Patent Application: US-17446793-A

Abstract:
the synthesis of lignin by plants is controlled by transformation of the plant genome with a recombinant gene construct which contains the gene specifying an enzyme critical to the synthesis of a lignin precursor , which gene may be in antisense orientation so that it is transcribed to mrna having a sequence complementary to the equivalent mrna transcribed from the endogenous gene thus leading to suppression of lignin synthesis . if the recombinant gene has the lignin enzyme gene in normal , or &# 34 ; sense &# 34 ; orientation , increased production of the enzyme may occur when the insert is the full length dna but suppression may occur if only a partial sequence is employed .

Description:
the invention will now be described , by way of illustration , in the following examples . improved protocols have been developed for the purification of cad . the new procedure is simpler than the previously published methods and is based on the following steps : 1 . preparation of tobacco stem extract by homogenization and 70 - 40 % ammonium sulphate precipitation six week old tobacco stems were frozen in liquid n , crushed with a hammer and homogenized in a waring blender in buffer a . the homogenate was centrifuged at 45000 xg for 30 min . solid ammonium sulphate was added to the supernatant to bring it to 70 % saturation and proteins were precipitated at 4 ° c . for 30 min . the precipitate was collected by centrifugation at 10 , 000 rpm for 1 hour . the pellet was resuspended in a minimum volume of buffer supplemented with 5 % ethylene glycol , to reduce the ammonium sulphate concentration to approximately 40 % saturation . material that did not resuspend was removed by centrifugation . the supernatant was desalted and applied to a blue sepharose column . the column was washed in at least 6 column volumes buffer including one column volume supplemented with 4 mm nad . this wash elutes other alcohol dehydrogenases . specific elution of cad was performed with a gradient of 0 - 4 mm nadp in buffer b . cad - containing fractions were pooled and 5 % ethylene glycol was added . the pooled fractions from blue sepharose were applied to an fplc mono q column . the column was washed until the absorbance dropped to baseline levels . proteins were eluted in a linear gradient of buffer with 20 - 400 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 . monoq fractions were applied to a column of 2 &# 39 ; 5 &# 39 ; adp - sepharose . the column was washed with 6 column volumes buffer including one column volume supplemented with 4 mm nad . specific elution was performed in a linear gradient of buffer with 0 - 4 mm nadp . using this protocol tobacco cad was purified to homogeneity . 600 μg were obtained from 4 kg material representing 0 . 05 % total soluble protein . this represents a purification of approximately 2000 fold . the purified enzyme has specific activity of 173 nkat / mg protein . the pure enzyme is specific for nadp and exhibits a km for coniferyl alcohol of 12 μmol / l . purified cad consists of two subunits of approximate molecular weights 42 . 5 kda and 44 kda . when slices isolated separately from native gels containing the cad protein ( identified as two separate bands by silver staining ) were transferred to and run on an sds gel , each native form appears to contain both polypeptides . pure protein was run on a reverse phase hplc column , yielding two well separated protein peaks probably the two polypeptides . peptide mapping of each polypeptide with n - chlorosuccinimide / urea and amino acid analysis of purified subunits suggest that they are very similar . both peptides were digested with trypsin and the sequence of the resulting fragments was determined . the sequence of the peptides is shown in fig1 . this shows clearly that cad is represented by two closely related polypeptides . a cdna library has been generated using rna extracted from six week old tobacco stems . 20 ug of polya rna was prepared and cdna synthesised . part of this was cloned into lambda - zap ii vector ( a commercially available cloning vector ). this yielded 860 , 000 recombinants , 70 % of which have inserts of 1 kb or greater , as determined by pcr on 24 randomly selected clones . 600 , 000 recombinants were screened using an oligonucleotide probe ( cad116 ) shown in fig2 . this oligo was designed against peptide sequence 4 from fig1 . one strongly hybridizing clone was identified , purified and characterised . this clone , ptcad19 , has a cdna insert of 1419 bp . analysis of the dna sequence - derived amino acid sequence clearly demonstrates that it represents a cad clone as several regions show dna sequence - derived amino acid sequences identical to the peptide sequences found in fig1 representing the 42 . 