 5 &# 39 ; end is dissimilar to the 5 &# 39 ; region of pij17ks , showing that the latter codes for a different protein . analysis of the coding region of gst - ii - 27 shows it to be a g - c region and to contain several repeats in the 5 &# 39 ; region . expression studies carried out by northern analysis strongly suggested thatpij17ks corresponds to a gst - ii - 27 sequence . pij17ks strongly hybridised toa 0 . 95 kb transcript in induced rna ( i ) isolated from a range of treated tissues including roots ( r ), tassel ( t ), silks ( s ) and leaf ( l ). with uninduced rna ( u ), there was a poor hybridisation signal or in some cases no signal . control hybridisation with a constitutive probe indicated equalloadings of rna for the induced and uninduced samples . this indicates that pij17ks indeed represents a safener inducible clone . densitometry analysisshows a 100 fold induction in the 0 . 95 kb transcript in certain tissues such as leaf after safener treatment . the presence of a signal in uninduced rna supports previous western data which detected a low basal expression of gst - ii 27 kd subunit in the absence of safener treatment . pure samples of gst - ii were obtained by sulphobromophthalein glutathione - s - agarose affinity chromatography . to separate the 27 kd and 29 kd subunits , the gst - ii was injected onto a c8 reverse phase hplc column ( sge 100 mm × 2 . 1 mm , 300 å pore ). the subunits were eluted with a gradient of acetonitrile in 0 . 1 % trifluoroacetic acid . sds page ( 17 . 5 % t , 0 . 6 % c ) identified the uv absorbing peaks that correspondedto the 27 kd and 29 kd subunits . the total amino acid composition of each subunit was determined using an applied biosystems 420ah derivatizer automated amino acid analyser . this showed that there was close agreement between the measured composition andthat predicted from the nucleic acid sequence for both the 29 kd and 27 kd subunits . n - terminal sequence analysis was performed on each subunit by edman degradation using an applied biosystems 477 pulsed liquid phase automated amino acid sequence analyser . this showed that the n - terminal sequence of the 29 kd subunit is identical to the 29 kd subunit of gst - i . the n - terminus of the gst - ii 27 kd subunit was blocked to edman degradation . reverse phase hplc separated gst - ii - 27 was freeze dried in a univap freeze concentrator . each subunit was reduced using 6m guanidine - hcl and 45 mm dithiothreitol at 50 ° c . for 15 minutes and then alkylated with 8 mm iodoacetamide at 20 ° c . for 15 minutes . the protein was diluted to produce a 2m guanidine - hcl solution and endoproteinase lysine c added ( 1 : 20 protease : gst ). protease digestion was performed overnight at 37 ° c . ( stone et al ; chap . 2 in &# 34 ; a practical guide to protein and peptide purification for microsequencing &# 34 ; ed . matsudaira , academic press ). the digest was injected onto a c8 reverse phase hplc column ( sge 2 . 1 * 100 mm ) and a gradient of acetonitrile in 0 . 1 % trifluoroacetic acid used to elutethe peptide fragments . amino acid sequence analysis of one fragment gave sequence corresponding to amino acids 208 - 222 of gst - ii - 27 as predicted from the nucleic acid sequence . this sequence has no homology with the published sequence for gst - i - 29 or gst - iii - 26 . further amino acid sequence was obtained by digesting the reduced and alkylated gst - ii - 27 with trypsin for 2 . 5 hours at 20 ° 0c . the peptides were separated by reverse phase hplc ( using a vydac c8 4 . 6 * 150 mm , 300 å pore column ) and a gradient of acetonitrile . three peptides were sequenced and these sequences corresponded to amino acids 8 - 19 , 20 - 38and 52 - 71 of gst - ii - 27 as predicted from the nucleic acid sequence . this shows that the isolated cdna clone corresponds to the gst - ii - 27 subunit . fig3 compares the amino acid sequences of gst - ii - 27 , gst - i - 29 and gst - iii - 26 . an asterisk (*) indicates a position in the alignment is perfectly conserved ; a dot (.) indicates a position is well conserved ; a tick (. check mark .) indicates a position which is conserved with rat gsts . gst - ii - 27 shows homology to the two known isoforms , gst - i - 29 and gst - iii - 26 . gst - ii - 27 is 57 % identical with gst - i - 29 and 41 % with gst - iii - 26 . furthermore , several residues are conserved with rat gsts . the cdna for gst - ii - 27 was utilised to design a gene probe for the isolation of a corresponding genomic sequence which included the promoter region . the gst - ii - 27 cdna sequence was examined to identify a specific region which does not occur in other maize gsts or other plant / animal / viral / vector sequences , and hence would be suitable as a specific gene probe . a 208 bp sequence was isolated by pcr from