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  • 1
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    Current genetics 16 (1989), S. 369-372 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Keywords: Bialaphos ; Neurospora crassa ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Conidia of Neurospora crassa are sensitive to the herbicide bialaphos at concentrations of 160 mg/1 in Westergaard's or Fries' minimal media. Plasmid pJA4 was constructed by inserting a truncated bar gene from Streptomyces hygroscopicus fused to the his-3 promoter from N. crassa into pUC19. The bar gene in plasmid pJA4 confers resistance to bialaphos when transformants are selected on a medium containing bialaphos. The bar gene can be used as an additional dominant selectable marker for transformation of fungi.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1436-6215
    Keywords: γ-Tocopherol ; Transformation ; α-Tocopherol ; Ratten ; Generationsversuch ; γ-tocopherol ; transformation ; α-tocopherol ; rats ; generation-experiment
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The biosynthesis of α-tocopherol, the most effective vitamer among the vitamin E-group, is found only in higher plants and microorganisms. Due to the lack of the shikimate pathway, animals are not able to synthesize α-tocopherol. Also not found is a whole enterai synthesis; only the conversion of dimethyletocol to trimethyletocol seems to be possible. Using four generations of rats, we sought to determine: Is a transformation of γ-tocopherol to α-tocopherol in the animal body possible? Are there any differences in the transformation rates in organs, tissues, or in the entire body along the generations? Does gut flora play any role in the conversion of γ-tocopherol? Is it possible to increase the efficiency of the transformation by supplying additional CH3-groups? Wistar rats were fed a semisynthetic basal diet, supplemented with 78.8 mg DL-γ-tocopherol/kg in the first three generations (F1–F3). In the fourth generation (F4), some of the animals were fed a vitamin E-free diet and γ-tocopherol (approx. 1.5 mg on alternate days) was injected s.c. Two other groups of animals received the basal diet containing additional methionine (0.25 %) or choline (0.45 %), as well as γ-tocopherol (as in F1–F3). α- and γ-tocopherol were analyzed by HPTLC in the whole body and in serum, liver, heart, lung, gut, gonads, and feces. The ratio of α-/γ-tocopherol (μg/μg) as transformation rate and vitamin E-biopotency (μg α-tocopherol equivalents/g) were calculated. Growth and fertility were normal until the fourth generation; no abnormal developments could be recognized. α-tocopherol was found in the whole-body as well as in all tissues and organs. In the whole-body, vitamin E-biopotency decreased 25–70 % in F2 and F3. On the other hand, the increase of the transformation rate of γ- to α-tocopherol amounted to 23 % (F2) and 168 % (F3). Highest conversion rates were found in F2 and F3 for feces, followed by gonads and lungs; the lowest rates were found for serum and liver. Due to the s.c.-injection of γ-tocopherol, feces showed a four-times lower transformation rate in F4 than in F3. There was an increase in heart, gut, lung and serum for both transformation rate and vitamin E-biopotency. These parameters could be improved also by the additional supplements of methionine and choline. Both methyl-group-donators revealed nearly the same positive effect. The results show that the animal organism can adapt to γ-tocopherol supply over generations. γ-tocopherol seems to be a direct precursor for the α-tocopherol synthesis. The methylation of γ-tocopherol in the organs and tissues occurs, presumably, according to their specific α-tocopherol requirement.