Patent Application: US-33677894-A

Abstract:
regulatory regions from maize α - tubulin genes are disclosed . in particular , 5 &# 39 ; regulatory regions comprising an upstream regulatory ensemble from maize α - tubulin 1 and 3 genes is useful in tissue specific expression of heterologous genes in transformed plants . the maize α - tubulin ure comprises regulatory elements which when operably linked to a promoter and heterologous gene , confer regulated expression in roots , pollen and meristematic tissues . expression constructs which confer tissue specific expression are also provided .

Description:
the cassettes for general use of the gus reporter gene which are used in the examples were described by jefferson et al ., 1987 embo j 6 , 3901 . in short , the coding sequence of gus was ligated to the 5 &# 39 ; part of the polyadenylation site of nopaline synthase in the polylinker site of the vector pbin19 derived from a . tumefaciens ( bevan ( 1984 ) nucleics acids res . 12 , 8711 ). the vector pbin19 contains the left and right borders of t - dna necessary for the plant transformation , and a kanamycin resistance gene . the resulting construct , pbi101 . 1 is described in fig1 . only the restriction sites upstream of the initiation codon aug for gus allow the insertion of the promoter dna fragments . table 1 describes the parental plasmids and the derived constructs . the maize α - tub 1 and the positions of the promoter elements contained in the derived constructs are represented in fig2 . the constructs pα - tub 1 - gus represent large overlapping fragments which span the entire length of the regulatory region (- 1410 to 48 of fig2 ). the 5 &# 39 ; ends of several constructs were derived from exonuclease iii digestions of a 497 bp of α - tub 1 in pbi101 . 1 ( stratagene ) [- 449 ( spci - sacii ), table 1 ]. the position of each deletion is shown in fig2 . the plasmid constructs based on pbin19 were used to transform tobacco ( nicotinia tabacum cv petite havana sr1 ) according to standard procedures ( horsch et al . ( 1985 ) except that the initial transformants were selected on 100 μg / ml of kanamycin . the plants were self - pollinated , and the f1 sheaths allowed to germinate on 200 g / ml of kanamycin in order to identify the transformants , since the constructs based on pbin19 contain the neomycin phosphotransferase ( nptii ) gene which confer the resistance to the toxic kanamycin antibiotic . the copy number of each gus construct integrated into the tobacco genome was estimated for each transformant by analyzing the segregation frequencies for the resistance to the kanamycin . most of the transformants contained only a locus segregating from the construct . the transgenic plants were grown in a greenhouse . table i______________________________________con - struct description______________________________________parental plasmidspbi101 . 1 pbin - 19 cassette of the gene , without promoter , derived from the gus reporter gene ( jefferson et . al ., 1987 ) ( cf . fig1 ). prpa - similar to pbi101 . 1 except that the genebl - 504 for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase replaces the gus gene . pαtub 1 xhoi fragment of 3058 bp from mg19 / 6 ( montoliu et . al ., 1989 ) cloned into puc - 18 ; contains the entire upstream regulatory ensemble of maize α - tub 1 . pαtub 1 - xhoi - alui fragment of 1588 bp from maize1588 α - tub 1 ( montoliu et . al ., 1989 ) cloned into puc - 18 ; contains 1410 bp upstream and 180 bp downstream of the site for initiation of transcription . pαtub 3 - bglii fragment of 1072 bp from maize1072 αtub 3 ( montoliu et . al ., 1990 ) cloned into the bamhi site of puc - 18 ; contains 1020 bp upstream and 62 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . prpa - aroa expression cassette containing anrd - 37b optimized transit peptide fused in frame ( ep 508 909 ), an aroa gene and an nos polyadenylation signal cloned into pbs ii sk (-) ( stratagene ). prpa - monocot transformation vector containingrd - 49 a 35s camv promoter , a bar gene and a tr7 polyadenylation signal cloned between the hindiii and ecori sites of puc - 18 . an noti linker was ligated to the blunt end between the two afliii sites and sspi site and creating a 3 . 