Abstract:
:The ability to modify plant traits is of great commercial potential in agricultural biotechnology. To this end we have engineered plant-based zinc finger protein transcription factors (ZFP TFs) that minimize the use of non-plant DNA sequences. This novel architecture supports the use of tandem arrays of zinc-finger DNA recognition domains such that the ZFP TF binds a contiguous DNA target site - thus emulating the design of ZFP TFs described previously for mammalian gene regulation. We show that this plant-based ZFP TF architecture supports high affinity DNA binding while allowing the specificity of the DNA-protein interaction to be determined by the amino acid sequences of the recognition helices. This plant-based backbone thus supports the use of previously characterized DNA recognition helices originally identified in a mammalian ZFP context without using mammalian DNA sequences. Moreover, we show that plant-based ZFP TFs employing this new architecture can up-regulate endogenous ADH activity by > 20-fold in transgenic Arabidopsis. Thus plant-based ZFP TFs are shown to be potent regulators of gene expression in vivo.
journal_name
Plant Mol Bioljournal_title
Plant molecular biologyauthors
Holmes-Davis R,Li G,Jamieson AC,Rebar EJ,Liu Q,Kong Y,Case CC,Gregory PDdoi
10.1007/s11103-004-7820-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-02-01 00:00:00pages
411-23issue
3eissn
0167-4412issn
1573-5028journal_volume
57pub_type
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