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die Biosynthese des α-Tocopherols, des wirksamsten Vitamins innerhalb der Vitamin-E-Gruppe, ist beschränkt auf höhere Pflanzen und Mikroorganismen. Wegen des Fehlens des Shikimatweges vermag der tierische Organismus das α-Tocopherol nicht zu bilden. Auch eine vollständige enterale Synthese ist nicht bekannt. Es wird angenommen, daß die Umwandlung im Tierkörper von Dimethyltocol zum Trimethyltocol möglich sei. In einem Experiment an Ratten über vier Generationen wurde folgenden Fragen nachgegangen: Findet eine Umwandlung von γ- zu α-Tocopherol statt? Ändert sich die Effizienz der Transformation auf Gewebs- und Organebene bzw. im gesamten Körper über die Generationen? Welche Rolle spielt die Darmflora? Kann die Effizienz der Transformation durch zusätzliche Gaben an CH3-Gruppen verbessert werden? Über vier Generationen erhielten Wistarratten eine halbsynthetische Grunddiät mit 78,8 mg DL-γ-Tocopherol/kg (F1–F3). In F4 erhielt ein Teil der Tiere die tocopherolfreie Grunddiät, γ-Tocopherol (ca. 1,5 mg, alle zwei Tage) wurde den Tieren subkutan verabreicht. Weitere zwei Kollektive bekamen mit dem Grundfutter γ-Tocopherol (wie in F1–F3) und zusätzlich Methionin (0,24 %) bzw. Cholin (0,45 %) oral verabreicht. In einer Ganzkörperanalyse in F1–F3 und in Serum, Erythrozyten, Leber, Herz, Lunge, Darm, Gonaden und Kot wurden α- und γ-Tocopherol mittels HPTLC bestimmt. Das Verhältnis α-γ-Tocopherol (μg/μg) und die Vitamin-E-Wirksamkeit (μg α-Tocopheroläquivalente/ml bzw. g FS od. g TS) wurden errechnet. Bis zur 4. Filialgeneration waren Wachstum und Fortpflanzungsfähigkeit normal; keine äußeren oder anatomischen Abnormitäten wurden beobachtet. Im Gesamtkörper und in Geweben und Organen der Generationen F1–F4 wurde α-Tocopherol gefunden. Gemessen an den Ergebnissen der Ganzkörperanalyse nahm die Vitamin-E-Wirksamkeit in F2 um 25 % und in F3 um 70 % ab. Die Effizienz der γ-Tocopheroltransformation stieg dagegen um 23 % in F2 und 168 % in F3. Höchste Transformationsraten wurden in F2 und F3 für Kot, gefolgt von Gonaden und Lunge, festgestellt, die niedrigsten für Serum und Leber. Durch die subkutane γ-Tocopherolapplikation war die Transformationsrate im Kot in F4 um Faktor 4 schlechter als in F3. Die Effizienz der Transformation und die Vitamin-E-Wirksamkeit nahmen in Herz, Dickdarm, Lunge und Serum zu. Ebenso besser fielen die Werte für diese Parameter unter der Mehrzufuhr an Methionin und Cholin, wobei sich mit beiden Methylgruppendonatoren die gleiche positive Wirkung erzielen ließ. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, daß sich der Körper an eine γ-Tocopherolzufuhr über Generationen adaptieren kann. γ-Tocopherol dient auch im tierischen Organismus als unmittelbare Vorstufe der α-Tocopherolsynthese. Dieser Syntheseschritt erfolgt wahrscheinlich über eine Transmethylierungsreaktion in den verschiedenen Geweben und Organen gemäß ihrem spezifischen Bedarf an α-Tocopherol.
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  • 3
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    Methods in cell science 12 (1989), S. 135-138 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: transformation ; Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; vectors ; cocultivation ; leaf disc
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Agrobacterium tumefaciens naturally transfers DNA into plant cells and is clearly one of the most effective methods of directed DNA transfer presently available. Two kinds of vectors are commonly used. Cointegrative vectors have the foreign genes incorporated directly into the Ti plasmid. Binary vectors carry two plasmids; the main Ti plasmid where most of the T-DNA has been removed, and a second plasmid containing the foreign genes between the usual border sequences. The vir genes on the main plasmid function to mobilize the foreign genes into a plant cell. Most plant transformation methods follow the procedure of cocultivating wounded tissue with vir-gene-induced bacteria. The cocultivation step is followed by transfer to a selective medium containing antibiotics to kill the bacterium and to allow only growth of transformed tissue. Several selectable markers are available that include resistance to antibiotics, herbicides, or drugs. In addition, several scorable markers such as the bacterial glucuronidase, chloramphenicol acetyl transferase, and the Agrobacterium opine genes are used to verify transformation. Southern blotting and inheritance of transferred genes are ultimately used to demonstrate stable transformation.
