• 미생물학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1986

Tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid which may be used in genetic engineering of higher plants, was isolated from Agrobacterium tumefaciens in Korea. Among the 7 strains of A. tumefaciens isolated from various regions in Korea, KU12, KU13, KU14, and KU49 strains were confirmed to contain plasmid. The isolated Ti plasmids were digested with 4 kinds of restriction enzymes, respectively. According to the result of the cleavage patterns, we confirmed that these plasmids in the KU12, KU13, KU14 and KU49 strains are different.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.758-761
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• 2001

In this study, the nar promoter of E. coli was characterized to see whether the nar promoter cloned onto pBBR122 can be used as an expression promoter of gram negative microbes. For this purpose, a plasmid with lacZ gene expressing ${\beta}-galactosidase$ instead of the structural genes of nar operon in a gram negative host strain(Agrobacterium.tumefaciens) was used to simplify an assay of induction of the nar promoter. The following effects were investigated to find optimal conditions: methods of inducing the nar promoter, optimal nitrate concentration, maximally inducing the nar promoter, the amount of expressed ${\beta}-galactosidase$ and induction ratio(specific ${\beta}-galactosidase$ activity after maximal induction/specific ${\beta}-galactosidase$ activity before induction). The following results were obtained from the experiments: the growth of Agrobacterium with E.coli nar promoter was not much affected by nitrate concentration in the shake-flask; induction of nar promoter was optimal when Agrobacterium was grown in the presence of 1% nitrate ion at the beginning of culture and when overnight culture was completely grown in the shake-flask before being transferred to other shake-flask; the amount of ${\beta}-galactosidase$ per cell and per medium volume was maximal when Agrobacterium was grown under aerobic condition to $OD_{600}$ of 1.7; then the nar promoter was induced under microaerobic and anaerobic condition made by lowering dissolved oxygen level(DO). After 2-3h of induction in the YEP medium selected as a main culture medium, the specific ${\beta}-galactosidase$ activity became about 17,000 Miller units in the fermentor cluture.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2003

We have developed a reliable and high-frequency genetic transformation and regeneration system via somatic embryogensis of Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus. Embryogenic callus obtained from seed were co- cultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA101/pIG121Hm harboring genes for intron-$\beta$-glucoronidase(GUS), kanamycin and hygromycin resistance. Following co-cultivation, two types of samples(fine embrogenic calli and early globular embryo clusters) were cultivated on Murashige and Skoog(MS) medium containing 1 mg/L2.4-D for 3day in dark. Transient expression of GUS gene was found to be higher in the early globular embryo clusters than in the embryogenic calli. Also, co-cultivated period affected expression of GUS gene; the best result was obtained when globular embryo clusters were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium for 3 days. Subsequently, this callus transferred to selective MS medium containing 1mg/L2.4-D, 50mg/L kanamycin or/and 30mg/L hygromycin and 300mg/L cefortaxime. These embryogenic calls were subcultured to the same selection medium at every 2 weeks intervals. Approximately 24.5% of the early globular embryos co-cultivated with Agrobacterium for 3days produced kanamycin or/and hygromycin-resistant calli. Transgenic somatic embryos were converted into plantlets in half strength MS medium supplemented with 3mg/L GA$_3$ kanamycin and were confirmed by GUS histochemical assay and polymerase chain reaction analysis. Genomic Southem blot hybridization confirmed the incorporation of NPT II gene into the host genome.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.315-318
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• 1994

CaMV35S promoter-$\beta$-glucuronidase (GUS) 유전자와 선발 표지로서 neomycin phosphotransferase 유전자를 가진 pBI121 binary 벡터를 도입한 Agrobacterium turmfaciens LAB4404와 더덕 유식물체의 자엽 절편을 1 mg/L BA가 첨가된 MS 배지에서 48시간 동안 공동배양한 후 1 mg/L BA, 250 mg/L carbenicillin 100 mg/L kanamycin sulfate을 첨가한 고체배지에 옮겨 명조건에서 배양하였다. 배양 2주 후 절편의 절단면 부근으로부터 수많은 부정아가 형성되기 시작하였다. 이들 부정아의 GUS 활성을 조사한 결과 15%가 양성반응을 나타내었다. 배양 6주 후 절편이 형성한 수많은 부정아로부터 56.7% 빈도로 shoot이 발달하였다. 이들 shoot은 기본배지에 옮겨서 4주 경과되었을 때 대부분 발근하였으며, 재분화된 개체는 토양에 이식하였다. Southem 분석결과 GUS양성을 보인 재분화 개체의 게놈 DNA에 GUS 유전자가 삽입되었음이 확인되었다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 1998

꽃양배추 '은배' 종자를 무균 파종한 후 6일째된 하배축 조직을 BA 1㎎/L, sucrose 30㎎/L한천 8 g/L가 첨가된 MS 재분화배지에 1일간 전처리한 다음, PI promoter-GUS 융합 유전자가 도입된 Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA 4404와 2일간 동일조성의 MS 액체배지에서 공동배양하여 carbenicillin 500 ㎎/L와 kanamycin 20 ㎎/L가 첨가된 MS 재분화배지로 옮겨 주었을 때 가장 많은 형질전환체를 얻을 수 있었다. PCR 분석결과, PI promoter-GUS 융합 유전자가 형질전환체의 게놈상에 삽입되어 있음을 확인하였다. Southern 분석결과, ECL-labelling된 PI promoter-GUS 융합 유전자 probe의 coding sequence와 동일한 것으로 판단되는 약 366bp 위치에서 밴드를 확인할 수 있었다. 그러나 형질 전환되지 않은 식물체에서는 이들 밴드를 확인할 수 없었다. 조직내 GUS 유전자의 활성은 잎부위에서부터 시작하여 엽병과 줄기의 관다발을 중심으로 나타났으며 상처의 정도가 심할수록 높은 편이었고 그 범위도 넓었다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.95-99
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• 2007

