Abstract:
:To analyse experimentally the correlation between transgene silencing and the presence of an inverted repeat in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants, expression of the beta-glucuronidase (gus) gene was studied when present as a convergently transcribed inverted repeat or as a single copy in otherwise isogenic lines. In transformants containing two invertedly repeated gus genes separated by a 732 bp palindromic sequence, gus expression was low, as exemplified by the expression levels in the parental line KH15. The parental KH15 locus could induce efficiently in trans silencing of gus copies at allelic and non-allelic positions. In transformants containing two invertedly repeated gus genes separated by a 826 bp non-repetitive spacer region, gus expression was high or intermediate, especially in hemizygous state and at late developmental stages, as demonstrated in detail for line KHsb67. Removal of one of the gus copies by Cre recombinase resulted in all cases in constitutively high gus expression in hemizygous as well as in homozygous state. The derived deletion lines could no longer induce in trans silencing of homologous gus copies. The results show that convergent transcription of transgenes in an inverted repeat is an important parameter to trigger their silencing and that co-transformation of two T-DNAs with identical transgenes can be used to obtain inverted repeats and targeted co-suppression of the homologous endogenes. Moreover, the data suggest that the spacer region in between the inverted genes plays a role in the efficiency of initiating and maintaining silencing.
journal_name
Plant Mol Bioljournal_title
Plant molecular biologyauthors
De Buck S,Van Montagu M,Depicker Adoi
10.1023/a:1010614522706subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-07-01 00:00:00pages
433-45issue
4eissn
0167-4412issn
1573-5028journal_volume
46pub_type
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