the 3 &# 39 ; endof plasmid pij21 and purified by acrylamide gel electrophoresis . this pcr probe was random prime labelled and used to screen 5 × 10 6 recombinants from a maize genomic library ( partial mboi digested dna with an average insert size of 15 kb ). the positive clones were plaque - purified with the 3 &# 39 ; pcr probe and a 5 &# 39 ; oligo ( 130 bp from the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna ). these genomic clones were thenmapped to identify fragments running from the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna into the promoter region . an ecori fragment containing around 4 kb of promoter region was isolated . this fragment was subcloned into a pbs vector , designated plasmid pgie7 , which was deposited in the national collections of industrial and marine bacteria ( ncimb ), aberdeen , with the accession number ncimb 40426 . primer extension analysis ( as described by ausubel et al , 1987 , current protocols in molecular biology ) was used to map the transcription start point ( tsp ) to 16 bp from the end of the cdna as shown in fig4 . sequenceanalysis of the promoter subclone pgie7 revealed putative tata and caat boxes - 29 bp and - 110 bp from the predicted tsp respectfully . the tsp site , tata box and intron / exon boundary regions fit the plant consensus sequences , confirming that the isolated sequence is indeed the promoter sequence . fig5 represents the 5 &# 39 ; end of the gst - ii - 27 gene , showing the relative position of restriction sites and the ecori fragment isolated above . pcr and restriction analysis of the genomic clones had indicated that two introns covering 300 bp are present in the region corresponding to the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna , and that one of the introns contains an ecori cleavage site . plasmid pgie7 is contains the ecori - ecori fragment which covers the gst - ii - 27 promoter region plus some coding sequence . the sequence of exon 1 ( underlined ) matches that of the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna . genomic subclones pgie7 and pgis15 were used to sequence 5 . 4 kb of the gst - ii - 27 gene and promoter . the majority was sequenced on both strands according to the strategy illustrated in fig6 . fig7 a - 7c show the nucleotide sequence of 3 . 8 kb of the promoter sequence from the 5 &# 39 ; ecori site to the predicted translation start point . using a combination of fine mapping of promoter subclones and sequence data , appropriate restriction sites were chosen for promoter constructs . avariety of transient assay vectors for protoplast systems ( ppug ) and stabletransformation vectors for tobacco ( pgsttak ) and zea mays ( pzm / rms - 3 ) were constructed . all recombinant plasmids were identified by hybridisation probes , their integrity and orientation checked by restriction mapping andboundaries of completed vectors analysed by sequencing . a variety of transient and stable transformation gus vectors were constructed using approximately 3 . 8 kb of the gst - ii - 27 promoter . nde i was used to cut the gst - ii - 27 promoter at the atg and 4 kb upstream . this fragment was cut with ecori , blunted and cloned into sma i site of ptak ( abin19 based promoterless gus construct ). the gst gus cassette from pgsttak was then cloned into the transient assay vector ppug ( 3 . 8 gst promoter andgus ). the same gst gus cassette was also cloned into a puc derived vector containing the bar selectable cassette giving pzm / rms - 3 . fig8 gives an overview of the method of vector construction . fig9 showsthe final structure of the maize transient transformation vector , ppug ; fig1 shows the tobacco stable transformation vector , pgsttak ; and fig1 shows the maize stable transformation vector , pzm / rms - 3 . a series of protoplast transient assay experiments using ppug were carried out to demonstrate the 3 . 8 kb gst - ii - 27 promoter region was transcriptionally active and that expression from this promoter could be induced by herbicide safeners . protoplasts were isolated form maize cell suspension lines or from in vitrogrown maize leaves by a standard enzymatic digestion , sieving and washing procedure . transformation was carried out by means of a modified peg - mediated uptake method ( based on negrutiu et al , 1987 , plant mol biol , 8 : 363 - 373 ), using 25 μg dna / 0 . 4 × 10 5 protoplasts . chemical wasadded to the protoplast culture medium at 3 - 300 ppm for induction of gst followed by incubation at 25 ° c . in the dark . viability of the treated protoplasts was assessed after 24 hours prior to preparation of extracts . gus expression was measured by means of a fluorimetric gus assay ( jefferson , 1987 , plant mol biol rep , 5 : 387 - 405 ). a summary of results is shown in fig1 which gives the concentration of ppug expression in protoplasts after 19 hours incubation with or without safener . results demonstrate that the 3 . 