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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Keywords: Cochliobolus ; Transformation ; DNA instability ; Homologous recombination ; Ectopic integration ; DNA methylation ; Plant disease
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Cochliobolus heterostrophus was transformed with a plasmid (pH1S) containing a bacterial gene (hygB), which confers resistance to the antibiotic hygromycin B when under control of an 838-bp fragment of promoter 1 from C. heterostrophus. The plasmid integrated at either homologous (52% single copy, 33% tandemly repeated copies) or ectopic (4% single copy, 11% tandemly repeated copies) sites on different chromosomes, resulting in four distinct configurations of integrated DNA. All four configurations were highly stable during mitotic growth; virtually no loss of integrated DNA was detected after five subcultures on nonselective medium or after seven cycles of pathogenesis on maize, the normal host of this fungus. However, deletion of integrated DNA was detected after eight or more disease cycles. The frequency of deletion depended on the configuration of the recombinant chromosome. A single copy of pH1S integrated at an homologous site was flanked by direct repeats of the target sequence and was least stable; up to 50% of the population lacked integrated DNA after 12 disease cycles. A single copy integrated at an ectopic site had no repeated DNA directly associated with it and was the most stable; no deletions were detected after 12 disease cycles. Tandemly repeated copies of pH1S integrated at either homologous or ectopic sites appeared to have intermediate stability; 2–18% of each population lost at least one copy after 12 disease cycles, although in no case were all copies deleted. Cytosine residues of integrated DNA were methylated during mitotic growth, but this had no apparent effect on the expression of hygB.
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    Plant molecular biology 42 (2000), S. 689-701 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Arachis hypogaea ; Aspergillus parasiticus ; lipoxygenase ; plant defense gene ; plant/microbe interaction
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Several lines of evidence have indicated that lipoxygenase enzymes (LOX) and their products, especially 9S- and 13S-hydroperoxy fatty acids, could play a role in the Aspergillus/seed interaction. Both hydroperoxides exhibit sporogenic effects on Aspergillus spp. (Calvo, A., Hinze, L., Gardner, H.W. and Keller, N.P. 1999. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65: 3668–3673) and differentially modulate aflatoxin pathway gene transcription (Burow, G.B., Nesbitt, T.C., Dunlap, J. and Keller, N.P. 1997. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 10: 380–387). To examine the role of seed LOXs at the molecular level, a peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) seed gene, PnLOX1, was cloned and characterized. Analysis of nucleotide sequence suggests that PnLOX1 encodes a predicted 98 kDa protein highly similar in sequence and biochemical properties to soybean LOX2. The full-length PnLOX1 cDNA was subcloned into an expression vector to determine the type(s) of hydroperoxide products the enzyme produces. Analysis of the oxidation products of PnLOX1 revealed that it produced a mixture of 30% 9S-HPODE (9S-hydroperoxy-10E, 12Z-octadecadienoic acid) and 70% 13S-HPODE (13S-hydroperoxy-9Z, 11E-octadecadienoic acid) at pH 7. PnLOX1 is an organ-specific gene which is constitutively expressed in immature cotyledons but is highly induced by methyl jasmonate, wounding and Aspergillus infections in mature cotyledons. Examination of HPODE production in infected cotyledons suggests PnLOX1 expression may lead to an increase in 9S-HPODE in the seed.
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