5 kda peptide ( peak 2 from rhplc ). the 600 , 000 clones representing the tobacco stem cdna library was rescreened using the ecorl insert of ptcad19 . five additional clones were identified , purified and characterised . sequencing of these clones has allowed identification of two cdna clones which are different from ptcad19 , encoding the peptide found in peak 1 from rhplc . a representative clone is called ptcad14 and its sequence is shown in fig5 . this demonstrates that this clone is different from ptcad19 and that it contains peptide sequence derived from the peak 1 protein . ptcad19 and ptcad14 were cut with ecorl and hindiii , and the resulting fragments of 981 bases were isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis . the fragment was made blunt ended using klenow fragment a . the fragment was then cloned into pjr1 cut with smal . clones containing the insert in the antisense orientation are called pjt19a and pjt14a . clones which contain the fragment in sense orientation are called pjt19s and pjt19s . the construction of these vectors is shown in fig5 . ptcad19 was cut with ecorl and hindiii , and the resulting fragment of 981 bases was isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis . the fragment was made blunt ended using klenow fragment a . the fragment was then cloned into pmk4 cut with hincii . pmk4 is an expression vector which contains the dral fragment of the bean phenylalanine ammonia lyase promoter , a multiple cloning site and the nos 3 &# 39 ; end . clones containing the insert in the antisense orientation are called pmt19a and pmt14a . clones which contain the fragment in sense orientation are called pmt19s and pmt14s . the construction of these vectors is shown in fig5 . the complete insert of ptcad19 was excised by restriction of the plasmids with ecorl . the inserts were made blunt ended and cloned into pjr1 and pmk4 . the resulting vectors are called : the antisense and sense constructs were introduced into a . tumefaciens lba4404 by direct transformation following published procedures . the presence and integrity of the antisense constructs were checked by restriction digestion and southern blot experiments to check that no recombination had occured during the transfer of the vectors to agrobacterium . tobacco ( n . tabaccum , variety samsum ) leaf discs were transformed using well established previously published procedures . plants containing the cad antisense construct were identified by pcr and selected for further analysis . plant material was used from both transformed and untransformed control plants for cad enzyme determinations . stem material was ground with cad extraction buffer containing 200 mm tris / hcl ph 7 . 5 , 0 . 5 % ( w / v ) peg 6000 , 5 % ( w / v ) pvp , and 15 mm β - mercaptoethanol ( 500 μl ). the crude homogenate was centrifuged and the supernatant used as source of enzyme . the assay reaction contained 10 mm coniferyl alcohol ( 50 μl ), 10 mm nadp + ( 50 μl ), 100 mm tris / hcl ph 8 . 8 ( 800 μl ). this was incubated at 30 ° c . for 10 minutes , then enzyme extract ( 100 μl ) was added and the whole mixture incubated for a further 10 minutes at 30 ° c . the od400 was recorded against a blank supplemented with water . one sample was taken from each plant . assays were conducted in duplicate . the results of the analysis of these enzyme measurement are shown in fig1 . this clearly indicates that the transgenic plants exhibit a wide range of cad enzyme activities . plants with lowest levels of cad activity show approximately 10 % of control cad enzyme values . dna was extracted from selected plants . oligonucleotides to sequences in the camv of pal promoter and nos 3 &# 39 ; terminator were used as primers in the polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ). to confirm that the products were cad sequences , a southern blot of these products was probed with a third oligonucleotide representing cad sequences . this analysis demonstrated that all plants used for the analysis shown in fig1 contained the antisense constructs . plants with low cad activity were backcrossed and selfed . progeny plants were analysed in detail for the heritability of the cad antisense gene and the low cad enzyme phenotype . this indicates that the low cad phenotype segregates with the antisense gene . 80 , 000 colonies from a poplar cdna library constructed in puc18 were probed with the entire ecorl insert from ptcad19 . hybridization was performed in 3 × ssc , 0 . 