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Lecture 11 Chapter 7 Vector Construction II . Gateway cloning David Mann. What is cloning?. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Scissors.svg/540px-Scissors.svg.png. Digest vector DNA with restriction enzyme. Gene for blue flowers.
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Lecture 11 Chapter 7Vector Construction II Gateway cloning David Mann
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Digest vector DNA with restriction enzyme Gene for blue flowers What are essential components of vector DNAs? Ligate gene into vector Plasmid vector Extract plasmid DNA Transform plant So, you’ve cut out a gene… Now what? How did you amplify this gene?
Problems with conventional cloning • Inconvenient restriction sites • Vector construction is laborious • Time-consuming reactions
Blunt-end Ligation PstI PstI EcoRI EcoRI ACGTC C C G G G G G G CTTAA C C Klenow Fragment Ligase
Gateway™ cloning Figure 7.12
Transform into DH5αE. coli cells http://media.invitrogen.com.edgesuite.net/presentations/gateway/index.html?icid=fr-gwcloning-7
Cre/loxP Recombination System: The Jackson Laboratory (http://www.jax.org/index.html)
Creator™ cloning Figure 7.14
Why do we need so many types of vectors? What are some different applications in plants? • Functional analysis of open reading frame (ORFs) • Overexpression and knockdown (RNAi) of specific genes. • Multigenic traits for crop improvement • Analysis of the expression level/specificity/ inducibility of promoters
Conventional cloning Gateway cloning Site-specific DNA recombination Creator cloning Univector cloning Figure 7.17
Vectors for RNAi Figure 7.18
Multisite Gateway allows several DNA fragments to be cloned into a single construct Figure 7.19
Gebert et al., The Plant Cell, Vol. 21: 4018–4030, December 2009 Multiple promoters from the MRS2/MGT gene family fused to the GUS gene and expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana
Vectors derived from plant sequences • Public acceptance of GMOs linked to concerns of the origin of DNA employed • Ironically, wild-type plant cells already contain bacterially-derived genomes • T-DNA could be replaced with P-DNA • Replace viral promoters with plant promoters
Pollen genome loxP-FRT loxP-FRT LB RB NOS GUS:NPTII 35S p FLP Recombinase NOS LAT52 Pollen-specific promoter LAT52 activates recombinase in tobacco pollen loxP FRT excision NOS GUS:NPTII 35S p FLP Recombinase NOS LAT52 loxP-FRT LB RB Pollen genome A B Luo et al. 2007. Plant Biotechnology Journal 5(2): 263 - 274. (Courtesy of Moon’s poster)
Example of a plant expression vector set • pANIC • Made for switchgrass transformation: • BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) • http://plantsciences.utk.edu/stewart.htm
The pANIC vector set RNAi of lignin biosynthetic genes in switchgrass Shen & Dixon, Noble Foundation • Functional in switchgrass and rice • Overexpression (OE) and suppression (RNAi) of genes • ZmUbi1 • CaMV 35S • Protein tag for OE – AcV5 37 Mann et al. Plant Biotechnology Journal 2012
pANIC - Reporter cassette GUS staining photos courtesy of Zach King Brightfield – 5ms RFP – 2s GFP – 10s DsRed pporRFP • PvUbi1 promoter • Histochemical • GUSPlus • Fluorescent • pporRFP – novel RFP • Comparable to DsRed • Ex/Em = 578 nm/595 nm