title: Feasibility of the seed specific cruciferin C promoter in the self excision Cre/loxP strategy focused on generation of marker-free transgenic plants.
abstract: This work is focused on the generation of selectable marker-free transgenic tobacco plants using the self excision Cre/loxP system that is controlled by a strong seed specific Arabidopsis cruciferin C (CRUC) promoter. It involves Agrobacterium-mediated transformation using a binary vector containing the gus reporter gene and one pair of the loxP sites flanking the cre recombinase and selectable nptII marker genes (floxed DNA). Surprisingly, an ectopic activation of CRUC resulting in partial excision of floxed DNA was observed during regeneration of transformed cells already in calli. The regenerated T(0) plants were chimeric, but no ongoing ectopic expression was observed in these one-year-long invitro maintained plants. The process of the nptII removal was expected in the seeds; however, none of the analysed T(0) transgenic lines generated whole progeny sensitive to kanamycin. Detailed analyses of progeny of selected T(0)-30 line showed that 10.2% GUS positive plants had completely removed nptII gene while the remaining 86.4% were still chimeras. Repeated activation of the cre gene in T(2) seeds resulted in increased rate of marker-free plants, whereas four out of ten analysed chimeric T(1) plants generated completely marker-free progenies. This work points out the feasibility as well as limits of the CRUC promoter in the Cre/loxP strategy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, P.O. Box 39A, 950 07, Nitra 1, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moravcíková
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vaculková
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Libantová
mesh_terms: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002678:Chimera; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D005916:Globulins / Q000235:genetics*; D019426:Integrases; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D055314:Seed Storage Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012639:Seeds / Q000235:genetics; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000235:genetics; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D018744:DNA, Plant; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005916:Globulins; D055314:Seed Storage Proteins; C036483:T-DNA; C506891:cruciferin C, Arabidopsis; C045073:Cre recombinase; D019426:Integrases
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