Patent Application: US-40000695-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides a dna sequence encoding an oxalate oxidase . the oxalate oxydase may be used for the resistance of plants to diseases caused by sclerotinia sp . it may be provided by a chimeric gene and a vector containing the coding sequence . it may be used to confer on plants an increased resistance to diseases caused by sclerotinia sp .

Description:
preprotein : it is obtained from the cdna described above , digested with hindiii ( in position 66 ). the cohesive end obtained is made blunt by treating with klenow polymerase . this dna is then digested with nhei ( in position 811 ). the plasmid puc 19 ( yanisch - perron et al ., 1985 ) is digested in parallel with saci . the cohesive end obtained is made blunt by treating with klenow polymerase . the plasmid is then digested with xbai ( compatible with nhei ). the cdna fragment and plasmid prepared above are ligated . the new plasmid thus obtained is called prpa - oxo - 01 and its map is presented in fig1 . b . mature protein : it is obtained from the cdna described above after digestion with bstni ( in position 173 ). the fragment obtained and the linker of the sequence [ seq id no . 3 ]: are ligated . this leads to a modification of the n - terminal sequence of the mature protein which passes from tdpdplq [ seq id no . 4 ] to mtdpdplq [ seq id no . 5 ]. this cdna fragment is then digested with nhei ( in position 811 ) so that it can then be ligated with the plasmid puc19 prepared as described in the paragraph above . the new plasmid thus formed is called prpa - oxo - 02 and its map is presented in fig1 . example double camv : this vector is obtained from the plasmid prpa - bl - 410 obtained in the following manner : the transit peptide of the ssu of the maize rubisco gene is derived from an ecori - sphi fragment of 192 - bp ; it is obtained from the cdna corresponding to the ssu gene of the maize rubisco gene described by lebrun et al . ( 1987 ) nucl . acid res . 15 : 4360 with an ncoi site spanning the initiation codon for translation and an sphi site corresponding to the cleavage site of the transit peptide . the translational fusion between the maize transit peptide and the bacterial epsps gene is obtained by treating the sphi end with the bacteriophage t4 polymerase and by ligating it with the klenow polymerase - treated ncoi end of the aroa gene of prpa - bl 104 recut with ecori . transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene fusion : in a similar fashion , an ecori - hindii fragment of 228 bp of the cdna of the ssu of maize rubisco gene is ligated with the klenow polymerase - treated ncoi end of the aroa gene of prpa - bl 104 and recut with ecori . a translational fusion is obtained between the transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco , the 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco and the bacterial epsps gene . the fragment is obtained from the cdna isolated by waksman and freyssinet ( 1987 ) ( nucl . acid res . 15 : 1328 ). a sphi site was created according to the method of zoller and smith ( 1984 ) ( method enzymol . 154 : 329 ) at the cleavage site of the transit peptide . the transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco thus obtained is an ecori - sphi fragment of 171 bp . transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene fusion : the construct containing the transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the ssu of maize rubisco of the mature part of the maize gene fusion was cut with ecori - sphi of 171 bp corresponding to the transit peptide of the ssu of the said sunflower rubisco gene . the resulting construct exhibits a substitution of the ecori - sphi fragments and is a translational fusion , “ transit peptide of the ssu or sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene . the ecori - sali fragment was ligated with the sali - ssti fragment containing the 3 ′ nos sequence and the right end of the t - dna . the resulting ecori - ssti fragment comprising “ transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene / 3 ′ nos / t - dna right end ” is substituted for the ecori - ssti fragment containing the right end of the t - dna of the plasmid 150 a alpha 2 containing the double caxv promoter . the transcriptional fusion “ double camv / transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the mature part of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene / 3 ′ nos ” in the vector 150 a alpha 2 was called prpa - bl 294 . transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the ssu of maize rubisco / transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene ” fusion : the construct above is cut with ncoi - hindiii releasing the aroa gene . it is then ligated with a 1 . 