title: Transposon tagging of the sulfur gene of tobacco using engineered maize Ac/Ds elements.
abstract: The Sulfur gene of tobacco is nuclearly encoded. A Su allele at this locus acts as a dominant semilethal mutation and causes reduced accumulation of chlorophyll, resulting in a yellow color in the plant. An engineered transposon tagging system, based upon the maize element Ac/Ds, was used to mutate the gene. High frequency of transposon excision from the Su locus produced variegated sectors. Plants regenerated from the variegated sector exhibited a similar variegated phenotype. Genetic analyses showed that the variegation was always associated with the transposase construct and the transposon was linked to the Su locus. Sequences surrounding the transposon were isolated, and five revertant sectors possessed typical direct repeats following Ds excisions. These genetic and molecular data are consistent with the tagging of the Su allele by the transposon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA. wayne.fitmaurice@biosourcetechnologies.com
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Fitzmaurice
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Wernsman
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Conkling
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D018744:DNA, Plant; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D010641:Phenotype; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000235:genetics*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D018744:DNA, Plant; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins