Jørgensen J E, Stougaard J, Marcker A, Marcker K A
Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1988 Jan 11;16(1):39-50. doi: 10.1093/nar/16.1.39.
The nodulin N23 gene promoter was analysed in transgenic plants using the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) coding sequence as a reporter. A 5' flanking region of less than 1 kb was sufficient for the organ-specific expression of a chimeric N23-CAT-3'lbc3 gene in root nodules formed on Lotus corniculatus and Trifolium repens after infection by their respective Rhizobium symbionts. Expression was regulated at the level of RNA in both species of transgenic plants. Promoter deletion analysis defined the 5' region required for high level expression and delimited two putative regulatory sequences involved in positive control of the N23 gene in L. corniculatus.
利用氯霉素乙酰转移酶(CAT)编码序列作为报告基因,在转基因植物中分析了结节蛋白N23基因启动子。小于1kb的5'侧翼区域足以使嵌合N23-CAT-3'lbc3基因在其各自的根瘤菌共生体感染后在百脉根和白三叶形成的根瘤中进行器官特异性表达。在两种转基因植物中,表达均在RNA水平上受到调控。启动子缺失分析确定了高水平表达所需的5'区域,并界定了两个与百脉根中N23基因的正调控有关的推定调控序列。