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ArticlePlant molecular biology2004

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of plants by the pTF-FC2 plasmid is efficient and strictly dependent on the MobA protein.

Thabani Dube, Igor Kovalchuk, Barbara Hohn, Jennifer A Thomson

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Article in Plant molecular biology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Thabani DubeDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch, South Africa.
Igor Kovalchuk
Barbara Hohn
Jennifer A Thomson
University of Cape Town · ZAFriedrich Miescher Institute · CHUniversity of Lethbridge · CA

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Abstract

In the transformation of plants by Agrobacterium tumefaciens the VirD2 protein has been shown to pilot T-DNA during its transfer to the plant cell nucleus. Other studies have shown that the MobA protein of plasmid RSF1010 is capable of mediating its transfer from Agrobacterium cells to plant cells by a similar process. We have demonstrated previously that plasmid pTF-FC2, which has some similarity to RSF1010, is also able to transfer DNA efficiently. In this study, we performed a mutational analysis of the roles played by A . tumefaciens VirD2 and pTF-FC2 MobA in DNA transfer-mediated by A. tumefaciens carrying pTF-FC2. We show that MobA+/VirD2+ and MobA+/VirD2- strains were equally proficient in their ability to transfer a pTF-FC2-derived plasmid DNA to plants and to transform them. However, the MobA-/VirD2+ strain showed a DNA transfer efficiency of 0.03% compared with that of the other two strains. This sharply contrasts with our results that VirD2 can rather efficiently cleave the oriT sequence of pFT-FC2 in vitro . We therefore conclude that MobA plays a major VirD2-independent role in plant transformation by pTF-FC2.

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AcetyltransferasesAgrobacterium tumefaciensAmino Acid SequenceAminobutyratesBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsDrug ResistanceGlucuronidaseMolecular Sequence DataPlantsPlants, Genetically ModifiedPlasmidsSequence AlignmentSequence Homology, Amino AcidTrans-ActivatorsAcetyltransferasesAminobutyratesBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsGlucuronidasephosphinothricinphosphinothricin N-acetyltransferaseT-DNATrans-ActivatorsVirulence Factors

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