8 kb promoter of gst - ii - 27 is capable of controlling gus levels in an inducible manner in a number of protoplast systems . the bin19 vector pgsttak containing 3 . 8 kb of the gst - ii - 27 promoter 5 &# 39 ; to the gus reporter gene and nos terminator was used to generate transgenic tobacco using agrobacterium ti plasmid technology as described by bevan ( 1984 , nucleic acids research , 12 : 8711 - 8721 ). transformants produced by this procedure were used in leaf painting experiments in which 10 mg of formulated safener was applied to a 10 cm 3 region of leaf . a second application was made to the same area 48 hours later , and the tissue was harvested after a further 24 hours . treated and untreated leaf tissue was assayed for gus activity using the procedure of jefferson ( 1987 , plant molbiol rep , 5 : 387 - 405 ). a range of transformants were examined using this method . as shown in fig1 , safener application had elevated gus expression by 100 fold in some cases . this clearly demonstrates that the monocotyledonous gst - ii - 27 promoter can regulate gene expression in a dicotyledonous species in an inducible manner . the gst gus vector rms 3 was used to generate transgenic maize plants usingparticle bombardment ( gordon - kamm et al , 1990 , plant cell , 2 : 603 - 618 ). whenleaf tissue was painted with herbicide safener as described above , inducible gus activity was observed ( as shown in fig1 ). the induction of gst - ii - 27 in several tissues of developing maize was studied to determine how the promoter works in its natural environment . formulated r - 29148 ( 2 , 2 , 5 - trimethyl - 3 -( dichloroacetyl )- 1 , 3 - oxazolidine ) or formulation alone were applied as a root drench to maize plants ( 400 mg r - 29148 / plant ) and after a period of time crude protein extracts were prepared from samples of mature and immature leaf , root , stem and tassel . western blot analysis was carried out using these extracts and the anti - gst - ii - 27 - sera or the anti - gst - i - 29 - sera . the results show that the 29 kd subunit ( gst - i - 29 ) is constitutively expressed in all the tissues tested and was inducible in all tissues by safener application . the 27 kd subunit , specific to gst - ii , was only constitutively expressed in root tissue . subsequent to the root drench application of r - 29148 , gst - ii expression was detected in all tissues tested . this induction was not detected in the plants treated with formulation lacking r - 29148 . western blots showed tissue localisation of the gst - ii 27 kd subunit in safener treated maize mature leaf , immature leaf , stem , root and tassel . results of these experiments suggest that the promoter of the invention maybe used to control gene expression in a variety of transgenic tissues . field trial showing gst - ii - 27 induction in tassel tissue by safener application a field trial was performed to examine the expression of gst isoforms in developing maize tassels subsequent to the external application of chemical safeners . the trial demonstrated the statistically significant induction of gst - ii under field conditions . two safeners were used in the field trial : r - 25788 ( n , n - diallyl - 2 , 2 - dichloroacetamide ) and r - 29148 ( 2 , 2 , 5 - trimethyl - 3 -( dichloroacetyl )- 1 , 3 - oxazolidine ), and these were applied in a formulation of cyclohexanone , synperonic npe1800 and tween 85or a formulation of solvesso 100 , synperonic nb13 and phenylsulphonate . safener was applied by a spray application using overhead spraying ( 30 cm above plants ) at four application rates ( three replications per rate ) as follows : the control treatments involved spraying formulation blanks 2f ( treatment 2x without safener ) and 8f ( treatment 8x without safener ). after a period of time , the tassels were harvested and split into three sizes : pre - meiotic , meiotic and post - meiotic floret tissue . crude protein extracts were prepared from floret tissue and stored at - 70 ° c . western blot analysis was performed using these crude extracts and the antisera raised in sheep against the gst - i - 29 or the gst - ii - 27 subunits . antisheep antisera linked to horseradish peroxidase was used as the secondary antisera and detection was achieved using enhanced chemical luminescence ( amersham international plc ). the levels of gst - ii - 27 presentin the crude extract was quantified by running standards of purified gst - ii - 27 in lanes of the sds - page gel adjacent to the crude extract samples and performing densitometric analysis on the blots . the levels of gst - ii induction was also determined by separating the gst isoforms by fplc ion exchange chromatography