US20030167519A1 - Chimeric gene encoding drosomycin, vector containing it and production of disease-resistant transgenic plants - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention concerns a chimeric gene containing a DNA sequence coding for drosomycin, a vector containing the chimeric gene, a method for transforming plants and the resulting transformed plants. The drosomycin produced by the plants provides them with resistance to diseases, in particular of fungal origin.
Description
- The subject of the present invention is a DNA sequence encoding drosomycin, a chimeric gene containing it, a vector containing the chimeric gene and a method of transforming plants and the disease-resistant transformed plants.
- There is nowadays an increasing need to make plants resistant to diseases, in particular fungal diseases, in order to reduce or even avoid the need to resort to treatments with antifungal protection products, so as to protect the environment. One way of increasing this resistance to diseases consists in transforming plants so that they produce substances capable of providing their defence against these diseases.
- Various substances of natural origin, in particular peptides, are known which have bactericidal or fungicidal properties, in particular against fungi responsible for plant diseases. However, the problem consists in finding such substances which not only can be produced by transformed plants, but can still preserve their bactericidal or fungicidal properties and confer them on the said plants. For the purposes of the present invention, bactericide or fungicide is understood to mean both the actual bactericidal or fungicidal properties and the bacteriostatic or fungistatic properties.
- Drosomycins are peptides produced by the larvae and adults of drosophila by induction following septic injury or the injection of a low dose of bacteria. A peptide has already been described as having certain antifungal and antibacterial properties in vitro, in particular in French patent application 2,725,992, where the peptide is obtained by induction in drosophila and purification. The gene encoding this same peptide has also been described by Fehlbaum et al. (1994). The possibility of integrating this gene into a plant to confer on it resistance to diseases of fungal or bacterial origin has, however, so far not been described.
- It has now been found that the genes for drosomycins could be inserted into plants to confer on them properties of resistance to fungal diseases and to diseases of bacterial origin, providing a particularly advantageous solution to the problem set out above.
- The subject of the invention is therefore firstly a chimeric gene comprising a nucleic acid fragment encoding a drosomycin as well as heterologous regulatory elements at
positions 5′ and 3′ capable of functioning in plants and a vector for the transformation of plants containing this chimeric gene. It also comprises a transformed plant cell containing at least one nucleic acid fragment encoding drosomycin and a disease-resistant plant containing the said cell. It finally relates to a method of transforming plants to make them resistant to diseases, in which a gene encoding drosomycin is inserted. - Drosomycin is understood to mean according to the invention any peptide capable of being isolated from the larvae and adults of drosophila by induction following a septic injury or the injection of a low dose of bacteria, these peptides comprising at least 44 amino acids and 8 cystein residues forming disulphide bridges with each other.
- Advantageously, drosomycin essentially comprises the peptide sequence of formula (I) below:
- Xaa-Cys-Xab-Cys-Xac-Cys-Xad-Cys-Xae-Cys-Xaf-Cys-Xag-Cys-Xah-Cys (I)
- in which
- Xaa represents a peptide residue comprising at least 1 amino acid,
- Xab represents a peptide residue of 8 amino acids,
- Xac represents a peptide residue of 7 amino acids,
- Xad represents a peptide residue of 3 amino acids,
- Xae represents a peptide residue of 9 amino acids,
- Xaf represents a peptide residue of 5 amino acids,
- Xag represents a peptide residue of one amino acid, and
- Xah represents a peptide residue of 2 amino acids.
- Advantageously, Xab and/or Xad and/or Xac comprise at least one basic amino acid. More advantageously, Xab comprises at least 2 basic amino acids, preferably 2 and/or Xad and/or Xaf comprise at least 1 basic amino acid, preferably 1. Basic amino acid is understood to mean according to the invention the amino acids chosen from lysine, arginine or homoarginine.
- Preferably,
- Xaa represents the peptide sequence Xaa′-Asp- in which Xaa′ represents NH2 or a peptide residue comprising at least 1 amino acid, and/or
- Xab represents the peptide sequence -Leu-Xab′-Pro- in which Xab′ represents a peptide residue of 6 amino acids, and/or
- Xac represents the peptide sequence -Ala-Xac′-Thr- in which Xac′ represents a peptide residue of 5 amino acids, and/or
- Xad represents the peptide sequence -Arg-Xad′-Val, in which Xad′ represents a peptide residue of one amino acid, and/or
- Xae represents the peptide sequence -Lys-Xae′-His- in which Xae′ represents a peptide residue of 7 amino acids, and/or
- Xaf represents the peptide sequence -Ser-Xaf′-Lys- in which Xaf′ represents a peptide residue of 3 amino acids, and/or
- Xag represents Trp, and/or
- Xah represents the peptide residue Glu-Gly.
- Preferably,
- Xab′ represents the peptide sequence Ser-Gly-Arg-Tyr-Lys-Gly, and/or
- Xac′ represents the peptide sequence Val-Trp-Asp-Asn-Glu, and/or
- Xad′ represents Arg, and/or
- Xae′ represents the peptide sequence Glu-Glu-Gly-Arg-Ser-Ser-Gly, and/or
- Xaf′ represents the peptide sequence Pro-Ser-Leu.
- According to a more preferred embodiment of the invention, drosomycin is the peptide sequence represented by the sequence identifier No. 4 (SEQ ID No. 4) and the homologous peptide sequences.
- Homologous peptide sequences is understood to mean any equivalent sequence comprising at least 65% homology with the sequence represented by the sequence identifier No. 4, it being understood that the 8 cystein residues and the number of amino acids separating them remain identical, some amino acids being replaced with different but equivalent amino acids at sites which do not induce substantial modification of the antifungal or antibacterial activity of the said homologous sequence. Preferably, the homologous sequences comprise at least 75% homology, more preferably at least 85% homology, still more preferably 90% homology.
- The terminal NH2 residue may exhibit a post-translational modification, for example an acetylation, in the same way that the C-terminal residue may exhibit a post-translational modification, for example an amidation.
