VIRUS RESISTANCE OF TRANSGENIC TOBACCO PLANTS EXPRESSING TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS COAT PROTEIN GENE

An intermediate expressing vector carrying the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV, Chinese common strain) coat protein (CP) gene was constructed by recombinant DNA techniques. The TMV-CP gene was transferred into the tobacco genome via Ti plasmid and a large number of regenerated plants, including both systemic and local lesion hosts for TMV, were obtained. Southern blot analysis revealed that 1-5 copies of the CP gene were integrated into the tobacco genome. RNA and protein analysis demonstrated that the TMV-CP gene was correctly expressed in the transgenic plants. The abundance of TMV-CP mRNA in total leaf RNA accounted for 0.005-0.01%, while the amount of coat proteins reached 0.05-0.2% of the total leaf soluble proteins. Virus challenge experiments showed that the symptom development of virus infection was markedly delayed and the replication as well as the spread of the virus was significantly inhibited in the transgenic plants expressing the TMV-CP gene. Three of these plants were completely protected afte     

表达烟草花叶病毒外壳蛋白的转基因烟草及其对TMV的抗性

利用体外重组DNA技术构建携带烟草花叶病毒(TMV,国内流行的普通株)外壳蛋白基因(CP)的中间表达载体,通过土壤农杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefaciens)Ti质粒,重组TMV-CP基因被转移至烟草细胞,并获得大量再生的转基因烟草。工程烟草的基因组经Southern印迹法分析证明,CP基因在再生工程株染色体中有1—5个拷贝的插入。分子杂交分析确证TMV-CP基因在转基因株中获得正确表达,其mRNA和蛋白产物的丰度分别达0.005—0.01％及0.05—0.2％。攻毒实验表明90％以上的能表达TMV—CP基因的工程烟草能不同程度地抑制病毒的复制、扩散,并显著延缓,减轻系统病状的发生。有3株工程植株直至花期无病状表现,生长正常。这一抗性作用机制在于转化细胞中的外壳蛋白在病毒侵染早期有效地抑制了入侵病毒颗粒的脱壳,从而阻断病毒的复制。     

高效抗虫转基因烟草的研究

苏云金杆菌HD-1的杀虫蛋白基因经5′端改造,3′端进行4种不同长度缺失后插入到含有双增强子的35S启动子,翻译增强子“Ω′”片段的双元载体中,借助土壤农杆菌LBA 4404将在此双元载体上的杀虫蛋白基因及新霉素磷酸转移酶基因(NPTII)转入到生产品种烟草NC89的染色体上,从而获得了抗卡那霉素的转化再生烟草植株。用1—3龄烟青虫对这些转化植株进行大量重复虫试结果表明用4种不同长度B.t.基因转化的再生植株中都有抗虫性高的植株,其中以1.8kb的B.t.Cry IA(c)基因转化的植株杀虫效果最好,这一组转基因植株的平均杀虫率在90—100％的约占该组总虫试植株的50％。对高抗虫性植株的子一代(T1)和子二代(T2)进行遗传分析,分子生物学分析和进一步的抗虫试验表明B.t.基因已遗传到子代并初步选到了高抗虫性的转基因纯合株系D8-14和D19-8等。