and assaying for the presenceof gst using cdnb as the substrate . some results of the field trials are given in fig1 and 16 . fig1 gives the overall mean values for treatment with r - 25788 and r - 29148 . it is obvious that the presence of the inducing chemical ( reatments x , 2x , 4x , 8x ) causes an increase in the amount of the gst - ii enzyme under field conditions when compared to the control plants ( treatments 2f and 8f ). fig1 gives the amount of gst - ii from 2f field trial tassel samples ( large , medium and small ), estimated by western analysis . when compared tothe 2x treated samples , it is obvious that the presence of inducing chemical causes an increase in gst - ii over the basal level . these results show that the safeners r - 29148 and r - 25788 can be used to induce expression of gst - ii under field conditions . these data , taken withthe results from the studies with transgenic plants containing the gst - ii - 27 gene promoter , suggest that said promoter will provide a useful and efficient mechanism for controlling gene expression in transgenic plants under field conditions . the nucleotide sequence of a cdna encoding gst - i - 29 was published by wiegand et al . in plant mol biol , 1986 , 7 : 235 - 243 . using this sequence , a specific oligonucleotide probe was designed and used to isolate a full length cdna ( plasmid pij4 ) encoding gst - i - 29 from a safener induced seedling root cdna library . isolation of the cdna encoding gst - ii - 27 ( as shown in fig2 a - 2c ) has already been described . the full length cdnas may be incorporated into bin19 - based vectors under the control of the 35s camv promoter . fig1 shows how these constructs may be prepared . the full length gst - i - 29 coding region and the full length gst - ii - 27 sequence are isolatedfrom pij4 and from pij21 respectively by digestion with ecori . these fragments are filled in using klenow / t4 polymerase to produce blunt ends . the blunt - ended fragments are then ligated 3 &# 39 ; to the 35s camv promoter of pjrii at the smai cloning site . recombinants containing cdna inserts in the correct orientation are be selected using restriction mapping analysis . tobacco plants may be transformed with vectors containing either the camv35s - gst - i - 29 or the camv35s - gst - ii - 27 cassette using the protocols already described . transformants expressing the respective gst - ii subunits ( 29 kd or 27 kd ) may be determined by western blotting analysis with subunit specific antisera ( as already described ). such transformants may be crossed to produce progeny expressing both gst - i - 29 and gst - ii - 27 , resulting in a herbicide resistant phenotype . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 7 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 954 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( b ) strain : gstii - 27 - fig2 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : gstiii fig4 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : metalaproleulysleutyrglymetproleuserproasnvalval151015argvalalathrvalleuasnglulysglyleuaspphegluileval202530provalaspleuthrthrglyalahislysglnproasppheleuala354045leuasnpropheglyglnileproalaleuvalaspglyaspgluval505560leuphegluserargalaileasnargtyrilealaserlystyrala65707580sergluglythraspleuleuproalathralaseralaalalysleu859095gluvaltrpleugluvalgluserhishisphehisproasnalaser100105110proleuvalpheglnleuleuvalargproleuleuglyglyalapro115120125aspalaalavalvalglulyshisalagluglnleualalysvalleu130135140aspvaltyrglualahisleualaargasnlystyrleualaglyasp145150155160gluphethrleualaaspalaasnhisalaleuleuproalaleuthr165170175seralaargproproargproglycysvalalaalaargprohisval180185190lysalatrptrpglualailealaalaargproalapheglnlysthr195200205valalaalaileproleuproproproproserserserala210215220 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 305 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : primer extension map fig5 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : tccctcccgtcgaccaaatacacttggtcttctagcaccttcttcctctccaagactcca60atcccccaaccaccagaaccagcgccagctctaacgtcacctctgatttctctctcctct120ctattgctagctgctttattataagtagcagctgcagcaggcaggagctgcacacaccca180tccaattccagctgctgatcttgatcctgcaccccgagccgtacacaagagctagtcggt240agaacttgcaggagcggagcagaactaagtgcagagaacaggacatatggctacgccggc300ggtga305 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 3827 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : gst - 27 promoter figure 8 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 119 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : both ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : ccagctgctgatcttgatcctgcaccccgagctgtacacaagaagctagtcggtagaact60tgcaggagcggagcagaactaagtgcagagaacaggacatatggctacgccggcggtga119__________________________________________________________________________