- Peptide sequence mainly comprising the peptide sequence of general formula (I) is understood to mean not only the sequences defined above, but also such sequences comprising at either of their ends, or both, peptide residues, in particular which are necessary for their expression and targeting in plant cells or in plants.
- It is in particular “full-length” drosomycin represented by the sequence identifier No. 2 (SEQ ID No. 2).
- It is in particular a “peptide-drosomycin” or “drosomycin-peptide”, advantageously “peptide-drosomycin” fusion peptide, the cutting of which by the enzymatic systems of plant cells allows the liberation of the drosomycin defined above. The peptide fused with drosomycin may be a signal peptide or a transit peptide which makes it possible to control and orient the production of drosomycin in a specific manner in a part of the plant cell or of the plant, such as for example the cytoplasm, the cell membrane, or in the case of plants in a specific type of cell compartment or of tissues or in the extracellular matrix.
- According to one embodiment, the transit peptide may be a chloroplast or mitochondrial addressing signal, which is then cleaved in the chloroplasts or mitochondria.
- According to another embodiment of the invention, the signal peptide may be an N-terminal or “prepeptide” signal, optionally in combination with a signal responsible for retaining the protein in the endoplasmic reticulum, or a vacuolar addressing peptide or “propeptide”. The endoplasmic reticulum is the site where the “cellular machinery” carries out the operations of maturation of the protein produced, such as for example the cleavage of the signal peptide.
- The transit peptides may be either single, or double, and in this case optionally separated by an intermediate sequence, that is to say comprising, in the direction of transcription, a sequence encoding a transit peptide for a plant gene encoding a plastid localization enzyme, a portion of sequence of the N-terminal mature portion of a plant gene encoding a plastid localization enzyme, and then a sequence encoding a second transit peptide for a plant gene encoding a plastid localization enzyme, as described in Patent EP 0 508 909.
- As transit peptide useful according to the invention, there may be mentioned in particular the signal peptide of the tobacco PR-1α gene (WO 95/19443), or alternatively the ubiquitin represented, fused with drosomycin by the sequence identifier No. 6.
- The fusion peptide “ubiquitin-drosomycin” and its coding sequence are also included in the present invention, in particular described by the sequence identifier No. 5.
- The present invention therefore relates to a chimeric gene comprising a sequence encoding drosomycin as well as heterologous regulatory elements at
positions 5′ and 3′ capable of functioning in plants, the coding sequence comprising at least one DNA sequence encoding drosomycin as defined above. - The DNA sequence may be obtained according to standard methods of isolation and purification from drosophila, or alternatively by synthesis according to the usual techniques of successive hybridizations of synthetic oligonucleotides. These techniques are in particular described by Ausubel et al.
- According to one embodiment of the invention, the DNA sequence encoding drosomycin comprises the DNA sequence described by bases 21 to 152 of the sequence identifier No. 3 (SEQ ID NO 3), a sequence homologous or complementary to the said sequence.
- According to another embodiment of the invention, the DNA sequence encoding “full-length” drosomycin comprises the DNA sequence described by bases 101 to 310 of the sequence identifier No. 1 (SEQ ID NO 1), a sequence homologous or complementary to the said sequence.
- According to another embodiment of the invention, the DNA sequence encoding the “peptide-heliomycin” fusion peptide comprises the DNA sequence described by bases 15 to 221 of the sequence identifier No. 5 (SEQ ID NO 5), a homologous sequence or a sequence complementary to the said sequences.
- “Homologous” is understood to mean according to the invention any DNA sequence having one or more sequence modifications compared with the nucleotide sequence described by the sequence identifiers No. 1, 3 or 5 and encoding drosomycin, “full-length” drosomycin or the “peptide-drosomycin” fusion peptide. These modifications may be obtained according to the usual mutation techniques, or alternatively by choosing the synthetic oligonucleotides used in the preparation of the said sequence by hybridization. In the light of the multiple combinations of nucleic acids which can lead to the expression of the same amino acid, the differences between the reference sequence described by the sequence identifiers No. 1, 3 or 5 and the corresponding homologue may be substantial, all the more so since they are small-sized DNA fragments which can be made by chemical synthesis. Advantageously, the degree of homology will be at least 70% relative to the reference sequence, preferably at least 80%, more preferably at least 90%. These modifications are generally neutral, that is to say that they do not affect the primary sequence of the resulting drosomycin or fusion peptide.
- “Plant cell” is understood to mean according to the invention any cell derived from a plant and capable of constituting undifferentiated tissues such as calli, differentiated tissues such as embryos, plant portions, plants or seeds.
- “Plant” is understood to mean according to the invention any differentiated multicellular organism capable of photosynthesis, in particular monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plants, more particularly crop plants intended or not as animal feed or for human consumption, such as maize, wheat, colza, soya bean, rice, sugar cane, beet, tobacco, cotton and the like.
- The regulatory elements necessary for the expression of the DNA sequence encoding drosomycin are well known to persons skilled in the art according to the plant. They comprise in particular promoter sequences, transcription activators, terminator sequences, including start and stop codons. The means and methods for identifying and selecting the regulatory elements are well known to persons skilled in the art. As promoter regulatory sequence in plants, there may be used any promoter sequence of a gene which is naturally expressed in plants, in particular a promoter of bacterial, viral or plant origin such as, for example, that of a ribulose-biscarboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) small subunit gene or of a plant virus gene such as, for example, that of the cauliflower mosaic (
CAMV 19S or 35S), or a promoter inducible by pathogens such as tobacco PR-1a, it being possible to use any known suitable promoter. Preferably, a regulatory promoter sequence is used which promotes the overexpression of the coding sequence constitutively or inducibly upon attack by a pathogen, such as for example that comprising at least one histone promoter as described in application EP 0 507 698. - According to the invention, it is also possible to use, in combination with the regulatory promoter sequence, other regulatory sequences, which are situated between the promoter and the coding sequence, such as transcription enhancers, such as for example the translational enhancer of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) described in application WO 87/07644, or of the tobacco etch virus (TEV) described by Carrington & Freed.
