High frequency of phenotypic deviations in Physcomitrella patens plants transformed with a gene-disruption library

被引：55

作者：

Egener T. ^{[1
]}

Granado J. ^{[1
]}

Guitton M.-C. ^{[1
]}

Hohe A. ^{[1
]}

Holtorf H. ^{[1
]}

Lucht J.M. ^{[1
]}

Rensing S.A. ^{[1
]}

Schlink K. ^{[1
]}

Schulte J. ^{[1
]}

Schween G. ^{[1
]}

Zimmermann S. ^{[1
]}

Duwenig E. ^{[2
]}

Rak B. ^{[3
]}

Reski R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Plant Biotechnology, Freiburg University, D-79104 Freiburg/Br.

[2] BASF, Plant Science GmbH

[3] Institute of Biology III, Freiburg University, D-79104 Freiburg/Br.

来源：

BMC Plant Biology | / 2卷 / 1期

关键词：

Homologous Recombination; Conjugative Plasmid; Ammonium Tartrate; tnpA; Plant Functional Genomic;

D O I：

10.1186/1471-2229-2-6

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摘要：

Background: The moss Physcomitrella patens is an attractive model system for plant biology and functional genome analysis. It shares many biological features with higher plants but has the unique advantage of an efficient homologous recombination system for its nuclear DNA. This allows precise genetic manipulations and targeted knockouts to study gene function, an approach that due to the very low frequency of targeted recombination events is not routinely possible in any higher plant. Results: As an important prerequisite for a large-scale gene/function correlation study in this plant, we are establishing a collection of Physcomitrella patens transformants with insertion mutations in most expressed genes. A low-redundancy moss cDNA library was mutagenised in E. coli using a derivative of the transposon Tn1000. The resulting gene-disruption library was then used to transform Physcomitrella. Homologous recombination of the mutagenised cDNA with genomic coding sequences is expected to target insertion events preferentially to expressed genes. An immediate phenotypic analysis of transformants is made possible by the predominance of the haploid gametophytic state in the life cycle of the moss. Among the first 16,203 transformants analysed so far, we observed 2636 plants ( = 16.2%) that differed from the wild-type in a variety of developmental, morphological and physiological characteristics. Conclusions: The high proportion of phenotypic deviations and the wide range of abnormalities observed among the transformants suggests that mutagenesis by gene-disruption library transformation is a useful strategy to establish a highly diverse population of Physcomitrella patens mutants for functional genome analysis. © 2002 Egener et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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