WO2003029408A2 - Esr2 - a plant gene that can promote plant regeneration and transformation - Google Patents
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- Organogenesis in tissue culture is a critical step for efficient transformation of most plants.
- Media of controlled auxin/cytokinin ratio govern organogenesis in a wide range of species.
- Cytokinins were first identified as factors that act synergistically with auxin to promote cell division and act antagonistically to auxin to promote shoot and root initiation from callus cultures. Cytokinins have been implicated in many aspects of plant growth and development, including cell division, shoot initiation and growth, leaf senescence, and photomorphogenesis.
- Transgenic techniques have become a powerful tool to address important biological problems in multicellular organisms, and this is particularly true in the plant field. Many approaches that were impossible to implement by traditional genetics can now be realized by transgenic techniques, including the introduction into plants of homologous or heterologous genes, with modified functions and altered expression patterns. The success of such techniques often depends upon the use of markers to identify the transgenic plants and promoters to control the expression of the transgenes.
- markers are widely used in plant transformation. Historically such markers have often been dominant genes encoding either antibiotic or herbicide resistance (Yoder and Goldsbrough, 1994). Although such markers are highly useful, they do have some drawbacks.
- the antibiotics and herbicides used to select for the transformed cells generally have negative effects on proliferation and differentiation and may retard differentiation of adventitious shoots during the transformation process (Ebinuma et al., 1997).
- some plant species are insensitive to or tolerant of these selective agents, and therefore, it is difficult to separate the transformed and untransformed cells or tissues (Ebinuma et al., 1997). Further, these genes are constitutively expressed, and there are environmental and health concerns over inserting such constitutively expressed genes into plants which are grown outside of a laboratory setting (Bryant and Leather, 1992; Gressel, 1992; Flavell et al., 1992).
- ipt gene One marker which is neither an antibiotic nor a herbicide is the ipt gene.
- This gene encodes isopentenyltransferase which is used in cytokinin synthesis (Barry et al., 1984). Overproduction of cytokinins results in the overproduction of shoots (Barry et al., 1984). This overproduction of shoots can result in a phenotype having a large number of shoots (hereafter "shooty phenotype"). This phenotype can be used as a marker (Ebinuma et al., 1997).
- a chimeric ipt gene under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMN) promoter has been introduced into cells of potato (Ooms et al., 1983), cucumber (Smigocki and Owens, 1989), and several Nicotiana species (Smigocki and Owens, 1988) and these transgenic cells proliferated and exhibited an extreme shooty phenotype and loss of apical dominance in hormone-free medium. Studies have shown that in plants transformed with ipt to overproduce cytokinins, the cytokinins work only locally as a paracrine hormone (Faiss et al., 1997).
- Ebinuma et al. 1997
- Ebinuma et al. 1997 developed one method to use the ipt marker and to overcome the problems noted above. They developed a vector in which the ipt gene was inserted into a plasmid which included the transposable element Ac. The construct included the T-D ⁇ A (portion of the Ti plasmid that is transferred to plant cells) and the 35S CaMN promoter. This construct was transformed into A. tumefaciens. Leaf segments were inoculated with the transformed bacteria and grown on nonselective media.
- the gene CKI1 was more recently identified (Kakimoto, 1996) . Overproduction of this gene in plants results in plants which exhibit typical cytokinin responses, including rapid cell division and shoot formation in tissue culture in the absence of exogenous cytokinin (Kakimoto, 1996).
- the gene CKI1 was more recently identified (Kakimoto, 1996) . Overproduction of this gene in plants results in plants which exhibit typical cytokinin responses, including rapid cell division and shoot formation in tissue culture in the absence of exogenous cytokinin (Kakimoto, 1996).
- CKI1 gene can be used as a selectable marker in a manner similar to ipt, i.e., the CKI1 gene can be put under the control of a promoter and overexpressed in transgenic plant cells thereby inducing shoot formation in the absence of exogenous plant hormones. Such shoots can be excised thereby obtaining transgenic plants. Such shoots, obtained either from cells transformed with ipt or CKI1, cannot be made to grow normally while the cells are expressing these transgenes.
- the knotted gene and knotted-like genes are a third group of genes which when overexpressed can lead to ectopic production of adventitious shoots (Chuck et al., 1996; Lincoln et al., 1994). These can be used as selectable markers in the same manner as the ipt and CKI1 genes.
- transgenic plants are transcribed from a strong promoter, such as the 35S promoter of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMN).