- As regulatory terminator or polyadenylation sequence, there may be used any corresponding sequence of bacterial origin, such as for example theAgrobacterium tumefaciens nos terminator, or alternatively of plant origin, such as for example a histone terminator as described in application EP 0,633,317.
- The present invention also relates to an integrating vector for the transformation of plants containing at least one chimeric gene as defined above.
- The subject of the invention is also a method of transforming plant cells by integration of at least one chimeric gene as defined above, which transformation may be obtained by any known appropriate means, widely described in the specialist literature and in particular the applications cited in the present application.
- One series of methods consists in bombarding cells or protoplasts with particles to which the DNA sequences are attached.
- Another series of methods consists in using, as means of transferring into the plant, a chimeric gene inserted into anAgrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid or an Agrobacterium rhizogenes Ri plasmid.
- Other methods may be used, such as microinjection or electroporation.
- Persons skilled in the art will choose the appropriate method according to the nature of the plant, in particular its monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous character.
- For the methods of transforming plant cells and of regenerating plants, there may be mentioned the following patents and patent applications: U.S. Pat. No. 4,459,355, U.S. Pat. No. 4,536,475, U.S. Pat. No. 5,464,763, U.S. Pat. No. 5,177,010, U.S. Pat. No. 5,187,073, EP 267,159, EP 604 662, EP 672 752, U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,050, U.S. Pat. No. 5,036,006, U.S. Pat. No. 5,100,792, U.S. Pat. No. 5,371,014, U.S. Pat. No. 5,478,744, U.S. Pat. No. 5,179,022, U.S. Pat. No. 5,565,346, U.S. Pat. No. 5,484,956, U.S. Pat. No. 5,508,468, U.S. Pat. No. 5,538,877, U.S. Pat. No. 5,554,798, U.S. Pat. No. 5,489,520, U.S. Pat. No. 5,510,318, U.S. Pat. No. 5,204,253, U.S. Pat. No. 5,405,765, EP 442 174, EP 486 233, EP 486 234, EP 539 563, EP 674 725, WO 91/02071 and WO 95/06128.
- The subject of the present invention is also the plant cells, of monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plants, in particular of crops, which are transformed and which contain in their genome an effective quantity of a gene comprising a sequence encoding the drosomycin defined above.
- The subject of the present invention is also the plants containing transformed cells, in particular the plants regenerated from the transformed cells. The regeneration is obtained by any appropriate method which depends on the nature of the species, as for example described in the above patents and applications.
- The subject of the present invention is also the transformed plants derived from the cultivation and/or the crossing of the above regenerated plants, as well as the seeds of the transformed plants.
- The plants thus transformed are resistant to certain diseases, in particular to certain fungal diseases. Because of this, the DNA sequence encoding drosomycin may be integrated with the main objective of producing plants resistant to the said diseases, the drosomycin being effective against fungal diseases such as those caused by Botrytis, in particularBotrytis cinerea (mycelium or spores), Cercospora, in particular Cercospora beticola, Septoria, in particular Septoria tritici, or Fusarium, in particular Fusarium culmorum (mycelium or spores) or Fusarium graminearum.
- The chimeric gene may also advantageously comprise at least one selectable marker, such as one or more genes for tolerance to herbicides.
- The DNA sequence encoding drosomycin may also be integrated as a selectable marker during the transformation of plants with other sequences encoding other peptides or proteins of interest, such as for example genes for tolerance to herbicides.
- Such genes for tolerance to herbicides are well known to persons skilled in the art and are in particular described in Patent Applications EP 115 673, WO 87/04181, EP 337 899, WO 96/38567 or WO 97/04103.
- Of course, the cells and plants transformed according to the invention may comprise, in addition to the sequence encoding drosomycin, other heterologous sequences encoding proteins of interest, such as other additional peptides capable of conferring on the plant resistance to other diseases of bacterial or fungal origin, and/or other sequences encoding proteins for tolerance to herbicides and/or other sequences encoding proteins for resistance to insects, such as the Bt proteins in particular.
- The other sequences may be integrated by means of the same vector comprising a chimeric gene, which comprises a first sequence encoding drosomycin and at least one other sequence encoding another peptide or protein of interest.
- They may also be integrated by means of another vector comprising at least the said other sequence, according to the usual techniques defined above.
- The plants according to the invention may also be obtained by the crossing of parents, one carrying the gene according to the invention encoding drosomycin, the other carrying a gene encoding at least one other peptide or protein of interest.
- The present invention finally relates to a method of cultivating the transformed plants according to the invention, the method consisting in planting the seeds of the said transformed plants in an area of a field appropriate for the cultivation of the said plants, in applying to the said area of the said field an agrochemical composition, without substantially affecting the said seeds or the said transformed plants, and then in harvesting the cultivated plants when they reach the desired maturity and optionally in separating the seeds from the harvested plants.
- Agrochemical composition is understood to mean according to the invention any agrochemical composition comprising at least one active product having one of the following activities: herbicidal, fungicidal, bactericidal, virucidal or insecticidal activity.
- According to a preferred embodiment of the method of cultivation according to the invention, the agrochemical composition comprises at least one active product having at least one fungicidal and/or bactericidal activity, more preferably exhibiting an activity complementary to that of the drosomycin produced by the transformed plants according to the invention.
- Product exhibiting an activity complementary to that of drosomycin is understood to mean according to the invention a product exhibiting a complementary activity spectrum, that is to say a product which will be active against attacks by contaminants (fungi, bacteria or viruses) which are insensitive to drosomycin, or alternatively a product whose activity spectrum covers that of drosomycin, completely or in part, and whose dose for application will be substantially reduced because of the presence of the drosomycin produced by the transformed plant.
- The examples below make it possible to illustrate the invention, the preparation of the chimeric gene, of the integrating vector, of the transformed plants and their resistance to various diseases of fungal origin. FIGS.1 to 7 in the annex describe the schematic structures of some plasmids prepared for the construction of the chimeric genes. In these figures, the different restriction sites are marked in italics.
- All the techniques used below are standard laboratory techniques. The detailed protocols for these techniques are in particular described in Ausubel et al.
