• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.415-418
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• 2000

Productivity of a rice plant is greatly influenced by salt stress. One of the ways to achieve tolerance to salinity is to transfer genes encoding protective enzymes from other organisms, such as microorganisms. The bacterial gene, mtlD, which encodes mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase (Mtl-DH), was introduced to the cytosol of a rice plant by an imbibition technique to overproduce mannitol. The germination and survival rate of the imbibed rice seeds were markedly increased by transferring the mtlD gene when it was delivered in either a pBIN19 or pBmin binary vector. When a polymerase chain reaction was performed with the genomic DNAs of the imbibed rice leaves as a template and with mtlD-specific primers, several lines were shown to contain an exogenous mtlD DNA. However, a reverse transcription (RT)-PCR analysis revealed that not all of them showed an expression of this foreign gene. This paper demonstrates that the growth and germination of rice plants transiently transformed with the bacterial gene, mtlD, are enhanced and these enhancements may have resulted from the experssion of the mtlD gene. The imbibition method empolyed in this study fulfills the requirements for testing the function of such a putative gene in vivo prior to the production of a stable transgenic plant.

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.457-463
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• 1998

미꾸라지(Misgrunus mizolepis)의 DNA로부터 클론된 핵기질 부착부위(MAR)를 포함하는 발현벡터인 pUC19N6-luc 벡터를 구성하였다. 이를 물고기 CHSE-214 세포주에 electroporation으로 transfection 시킨 후 유전자의 발현율, 벡터의 copy 수 및 염색체내 삽입 양상을 luciferase 활성도 분석, PCR 및 Southern blotting를 통해 분석하였다. 대조군 발현벡터에 luciferase 유전자는 전형적인 transient 발현양상을 나타내는데 비해, 미꾸라지 MAR가 포함된 pUC19N6-luc 벡터의 luciferase 유전자의 발현은 transfection 후 5일째부터 급격히 증가하는 양상을 보였다. Transfection된 CHSE-214 세포내에서 pUC19N6-luc 벡터는 대조군 벡터에 비해 높은 copy 수를 유지하였으나, 염색체내 삽입은 거의 비슷한 시간에 일어났다. 결론적으로 transfection 후 시간경과에 따른 pUC19N6-luc 벡터내의 luciferase 유전자의 발현 증가에 미치는 MAR의 효과는 벡터 copy수 증가 때문이 아니라, 염색체내 삽입후 형성되는 전사활성구조의 형성에 기인하는 것으로 판단된다.