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    Plant molecular biology 13 (1989), S. 151-161 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: β-glucuronidase (gusA) gene ; maize ; protoplasts ; stable co-transformation ; transformation ; Zea mays L.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract An efficient co-transformation protocol using polyethylene glycol was developed for Zea mays L. (cv. A188 × BMS) protoplasts isolated from suspension culture cells. Co-transformation was accomplished by using plasmid constructions containing β-glucuronidase (gusA) or neomycin phosphotransferase (neo) gene coding sequences; both were under control of the CaMV 35S promoter. Protoplast culture and transformation conditions were optimized to assure efficient recovery of transformed cells. The overall efficiency of transformation was 1 × 10−4 (calculated per viable protoplast plated). Among kanamycin-resistant lines, 50% showed a high level of GUS activity (above one unit). Southern blot hybridization confirmed the presence of numerous gusA and neo coding sequences in the maize genome. In two analyzed lines, integrated sequences appeared to be organized in tandem head-to-tail repeats. Results also indicated that the integrated sequences were partially methylated.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: herbicide ; mutant ; photosystem II ; psbA gene ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Mutations conferring herbicide resistance in 3 mutant strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6714 have been characterized by gene cloning and sequencing. The mutants display very different phenotypes: DCMU-IIA is DCMU-resistant and atrazine-resistant, DCMU-IIB is DCMU-resistant and atrazine-sensitive, and Az-V is DCMU-sensitive, atrazine-resistant and presents particular photoinhibition properties. These mutants were originally obtained either by one-step selection (DCMU-IIA) or by two-step selection (DCMU-IIB and Az-V). psbA copies carrying herbicide resistance have been identified by transformation experiments as psbAI in all cases. Sequences of the psbAI copy of each mutant have been compared to the wild-type sequence. In the single mutant DCMU-IIA, a point mutation at codon 264 (Ser→Ala) results in resistance to both DCMU and atrazine. In the double mutants DCMU-IIB and Az-V, two point mutations were found. DCMU-IIB was derived from DCMU-IIA and had acquired a second mutation at codon 255 (Phe→Leu) resulting in a slight increase in DCMU resistance and complete abolition of atrazine resistance. Az-V contains two changes at codons 211 (Phe→Ser) and 251 (Ala→Val) resulting in high atrazine resistance but only slight DCMU resistance.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; border sequence ; T-DNA ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A Charon 4A phage library, containing insert DNA isolated from a morning glory (Convolvulus arvensis) plant genetically transformed by Ri T-DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4, was used to isolate a lambda clone that contains part of the Ri TL-DNA and the complete TR-DNA. The two Ri T-DNAs were recovered adjacent to each other in a tail-to-tail configuration (i.e. with the TR-DNA inverted with respect to the TL-DNA). Comparison of nucleotide sequences from this lambda clone with the corresponding sequences from the Ri plasmid allowed us to determine the location of the T-DNA/plant junction for the right end of the TL-DNA and the left and right ends of the TR-DNA. We located, near each of these borders, a 24 bp sequence that is similar to the 24 bp consensus sequence found near the pTi T-DNA extremities. In addition, sequences similar to the “core” overdrive sequence from pTi are located near each right border. Hybridization and nucleotide sequence analysis of the DNA adjacent to the TL/TR junction shows that no plant DNA is located between the TL and TR-DNAs and suggests that the plant DNA adjacent to the end of the TR-DNA may have been rearranged during the integration into the plant genome.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; C4 photosynthesis ; Flaveria ; regeneration ; ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We report the successful transformation, via Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection, and regeneration of two species of the genus Flaveria: F. brownii and F. palmeri. We document the expression of a C3 plant gene, an abundantly expressed ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase small subunit gene isolated from petunia, in these C4 plants. The organ-specific expression of this petunia gene in Flaveria brownii is qualitatively identical to its endogenous pattern of expression.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; adventitious shoot regeneration ; transformation ; homozygous potato
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Transformed potato (Solanum tuberosum) plants were obtained from homozygous diploid potato by using a transformation procedure in combination with an adventitious shoot regeneration method. Leaf and stem explants were inoculated with an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain which contained a binary vector (pVU 1011) carrying the neomycin phosphotransferase gene. Shoot regeneration most effectively on stem explants, occurred within six weeks directly from the explants without introducing a callus phase. A strong seasonal influence on transformation efficiencies was observed. Analysis of a number of randomly selected regenerated shoots for their ability to root and form shoots on kanamycin-containing medium shows that over 90% of the regenerated shoots obtained are transformed. In a number of shoots transformation was confirmed by a test for the presence and expression of the NPT-II gene.