- pRPA-RD-180:
- A whole cDNA clone encoding drosomycin described by Fehlbaum et al. (SEQ ID NO. 1) is inserted into the plasmid pCR-1000 (INVITROGEN) as EcoRI-HindIII fragment.
- pRPA-RD-182: Creation of a region encoding so-called “full-length” drosomycin (corresponding to the pre-pro peptide) by removing the nontranscribed region in 5′ and by eliminating the first ATG codon.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-180 is digested with the restriction enzymes ScaI and EcoRI, and the large DNA fragment is purified. A double-stranded synthetic oligonucleotide of the following sequence Oligo 1 is then linked to the purified DNA sequence derived from pRPA-RD-180:
Oligo 1: 5′ AATTCCCGAAGACGACATGCAGATCAAGT 3′ GGGCTTCTGCTGTACGTCTAGTTCA - pRPA-RD-183: Creation of a sequence encoding mature drosomycin which does not comprise the nontranscribed region in 3′.
- The two complementary synthetic oligonucleotides of sequences Oligo 2 and Oligo 3 below are hybridized at 65° C. for 5 minutes and then by a slow reduction of the temperature to 30° C. over 30′.
Oligo 2: 5′ GAGAGATCCC CCGCGGTGGT GACTGCCTGT CCGGAAGATA CAAGGGTCCC TGTGCCGTCT GGGACAACGA GACCTGTCGT CGTGTGTGCA AGGAGGAGGG 3′ Oligo 3: 5′ GCGCGCGGAT CCTTAGCATC CTTCGCACCA GCACTTCAGA CTGGGGCTGC AGTGGCCACT GGAGCGTCCC TCCTCCTTGC ACACACGACG 3′ - After hybridization between Oligo 2 and Oligo 3, the DNA remaining single-stranded serves as template for the Klenow fragment ofE. coli polymerase I (under the standard conditions recommended by the manufacturer (New England Biolabs)) for the creation of the double-stranded oligonucleotide. This double-stranded oligonucleotide is then digested with the restriction enzymes SacII and EcoRI and cloned into the plasmid pBS II SK(−) (Stratagene) digested with the same restriction enzymes. A clone is then obtained comprising the region encoding mature drosomycin situated between the SacII and BamHI restriction sites (SEQ ID 3).
- pRPA-RD-186: Removal of the nontranscribed 3′ region from the region encoding full-length drosomycin of pRPA-RD-182.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-182 is digested with the restriction enzymes BspEI and KpnI, and the large DNA fragment is purified. The plasmid pRPA-RD-183 is then digested with the restriction enzymes BspEI and KpnI, and the small DNA fragment is purified. These two purified fragments are then linked so as to obtain a plasmid containing the region encoding the pre-pro peptide of drosomycin whose first ATG codon and the two noncoding regions in 5′ and 3′ have been eliminated (SEQ ID 5).
- pRPA-RD-187: Creation of a vector for expression in plants comprising the sequence encoding the mature form of drosomycin.
- The plasmid pUGUS(118), derived from pUC-19, was obtained from Dr. Richard Vierstra of the University of Wisconsin (plasmid not described). This plasmid, whose schematic structure is represented in FIG. 1, contains the
CaMV 35S promoter which directs the expression of an RNA containing the untranslated sequence in 5′ of the alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV 5′ UTR; Brederode et al., 1980), the N-terminal region of the Arabidopsis thaliana ubiquitin gene ubq11 up to the ubiquitin hydrolase cleavage site (N-term ubq11; Callis et al., 1993) which is fused in the same reading frame with the E. coli β-glucuronidase gene (GUS; Jefferson et al., 1987), followed by the polyadenylation site of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens nopaline synthase gene (NOS polyA; Bevan et al., 1983). - The plasmid pUGUS(118) is digested with the restriction enzymes SacII and BamHI and the large DNA fragment is purified. The plasmid pRPA-RD-183 is digested with the restriction enzymes SacII and BamHI and the small DNA fragment containing the region encoding the mature form of drosomycin is then purified. The two purified DNA fragments are linked together in a cassette for expression in plants which synthesize a ubiquitin-drosomycin fusion protein in the cytoplasm of plant cells. The schematic structure of this expression cassette is represented in FIG. 2. Under the action of ubiquitin hydrolase on this fusion protein, the mature drosomycin is liberated into the cytoplasm of the plant cells.
- pRPA-RD-188: Creation of a plant expression vector comprising the full length of the sequence encoding drosomycin (pre-pro).
- The plasmid pRTL-2 GUS, derived from the plasmid pUC-19, was obtained from Dr. Jim Carrington (Texas A&M University, not described). This plasmid, whose schematic structure is represented in FIG. 3, contains the duplicated
CaMV 35S promoter isolated from the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV 2×35S promoter; Odell et al., 1985) which directs the expression of an RNA containingtobacco etch virus 5′ untranslated sequence (TEV 5′ UTR; Carrington & Freed, 1990), the E. coli β-glucuronidase gene (GUS, Jefferson et al., 1987) followed by theCaMV 35S RNA polyadenylation site (CaMV polyA; Odell et al., 1985). - The plasmid pRTL-2 GUS is digested with the restriction enzymes NcoI and BamHI and the large DNA fragment is purified. The plasmid pRPA-RD-186 is digested with the restriction enzymes BbsII and BamHI and the small DNA fragment containing the region encoding drosomycin pre-pro is purified. The two purified DNA fragments are then linked together in a cassette for expression in plants which synthesize a drosomycin pre-pro protein. The schematic structure of this expression cassette is represented in FIG. 4. “Pre-pro-drosomycin” represents the drosomycin coding region of pRPA-RD-186. The drosomycin is transported to the extracellular matrix of the plant by the action of a signal peptide (pre-pro).