The cost of conventional cultivation of ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) is very expensive, because shadow condition should be maintained during cultivation periods owing to inherently weak plant for high-temperature. Therefore, application of plant biotechnology may be possible to overcome these difficulties caused by conventional breeding of ginseng. Transgenic plants were produced via Agrobacterium tumefaciens Gv3101, both carrying the binary plasmid pBI121 mLPISO with nptII and Iso (isoprene synthase) gene. Integration of the transgenes into the P. ginseng nuclear genome was confirmed by PCR analysis using nptII primers and Iso primers. RT-PCR result also demonstrated the foreign isoprene synthase gene in three transgenic plant lines (T1, T3, and T5) which was expressed at the transcriptional level. When whole plants of transgenic ginseng were exposed to high temperature at $46^{\circ}C$ for 1 h, a non-transformed plant was wilted from heat shock, whereas a transgenic plant appeared to remain healthy. We suggest that the introduction of exogenous isoprene synthase is considered as alternative methods far generating thermotolerance ginseng.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.100-104
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• 2007

A protocol for the production of transgenic Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer was established via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation of direct somatic embryos. A number of conditions related to the co-cultivation were tested with respect to maximizing transformation efficiency. The results showed that pH of the co-cultivation medium (5.7), the bacterial growth phase (optical density; $OD_{600}$ = 0.8), co-cultivation period (3 days), and acetosyringone concentration $(100\;{\mu}M)$ had positive effects on transformation. Selected plantlets were cultured on the medium at an elevated hygromycin level(30 mg/l). Integration of the transgenes into the P. ginseng nuclear genome was confirmed by PCR analysis using hpt primers and by Southern hybridization using hpt-specific probe. The transgenic plantlets were obtained after 3-month cultivation and did not show any detectable variation in morphology or growth characteristics compared to wild-type plants.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.240-247
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• 2016

In this study, routinely used transformation method, which includes transferring explants onto co-cultivation medium after inoculating them with bacterial solution for a while, was compared with 3 different inoculation methods. In every 3 methods, hypocotyl explants excised from 7-day-old sterile flax seedlings having cotyledon leaves and no root system dried under air flow in sterile cabin for 35 min were inoculated with different volumes of bacterial solution at different inoculation periods. GV2260 line of Agrobacterium tumefaciens having 'pBIN 19' plasmid containing npt II (neomycin phosphotransferase II) gene and GUS reporter gene was used in transformation studies. After inoculation, hypocotyl segments of seedlings (0.5 cm in length) - were excised and left to co-cultivation for 2 days. Then, explants were transferred to regeneration medium supplemented with different antibiotics. The presence of npt-II and GUS genes in transformants was confirmed by PCR and GUS analysis. The highest results in all characters examined in all cultivars were obtained from the 2 inoculation method in which hypocotyls excised from seedlings inoculated with $500{\mu}l$ of bacterial solution after drying in sterile cabin for 35 min were used.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.822-828
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• 2004

Nopaline-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58 cannot utilize octopine (Oct) as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources. This strain harbors two plasmids; a virulent plasmid, pTiC58, and a megaplasmid, pAtC58. From strain NT1, which is a derivative of C58 harboring only pAtC58, we isolated spontaneous mutants that utilize Oct as the sole nitrogen source. These Oct-catabolizing mutants, however, could not utilize the opine as the sole carbon source. In contrast, strain UIA5, a plasmid-free derivative of C58, could not give rise to such mutants. The mutations isolated from NT1 were mapped to socR in pAtC58, which is a negative regulator of the soc operon responsible for the uptake and catabolism of an Amadori opine, deoxyfructosyl glutamine (Dfg). A derivative of UIA5 carrying a clone of the soc operon with a transposon inserted in socR also utilizes Oct as the sole nitrogen source. However, UIA5 harboring the operon with mutations in each of the structural genes in the soc operon, socA, B, C, and D, lost the ability to generate spontaneous Oct-utilizing mutants, suggesting that soc genes in pAtC58 are required for the utilization of Oct as a nitrogen source, and that derepressed expression of these genes allows cells to utilize Oct. In contrast, Oct-catabolizing mutants derived from C58, which grew using Oct as the sole nitrogen source, could also utilize the opine as the sole carbon source. These mutants did not carry any detectable mutations in socR or the region upstream to the gene in pAtC58, suggesting that mutations occurring elsewhere in the genome, most likely in pTiC58, allow the uptake and catabolism of the opine.

• 식물병연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2009

최근 혹병이 심하게 발생한 충북지방의 포도나무의 뿌리로부터 선택배지를 이용하여 Agrobacterium속 세균을 분리하고 동정하였다. 분리균의 지방산 분석을 통한 MIDI에 의한 동정, 16S rDNA 염기서열, 생화학적 특성, 종 특이적 primer을 이용한 PCR 결과로 13개 분리균은 모두 A. tumefaciens로 동정 되었으며, 포도나무 혹병균인 A. vitis는 분리되지 않았다. 모든 분리균은 토마토와 포도나무의 줄기와 뿌리에 병원성을 나타내지 않았다. Rep-PCR 결과 분리균은 A. tumefaciens와 일부 유사성이 있지만 전체적으로 병원균인 A. tumefaciens와 A. vitis와는 유사성이 낮았다. 이상의 결과는 충북 일부 지방의 MBA와 거봉에서 발생한 혹병을 일으키는 병원균은 토양이나 뿌리로부터 전반되지 않고 묘목을 통해서 전반되었을 가능성을 시사하고 있다.