摘要
人中性粒细胞防御素是一类具有广谱杀伤病原微生物活力的小分子多肽,有作者设想将其导入作物用于抗病育种。我们前期的工作通过RT-PCR建立了人中性粒细胞防御素-1(HNP-1)的cDNA克隆;接着通过农杆菌介导的方法,将HNP-1 cDNA片段导入烟草,尝试了HNP-1在烟草植株水平的表达,并初步证明获得的转基因烟草对低浓度烟草花叶病毒(TMV)侵染有一定抵抗力。
Human defensin-1 (human neutrophil peptide-1, HNP-1) is one of the small peptides found recently in human neutrophils with high antimicrobial activity of broad spectra. In this work, HNP-1 plant expression vectors with different promoter, with prepropiece and without the pre- and most part of propiece of HNP-1 cDNA have been constructed, and a serial of agrobacteria have been reconstructed using these vectors by tri-gameting. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaf discs were infected with these reconstructed agrobacteria and plants regenerated after about 1 month. Southern blotting analysis showed that HNP-1 cDNA had been integrated in tobacco genome, but ELISA analysis indicated that only transgenic plants infected with agrobacteria contained HNP-1 expression vectors with an improved CaMV 35S promoter and without pre- and most part of the propiece of HNP-1 cDNA can express HNP-1 at low level. Information from electron microscopic observation and external feature of the plants showed that these plants had the ability to defend plants from TMV infection at a certain concentration (0.2 to 0.8 mg/L) . It was concluded that it was a prerequisite to introduce an efficient promoter to an expression vector for an effective expression of a foreign cDNA, and it was necessary to delete the pre- and most part of the propiece of an animal cDNA for its expression in plants. Furthermore, HNP-1 cDNA transferring into plants could create a novel method to produce antipathogenic crops.
基金
国家教委高校博士点基金
植物分子遗传国家重点实验室资助项目