- pRPA-RD-195: Creation of a plasmid containing a modified multiple cloning site.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-195 is a plasmid derived from pUC-19 which contains a modified multiple cloning site. The complementary synthetic oligonucleotides Oligo 4 and
Oligo 5 below are hybridized and made double-stranded according to the procedure described for pRPA-RD-183.Oligo 4: 5′ AGGGCCCCCT AGGGTTTAAA CGGCCAGTCA GGCCGAATTC GAGCTCGGTA CCCGGGGATC CTCTAGAGTC GACCTGCAGG CATGC 3′ Oligo 5: 5′ CCCTGAACCA GGCTCGAGGG CGCGCCTTAA TTAAAAGCTT GCATGCCTGC AGGTCGACTC TAGAGG 3′ - The double-stranded oligonucleotide obtained is then linked in pUC-19 which has been previously digested with the restriction enzymes EcoRI and HindIII and made blunt-ended using the Klenow fragment ofE. coli DNA polymerase I. A vector is obtained which contains multiple cloning sites to facilitate the introduction of the expression cassettes into an Agrobacterium tumefaciens vector plasmid. The schematic structure of this multiple cloning site is represented in FIG. 5.
- pRPA-RD-190: Introduction of the drosomycin expression cassette from pRPA-RD-187 into pRPA-RD-195.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-187 is digested with the restriction enzymes KpnI and SalI, and the DNA fragment containing the drosomycin expression cassette is purified. The purified fragment is then linked in pRPA-RD-195 which has been previously digested with the same restriction enzymes.
- pRPA-RD-191: Introduction of the drosomycin expression cassette from pRPA-RD-188 into pRPA-RD-195.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-188 is digested with the restriction enzyme HindIII and dephosphorylated with calf intestinal phosphatase. The DNA fragment containing the drosomycin expression cassette is purified. The purified fragment is then linked in pRPA-RP-195 which has been previously digested with the restriction enzyme HindIII.
- pRPA-RD-174: Plasmid derived from pRPA-BL-150A (EP 0,508,909) containing the bromoxynil tolerance gene of pRPA-BL-237 (EP 0,508,909).
- The bromoxynil tolerance gene is isolated from pRPA-BL-237 by PCR gene amplification. The fragment obtained is blunt-ended and is cloned into the EcoRI site of pRPA-BL-150A which has been made blunt-ended by the action of Klenow polymerase under standard conditions. AnAgrobacterium tumefaciens vector is obtained which contains the bromoxynil tolerance gene near its right border, a kanamycin tolerance gene near its left border and the multiple cloning site of pUC-19 between these two genes.
- The schematic structure of pRPA-RD-174 is represented in FIG. 6. In this figure, “nos” represents theAgrobacterium tumefaciens nopaline synthase polyadenylation site (Bevan et al., 1983), “NOS pro” represents the Agrobacterium tumefaciens nopaline synthase promoter (Bevan et al., 1983), “NPT II” represents the neomycin phosphotransferase gene of the E. coli Tn5 transposon (Rothstein et al., 1981), “35S pro” represents the 35S promoter isolated from the cauliflower mosaic virus (Odell et al., 1985), “BRX” represents the nitrilase gene isolated from K. ozaenae (Stalker et al., 1988), “RB” and “LB” represent respectively the right and left borders of the sequence of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid.
- pRPA-RD-184: Addition of a new unique restriction site to pRPA-RD-174.
- The complementary synthetic oligonucleotides Oligo 6 and Oligo 7 below are hybridized and made double-stranded according to the procedure described for pRPA-RD-183.
Oligo 6: 5′ CGGGCCAGTC AGGCCACACT TAATTAAGTT TAAACGCGGC CCCGGCGCGC CTAGGTGTGT GCTCGAGGGC CCAACCTCAG ACCTGGTTC AGG 3′ Oligo 7: 5′ CCGGCCTGAA CCAGGTACTG AGGTTGGGCC CTCGAGCACA CACCTAGGCG CGCCGGGGCC GCGTTTAAAC TTAATTAAGT GTGGCCTGAC TGG 3′ - The hybridized double-stranded oligonucleotide (95 base pairs) is purified after separation on an agarose gel (3% Nusieve, FMC). The plasmid pRPA-RD-174 is digested with the restriction enzyme XmaI, and the large DNA fragment is purified. The two DNA fragments obtained are then linked.
- A plasmid derived from pRPA-RD-174 is obtained which comprises other restriction sites between the bromoxynil tolerance gene and the kanamycin selectable marker gene.
- The schematic structure of the plasmid pRPA-RD-184 is represented in FIG. 7, where the terms “nos”, “NPT II”, “NOS pro”, “35S pro”, “BRX gene”, “RB” and “LB” have the same meaning as in FIG. 6.
- pRPA-RD-192: Creation of anAgrobacterium tumefaciens vector containing the gene construct encoding drosomycin directed towards the cytosol of the cells.
- The plasmid pRPA-RD-190 is digested with the restriction enzymes ApaI and AscI, and the DNA fragment containing the drosomycin expression cassette is purified. The purified DNA fragment containing the drosomycin expression cassette is linked into pRPA-RD-184, after prior digestion with the same two enzymes. AnAgrobacterium tumefaciens vector is thus obtained which contains the sequence encoding the drosomycin-ubiquitin fusion protein which leads to the expression of drosomycin in the cytosol of the plant cells.
- pRPA-RD-193: Creation of anAgrobacterium tumefaciens vector containing the gene construct encoding drosomycin directed towards the extracellular matrix.
- The procedure described above is repeated with the plasmid pRPA-RD-191 and the restriction enzymes PmeI and AscI, replacing the plasmid pRPA-RD-190 and the restriction enzymes ApaI and AscI. AnAgrobacterium tumefaciens vector is thus obtained which contains the sequence encoding the drosomycin pre-pro protein which leads to the expression of drosomycin in the extracellular matrix of the plant.
- 2.1—Transformation
- The vectors pRPA-RD-192 and pRPA-RD-193 are introduced into theAgrobacterium tumefaciens EHA101 strain (Hood et al., 1987) carrying the cosmid pTVK291 (Komari et al., 1986). The transformation technique is based on the procedure of Horsh et al. (1985).