- CaMN cauliflower mosaic virus
- a more flexible gene expression system is needed to extract greater benefits from transgenic technology.
- Good inducible transcription systems are desired because transgenic plants with inducible phenotypes are as useful as conditional mutants isolated by traditional genetics.
- induction systems have been reported and successfully used (Ainley and Key, 1990; Gatz et al, 1992; Mett et al., 1993; Weinmann et al, 1994).
- the tetracycline- dependent expression systems are the most commonly used (for review, see Gatz, 1996). See Zuo and Chua (2000) for a review of chemical-inducible systems for regulated expression of plant genes.
- glucocorticoid receptor is a member of the family of vertebrate steroid hormone receptors. GR is not only a receptor molecule but also a transcription factor which, in the presence of a glucocorticoid, activates transcription from promoters containing glucocorticoid response elements (GREs) (for reviews, see Beato, 1989; Picard, 1993). It had been considered that the GR system could be a good induction system in plants because it is simple, and glucocorticoid itself does not cause any pleiotropic effects in plants. Schena et al. (1991) demonstrated that a system comprising GR and GREs could work in a transient expression system with cultured plant cells.
- GREs glucocorticoid response elements
- HBD hormone-binding domain
- One aspect of the invention is a method of using ESR2 as a selectable marker.
- Overexpression of ESR2 in plants or plant cells results in plants or cells which show cytokinin- independent growth. This allows the gene to be used as a selective marker by growing cells transformed with the gene in cytokinin-free medium.
- Another aspect of the invention is that overexpression of ESR2 in plant cells grown in the presence of cytokinins results in extremely high regeneration efficiency.
- This aspect of the invention uses the gene not as a marker but as a means to increase the regeneration efficiency of plant cells.
- FIGURES Figure 1 shows the nucleotide (SEQ ID NO:l) and amino acid (SEQ ID NO:2) sequences of ESR2.
- SEQ ID NO:l amino acid sequences of ESR2.
- the EREBP/AP2 domain is underlined and the stop codon is shown by an asterisk.
- Figure 2 is a comparison of the amino acid sequences of ESRl (SEQ ID NO:4) and ESR2 (SEQ ID NO:2). Gaps denoted by dashes were inserted to achieve maximum homology. Identical amino acid residues between the two sequences are indicated by white letters on a black background and similar amino acid residues between the two sequences are black letters with shading.
- Figure 3 shows the effects of constitutive overexpression of ESRl or ESR2 on transformation.
- the number of transformed green calli obtained from 1 g fresh weight of root culture was calculated 4 weeks after transformation and are shown on the left.
- the open columns show the number of green calli grown on RI medium and the filled columns show the number of green calli grown on SR medium.
- Figure 4 shows the effects of inducible expression of ESRl or ESR2 on shoot regeneration.
- the number of shoots obtained from 1 g fresh weight of root culture was calculated 4 weeks after transformation and is shown on the left.
- Arabidopsis root cultures transformed with the vector alone (pERl 0) or with each of the two ESR genes were cultured on SR medium with (black filled columns) or without (gray filled columns) an inducer (10 ⁇ M 17- ⁇ -estradiol) or were cultured on RI medium with (open columns) or without (hatched columns) the 17- ⁇ -estradiol (10 ⁇ M) inducer.
- Esr2 an Esrl homolog
- Esr2 the overexpression of which, similar to the overexpression of Esrl, confers cytokinin-independent shoot regeneration on Arabidopsis root explants, even though the entire sequence identity between Esrl and Esr2 is only 40%.
- Shoot formation by either Esrl or Esr2 overexpression in the absence of cytokinin may be due to an increased sensitivity to a low level of endogenous cytokinin which by itself is not sufficient to induce shoot formation in wild type root cultures.
- Data discussed below indicates that root explants overexpressing ESR2 are more sensitive than those overexpressing ESRl.
- the present invention relates to transgenic plants which include the gene Esr2 (enhancer of shoot regeneration 2).
- Esr2 is shown as SEQ ID NO: 1 and is a distant homolog of Esrl which is shown as SEQ LD NO:3.
- the respective proteins encoded by these genes, ESR2 and ESRl, are shown as SEQ ID NOs:2 and 4, respectively.
- Esrl is nearly identical with a gene reported in GenBank (Accession Number AC007357, gene F3F19.1 consisting of bases 2481-3467 of the
- GenBank sequence which is shown herein as SEQ ID NO:5 and its encoded protein as SEQ ID NO:6).