5 % milk powder at 60 ° c . washing was performed in 3 × ssc , 0 . 5 % sds at 60 ° c . for 3 × 0 . 5 hour . one clone was isolated , named ppopcad1 . this clone contained an insert of 1378 bp and was 70 % homologous to ptcad19 . the sequence of ppopcad1 is shown in fig7 . the insert of ppopcad1 was exised as a bamhl fragment and cloned into the plant expression vector pgsj780a in the antisense and sense orientations . these vectors were used to transform poplar and aspen . a cdna library was generated using rna extracted from 7 days old cell suspension cultures of eucalyptus gunnii ( clone 832 , afocel ). 5 μg of polya + rna was prepared and used to synthesise cdna . this was cloned into the ecori site of lambda gt11 ( a commercially available cloning vector ). this yielded 10 6 recombinants , 60 % of which have inserts of 1 kb or greater , as determined by pcr on 24 randomly selected clones . the identity of the eucalyptus cad clone was confirmed by the expression of catalytically active cad enzyme in a transformed e . coli bacterial host . this was achieved by cloning the eucalyptus cad cdna in the expression vector pt7 -- 7 as described by tabor and richardson , proceedings of the national academy of science 82 , 1985 , transforming the commercially available e . coli lysogenic strain bl21 , inducing the expression of the cloned gene under control of the t7 promoter with iptg and assaying the whole cell extract for cad activity . the results unequivocally identified the clone as specifying the enzyme cad . 600 , 000 recombinants from the amplified library ( 1 . 6 10 6 recombinants ) were screened using the ecori insert of ptcad19 . six positive clones were plaque purified ; the largest has been subcloned into pgem3 ( a commercially available cloning vector ), characterised and sequenced . this full length clone ( 1391 bp ) encodes a protein of 356 amino acids which has a very high homology with the sequence of the tobacco cad ( 76 . 4 % of the amino acids are identical , 11 % are well conserved ). the sequence of this clone , peucad1 is shown in fig8 . pcr primers derived from sequences highly conserved between ptcad19 and ppopcad1 ( fig9 ) were used under suitable conditions to generate a pcr product from maize genomic dna . the product was cloned into bluescript sk +/- and its nucleotide sequence determined ( fig1 ). this clone was clearly identified as encoding part of the maize cad gene by dna sequence comparison to the tobacco cad sequences of ptcad14 / 19 . analysis of cell wall bound and soluble phenolics in tobacco transformed with antisense tobacco cad cad is believed to play a key role in the regulation of lignin biosynthesis and this example reports confirmation of the effect of lignin down - regulation in transformants containing the antisense gene to cad . lignin is known to react with thioglycolic acid ( tga ) ( freudenberg et . al . in &# 34 ; constitution and biosynthesis of lignin &# 34 ;, springer verlag , berlin , 1968 ) and method employing tga lignin extraction have been employed in the past to determine the amount of lignins present in plants after wounding . however , simple tga extraction does tend to overestimate the amount of lignin because certain other components of the plant tissue are co - extracted . the simple method may be adapted to include a step of first saponifying the methanol insoluble component of the cell wall prior to tga extraction ( campbell & amp ; ellis , phytochem 31 : 737 ( 1992 )). stem sections ( 5 cm ) from eight week old the sample plants were lyohilised and separated into &# 34 ; green tissue &# 34 ; comprising the phloem , cortex and epidermis and &# 34 ; woody tissue &# 34 ; comprising the xylem and pith . ten samples each of control and transformed plants were analysed blind for tga extractable cell wall complexes by the method described by campbell and ellis and also for the phenolics content of methanol and alkali extracts by the methods generally described by ferraris et . al . j . disease protect . 94 ; 624 ( 1987 ). the results are reported in tables 1 , 2 , and 3 below . table 1______________________________________direct numerical comparison of the content of tgaextractable complexes obtained from lyophilisedstem tissue from control and transformed plants . control transformed ratiotissue plants ( c ) plants ( t ) t / c______________________________________green 0 . 03 ( 0 . 01 ) 0 . 05 ( 0 . 02 ) 1 . 53woody 0 . 22 ( 0 . 05 ) 0 . 37 ( 0 . 12 ) 1 . 60total 0 . 26 ( 0 . 06 ) 0 . 42 ( 0 . 13 ) 1 . 