1 kb noti fragment containing the gene construct 35s camv - bar . prpa - ecori - scai fragment of 1865 bp fromrd - 26 pαtub 1 cloned into ecori - hincii digested puc - 19 . the sequence surrounding the atg for initiation of translation was mutated by pcr so as to contain an ncoi site using the 5 &# 39 ;-& gt ; 3 &# 39 ; c ggc cgc cgc tcc acc cgt acg acg acc acc atg ggg gag . prpa - a psti - ncoi fragment of 1458 bp fromrd - 32 prpa - rd - 26 consisting of nucleotides1340 to 118 derived from the maize gene α - tub 1 ( nucleotides 71 to 1527 of seq id no . 1 ) was ligated into the psti - ncoi sites of prpa - rd - 37b creating an expression cassette maize α - tub 1 - otp - aroa gene - nos . prpa - an ncoi - psti fragment of 600 bprd - 87 containing maize adhi intron 1 was cloned into the ncoi - psti sites of prpa - rd - 37b creating an expression cassette : maize adhi intron 1 - optimized transit peptide ( ep 508 909 ), aroa gene and nos polyadenylation signal . prpa - an eagi fragment of 1430 bp derived fromrd - 90 prpa - rd - 32 ( containing nucleotides - 1340 to 90 of the maize gene α - tub 1 ; sequence 71 to 1499 of seq id no . 1 ) cut with a blunt end by the klenow fragment of dna polymerase i of e . coli dna cloned into the smai site of pbs ii sk (-) ( stratagene ). derived constructs1410 hindiii - sacii fragment of 1474 bp from pαtub 1 - 1588 cloned into hindiii - smai digested pbi101 . 1 ; contains 1410 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . α - tub 3 - hindiii - smai fragment of 1115 bp from1020 pαtub 3 - 1072 cloned into hindiii - smai digested pbi101 . 1 ; contains 1020 bp upstream and 62 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription ( cf fig2 ). 956 a - 1410 derivative generated by bamhi digestion and recircularization ; contains 956 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 449 a - 1410 derivative generated by spei digestion and recircularization ; contains 449 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 352449 derivative ( in pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 352 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 297 a - 449 derivative ( in pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 297 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 252 a - 449 derivative ( on pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 252 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 184 a - 449 derivative ( in pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 184 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 117 a - 449 derivative ( in pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 117 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . 64 a - 449 derivative ( in pbi101 . 1 ) generated by exonuclease iii digestion and recircularization ; contains 64 bp upstream and 48 bp downstream of the site of initiation of transcription . prpa - a saci - ecori fragment of 3 . 5 kbrd - 53 containing the expression cassette maize α - tub 1 - aroa from prpa - rd - 32 cloned into the saci - ecori sites of pbin - 19 . prpa - a saci - ecori fragment of 3 . 5 kbrd - 65 containing the expression cassette maize α - tub 1 - aroa from prpa - rd - 32 rendered blunt ended by t4 dna polymerase cloned into the ndei site of prpa - rd - 49 which was cut with a blunt end by klenow fragment of dna polymerase of e . coli . the orientation of the expression cassette maize α - tub 1 - aroa from prpa - rd - 32 proved to be divergent in relation to the transcription units of the aroa and bar gene . prpa - a psti fragment of 1 . 5 kb from prpa - rd - rd - 88 90 containing nucleotides - 1340 to 90 of the maize α - tub 1 gene ( sequence 71 to 1499 of seq id no . 