- 2.2—Regeneration
- The PBD6 tobacco (source SEITA France) is regenerated from foliar explants on a Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium comprising 30 g/l of sucrose as well as 200 μg/ml of kanamycin. The foliar explants are removed from plants cultivated in a greenhouse or in vitro and transformed according to the foliar disc technique (Horsh et al., 1985) in three successive stages: the first comprises the induction of shoots on a medium supplemented with 30 g/l of sucrose containing 0.05 mg/l of naphthyl acetic acid (NAA) and 2 mg/l of benzylaminopurine (BAP) for 15 days. The shoots formed during this stage are then developed for 10 days by cultivating on an MS medium supplemented with 30 g/l of sucrose but not containing any hormone. Developed shoots are then removed and they are cultivated on an MS rooting medium containing half of the content of salts, vitamins and sugar and not containing any hormone. After about 15 days, the rooted shoots are transferred into the soil.
- 2.3—Tolerance to Bromoxynil
- Twenty transformed plants were regenerated and transferred into a greenhouse for each construct pRPA-RD-192 and pRPA-RD-193. These plants were treated in a greenhouse at the 5-leaf stage with an aqueous Pardner suspension corresponding to 0.2 kg of bromoxynil active ingredient per hectare.
- All the plants showing complete tolerance to bromoxynil are used in the following experiments to test the effects of the expression of drosomycin on the tolerance of the transformed plants to fungal attacks.
- An immunoblot analysis (as described by Coligan et al.) is used to detect the drosomycin produced by the transformed tobaccos, using a rabbit antibody directed against synthetic drosomycin attached to a KLH carrier protein, with the synthetic drosomycin as antigen.
- The leaf proteins are extracted, first by grinding the frozen tissues at −180° C., followed by the addition of an extraction buffer (8 M urea, 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 2% SDS, 5% β-mercaptoethanol, 10% sucrose, 2 mM EDTA and 10 mM dithiothreitol). The total quantity of extractable proteins is then measured. 100 μg of extracted proteins are then loaded into SDS-PAGE gel (20% acrylamide) wells for an immunoblot analysis (according to Coligan et al.).
- For the plants transformed with the plasmid pRPA-RD-193 (drosomycin pre-pro), up to 160 ng of drosomycin were found per 100 μg of total proteins extracted from the leaves.
- For the plants transformed with the plasmid pRPA-RD-192 (mature drosomycin), up to 50 ng of drosomycin were found per 100 μg of total proteins extracted from the leaves.
- The drosomycin synthesized and isolated from the plants transformed with the plasmids pRPA-RD-192 and pRPA-RD-193 comigrates with the drosomycin isolated from drosophila. This result show that each of the drosomycins directed either towards the cytoplasm (pRPA-RD-192) or towards the extracellular matrix (pRPA-RD-193) leads to a mature drosomycin. In addition, the gel system used in this analysis (20% acrylamide) would have made it possible to easily detect drosomycin which would not have been transformed since the two constructs (ubiquitin-drosomycin and drosomycin pre-pro) are approximately 10 kD, against 5 kD for the mature drosomycin.
- 15/20 plants derived from the plants obtained in Example 2.3 are cultivated in a greenhouse in transplanting pots of side 7 cm under the following conditions:
- temperature: 16° C. at night; 19° C. during the day;
- photoperiod: 14 h of darkness; 10 h of daylight;
- hygrometry: 90-1400
- Two leaves per plant are inoculated with 6 discs 6 mm in diameter per leaf, each disc consisting of aBotrytis cinerea suspension (100,000 spores/ml). The development of the infection is observed 7 days after the inoculation by measuring the increase in the diameter of each disc.
- For most of the plants transformed with the plasmid pRPA-RD-192 (mature protein in the cytoplasm) or with the plasmid pRPA-RD-193 (extracellular drosomycin), no increase in the diameters of the discs or a very small increase, is observed, which indicates a high resistance to the infections caused byBotritis cinerea.
- The preceding procedure is repeated with the following operating conditions:
- temperature: 18° C. at night; 22° C. during the day;
- photoperiod: 14 h of darkness; 10 h of daylight.
- The inoculation is carried out 18 days after sowing by supplying to each pot 1 ml of a suspension of endoconidia containing 1,000,000 conidia/ml. The infection results are read 21 days after the inoculation by observing the roots of plantlets previously cleaned with water. The development of the disease is assessed on a marking scale from 0 to 11, 0 corresponding to an absence of infection. For the plants transformed with the plasmid pRPA-RD-192 (mature protein in the cytoplasm) and those transformed with the plasmid pRPA-RD-193 (extracellular drosomycin), the mean notation is 4, which corresponds to a high resistance toChalara elegans.
- The results obtained in vivo in Examples 4 and 5 show that the transformation with the chimeric gene according to the invention confers on the transformed plant new fungus resistance properties, an activity [lacuna] is linked to preservation of the antifungal properties of the drosomycin produced by the transformed plants according to the invention.
