Patent Application: US-48822804-A

Abstract:
disclosed are isolated nucleic acid molecules from solanum tuberosum which are capable of conferring resistance against plant pathogens including phytophthora infestans . transgenic plants and plant cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules are also disclosed .

Description:
f1 offspring of a cross between the heterozygous diploid clones h79 . 1506 / 1 ( r1 r1 ) and h80 . 696 / 4 ( r1 r1 ), referred to as p41 and p40 , respectively ( gebhardt et al . 1989 , leonards - schippers et al . 1992 ), was used for high - resolution genetic mapping of r1 . recombinants in the marker interval gp21 - gp179 originating from the p41 ( r1r1 ) parent were selected as described ( meksem et al . 1995 ). the hybrid clone p6 / 210 derived from the cross p41 × p40 ( leister et al . 1997 ) which carries r1 in the heterozygous state was used for constructing genomic cosmid and bac libraries . parent p41 ( r1r1 ) was used for cdna library construction . resistance to a p . infestans isolate having the corresponding avirulence factor avr1 ( race 4 ) was determined as described ( leonards - schippers et al . 1992 ), except that whole leaflets instead of leaf disks were used for inoculation . presence our absence of hypersensitive response ( hr ) was scored 8 - 10 days post inoculation . the bac library was supplied by lion bioscience ag ( heidelberg , germany ). the library has been constructed from hindiii partially digested high molecular weight genomic dna of clone p6 / 210 in the binary vector pcld04541 ( jones et al . 1992 ) as described ( meksem et al . 2000 ). the bac library consists of 101 . 376 clones with an insert average size of 70 kb . the colonies were stored in 264 384 - microtiter plates ( genetix , oxford , uk ) in 2yt medium ( sambrook et al . 1989 ) with freezing buffer ( 5 . 5 % w / v glycin , 7 mm ( nh 4 ) so 4 , 1 . 5 mm na - citrate , 0 . 3 mm mgso 4 , 13 mm kh 2 po 4 , 27 mm k 2 hpo 4 ). a cosmid library of ca . 150 000 clones was constructed using standard procedures ( sambrook et al . 1989 ) from sau3ai partially digested genomic dna ( 17 - 23 kb fragments ) of p6 / 210 and in the same vector ( bamh1 cloning site ) as the bac library . cosmids were packaged using gigapack ii gold packaging extract ( stratagene , calif ., usa ) and transfected into e . coli strain sure ™ ( stratagene , calif ., usa ). plasmid dna was extracted from pools of about 1500 bacterial colonies ( sambrook et al . 1989 ). one hundred and three cosmid pools were generated and screened by pcr using spud237 specific primers ( de jong et al . 1997 ). positive pools were plated and screened by colony hybridisation using standard protocols ( sambrook et al . 1989 ). high - density colony filters for hybridisation - based screening of the bac library were prepared using a biogrid robot ( oxford , uk ). clones were gridded in double spots using a 5 × 5 array with 6 × 384 arrays per 22 . 5 × 22 . 5 cm nylon membrane ( pall , biodyne , portsmouth , uk ). each . 5 × 5 array contained 2 × 12 colonies with the control position of the array occupied by the clone psw1 ( pe biosystems , foster city , calif . usa ). this gridding pattern allowed 27 , 648 colonies to be represented twice on each filter . library screening was performed using a set of four filters carrying 101 , 376 clones . colony filters were incubated on lb medium for 15 h at 37 ° c . and processed for colony hybridisation using standard techniques ( sambrook et al . 1989 ). filter hybridisation was performed as described ( gebhardt et al . 1989 ), except that 300 pg psw1 control insert were labelled and hybridised together with the probe to facilitate the determination of addresses of positive clones . plasmid dna was purified from positive clones and insertions were sequenced from both ends employing t3 and t7 oligonucleotides as sequencing primers . dna sequence information of bac insertion ends was used to design specific pcr primer pairs . pcr products amplified with these primers and the respective bacs as template were used as probes for new filter hybridisation to identify overlapping bac clones , for orientation of overlapping bac clones relative to each other and for mapping in the recombinant plants . overlaps were confirmed by sequencing the pcr products . direction of contig extension was verified by genetic mapping using the recombinant plants and rflp or pcr based marker analysis . to determine the size of bac insertions , the bac dna was digested with noti and the fragments were separated by pulsed field gel electrophoresis on a chef driii ( biorad , hercules , calif ., usa ) for 12 h at 1 ° c . with an initial pulse time of 5 s and a final pulse time of 1 . 0 s , at 120 ° angle and 6 v / cm . bac dna was extracted using qiafilter plasmid purification kit 100 ( qiagen , hilden , germany ) according to manufactures instructions with minor modifications . a single colony was precultured in liquid lb medium for 8 h at 37 ° c . 75 μl preculture were added to 75 ml lb medium and further incubated for 15 h at 37 ° c . a centrifugation step was introduced before passing the supernatant through the qiafilter to remove bacterial cellular debris . 