- the GenBank sequence differs from the Esrl gene at four bases and the encoded proteins differ at a single amino acid residue.
- ESR2 performs functions similar to ESRl, but the activity of ESR2 is greater than that of ESRl.
- Overexpression of Esr2 allows cytokinin-independent growth of the plants or cells which are overexpressing the gene thereby allowing the gene to be used as a marker. Furthermore, overexpression of the gene in cells grown in the presence of cytokinins results in a high regeneration efficiency, thus allowing the gene to be used in a manner which increases plant regeneration.
- Esr2 can be placed under the control of an inducible promoter.
- An inducible promoter can be one which can be turned on (induced) to select for cells or plants which have become transgenic but which will not be turned on under natural growth conditions.
- the selectable marker gene although present in the transgenic plants, will be completely silent during the normal growth of the plants and should not interfere with the growth of the plants.
- Such a silent marker gene may also be more environmentally acceptable than, e.g., having an antibiotic resistance gene marker present wherein said resistance gene is expressed during the normal growth of the plant.
- Esr2 can be placed in a vector with an inducible promoter and plant cells are then transformed with the vector.
- the plant cells are grown in the presence of an inducer to turn on expression of ESR2 but in media lacking cytokinins.
- the absence of cytokmins prevents the growth of nontransformed cells, but cells transformed with the vector will grow despite the lack of cytokinins in the medium because of overexpression of the ESR2 gene.
- Shoots or calli which grow can be selected and tested to ascertain that they do include the vector. Once transformed shoots or calli are selected, they can be grown under normal conditions in the absence of inducer thereby preventing expression of the ESR2 gene within the vector.
- the vector which expresses Esr2 under the control of an inducible promoter can, if desired, include a second gene which will be expressed.
- This second gene can be under the control of an inducible promoter which is different from that controlling the ESR2 gene or it can be under the control of a constitutive promoter.
- This second gene can then be induced or produced constitutively in the transformed plants which are grown under normal conditions.
- the second gene can be any gene desired and can produce a protein which results in a more desirable trait than found in the nontransformed plant.
- plants can be cotransformed with one vector encoding ESR2 and with a second vector encoding the gene of interest. As the two transgenes will segregate in subsequent transgenic generations, transgenic plants carrying only the gene of interest can be obtained this way.
- glucocorticoid receptor Aoyama and Chua, 1997. This has been considered to be a good induction system for plants because glucocorticoid itself does not cause any apparent pleiotropic effects in plants.
- the use of a steroid receptor domain to regulate gene expression in transgenic plants has been previously reported by Lloyd et al. (1994), who showed that trichome development in Arabidopsis could be successfully controlled by a chimeric protein comprising the glucocorticoid receptor domain and the maize transcriptional regulator R.
- Tight transcriptional regulation with these systems appears to be dependent on the intramolecular structure of the chimeric protein, especially the relative position between the glucocorticoid receptor domain and the domain whose function is to be regulated.
- the glucocorticoid receptor-regulated promoter is a useful one which can be used together with ESR2, Esr2 can be used together with any inducible promoter which is desired.
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- any inducible promoter which is desired See Zuo and Chua (2000).
- overexpression of Esr2 in the presence of cytokinins results in enhanced regeneration efficiency. This result allows one several options for increasing yields of transformed plants.
- Vectors can be prepared which contain both a gene of interest as well as Esr2. Plant cells are then transformed with these vectors and the cells are cultured.
- the cells can first be cultured on media lacking cytokinins but including an inducer of the ESR2 gene and the shoots and calli which grow can be selected and then grown normally.
- the cells can be grown on media with cytokinins and with an inducer of Esr2. Tins second method allows greater regeneration efficiency thereby resulting in more shoot or callus formation.
- this second method can be performed with a vector comprising yet a third gene which can encode a selectable marker, e.g., an antibiotic resistance gene.
- a vector comprising Esrl under the control of an inducible promoter, the antibiotic resistance marker gene, and the gene of interest is used to transform cells.
- the cells are then grown on a medium with an inducer of Esrl, an antibiotic, and cytokinins.
- the expression of Esrl results in enhanced regeneration efficiency while the antibiotic resistance gene acts as a selectable marker.
- the gene of interest will be present in the selected shoots.
- the vectors to be used in forming transgenic plants can include a chemically inducible promoter such as the glucocorticoid promoter which will activate the selectable marker but can include any other desired promoter in place of or in addition to the GR system promoter. If desired, any other gene of interest can also be put under control of the inducible promoter such that the gene could be turned on whenever desired. Such a gene need not be a marker.
