Publication Date:
2009-05-01
Description:
An efficient method for making directed DNA sequence modifications to plant genes (gene targeting) is at present lacking, thereby frustrating efforts to dissect plant gene function and engineer crop plants that better meet the world's burgeoning need for food, fibre and fuel. Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs)-enzymes engineered to create DNA double-strand breaks at specific loci-are potent stimulators of gene targeting; for example, they can be used to precisely modify engineered reporter genes in plants. Here we demonstrate high-frequency ZFN-stimulated gene targeting at endogenous plant genes, namely the tobacco acetolactate synthase genes (ALS SuRA and SuRB), for which specific mutations are known to confer resistance to imidazolinone and sulphonylurea herbicides. Herbicide-resistance mutations were introduced into SuR loci by ZFN-mediated gene targeting at frequencies exceeding 2% of transformed cells for mutations as far as 1.3 kilobases from the ZFN cleavage site. More than 40% of recombinant plants had modifications in multiple SuR alleles. The observed high frequency of gene targeting indicates that it is now possible to efficiently make targeted sequence changes in endogenous plant genes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743854/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743854/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Townsend, Jeffrey A -- Wright, David A -- Winfrey, Ronnie J -- Fu, Fengli -- Maeder, Morgan L -- Joung, J Keith -- Voytas, Daniel F -- DP1 OD006862/OD/NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-01A1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-02S1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069906-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 May 21;459(7245):442-5. doi: 10.1038/nature07845. Epub 2009 Apr 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Genetics, Development & Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19404258" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acetolactate Synthase/genetics
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Alleles
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Base Sequence
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Deoxyribonucleases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Food, Genetically Modified
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Gene Targeting/*methods
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Genes, Plant/*genetics
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Herbicide Resistance/genetics
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Herbicides/pharmacology
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Plants, Genetically Modified
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*Protein Engineering
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Recombination, Genetic/genetics
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Tobacco/drug effects/enzymology/*genetics
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Transformation, Genetic
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*Zinc Fingers
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