1 ) cloned into the psti site of prpa - rd - 87 with creation of an expression cassette : maize α - tub 1 - maize adhi intron 1 - optimized transit peptide ( ep 508 909 ), aroa gene and nos polyadenylation signal . prpa - a derivative of the optimized transitrd - 7 : peptide ( ep 508 909 ; seq id no : 4 ) which was mutated by pcr with the following synthetic oligonucleotides : ( 1 ) gaa ttc cga aag aca aag att atc gcc atg gct tcg [ nucleotides 1 - 36 ; seq id no : 3 ]; ( 2 ) ccg tag gcc ggc cac acc tgc ata cat tga act ctt cc [ nucleotides 228 - 181 ; seq id no : 3 ]; and ( 3 ) cga gac gct gtc gta cct gcc gcc gct gtc tat ggc g [ nucleotides 231 - 267 ; seq id no : 3 ]. this optimized transit peptide was cloned into the ecori and ecorv sites of pbsii sk (-) [ stratagene ] with creation of a cloning cassette containing the optimized transit peptide . ______________________________________ histochemical localization of the gus activity ; expressions specific for the roots and the pollen the gus activity was determined in the roots , the pollen and various other tissues of transgenic tobacco each containing constructs and is represented in table 1 . the conventional procedures of jefferson et al . ( 1987 ) were followed . the gus activity was histochemically localized in transgenic plants containing chimeric gus genes using promoter fragments derived from the maize α - tub 1 gene . samples were washed in a mixture of 50 mm napo 4 , ph 7 , 0 . 2 mm 5 - bromo - 4 - chloro - 3 - indolyl - glucuronide ( x - gluc ), 0 . 1 mm potassium ferricyanide and 0 . 1 mm potassium ferrocyanide . the samples were mounted on microscope slides covered with 80 % glycerol . table 2 represents , in summarized form , the results of typical microphotographs of tobacco plants containing regulatory elements of the maize α - tub 1 gene . table 2 shows that the regulatory elements of α - tub 1 give high expression levels in the meristematic tissues , in particular the meristems of roots and the pollen . the gus activity was analyzed by fluorometry by grinding the plant tissue in an extraction buffer ( 50 mm napo 4 , 10 mm edta , 0 . 1 % sarkosyl , 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 and 10 mm of β - mercaptoethanol ). after centrifugation of the lysate , the supernatant is removed and placed in a new tube and added in aliquots of 100 μl . an equal volume of 2 mm of 4 - methylumbelliferyl - γ - glucuronide in the extraction buffer was added and incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . the reactions were stopped with 0 . 8 ml na 2 co 3 ( 0 . 2m ). the fluorescence of 4 - methylumbelliferone ( 4 - mu ) was determined with a hoeffer minifluorometer as described by jefferson et al . ( 1987 ). the gus activity is expressed in picomoles of 4 - mu per unit of total mass of protein per minute . to determine the promoter elements responsible for the meristem specificity with respect to the expression specific for the pollen , the pattern of expression of gus of various deletions of promoters ( cf fig2 ) was determined in the transgenic tobacco plants . root tips , shoot tips , leaves , stems and pollen derived from transgenic plants containing various sequence elements of α - tub 1 ( summarized in fig2 ) directing the expression of gus were tested with respect to the activity . the results are presented in table 3 . all the constructs containing a portion of the ure of the α - tub gene of maize α - tubulin between - 1410 and - 352 ( seq id no . 1 : 1 to 1058 ) conferred a gus activity in the roots of transgenic tobaccos . the total length of the regulatory region and the fragments derived therefrom all confer a high activity in tobacco protoplasts . it is only after deletion of promoter elements closer than 352 bp upstream of the site of initiation of transcription ( 1058 of seq id no . 1 ) that the gus activity is suppressed in the transgenic roots , which shows that the regulatory elements specific for the roots of α - tub 1 are upstream of - 352 bp ( seq id no . 1 : 1 to 1058 ). all the constructs containing a portion of the ure of the α - tub gene of maize α - tubulin between - 1410 and - 64 ( seq id no . 1 : 1 to 1058 ) conferred a gus activity in the pollen of transgenic tobaccos . it is only after deletion of promoter elements closer than 64 bp upstream of the site of the initiation of transcription ( 1348 of seq id no . 