59______________________________________ the units are a280 / mg dry weight with the standard errors in parentheses table 2______________________________________direct numerical comparison of the content ofmethanol - extractable phenolics obtained fromlyophilised stem tissue from control andtransformed plants . control transformed ratiotissue plants ( c ) plants ( t ) t / c______________________________________green 4 . 37 ( 0 . 58 ) 5 . 64 ( 0 . 76 ) 1 . 28woody 0 . 81 ( 0 . 12 ) 1 . 39 ( 0 . 33 ) 1 . 72total 5 . 18 ( 0 . 65 ) 7 . 03 ( 0 . 92 ) 1 . 35______________________________________ the units are μg of ferulate equivalents per mg of dry weight with the standard errors shown in parentheses . table 3______________________________________direct numerical comparison of the content ofalakali - extractable phenolics obtained fromlyophilised stem tissue from control andtransformed plants . control transformed ratiotissue plants ( c ) plants ( t ) t / c______________________________________green 1 . 29 ( 0 . 32 ) 2 . 13 ( 0 . 52 ) 1 . 65woody 0 . 82 ( 0 . 17 ) 2 . 92 ( 1 . 59 ) 3 . 58total 2 . 10 ( 0 . 46 ) 5 . 06 ( 2 . 06 ) 2 . 4______________________________________ the units are μg of ferulate equivalents per mg of dry weight with the standard errors shown in parentheses . although the results in table 3 show an increase in the amount of tga - extractable complexes in the cad - antisense plants the increase can be explained by the suggestion that the chemical composition has altered and this would not entirely be surprising since the inhibition of cad would inhibit synthesis of the type lignin polymers which are normally synthesised downstream of the cad catalysed step in the pathway and result in a build - up of the upstream phenolic acid precursors . this change in the character of the lignin was confirmed by comparing the uv spectra of the tga complexes from the control and transformed plants . further confirmation has been obtained by alkaline nitrobenzene oxidation analysis which has revealed the presence of additional components in the transformed plants and chromatographic analysis indicates that these are phenolic acids . thus the tga extraction analysis indicates that down - regulation of cad makes the &# 34 ; lignin &# 34 ; more amenable to removal and this property should be reflected in facilitation of cellulose extraction processes . the same feature is also indicated by the analyses reported in tables 2 and 3 . the alkaline extraction is further significant in that it is common farming practice to store forage crops as silage and this frequently involves addition of alkali ( ammonia , usually ) and it may be expected that silage made from forage crops transformed with cad antisense will have lower than normal lignin concentration , leading to improved digestibility . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) 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caaagtac360agagttggtgaccgagtgggaaccggtatagtggttgggtgctgcagaagctgtagccct420tgcaattcggaccaggagcaatattgcaacaagaagatttggaattacaatgacgtgtac480accgatggcaagcccactcaaggtgggttt gctggtgagatagtggttggcgaaaggttt540gtggtgaaaatcccagatgggttagagtcggaacaggcagcgccgctgatgtgcgctggt600gtgaccgtgtacagccctctggtgcgctttgggctcaagcaaagcgggttgagaggaggg660atattgg ggcttggaggggttggccacatgggggtgaagatagccaaggccatgggacac720cacgtgactgtgataagctcttctgataagaagagaacggaggcattggagcacctgggt780gccgatgcttacctagtgagctccgatgaaaatggaatgaaagaggccactg attctctc840gactacatttttgacactatccctgtggttcaccctctcgaaccttacctggccttgttg900aagctcgatggaaagctgatcttgactggtgtcatcaatgctcctcttcaatttatctct960cccatggttatgcttgggaggaagtcaatc actgggagtttcatagggagcatgaaggaa1020acagaggagatgcttgagttctgcaaagaaaagggattgacttcccagatcgaagtgatc1080aagatggattatgtcaacaccgccctagagaggctcgagaagaatgatgtcaggtacagg1140ttcgtcg tggacgtcgtgggaagcaagcttgattagtttcggctttccccataagtaaac1200aagaaatcgacttgcttgtctctcaattcgagttcctcatgccctctgttgtatcattgt1260ttgttataccgagagtgctattttcttctgtcttcgtattgaaaccatagac cttctcga1320ttgtgtattcaatgatgaaggtgttaatgattttatcacttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1377 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 21 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 28 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 21 : caygargtsgtnggnraggtngtngagg28 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 22 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 27 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 22 : ggyttnccrtcngtgtasacrtcrttg27 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 23 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 180 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 23 : ggtggtgggggaggtggtggaggtcgggcccgaggtggccaagtacggcttcggcgacgt60ggtaggcgtcggggtgatcgttgggtcgtgccgcgagtgcagcccctgcaaggccaacgt120tgagcagtactgcaacaagaagatct ggtcatacaacgacgtctacaccgacggcaaacc180