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  • 9
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    Plant cell, tissue and organ culture 18 (1989), S. 281-296 
    ISSN: 1573-5044
    Keywords: maize cells ; transformation ; kanamycin electroporation ; nurse cells ; hygromycin
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Two chimaeric genes, containing the promoter of the 35S gene of cauliflower mosaic virus coupled to neomycin phosphotransferase (35S-NPT-NOS) or to hygromycin phosphotransferase (35S-HPT-NOS) have been stably transferred to maize (Zea mays cv. Black Mexican sweet) cells by electroporation. Transformation frequencies of 7.6×10-4 and 8×10-4, respectively, (based on the number of surviving cells that divided) were obtained with four pulses of 1 ms duration using 400 V capacitive discharge. Cells transformed to kanamycin-resistance and hygromycin-resistance subsequently multiplied to form callus. Southern blot analysis demonstrated the integration of the selectable marker genes, neomycin or hygromycin phosphotransferase, with single or multiple copy numbers. The blots from DNA of hygromycin-resistant calli also suggested the formation of plasmid concatemers.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1573-4943
    Keywords: conformational energy ; amino acid substitution ; P21 protein ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Substitutions of amino acids for Gly 12 or Gly 13 in theras oncogene-encoded P21 proteins have been demonstrated to produce unique structural changes in these proteins that correlate with their ability to produce cell transformation. For example, the P21 proteins with Arg 12 or Val 13 are both known to be actively transforming. Recent site-specific mutagenesis experiments on the transforming Arg 12 protein have found that the substitution of Val for Gly 10 has no effect on transforming activity whereas the substitution of Val for Gly 13 led to a loss of transforming activity. In this study, we examine the structural effects of these substitutions on the amino terminal hydrophobic decapeptide (Leu 6-Gly 15) of P21 using conformational energy analysis. The results show that the transforming proteins with Gly 10 and Arg 12 or Val 10 and Arg 12 can both adopt the putative malignancy-causing conformation, whereas, for the nontransforming protein with Arg 12 and Val 13, this conformation is energetically disallowed. These results further support the theory that due to structural changes the transforming P21 proteins are unable to bind to some regulatory cellular element which may be the recently identified binding protein responsible for the induction of increased GTPase activity in normal P21 compared with transforming mutants.
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  • 11
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    Methods in cell science 12 (1989), S. 127-133 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: polyethylene glycol ; transformation ; protoplasts ; Nicotiana
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Polyethylene glycol can be used to induce DNA uptake into plant protoplasts. Procedures for isolation, culture and transformation ofN. tabacum protoplasts are described and can be adapted for other dicot and monocot species. Criteria for proof of transformation are discussed.
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  • 12
    ISSN: 1573-0778
    Keywords: bronchus ; cell culture ; cytology ; morphometry ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Abstract Malignant A-549 lung carcinoma and adenovirus-12 SV40 hybrid virus transformed non-tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial cells (BEAS-2B) were objectively discriminated from normal bronchial epithelial (BE) cells on the basis of Papanicolaou stained nuclear features (e.g. shape, chromatin texture, hyperchromasia) and nucleolar morphology (e.g. number per cell, irregular contours). Morphometric analysis indicated that significant differences in cellular morphology existed between BE, BEAS-2B, and A-549 cells. Similar analyses of transformed, tumorigenic cell lines demonstrated that nuclear features (i.e., chromatin texture, clearing of parachromatin, hyperchromasia, variation in thickness of the nuclear envelope, sharp indentations in the nuclear envelope), and nucleolar features (i.e., degree of roundness, presence of angular projections, number per cell) discriminated chemically and virally transformed cells from spontaneously transformed cells. Nuclear and nucleolar features were correlated with the growth rate of tumorigenic cell lines. These analytical approaches will be helpful in studies of the effects of various factors (e.g. vitamin A, phorbol ester, oncogene transfection) on cellular proliferation and/or differentiation.
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    Developmental Genetics 10 (1989), S. 189-197 
    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: Drosophila ; transformation ; Glue gene ; Gene cluster ; Gene regulation ; Sgs-3 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: We reviewed studies on the developmental regulation of the 68C glue gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. Extensive transformation analyses of Sgs-3 have shown that four regions necessary for normal expression can be distinguished. The first ( + 10 to -50) contains the transcription start site and TATA motif. This region can be replaced functionally by corresponding sequences from the hsp70 gene, but it is sensitive to point mutations in the TATA sequence. The second region (-50 to -98) contains more than one upstream sequence that, in combination with the other elements, leads to stage and tissue-specific expression. The third region (centered at -600) contains an element that enhances transcript levels some 20-fold. The final region (between -1.65 and -2.35 kb) contains elements having modest (twofold to threefold) effects on expression, one of which is contained in the coding sequences of Sgs-7, a second member of the cluster.