1 ) that the gus activity is suppressed in the transgenic pollen , which shows that the regulatory elements specific for the pollen of α - tub 1 are upstream of - 64 bp ( seq id no . 1 : 1 to 1058 ). table 2______________________________________histochemical analysis of transgenic plantstissueconstruct root tip shoot tip leaf stem pollen______________________________________1410 +( 12 / 12 ) -( 12 / 12 ) -( 12 / 12 ) -( 12 / 12 ) +( 12 / 12 ) 956 +( 6 / 6 ) -( 6 / 6 ) -( 6 / 6 ) -( 6 / 6 ) +( 6 / 6 ) 449 +( 8 / 8 ) -( 8 / 8 ) -( 8 / 8 ) -( 8 / 8 ) +( 8 / 8 ) 352 -( 12 / 13 ) -( 13 / 13 ) -( 13 / 13 ) -( 13 / 13 ) +( 6 / 10 ) 117 -( 9 / 9 ) -( 9 / 9 ) -( 9 / 9 ) -( 9 / 9 ) +( 4 / 9 ) 64 -( 11 / 11 ) -( 11 / 11 ) -( 11 / 11 ) -( 11 / 11 ) -( 11 / 11 ) ______________________________________ the figures indicate the number of plants with a blue spot (+) or without (-) the expression compared with the entire plants analyzed , for each construct in various parts of the plant . table 3__________________________________________________________________________fluorometric test if the gus constructs with apromoter of the α - tub 1 gene of maize α - tubulin fromtransgenic tobacco plants tissue control control control plant days after whole root plant root whole plant leaf cotyledon cotyledonconstruct germination 2 2 leaves 2 2 2__________________________________________________________________________1410 10 388 ± 124 15 39 ± 2 13 15 727 ± 736 16 61 ± 55 14 25 265 ± 233 20 15 ± 2 15 148 ± 56 15956 10 3082 ± 1551 15 736 ± 499 13 15 4934 ± 557 16 612 ± 363 14 25 237 ± 170 20 30 ± 15 15 86 ± 52 15449 10 405 ± 40 15 73 ± 64 13 15 70 ± 28 16 118 ± 134 14 25 469 20 19 ± 8 15 172 ± 57 15352 10 466 15 127 13 15 15 16 13 ± 2 14 25 26 ± 10 20 27 ± 2 15 5 ± 2 15__________________________________________________________________________ the gus activity was localized histochemically in transgenic plants containing chimeric gus genes using promoter fragments derived from the maize α - tub 3 gene ( nucleotides 1 to 1082 seq id no . 3 ). samples were washed in a mixture of 50 mm napo 4 , ph 7 ; 0 . 2 mm 5 - bromo - 4 - chloro - 3 - indolyl - glucuronide ( x - gluc ); 0 . 1 mm potassium ferricyanide and 0 . 1 mm potassium ferrocyanide . the samples were mounted on microscope slides covered with 80 % glycerol . table 4 presents , in summarized form , the results of typical microphotographs of tobacco plants containing regulatory elements of the maize α - tub 3 gene . table 4 shows that the regulatory elements of α - tub 3 ( nucleotides 1 to 1082 seq id no . 3 ) give high levels of expression preferably in the meristematic tissues . the gus activity was analyzed by fluorometry by grinding the plant tissue in an extraction buffer ( 50 mm napo 4 , 10 mm edta , 0 . 1 % sarkosyl , 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 and 10 mm of β - mercaptoethanol ). after centrifugation of the lysate , the supernatant is removed and placed in a new tube and 100 μl aliquots added . an equal volume of 2 mm 4 - methylumbelliferyl - β - glucuronide in the extraction buffer is added and incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . the reactions are stopped with 0 . 8 ml na 2 co 3 ( 0 . 2m ). the fluorescence of 4 - methylumbelliferone ( 4 - mu ) was determined with a hoeffer minifluorometer described by jefferson et al . ( 1987 ). the gus activity is expressed in picomols 4 - mu per unit of total mass of protein per minute . to determine the promoter elements responsible for the meristematic specificity with respect to the expression specific for the meristems , the pattern of expression of gus of various deletions of promoters ( cf . fig3 ) was determined in the transgenic tobacco plants . table 4______________________________________fluorometric test of the gus constructs with apromoter of the α - tub 3 gene of maize α - tubulin fromtransgenic tobacco plantsdays tissueafter controlgermin - plant control plantation root apex root apex shoot apex shoot apex______________________________________12 12 . 88 ± 6 . 68 3 . 65 39 . 02 ± 22 . 04 2 . 8516 7 . 31 ± 3 . 63 3 . 56 33 . 22 ± 22 . 00 1 . 9319 47 . 67 ± 35 . 90 4 . 78 20 . 53 ± 4 . 00 3 . 