Insights into the regulatory characteristics of silkworm fibroin gene promoters using a modified Gal4/UAS system.

abstract：:The silk gland of silkworm Bombyx mori, is one of the most important organs that has been fully studied and utilized so far. It contributes finest silk fibers to humankind. The silk gland has excellent ability of synthesizing silk proteins and is a kind tool to produce some useful recombinant proteins, which can be wi...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Xu H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SULT2A8 is a male-predominant and liver-specific mouse cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) that sulfonates 7α-hydroxyl (7α-OH) bile acids in vitro. Sulfonation regulates bile acid homeostasis, which in turn regulates cholesterol and energy metabolism. Using the Sult2a8-heterozygous (HT) mouse model created earlier in ou...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Wang K,Chan MY,Xu J,Li PS,Liu X,Lee AY,Lee SS,Cheung WT

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean was used as a model for studies of chemical induction of gene expression in seeds. A chimeric transcriptional activator, VGE, driven by the soybean seed glycinin G1 promoter, was used to induce the expression of an ER-targeted GFP(KDEL) reporter protein upon addition of the chemical ligand, methoxyfenozide. Th...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Semenyuk EG,Schmidt MA,Beachy RN,Moravec T,Woodford-Thomas T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarbeets carrying superoxide dismutase transgenes were developed in order to investigate the possibility of enhancing their resistance to oxidative stress. Binary T-DNA vectors carrying the chloroplastic and cytosolic superoxide dismutase genes from tomato, were used for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of suga...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Tertivanidis K,Goudoula C,Vasilikiotis C,Hassiotou E,Perl-Treves R,Tsaftaris A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least 25 wild type and high peroxidase tobacco Nicotiana tabacum L. plants were examined semiweekly over several weeks for pest insect distribution and damage in a 2 year field study. Incidence and/or severity of naturally occurring caterpillar damage (dingy cutworm (Feltia ducens Walker), black cutworm (Agrotis ip...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Dowd PF,Lagrimini LM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of drought tolerant plants is a high priority because the area suffering from drought is expected to increase in the future due to global warming. One strategy for the development of drought tolerance is to genetically engineer plants with transcription factors (TFs) that regulate the expression of sev...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： de Paiva Rolla AA,de Fátima Corrêa Carvalho J,Fuganti-Pagliarini R,Engels C,do Rio A,Marin SR,de Oliveira MC,Beneventi MA,Marcelino-Guimarães FC,Farias JR,Neumaier N,Nakashima K,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Nepomuceno AL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both drought and high salinity stresses are major abiotic factors that limit the yield of agricultural crops. Transgenic techniques have been regarded as effective ways to improve crops in their tolerance to these abiotic stresses. Functional characterization of genes is the prerequisite to identify candidates for suc...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Jiang SY,Bhalla R,Ramamoorthy R,Luan HF,Venkatesh PN,Cai M,Ramachandran S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mouse models mediating conditional temporal and spatial regulation of gene expression to the respiratory epithelium were developed utilizing the reverse tetracycline transactivator (rtTA) expressed under the control of SP-C and CCSP promoters. Luciferase activity was detected in the lungs of fetal and adult...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Perl AK,Tichelaar JW,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed effects of a matrix attachment region (MAR) from the tobacco RB7 gene on transgene expression from six different promoters in stably transformed tobacco cell cultures. The presence of MARs flanking the transgene increased expression of constructs based on the constitutive CaMV 35S, NOS, and OCS promot...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Mankin SL,Allen GC,Phelan T,Spiker S,Thompson WF

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spermatogonial transplantation system was applied to evaluate stem cell kinetics and niche quality and to produce gene-modified animals using the stem cells after homologous recombination-based selection. This study was designed to determine whether the transplanted spermatogonia were able to proliferate and diffe...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Hirabayashi M,Yoshizawa Y,Kato M,Tsuchiya T,Nagao S,Hochi S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian Heat Shock Proteins (HSP), have potent immune-stimulatory properties due to the natural capability to associate with polypeptides and bind receptors on antigen presenting cells. The present study was aimed to explore whether plant HSP, and in particular HSP70, share similar properties. We wanted in particula...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Buriani G,Mancini C,Benvenuto E,Baschieri S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effect of four different virulence (vir) gene combinations on plant transformation efficiency and transgene behaviour in rice using the pGreen/pSoup dual binary vector system. Transformation experiments were conducted using a pGreen vector containing the bar and gusA expression units with, or without, ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Vain P,Harvey A,Worland B,Ross S,Snape JW,Lonsdale D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple infections of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV), Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV), Sweet potato virus G (SPVG) and Sweet potato mild mottle virus (SPMMV) cause a devastating synergistic disease complex of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In order to addres...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Sivparsad BJ,Gubba A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood-onset dermatitis is one of the most common skin disorders in children. Although various mouse models that mirror aspects of dermatitis have become available, there is still a need for an animal model that develops dermatitis in childhood and is more suitable for performing tissue transplantation experiments....