- ESRl was isolated and cloned as described previously (Banno et al., 2001). Based on the sequence similarity to ESRE, the ⁇ SR2 gene was identified as the most homologous gene in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. The coding region of ESR2 was amplified from the Arabidopsis genomic DNA (Columbia ecotype) by PCR using primers for FWD: 5'-
- GCGGCCGCATTTCTTTACAAC-5' (SEQ ID NO:8).
- Amplified fragments were ligated into pPCR-Script Amp vector (STRATAGENE), resulting in pPCR-ESR2 and the sequence was confirmed.
- the resulting construct, pPCR-ESR2 was digested with Ascl and Notl and the digested fragments were cloned between a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter and the poly A addition sequence of the nopaline synthetase gene in the plasmid pSK34, a derivative of pSKl, resulting in pSK-ESR2 (Kojima et al., 1999).
- pPCR- ⁇ SR2 was also digested wit Ascl and Spel and cloned into pERlO digested with Ascl and Spel, resulting in pER10-ESR2.
- p ⁇ RlO-ESR was constructed by ligating the Ascl-Notl fragment of the ESRl cDNA to linearized p ⁇ Rl 0.
- p ⁇ Rl 0 is identical to p ⁇ R8 (Zuo et al., 2000), except that the hygromycin-resistance gene is replaced by a kanamycin-resistance gene.
- the plasmid constructs were transformed into root cultures mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens EHA105. Root transformation was carried out as described previously (Koncz et al., 1989).
- Arabidopsis thaliana Wassilewskija was used for root cultures. Seeds were sterilized and sown on MS medium [Murashige and Skoog (MS) salts (Sigma), Gamborg's B5 vitamins (Sigma), 1% sucrose and 0.25% Phytagel (Sigma)] and grown for 7 days at 22°C under continuous light. Seedlings were transferred to B5 liquid medium [Gamborg's B5 salts (Sigma), Gamborg's
- compositions of the callus-inducing medium (CI medium), the shoot-regeneration medium (SR medium) and the root-inducing medium (RI medium) were as follows (Yasutani et al., 1994): (1) CIM: Gamborg's B5 salts, 2% glucose, Gamborg's B5 vitamins, 2 ⁇ M 2,4-dichloroacetic acid (2,4-D), 0.25 ⁇ M kinetin, 50 mg/L of kanamycin, 0.1 g/L of carbenicillin, and 0.25% Phytagar; (2) SRM: MS salts, 1% sucrose, Gamborg's B5 vitamins, 0.8 ⁇ Mindole-3 -acetic acid (IAA), 12.5 ⁇ M N 6 - ⁇ 2 -is
- the constructs were introduced into Arabidopsis roots by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and the roots were incubated on plates with or without cytokinin and in the presence or absence of the inducer.
- 17- ⁇ -estradiol was purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA) and treated as an inducer to become 10 ⁇ M as a final concentration.
- ESR7 encodes a protein of 328 amino acids with a molecular mass of 36.27 kDa.
- ESR2 encodes a protein of 306 amino acids with a molecular mass of 33.83 kDa ( Figure 1). Both proteins contain a domain with sequence homology to the AP2/ERBP domain found in a group of transcriptional factors in higher plants (Chang and Shockey, 1999;
- ESR2 was isolated as an ESRl homolog from the database search, however, the entire amino acid identity is no more than 40%.
- AP2/EREBP domain of both ESR proteins is highly conserved, the proteins have little sequence similarity to each other beyond the AP2/EREBP domain ( Figure 2) .
- Genomic genes corresponding to each cDNA are found in GenBank and are assigned to chromosome 1 (GenBank AC007357 (similar to Esrl) and GenBank AC000103 (for Esr2)).
- Example 4 Effects of constitutive expression of two ESR genes on plants Root explants were transformed either with a CaMN 35S-ESR1 or CaMN 35S-ESR2 construct and the number of transformed calli grown on SR medium or RI medium was calculated. Whereas the transformed calli harboring empty vector grew only in the SR medium, the transformed calli harboring one of the Esr containing constructs grew on SR medium and on RI medium and showed the same morphology as the empty vector calli. These calli harboring one of the Esr containing constructs are darker green than those of the empty vector and unable to produce any shoots. By contrast, approximately 80% of calli carrying the empty- vector developed into transgenic plants.
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