Abstract:
:Due to autotrophic growing capacity and extremely rich secondary metabolism, plants should be preferred targets of synthetic biology. However, developments in plants usually run below those in other taxonomic groups. In this work we engineered genetic circuits capable of logic YES, OR and AND Boolean computation in plant tissues with a visual output signal. The circuits, which are deployed by means of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, perform with the conditional activity of the MYB transcription factor Rosea1 from Antirrhinum majus inducing the accumulation of anthocyanins, plant endogenous pigments that are directly visible to the naked eye or accurately quantifiable by spectrophotometric analysis. The translational fusion of Rosea1 to several viral proteins, such as potyvirus NIb or fragments thereof, rendered the transcription factor inactive. However, anthocyanin accumulation could be restored by inserting protease cleavage sites between both moieties of the fusion and by coexpressing specific proteases, such as potyvirus nuclear inclusion a protease.
journal_name
ACS Synth Bioljournal_title
ACS synthetic biologyauthors
Cordero T,Rosado A,Majer E,Jaramillo A,Rodrigo G,Daròs JAdoi
10.1021/acssynbio.8b00214subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-10-19 00:00:00pages
2322-2330issue
10issn
2161-5063journal_volume
7pub_type
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