1 . 5 μg bac dna were digested to completion with hindiii plus ecor1 and separated from the vector on 0 . 8 % low melting temperature agarose ( sea plaque gtg agarose , bioproducts , rockland , me ., usa ). inserted dna was dissolved from the gel using the gelase system ; ( epicentre technologies or biozym ) following the supplier &# 39 ; s instructions . the dna was ethanol precipitated , dissolved in water and labelled with 32 p - dctp by random primed labelling ( feinberg and vogelstein 1984 ). 10 μg bac dna were partially digested with 1 u tsp509i for 15 min at 65 ° c . and size separated on a 0 . 8 % low melting temperature agarose gel ( sea plaque gtg agarose , bioproducts , rockland , me ., usa ). fragments of about 10 kb in size were eluted using the gelase system ( epicentre technologies , madison , usa ), following the supplier &# 39 ; s instructions . the purified fragments were cloned into the pcld04541 : binary vector linearized with ecori , dephosphorylated using shrimp phosphatase ( roche , germany ) and transformed into e . coli strain dh10b ( life technologies , usa ). two hundred recombinant colonies were picked into microtiter plates . cut shoots of ca . 8 weeks old plants of parent p41 ( r1r1 ) and of the susceptible cv desirée were infected with p . infestans race 4 and maintained under a glass cylinder ( to increase humidity ) in water in a growth chamber at 17 ° c . with 16 h light . under these conditions leaves of the susceptible control were overgrown by p . infestans mycelium after 8 days . equal amounts of uninfected leaves of parent p41 and infected leaves 2h , 19h , 3d , 7d and 9d after inoculation were collected . poly a + rna was isolated using the rneasy plant mini kit or the oligotex mrna mini kit ( qiagen , hilden , germany ) according to the supplier &# 39 ; s instructions . a lambda zap ii cdna library ( stratagene , calif ., usa ) was constructed from the poly - a + rna , following the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . the different cdna preparations were pooled prior to ligation into the lambda zap vector . 5 × 10 5 pfu &# 39 ; s were plated and screened by plaque hybridisation ( sambrook et al . 1989 ) using as probe the insertions of bacs ba121o1 and ba76o11 . total rna was isolated from uninfected leaf tissue of p41 ( r1r1 ) using the rneasy plant mini kit ( qiagen , hilden , germany ) according to supplier &# 39 ; s instructions . race analysis was performed with 1 μg total rna using the smart ™ race cdna amplification kit ( clontech , ca , usa ) following the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . the nested gene - specific primers used for the pcr amplification were first rt1 - 1 : 5 ′- aaacccggtgttccaaatctaacact - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 3 ) and second rt2 - 1 : 5 ′- catgtagtgaggatatgtcacgagtg - 3 ′. ( seq id no : 4 ) the final pcr products of the race reaction were cloned into pgem - t vector ( promega , ca , usa ). two independent clones were sequenced . custom dna sequencing was done by the adis unit at the max planck institute for breeding research . the dideoxy chain - termination sequencing , method was employed using an abi prism dye terminator cycle sequencing ready reaction kit and an abi377 automated dna sequencer ( pe biosystems , foster city , calif . usa ). dna sequence analysis was done using the wisconsin package version 10 . 0 , genetics computer group ( gcg ), madison , wis ., usa . sequence databases were searched with blastx and other algorithms available through the national center for biotechnology information , bethesda , md ., usa and the expasy www server ( appel et al . 1994 ). subclone g10 of bac ba87d17 was electroporated into a . tumefaciens strain lba4404 according to wen - jun and forde ( 1989 ). three agrobacterium strains , lbag10 - 2 , lbag10 - 5 and lbag10 - 23 were used for potato transformation . agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated potato transformation and analysis of transgenic plants : the susceptible potato cultivar desirée was used in all transformation experiments . agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation was performed as described by . rocha - sosa et al . ( 1989 ), except that the ms - medium contained 250 mg / l claforan . kanamycin resistant transgenic plants were tested by the polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) for presence of the g10 insert using the insert specific primers 87e ( 5 ′- attacaatgggttgaactcag - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 5 )) and 87s ( 5 ′- acctctttcaattgttctggtg - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 6 )). pcr conditions were : ta at 55 ° c . for 45 sec and polymerisation at 72 ° c . for 60 seconds . transgenic plants were screened with the r1 specific primers 76 - 2sf2 ( 5 ′- cactcgtgacatatcctcacta - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 7 )) and 76 - 2sr ( 5 ′- caaccctggcatgccacg - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 8 )) derived from cdna c76 - 2 . pcr conditions were : ta at 55 ° c . for 45 sec and polymerisation at 72 ° c . for 90 sec . tests for resistance to p . infestans race 4 were done using three leaflets per plant in each test . to facilitate physical mapping of the r1 locus , 16 recombinants between the markers gp21 and gp179 flanking r1 ( leonards - schippers et al . 