Qu Li-Jia, Qin Genji
State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1062:225-39. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-580-4_12.
EMS mutant analysis is a routine experiment to identify new players in a specific biological process or signaling pathway using forward genetics. It begins with the generation of mutants by treating Arabidopsis seeds with EMS. A mutant with a phenotype of interest (mpi) is obtained by screening plants of the M2 generation under a specific condition. Once the phenotype of the mpi is confirmed in the next generation, map-based cloning is performed to locate the mpi mutation. During the map-based cloning, mpi plants (Arabidopsis Columbia-0 (Col-0) ecotype background) are first crossed with Arabidopsis Landsberg erecta (Ler) ecotype, and the presence or absence of the phenotype in the F1 hybrids indicates whether the mpi is recessive or dominant. F2 plants with phenotypes similar to the mpi, if the mpi is recessive, or those without the phenotype, if the mpi is dominant, are used as the mapping population. As few as 24 such plants are selected for rough mapping. After finding one marker (MA) linked to the mpi locus or mutant phenotype, more markers near MA are tested to identify recombinants. The recombinants indicate the interval in which the mpi is located. Additional recombinants and molecular markers are then required to narrow down the interval. This is an iterative process of narrowing down the mapping interval until no further recombinants or molecular markers are available. The genes in the mapping interval are then sequenced to look for the mutation. In the last step, the wild-type or mutated gene is cloned to generate binary constructs. Complementation or recapitulation provides the most convincing evidence in determining the mutation that causes the phenotype of the mpi. Here, we describe the procedures for generating mutants with EMS and analyzing EMS mutations by map-based cloning.
EMS突变体分析是一项常规实验,通过正向遗传学来鉴定特定生物学过程或信号通路中的新参与者。它始于用EMS处理拟南芥种子以产生突变体。在特定条件下筛选M2代植株,从而获得具有感兴趣表型(mpi)的突变体。一旦在下一代中确认了mpi的表型,就进行图位克隆以定位mpi突变。在图位克隆过程中,首先将mpi植株(拟南芥哥伦比亚-0(Col-0)生态型背景)与拟南芥直立型(Ler)生态型杂交,F1杂种中该表型的有无表明mpi是隐性还是显性。如果mpi是隐性的,则具有与mpi相似表型的F2植株,或者如果mpi是显性的,则没有该表型的F2植株用作定位群体。仅选择24株这样的植株进行粗定位。找到一个与mpi基因座或突变体表型连锁的标记(MA)后,测试MA附近的更多标记以鉴定重组体。重组体表明mpi所在的区间。然后需要更多的重组体和分子标记来缩小区间。这是一个缩小定位区间的迭代过程,直到没有更多的重组体或分子标记可用。然后对定位区间内的基因进行测序以寻找突变。在最后一步中,克隆野生型或突变基因以产生二元构建体。互补或重现性为确定导致mpi表型的突变提供了最有说服力的证据。在这里,我们描述了用EMS产生突变体并通过图位克隆分析EMS突变的程序。