0623 27 . 17 ± 20 . 93 5 . 97 28 . 35 ± 10 . 97 0 . 4226 31 . 77 ± 13 . 81 4 . 82 35 . 66 ± 30 . 88 1 . 8530 20 . 64 ± 12 . 44 8 . 10 29 . 40 ± 17 . 88 3 . 81______________________________________ the plants were stably transformed with a promoter fragment - 1024 fused to the gus reporter gene . the results are expressed in pmol / h × mg of protein and correspond to the mean of 6 to 15 plants of the progeny of each of the 4 independent transformed f1 plants . the saci - ecori fragment of 3 . 5 kb derived from the parental plasmid prpa - rd - 32 ( cf table 1 ) was cloned into the saci - ecori sites of pbin - 19 . the resulting construct , called prpa - rd 53 , comprises in the transcription frame , the following elements : the maize α - tub 1 regulatory element , the optimized transit peptide ( otp ), the aroa gene , the nos terminator . the parental plasmid prpa - rd - 53 was transferred into the strain eha 105 agrobacterium tumefaciens ( hood et al . ( 1986 ) j . bacteriol , 168 , 1291 ) by triparental crossing and the resulting agrobacterium was used for the transformation on tobacco foliar disc . the regenerated tobacco plants , about 20 cm high , were sprayed in a greenhouse with glyphosate formulated in the form of round up . the transformed plants containing prpa - rd - 53 , which were viable and in good health , showed increased tolerance to glyphosate . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 4 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1529 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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gaattccctttgtgagaaatctccacaagttggagcctctcacccttacaagattgatca60caattaaaccacaagagtaagggagggaacagaaacacacacaagtgctagagtcgcagc120aatgacatgcacacaagtcaagaaacgagcacacaacacagcgcaacgagctcacagttc180aaacaagtgctcaaatcttaaacacaatgaatcgaatgcgtgcttgcggagtctagacgt240tttttcaatggaggcttggtgtactgctccatgtgtctaggggtcccttttatagcccca300aggcagctaggagccgttggagctccatttggaaggccattgttgccttctatccgtggg360tgcaccggacagtacgcgctcgggacgcggcacataatcccatgattggccggtttccgc420ttctgggggcaccagacggtccagacgaccagtgcgcctgtcgaccgttggccagcgctg480acgtggccactagtcgttgcgtggctgatacaacagactgttcggcgcattgcggaccat540ccggtgaattatagctgatgtaggctaaaaaacccgagagcagcgagttcggccgaaccg600tgcaccagactgtatggtgggtggcatcagaccgttcggtgctacacagtctagcaactt660ttccctgtttcttcttttgtcttctttgtttcttttggacttcacttagctgggtcccct720ggcacttagacaaatatgattaacactcaaatcaattgacttagtgtctagagcatacct780tttagcttgatccatatagctttgtactaagtcctcttccgagctcattttgcctcacac840ttttgcttaacatcatgttagttcaaacatcatgtgttgtgcatctaatcaccaaaccaa900tatagaaatgcccaaggacacatttccctttcagtcggggggaggggggttggtggtcga960cgccccggtacgaagtgggtgggggcaggcgagagggggtgcaccatgggccacccagtg1020cgtggtccggttttgatccatgtaactctatataaatctctatttaattcggtataaaat1080agttaagatgaaagagagaataaaatttagtagatttgacagtcatataaaatttctaga1140tcgacccctgtggtgggtgcgtcgaaatttctagaccgccctaggccggggatgacacat1200ggaaccgtgtatgcacaaagctgctgcattataattgtagagattaattatgttatttag1260gaaataaaagtttaggaatagtatataaaacaaggattgagctccagatatataataggc1320cgagtcctgtaattttgtgacatttttttgaaaccaggattgagctgcagtttttagtgt1380tagagtccagcgtctcacaggagtggtccaattcaaattcgaaaatgtatcaccgctgaa1440gcgaaaaatatcataaattcataacgaaccaaccgaccgttgcacggacgagaactcgac1500gagaccgaaccgtgaaaacaaccgaaagcacaggggctcaaacgaaacaatcccgcccac1560acttccttcgccggctcatggtggccactggccaggctgtcatcctggtctataaagcga1620gccgaggggaagagccggaaccctagcccagcaccgcagaggcgcagagacaggcgtctt1680cgtactcgcctatctccgcgactcaaagcttcttccatttcctaccgccgccgctgcagc1740tccaccccattccgtcgacaccatg1765 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1179 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 405 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : gaattccgaaagacaaagattatcgccatggcttcgatctcctcctcagtcgcgaccgtt60agccggaccgcccctgctcaggccaacatggtggctccgttcaccggccttaagtccaac120gccgccttccccaccaccaagaaggctaacgacttctccacccttcccagcaacggtggt180ggaagagttcaatgtatgcaggtgtggccggcctacggcaacaagaagttcgagacgctg240tcgtacctgccgccgctgtcaatggcgcccaccgtgatgatggcctcgtcggccaccgcc300gtcgctccgttccaggggctcaagtccaccgccagcctccccgtcgcccgccgctcctcc360agaagcctcggcaacgtcagcaacggcggaaggatccggtgcatg405__________________________________________________________________________