1992 ) were selected from 588 plants and tested for resistance to a p . infestans having the corresponding avirulence factor avr1 . together with 15 recombinants previously selected in the same interval ( meksem et al . 1995 ), 31 recombinants in total were available in the interval gp21 - gp179 from 1049 plants , corresponding to 3 . 0 % recombination frequency ( 3 cm ). recombination frequencies between gp21 and r1 and between r1 and gp179 were 2 . 2 % and 0 . 8 %, respectively ( table 1 ). the markers spud237 and aflp1 , both mapping in the interval gp21 - gp179 ( de jong et al . 1997 , meksem et al . 1995 ) flank the r1 locus . both markers were separated from r1 by one recombination event in 1049 plants ( 0 . 1 cm , fig1 ). chromosome walking towards the r1 locus and identification of an r1 candidate gene marker spud237 was used as probe for screening the cosmid library . one positive clone coss ( fig1 ) was identified . end sequencing of the coss insert generated a new marker separated by one recombination event ( 0 . 1 cm ) from the r1 locus . screening the bac library with this marker identified bac clone ba100e13 . three recombination events separated the distal end of ba100e13 from r1 . the ba100e13 end proximal to r1 identified ba47f2 . the ba47f2 end distal to r1 overlapped with ba100e13 and was separated from r1 by one recombination event . the proximal end co - segregated with r1 , like all subsequent bac ends analysed ( right part of fig1 ). the ba47f2 end that co - segregated with r1 identified clone ba27c1 . the ba27c1 end not overlapping with ba47f2 identified clones ba122p13 and ba121o1 . the end of ba121o1 that did not overlap with ba27c1 showed highly significant sequence similarity ( 37 % identity , 56 % similarity of translated amino acid sequence ) to the tomato prf gene for resistance to pseudomonas syringae ( salmeron et al . 1996 ). this resistance - gene - like ( rgl ) fragment was used as probe to rescreen the bac library . the rgl probe identified , in addition to ba122p13 , several new positive clones of which two , ba87d17 and ba76o11 , were further analysed . they contained full length copies of the rgl gene which was envisaged as a possible r1 candidate . the non - overlapping ends of ba76o11 and ba87d17 co - segregated with r1 . bac end markers instrumental for physical map construction were also used to assign bac clones to the p6 / 210 ( r1r1 ) chromosome carrying either an r1 or the r1 allele . clones ba100e13 , ba47f2 and ba87d17 ( fig1 ) were in cis with the r1 allele , whereas clones ba121o1 , ba122p13 and ba76o11 were derived from the homologue having r1 ( fig1 ). clone ba27c1 could not be assigned to an r1 or r1 chromosome , based on the markers used . using the whole insertions of bacs ba121o1 and ba76o11 as probes , six and eight cdna clones , respectively , were isolated from a cdna library prepared from infected leaves of genotype p41 ( r1r1 ). eight of the 14 cdna clones were similar to known plant resistance genes . the highest similarity was obtained with the tomato prf gene for resistance to pseudomonas syringae ( salmeron et al . 1996 ). the sequences of the eight candidate cdnas shared ca . 80 - 90 , % identity among each other . the cdna clone c76 - 2 , 2292 nucleotides long , was identical , with exception of the introns , to the genomic sequence of clone g10 , a subclone representing part of ba87d17 ( see later ). sequence comparison to known resistance genes in the database indicated that c76 - 2 was not full length . using race analysis , the cdna was extended to the 0 . 5 ° end by 1943 nucleotides , resulting in a full - length cdna sequence of 4235 nucleotides including a 5 ′ untranslated region of 59 nucleotides and 297 nucleotides 3 ′ untranslated sequence between the stop codon and the poly a tail . the cdna included a start codon at position 2223 of the genomic sequence corresponding to the first methionine in the amino acid sequence deduced from clone g10 ( fig4 b ). two adenines were identified at positions − 3 and + 4 ( where the a of the atg is + 1 ) referred to as ribosome recognition sequence in plants , insects , yeast and mammals ( kozak 1991 ). pcr primers specific for cdna c76 - 2 were designed based on sequence alignment with the other seven candidate cdnas . primers 76 - 2sf2 and 76 - 2sr ( see material and methods ) generated a 1 . 