Patent Application: US-34734095-A

Abstract:
a gene promoter sequence has been isolated and characterised from the plant gene encoding the enzyme cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase , an enzyme which participates in the biosynthesis of lignins . the promoter may be used to control expression of exogenous genes placed under its control . genes controlled by the cad promoter is inducible by wounding .

Description:
a tobacco genomic library ( n . tabacum cv nk 326 ) was purchased from clontech . this library contains mboi partially digested genomic dna cloned into lambda embl3 . the library was screened with the ptcad14 cdna insert and positive phages were purified by four successive cycles of plaque purification . four positive clones were isolated . restriction fragment mapping and dna sequence analysis of these clones indicated that all 4 clones are overlapping clones of the cad gene and are related . only clones 2 and 9 contain promoter sequences and only clone 9 was characterised in detail . a restriction map of this clone is shown in fig1 . a 6 . 4 kb sali - hindiii fragment was isolated from gntcad9 and the nucleotide sequence covering 2765 bp of the 5 &# 39 ;- flanking ( promoter ) sequences and most of the coding sequences has been determined ( fig2 ). primer extension experiments place the transcription start point at nucleotide position 2766 . full sequence data of about 6 . 8 kb have been obtained of a tobacco cad gene contained on clone gntcad9 . the following are thereby confirmed : ( a ) transcription start site mapped to position 2766 from the upstream sal 1 border , now designated position + 1 , placing the atg start codon at + 110 ( b ) position and exact size of the four introns : ( 1 ) at + 198 , size 149 bp ; ( 11 ) at + 312 , size 1290 bp ; ( 111 ) at + 540 , size 563 bp ; ( iv ) at 980 , size 632 bp . the intron position and sizes differ from the ones in adh genes . ( c ) three nucleotide mismatches to cdna cntcad14 , which are all silent with respect to the deduced protein . they can be ascribed to cultivar differences between cdna and genomic library . a xbai site at position + 84 was used to isolate the cad promoter from gntcad9 and create a transcriptional fusion of 2849 bp of promoter and leader sequences to the gus reporter gene in pbi 101 . 4 . the promoter fragment was isolated after partial xbai digest due to a second xbai site in the promoter . correct fusion and fusion borders were confirmed by restriction analysis and dna sequencing . the plasmid subclone gntcad9 - 6 . 4sh containing the 6 . 4 kb sali - hindiii fragment was digested with sali and partially digested with xbai to recover a 2853 bp sali - xbai fragment , which contains all of the available cad promoter sequence and 87 bp of leader sequence . this promoter fragment was inserted into the appropriately cut polylinker of the promoterless gus cassette of the binary plant transformation vector pbi101 . 4 in the 5 &# 39 ;- 3 &# 39 ; orientation ( fig3 ). the correct insertion has been confirmed by dna sequencing of the fusion borders . the vector pntcad9prom - gus1 ( from example 1 . 4 ) is transferred to agrobacterium tumefaciens lba4404 ( a micro - organism widely available to plant biotechnologists ) and was used to transform tobacco plants . the fusion construct was introduced into agrobacterium tumefaciens lba 4404 . tobacco cv . sr1 leaf discs were transformed via cocultivation with agrobacteria harbouring the construct . transgenic shoots were rooted and further propagated by standard procedures . transformation of tobacco leaf disks follows established methods . transformed plants were identified by their ability to grow on media containing the antibiotic kanamycin . plants were regenerated and grown to maturity . the tissue - specific and developmental expression and expression in response to external stimuli of the β - glucuronidase ( gus ) gene as determined by the cad gene promoter is demonstrated by analysis of stems , roots , leaves , seeds , flowers , pollen and in response to wounding and ethylene treatment for gus enzyme activity . from 20 transformants regenerated 11 have been analysed in some detail . quantitatively ( fluorometric analysis ), gus activity is highest in roots followed by stems and leaves . histochemical staining by x - gluc indicates strong expression in the vascular system of stems and leaves preferentially in the developing xylem , where lignification is known to occur . no activity was detectable in pith or epidermal tissue . however , leaf and stem hairs (( trichomes )) exhibit considerable gus expression in certain stages of their development . one example is the region around axillary buds , where strong staining of trichomes was observed . upon wounding of stems a local induction of promoter activity was seen during the development of a wound plug but only 10 - 20 days after wounding . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 1 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6877 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : nicotiana tabacum ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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