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Kaneko R,Sato A,Hamada S,Yagi T,Ohsawa I,Ohtsuki M,Kobayashi E,Hirabayashi M,Murakami T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germline transmission (g.l.t.) of gene trap or gene targeted mutations by ES-cell-derived chimaeric mice is a crucial step in the generation of stable transgenic lines. The wild-type ES cell lines CJ7, D3 and R1 of different passage numbers and their transfected clone-descendants generated in gene targeting or gen...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Fedorov LM,Haegel-Kronenberger H,Hirchenhain J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of transgenesis rates obtained in seven pronuclear microinjection programs was undertaken to determine if a relationship existed between the amount of DNA injected and transgenesis rates in the pig. Logistic regression analysis showed that as the concentration of DNA injected increased from 1 ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Nottle MB,Haskard KA,Verma PJ,Du ZT,Grupen CG,McIlfatrick SM,Ashman RJ,Harrison SJ,Barlow H,Wigley PL,Lyons IG,Cowan PJ,Crawford RJ,Tolstoshev PL,Pearse MJ,Robins AJ,d'Apice AJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most powerful strategies to investigate biology we have as scientists, is the ability to transfer genetic material in a controlled and deliberate manner between organisms. When applied to livestock, applications worthy of commercial venture can be devised. Although initial methods used to generate transgeni...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Tan W,Proudfoot C,Lillico SG,Whitelaw CB

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isopentenyl transferase gene (ipt) from Agrobacterium tumefaciens was isolated and introduced, via a disarmed binary vector, into tobacco using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated gene transfer system. The expression of the ipt gene was monitored by RNA hybridization, western blotting and cytokinin analysis. Th...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Zhang XD,Letham DS,Zhang R,Higgins TJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of a disease is fundamentally difficult, even if one considers only genetically based diseases. In its broadest sense, disease can be defined as any deviation from the norm that results in a physiological disadvantage. Natural selection ensures that the norm for any given species is constantly changing....

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Wassenegger M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milk and meat from cattle and buffaloes contribute 45% of the global animal protein supply, followed by chickens (31%), and pigs (20%). In 2016, the global cattle population of 1.0 billion head produced 6.5 billion tons of cows' milk, and 66 million tons of beef. In the past century, cattle breeding programs have grea...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Van Eenennaam AL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selectable marker gene systems are vital for the development of transgenic crops. Since the creation of the first transgenic plants in the early 1980s and their subsequent commercialization worldwide over almost an entire decade, antibiotic and herbicide resistance selectable marker gene systems have been an integral ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Ramessar K,Peremarti A,Gómez-Galera S,Naqvi S,Moralejo M,Muñoz P,Capell T,Christou P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese morning glory, Ipomoea nil, exhibits a variety of flower colours, except yellow, reflecting the accumulation of only trace amounts of carotenoids in the petals. In a previous study, we attributed this effect to the low expression levels of carotenogenic genes in the petals, but there may be other contributing...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Watanabe K,Oda-Yamamizo C,Sage-Ono K,Ohmiya A,Ono M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize was genetically engineered for the biosynthesis of the high value carotenoid astaxanthin in the kernel endosperm. Introduction of a β-carotene hydroxylase and a β-carotene ketolase into a white maize genetic background extended the carotenoid pathway to astaxanthin. Simultaneously, phytoene synthase, the control...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Farré G,Perez-Fons L,Decourcelle M,Breitenbach J,Hem S,Zhu C,Capell T,Christou P,Fraser PD,Sandmann G

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse artificial chromosome (MAC) has several advantages as a gene delivery vector, including stable episomal maintenance of the exogenous genetic material and the ability to carry large and/or multiple gene inserts including their regulatory elements. Previously, a MAC containing multi-integration site (MI-MAC) w...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Yoshimura Y,Nakamura K,Endo T,Kajitani N,Kazuki K,Kazuki Y,Kugoh H,Oshimura M,Ohbayashi T

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work it was demonstrated that transgenic Danio rerio overexpressing growth hormone (GH-transgenic) present either altered gene expression at a determined time point, or different expression pattern along the LD cycle, when compared with non-transgenic (NT) animals, in the positive and negative loops of ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Cruz BP,Brongar LF,Popiolek P,Gonçalvez BSB,Figueiredo MA,Amaral IPG,Da Rosa VS,Nery LEM,Marins LF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease model of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy-7.2-hMet30 mice-manifests amyloid deposition that consists of a human amyloidogenic mutant transthyretin (TTR) (TTR V30M). Our previous study found amyloid deposits in 14 of 27 7.2-hMet30 mice at 21-24 months of age. In addition, non-fibrillar TTR deposits were ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Ohta M,Sugano A,Hatano N,Sato H,Shimada H,Niwa H,Sakaeda T,Tei H,Sakaki Y,Yamamura KI,Takaoka Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant secondary metabolism is very important for traits such as flower color, flavor of food, and resistance against pests and diseases. Moreover, it is the source of many fine chemicals such as drugs, dyes, flavors, and fragrances. It is thus of interest to be able to engineer the secondary metabolite production of t...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Verpoorte R,van der Heijden R,Memelink J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat and barley are the major temperate cereals, being used for food, feed and industrial raw material. However, in all cases the quality may be limited by the amount, composition and properties of the grain storage proteins. We describe how a combination of biochemical and molecular studies has led to an understandi...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Shewry PR,Tatham AS,Halford NG,Barker JH,Hannappel U,Gallois P,Thomas M,Kreis M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated a case of silencing in transgenic plants expressing T7 RNA polymerase in which expression of a reporter gene placed under the control of the T7 promoter was silenced. Here we demonstrate that endogenous genes can be silenced by the same system. The T7-driven silencing system does not conform...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Peretz Y,Levy M,Avisar E,Edelbaum O,Rabinowitch H,Sela I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable interest in pursuing phospholamban as a putative therapeutic target for overcoming depressed calcium handling in human heart failure. Studies predominantly done in mice have shown that phospholamban is a key regulator of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium cycling and cardiac function. However, ...

journal_title：Transgenic research

authors： Pattison JS,Waggoner JR,James J,Martin L,Gulick J,Osinska H,Klevitsky R,Kranias EG,Robbins J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00