4 kb pcr product only in parent p41 ( r1r1 ) but not in parent p40 ( r1r1 ) ( fig2 ). this polymorphism suggested the possibility that bac ba87d17 ( derived from the r1 hosting chromosome ) contained the r1 gene , even if the mapping data still indicated absence of recombination between the distal end of this bac clone and r1 . a genomic sub - library in the pcld04541 binary vector ( see material and methods ) with , on average , 10 kb insertions was constructed from ba87d17 ( 76 kb ). the library was screened by colony hybridisation with the rgl probe of ba121o1 . positive clones were evaluated for the presence of the complete copy of the candidate rgl gene by the size of amplification products obtained by pcr with forward primers from the vector borders ( t3 and t7 ) and reverse primers from the rgl . clones were also tested by using the c76 - 2 cdna specific primers 76 - 2sf2 and . 76 - 2sr . subclone g10 - 2 was selected and transformed into a . tumefaciens . three different , bacterial colonies were used to transform the susceptible cultivar desirée . from three transformation experiments , fifteen independent transgenic lines were regenerated and tested in four independent experiments for expression of resistance to p . infestans race 4 ( table 2 ). table 2 . test for resistance to p . infestans race 4 of transgenic potato lines transformed with clone g10 . transgenic lines were tested in four independent experiments with three leaflets from each line for expression of hypersensitive resistance to p . infestans race 4 . nine transgenic lines showed consistently a typical hr response , similar to the resistant line p41 hosting r1 ( fig3 ); three gave inconsistent results and the remaining three were susceptible , like the untransformed desirée control . based on these results , it was concluded that the subclone g10 contained a functional r1 gene . all transgenic lines with the r1 phenotype contained the gene corresponding to cdna 76 - 2 , as demonstrated by presence of the , 1 . 4 kb pcr product amplified by primers 76 - 2sf2 and 76 - 2sr . this product was absent in untransformed desirée ( control ) and in all bac clones reported in fig1 as members of the contig around r1 , except for ba87d17 ( fig2 ). subclone g10 containing the r1 gene was sequenced ; see seq id no : 1 . the sequence was 10 , 388 nucleotides long and contained one gene with sequence similarity to other plant resistance genes . no other open reading frame or sequence homology was identified in the genembl database . sequence alignment with the cdna c76 - 2 and the 5 ′ race product revealed the presence of three exons and three introns . two introns of 92 bp ( position 4878 to 4970 ) and 126 bp ( position 6103 to 6229 ) interrupt the coding region . the third intron of 81 bp ( position 6323 to 6404 ) is located in the 3 ′ untranslated region immediately downstream of the stop codon ( fig4 a ). the deduced amino acid sequence predicts a polypeptide of 1293 amino acids with a molecular mass of 149 . 4 kda ( fig4 b ). the deduced amino acid sequence of the r1 gene is most similar ( 40 % identity ) to the prf gene for resistance to p . syringae of tomato ( salmeron et al . 1996 ). the predicted r1 protein has a putative nucleotide binding site ( nbs ) domain consisting of p - loop ( amino acids 572 - 578 ), kinase 2 ( amino acids 649 - 65 . 3 ) and kinase 3a ( amino acids 677 - 682 ) motifs ( fig4 b ). downstream of the kinase motifs were other sequences with similarity to domains of unknown function conserved among resistance genes : glpl ( qlpl ( seq id no : 10 ) in r1 ), ckly ( cfly ( seq id no : 12 ) in r1 ) and mhd ( lhd in r1 ). searching for conserved motifs by using the expasy algorithm , 4 myristylation , 9 glycosylation , 43 phosphorylation and 1 amidation putative sites were found in the deduced r1 amino acid sequence . the putative leucine rich repeat ( lrr ) domain of r1 has 15 - 16 imperfect repeats located in the carboxy - terminal part of the gene . like some plant r - proteins with cytoplasmic lrrs , the r1 protein contains a leucine zipper from amino acid position 308 to 329 ( hammond - kosack and jones , 1997 ). southern gel blot analysis showed that r1 is a member of a gene family . the r1 specific primers 76 - 2sf2 and 76 - 2sr amplified the 1 . 4 kb fragment in ba87d17 ( r1 ) but not in the overlapping clones ba121o1 , ba122p13 and ba76o11 ( r1 ) ( fig2 ). dna sequence analysis of bacs ba87d17 ( r1 ) and ba122p13 ( r1 ) revealed that ba87d17 contained two highly homologous members of the r1 gene family , r1 corresponding to the functional r1 gene and r1 . 1 being orthologous with the r1 . 2 allele in ba122p13 . the functional r1 gene was part of a 15 kb insertion present in the r1 bearing chromosome in the region represented by ba87d17 , but absent in the chromosome hosting r1 ( fig5 ). it will be clear that the invention may be practiced otherwise than as particularly described in the foregoing description and examples . numerous modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings and , therefore , are within the scope of the appended claims . the entire disclosure of each document cited ( including patents , patent applications , journal articles , abstracts , laboratory manuals , books , sequences or other disclosures ) in the background of the invention , description , examples , and sequence listing is hereby incorporated herein by reference . appel , r - 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