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ArticleScientific reports2017

The Effects of Transcription Directions of Transgenes and the gypsy Insulators on the Transcript Levels of Transgenes in Transgenic Arabidopsis.

Weijia Jiang, Li Sun, Xiaojie Yang, Maohua Wang, Nardana Esmaeili, Necla Pehlivan, Rongli Zhao, Hong Zhang, Yun Zhao

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Weijia JiangKey Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064, China.
Li SunDepartment of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA.
Xiaojie YangEconomic Crops Reseach Institute, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450002, China.
Maohua WangKey Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064, China.
Nardana EsmaeiliDepartment of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA.
Necla PehlivanDepartment of Biology, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, 53100, Rize, Turkey.
Rongli ZhaoChengdu Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610000, China.
Hong ZhangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA.
Yun ZhaoKey Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064, China. zhaoyun@scu.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Manipulation of a single abiotic stress-related gene could improve plant performance under abiotic stress conditions. To simultaneously increase plant tolerance to multiple stresses, it is usually required to overexpress two (or more) genes in transgenic plants. The common strategy is to assemble two or more expression cassettes, where each gene has its own promoter and terminator, within the same T-DNA. Does the arrangement of the two expression cassettes affect expression of the two transgenes? Can we use the Drosophila gypsy insulator sequence to increase the expression of the two transgenes? Answers to these questions would contribute to design better transformation vectors to maximize the effects of multi-gene transformation. Two Arabidopsis genes, PP2A-C5 and AVP1, and the gypsy insulator sequence were used to construct six transformation vectors with or without the gypsy insulator bracketing the two expression cassettes: uni-directional transcription, divergent transcription, and convergent transcription. Total RNAs were isolated for reverse transcription- quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assays and a thorough statistical analysis was conducted for the RT-qPCR data. The results showed that the gypsy insulator does promote the expression of two transgenes in transgenic plants. Besides, the plants containing the divergent transcription cassettes tend to have more correlated expression of both genes.

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Genes, PlantTranscription, GeneticTransgenesArabidopsisDrosophila ProteinsGenetic VectorsPlants, Genetically ModifiedReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerDrosophila ProteinsRNA, Messenger

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PMID29116159
PMCPMC5676714

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