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1 15 1 488 DNA Drosophila melanogaster CDS (101)...(310) 1 gaattcgagc tcggtacccc tcgagaccat ggtcgacccc acgcgtccgg ataattcttt 60 cagaaatcat ttaccaagct ccgtgagaac cttttccaat atg atg cag atc aag 115 Met Met Gln Ile Lys 1 5 tac ttg ttc gcc ctc ttc gct gtc ctg atg ctg gtg gtg ctg gga gcc 163 Tyr Leu Phe Ala Leu Phe Ala Val Leu Met Leu Val Val Leu Gly Ala 10 15 20 aac gag gcc gat gcc gac tgc ctg tcc gga aga tac aag ggt ccc tgt 211 Asn Glu Ala Asp Ala Asp Cys Leu Ser Gly Arg Tyr Lys Gly Pro Cys 25 30 35 gcc gtc tgg gac aac gag acc tgt cgt cgt gtg tgc aag gag gag gga 259 Ala Val Trp Asp Asn Glu Thr Cys Arg Arg Val Cys Lys Glu Glu Gly 40 45 50 cgc tcc agt ggc cac tgc agc ccc agt ctg aag tgc tgg tgc gaa gga 307 Arg Ser Ser Gly His Cys Ser Pro Ser Leu Lys Cys Trp Cys Glu Gly 55 60 65 tgc taaatccatg agcaattagc atgaacgttc tgaaaagcgc gtttagctct 360 Cys 70 ccactactta cgacatattc tatgctgcaa tattgaaaat ctaataaaca aaactaatgt 420 acattaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaggg cggccgcgac ctgcaggcat 480 gcaagctt 488 2 70 PRT Drosophila melanogaster 2 Met Met Gln Ile Lys Tyr Leu Phe Ala Leu Phe Ala Val Leu Met Leu 1 5 10 15 Val Val Leu Gly Ala Asn Glu Ala Asp Ala Asp Cys Leu Ser Gly Arg 20 25 30 Tyr Lys Gly Pro Cys Ala Val Trp Asp Asn Glu Thr Cys Arg Arg Val 35 40 45 Cys Lys Glu Glu Gly Arg Ser Ser Gly His Cys Ser Pro Ser Leu Lys 50 55 60 Cys Trp Cys Glu Gly Cys 65 70 3 167 DNA Drosophila melanogaster CDS (21)...(152) 3 gagagatccc ccgcggtggt gac tgc ctg tcc gga aga tac aag ggt ccc tgt 53 Asp Cys Leu Ser Gly Arg Tyr Lys Gly Pro Cys 1 5 10 gcc gtc tgg gac aac gag acc tgt cgt cgt gtg tgc aag gag gag gga 101 Ala Val Trp Asp Asn Glu Thr Cys Arg Arg Val Cys Lys Glu Glu Gly 15 20 25 cgc tcc agt ggc cac tgc agc ccc agt ctg aag tgc tgg tgc gaa gga 149 Arg Ser Ser Gly His Cys Ser Pro Ser Leu Lys Cys Trp Cys Glu Gly 30 35 40 tgc taaggatccg cgcgc 167 Cys 4 44 PRT Drosophila melanogaster 4 Asp Cys Leu Ser Gly Arg Tyr Lys Gly Pro Cys Ala Val Trp Asp Asn 1 5 10 15 Glu Thr Cys Arg Arg Val Cys Lys Glu Glu Gly Arg Ser Ser Gly His 20 25 30 Cys Ser Pro Ser Leu Lys Cys Trp Cys Glu Gly Cys 35 40 5 236 DNA Artificial Sequence CDS (15)...(221) Encodes the ubiquitin-drosomycin fusion peptide 5 gaattgaaga cgcc atg cag atc aag tac ttg ttc gcc ctc ttc gct gtc 50 Met Gln Ile Lys Tyr Leu Phe Ala Leu Phe Ala Val 1 5 10 ctg atg ctg gtg gtg ctg gga gcc aac gag gcc gat gcc gac tgc ctg 98 Leu Met Leu Val Val Leu Gly Ala Asn Glu Ala Asp Ala Asp Cys Leu 15 20 25 tcc gga aga tac aag ggt ccc tgt gcc gtc tgg gac aac gag acc tgt 146 Ser Gly Arg Tyr Lys Gly Pro Cys Ala Val Trp Asp Asn Glu Thr Cys 30 35 40 cgt cgt gtg tgc aag gag gag gga cgc tcc agt ggc cac tgc agc ccc 194 Arg Arg Val Cys Lys Glu Glu Gly Arg Ser Ser Gly His Cys Ser Pro 45 50 55 60 agt ctg aag tgc tgg tgc gaa gga tgc taaggatccg cgcgc 236 Ser Leu Lys Cys Trp Cys Glu Gly Cys 65 6 69 PRT Artificial Sequence Ubiquitin drosomycin fusion peptide 6 Met Gln Ile Lys Tyr Leu Phe Ala Leu Phe Ala Val Leu Met Leu Val 1 5 10 15 Val Leu Gly Ala Asn Glu Ala Asp Ala Asp Cys Leu Ser Gly Arg Tyr 20 25 30 Lys Gly Pro Cys Ala Val Trp Asp Asn Glu Thr Cys Arg Arg Val Cys 35 40 45 Lys Glu Glu Gly Arg Ser Ser Gly His Cys Ser Pro Ser Leu Lys Cys 50 55 60 Trp Cys Glu Gly Cys 65 7 29 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 7 aattcccgaa gacgacatgc agatcaagt 29 8 25 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 8 acttgatctg catgtcgtct tcggg 25 9 100 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 9 gagagatccc ccgcggtggt gactgcctgt ccggaagata caagggtccc tgtgccgtct 60 gggacaacga gacctgtcgt cgtgtgtgca aggaggaggg 100 10 90 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 10 gcgcgcggat ccttagcatc cttcgcacca gcacttcaga ctggggctgc agtggccact 60 ggagcgtccc tcctccttgc acacacgacg 90 11 85 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 11 agggccccct agggtttaaa cggccagtca ggccgaattc gagctcggta cccggggatc 60 ctctagagtc gacctgcagg catgc 85 12 66 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 12 ccctgaacca ggctcgaggg cgcgccttaa ttaaaagctt gcatgcctgc aggtcgactc 60 tagagg 66 13 93 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 13 cgggccagtc aggccacact taattaagtt taaacgcggc cccggcgcgc ctaggtgtgt 60 gctcgagggc ccaacctcag tacctggttc agg 93 14 93 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 14 ccggcctgaa ccaggtactg aggttgggcc ctcgagcaca cacctaggcg cgccggggcc 60 gcgtttaaac ttaattaagt gtggcctgac tgg 93 15 44 PRT Artificial Sequence Drosomycin Core Sequence 15 Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa 1 5 10 15 Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa 20 25 30 Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Cys 35 40
Claims (33)
1. Chimeric gene comprising a coding sequence as well as heterologous regulatory elements at positions 5′ and 3′ capable of functioning in a plant, characterized in that the coding sequence comprises at least one DNA sequence encoding drosomycin.