5 - kbp ncoi - hindiii fragment containing the “ transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene ” fusion . the resulting construct exhibits a substitution of the ncoi - hindiii fragments and is a translational fusion “ transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the ssu of rubisco of the mature part of the maize gene / transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene ”. the ecori - sali fragment was ligated with the sali - ssti fragment containing the 3 ′ nos sequence and the right end of the t - dna . the resulting ecori - ssti fragment comprising “ transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the ssu of rubisco of the mature part of the maize gene / transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene / 3 ′ nos / t - dna right end ” is substituted for the ecori - ssti fragment containing the right end of t - dna of the plasmid 150 a alpha 2 containing the double camv promoter . the transcriptional fusion “ double camv / transit peptide of the ssu of sunflower rubisco / sequence of 22 amino acids of the ssu of rubisco of the mature part of the maize gene / transit peptide of the ssu of maize rubisco / aroa gene / 3 ′ nos ” in the vector 150 a alpha 2 was called prpa - bl 410 . this plasmid is digested with ecori and sali in order to remove the structural gene “ optimised transit peptide - mature epsps encoding region ”, prpa - bl - 410 deleted ( see fig1 ). example ssuha : this vector is obtained from the plasmid prpa - bl - 207 ( described in european patent application 0 , 337 , 899 ) which is digested with ecori and hindiii in order to remove the nitrilase - encoding region , prpa - bl - 207 deleted ( see fig1 ). prpa - oxo - 03 : it is obtained by digesting prpa - oxo - 01 with ecori and sali . the fragment obtained , which encodes the preprotein , is then inserted between the ecori and sali sites downstream of the double camv and upstream of the terminator nos respectively . prpa - oxo - 04 : it is obtained by digesting prpa - oxo - 02 with ecori and sali . the fragment obtained , which encodes the mature protein , is then inserted between the ecori and sali sites downstream of the double camv and upstream of the terminator nos respectively . prpa - oxo - 05 : it is obtained by digesting prpa - oxo - 01 with ecori and hindiii . the fragment obtained , which encodes the preprotein , is then inserted between the ecori and hindiii sites downstream of the double ssuha and upstream of the terminator nos respectively . prpa - oxo - 06 : it is obtained by - digesting prpa - oxo - 02 with ecori and hindiii . the fragment obtained , which encodes the mature protein , is then inserted between the ecori and hindiii sites downstream of the ssuha promoter and the terminator nos respectively . the method of transforming colza , westar variety , is essentially based on that described by boulter et al . ( 1990 ) ( plant sci . 70 : 91 - 99 ), using a bacterial concentration of 2 . 5 × 10 ~ 9 per ml ( od 600 nm = 1 ). the method of regeneration is essentially based on that described by boulter et al . ( 1990 ) ( plant sci . 70 : 91 - 99 ). the plants are rooted on the medium of de block et al . ( 1989 ) ( plant sci . 1 : 694 - 701 ). they are then brought to the flowering stage in a greenhouse . foliar discs : the resistance is measured by weighing the mass of three foliar discs after growing for 11 days on a murashige and skoog ( ms ) medium with hormones , supplemented with 1 mm of oxalic acid . under these conditions , it is observed that for the foliar discs obtained from colzas ( western varity ) modified using one of the chimeric genes , prpa - oxo - 03 , prpa - oxo - 04 , prpa - oxo - 05 and prpa - oxo - 06 , the mass of the foliar discs increases substantially whereas , in the case of the foliar discs obtained from unmodified colzas , the mass stagnates or even decreases . root elongation : the resistance is also measured in vitro by measuring root elongation after growing for two days on water supplemented with 5 mm of oxalic acid . it is observed , in this case , that the roots of colza plants modified with one of the chimeric genes , prpa - oxo - 03 , prpa - oxo - 04 , are capable of growing and increasing in length , whereas the roots of unmodified colzas show no growth under these conditions . the resistance in vivo is measured in a greenhouse after contaminating colza plants obtained from the regeneration , as soon as the first flowers appeared , either by depositing s . sclerotiorum spores on the petals , the infection of the leaves thereby occurring naturally during defloration , or by directly depositing mycelium or a mycelium - impregnated petal on the leaves . the plants modified by one of the chimeric genes , prpa - oxo - 03 , prpa - oxo - 04 , prpa - oxo - 05 and prpa - oxo - 06 do not allow the fungus to develop and do not exhibit any symptom of rot characteristic of sclerotiniose , whereas the unmodified plants are rapidly overcome by rot characteristic of the development of sclerotinia sclerotiorum . 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