2. Chimeric gene according to claim 1 , characterized in that the drosomycin essentially comprises the peptide sequence of formula (I) below:
Xaa-Cys-Xab-Cys-Xac-Cys-Xad-Cys-Xae-Cys-Xaf-Cys-Xag-Cys-Xah-Cys (I)
in which
Xaa represents a peptide residue comprising at least 1 amino acid,
Xab represents a peptide residue of 8 amino acids,
Xac represents a peptide residue of 7 amino acids,
Xad represents a peptide residue of 3 amino acids,
Xae represents a peptide residue of 9 amino acids,
Xaf represents a peptide residue of 5 amino acids,
Xag represents a peptide residue of one amino acid, and
Xah represents a peptide residue of 2 amino acids.
3. Chimeric gene according to claim 2 , characterized in that Xab and/or Xad and/or Xac comprise at least one basic amino acid.
4. Chimeric gene according to claim 3 , characterized in that Xab comprises at least 2 basic amino acids, preferably 2 and/or Xad and/or Xaf comprise at least 1 basic amino acid, preferably 1.
5. Chimeric gene according to either of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that
Xaa represents the peptide sequence Xaa′-Asp- in which Xaa′ represents NH2 or a peptide residue comprising at least 1 amino acid, and/or
Xab represents the peptide sequence -Leu-Xab′-Pro- in which Xab′ represents a peptide residue of 6 amino acids, and/or
Xac represents the peptide sequence -Ala-Xac′-Thr- in which Xac′ represents a peptide residue of 5 amino acids, and/or
Xad represents the peptide sequence -Arg-Xad′-Val, in which Xad′ represents a peptide residue of one amino acid, and/or
Xae represents the peptide sequence -Lys-Xae′-His- in which Xae′ represents a peptide residue of 7 amino acids, and/or
Xaf represents the peptide sequence -Ser-Xaf′-Lys- in which Xaf′ represents a peptide residue of 3 amino acids, and/or
Xag represents Trp, and/or
Xah represents the peptide residue Glu-Gly.
6. Chimeric gene according to claim 5 , characterized in that
Xab′ represents the peptide sequence Ser-Gly-Arg-Tyr-Lys-Gly, and/or
Xac′ represents the peptide sequence Val-Trp-Asp-Asn-Glu, and/or
Xad′ represents Arg, and/or
Xae′ represents the peptide sequence Glu-Glu-Gly-Arg-Ser-Ser-Gly, and/or
Xaf′ represents the peptide sequence Pro-Ser-Leu.
7. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 6 , characterized in that the drosomycin is the peptide sequence represented by the sequence identifier No. 4 (SEQ ID No. 4) and the homologous peptide sequences.
8. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 7 , characterized in that the drosomycin is a “peptide-drosomycin” fusion peptide, the cutting of which by the enzymatic systems of plant cells allows the liberation of the drosomycin defined in claims 1 to 7 .
9. Chimeric gene according to claim 8 , characterized in that the “peptide-drosomycin” fusion peptide is represented by the sequence identifier No. 6 (SEQ ID No. 6).
10. “Peptide-drosomycin” fusion peptide, characterized in that the drosomycin is defined according to claims 1 to 7 .
11. Fusion peptide according to claim 10 , characterized in that the peptide is to be a signal peptide or a transit peptide.
12. Fusion peptide according to claim 11 , characterized in that the signal peptide is chosen from the signal peptide of the tobacco PR-1α gene or ubiquitin.
13. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 12 , characterized in that it comprises, in addition, at least one herbicide tolerance gene.
14. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 14 , characterized in that it comprises, in addition, at least one sequence encoding another peptide capable of conferring on the plant resistance to other diseases of bacterial or fungal origin.
15. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 14 , characterized in that the regulatory elements comprise promoter sequences, transcription activators, transit peptides and/or terminator sequences.
16. Chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 14 , characterized in that the regulatory promoter sequence is chosen from promoter sequences of bacterial, viral or plant origin.
17. Chimeric gene according to claim 16 , characterized in that the regulatory promoter sequence is chosen from the promoter of the gene for the ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) small subunit or that of the cauliflower mosaic (CAMV 19S or 35S).
18. Chimeric gene according to claim 16 , characterized in that the regulatory promoter sequence comprises at least one promoter chosen from histone or actin promoters.
19. Vector for transforming plants, characterized in that it contains at least one chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 18 .
20. Transformed plant cell containing at least one DNA as defined in one of claims 1 to 18 .
21. Disease-resistant plant, characterized in that it comprises a transformed cell according to claim 20 .
22. Plant according to claim 21 , characterized in that it is obtained by regeneration from a transformed cell according to claim 20 .
23. Disease-resistant transformed plant, characterized in that it is derived from the cultivation and/or the crossing of plants according to either of claims 21 and 22.
24. Seeds of transformed plants according to one of claims 21 to 23 .
25. Method of transforming plants to make them resistant to diseases, characterized in that a chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 18 is inserted.
26. Method of transforming plants to make them resistant to fungal diseases, characterized in that a chimeric gene according to one of claims 1 to 18 is inserted.
27. Method according to either of claims 25 and 26, characterized in that the transfer is carried out with Agrobacterium tumefaciens or Agrobacterium rhizogenes.
28. Method according to either of claims 25 and 26, characterized in that the transfer is carried out by supplying by bombardment with the aid of particles charged with DNA.
29. Method according to one of claims 25 to 28 , characterized in that at least one herbicide tolerance gene is also inserted.
30. Method according to one of claims 25 to 29 , characterized in that at least one sequence encoding another peptide capable of conferring on the plant resistance to other diseases of bacterial or fungal origin is also inserted.
31. Method of cultivating the transformed plants according to one of claims 21 to 24 , characterized in that it consists in planting the seeds of the said transformed plants in an area of a field appropriate for the cultivation of the said plants, in applying to the said area of the said field an agrochemical composition, without substantially affecting the said seeds or the said transformed plants, and then in harvesting the cultivated plants when they reach the desired maturity and optionally in separating the seeds from the harvested plants.
32. Method of cultivation according to claim 31 , characterized in that the agrochemical composition comprises at least one active product having at least one fungicidal and/or bactericidal activity.
33. Method of cultivation according to claim 24 , characterized in that the active product exhibits activity complementary to that of drosomycin.
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