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    Applied Organometallic Chemistry 3 (1989), S. 203-209 
    ISSN: 0268-2605
    Keywords: Phosphorus-carbon ; organisms ; formation ; transformation ; ciliatine ; bialaphos ; Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 15
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    Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine 105 (1988), S. 389-392 
    ISSN: 1573-8221
    Keywords: immortalization ; oncogenes ; transfection ; transformation
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
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    Journal of atmospheric chemistry 6 (1988), S. 47-59 
    ISSN: 1573-0662
    Keywords: Smog chamber ; terpenes ; alkanes ; alkenes ; reaction rate constants ; ozone ; OH radical ; photodegradation ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract The design and performance of a smog chamber for the study of photochemical reactions under simulated environmental conditions is described. The chamber is thermostated for aerosol experiments, and it comprises a gas chromatographic sample enrichment system suitable for monitoring hydrocarbons at the ppbv level. By irradiating NO x /alkane-mixtures rate constants for the reaction of OH radicals with n-alkanes are determined from n-pentane to n-hexadecane to be (k±2σ)/10−12 cm3 s−1=4.29±0.16, 6.2±0.6, 7.52 (reference value), 8.8±0.3, 10.2±0.3, 11.7±0.4, 13.7±0.3, 15.1±0.5, 17.5±0.6, 19.3±0.7, 22.3±1.0, and 25.0±1.3, respectively at 312 K. Rate constants, (k±2σ)/10−17 cm3 s−1, for the reaction of ozone with trans-2-butene (21.2±1.0), cis-3-methylpentene-(2) (47.2±1.7), cyclopentene (62.4±3.5), cyclohexene (7.8±0.5), cycloheptene (28.3±1.5), α-pinene (8.6±1.3), and β-pinene (1.4±0.2) are determined in the dark at 297 K using cis-2-butene (13.0) as reference standard.
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  • 17
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: Beta vulgaris ; Beta procumbens ; Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; monosomic additions ; transformation ; chromosomal stability ; electrophoresis ; isozyme patterns ; in-vitro culture
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Crown galls were obtained from a monosomic addition plant of beet, carrying an extra chromosome of Beta procumbens, after transformation with a wild-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain. Analysis of peroxidase and esterase patterns obtained after cellulose acetate gel electrophoresis and iso-electric focusing respectively, gave evidence that no preferential loss of the alien chromosome on repeated subculture in-vitro from the crown galls occurred.
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  • 18
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; Beta vulgaris ; sugar beet ; regeneration ; shooter mutants ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Beta vulgaris plants were found to be susceptible to Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains carrying octopine Ti-plasmids after wounding of GA3 elongated stems or of hypocotyls. Tumors could be isolated and cultured aseptically. The tumor marker, octopine synthase (Ocs) activity, was present demonstrating the applicability of the Agrobacterium system for transfer of genetic information. For the production of transgenic plants two procedures were tested: inoculation of explants derived from cotyledons and hypocotyls of two weeks old seedlings and a leaf-disc procedure. The first method yielded both octopine positive calli as well as shoot regeneration on the six genotypes tested. In most cases, regeneration occurred from pre-existing, non-transformed meristems. The presence of Ocs activity could not be demonstrated in these shoots, although in one case octopine positive callus was formed at the base of the shoot, suggesting a chimeric structure of the plantlet or T-DNA genes, which were silent within the shoot and became active again in proliferating callus. The leaf-disc method did not give rise to direct or indirect regeneration, but transformed callus proliferated on the leaf edges. Optimal transformation frequencies were dependent on B. vulgaris genotype and Agrobacterium strain. The use of Agrobacterium shooter mutants or strains carrying an isolated cytokinin gene in order to influence endogenous phytohormone ratios did not result in the formation of shoots nor did it increase levels of regeneration in the first method. Further optimization is in order and in progress.
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    Photosynthesis research 19 (1988), S. 23-37 
    ISSN: 1573-5079
    Keywords: binding ; uptake ; transformation ; DNA ; cyanobacteria ; etioplasts
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Discoveries of the uptake and expression of various Escherichia coli plasmids by the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans and isolated cumber etioplasts are reviewed. In particular, the binding and uptake of nick-translated 32P-labeled plasmids and the expression of genes in the native plasmids are considered. Permeaplasts of A. nidulans 6301 and isolated EDTA-washed cucumber etioplasts exhibit binding and uptake of DNA that is unaffected by uncouplers of photophosphorylation or by dissipators of transmembrane proton graident. ATP inhibits both binding and udptake by permeaplasts or EDTA-washed etioplasts but the analog AMP-PNP (non-hydrolzable) is noninhibitory. With permeaplasts there is no effect of 20 mM Mg2+ (in the light) upon intake, whereas with EDTA-washed etioplasts, Mg2+ at the same concentration inhibits uptake as does 20 mM Ca2+. The transformation of A. nidulans 6301 to ampicillin-resistance by the plasmid pBR322 is much enhanced in permeaplasts. Indeed extracts of transformed cells catalyze the hydrolosis of the β-lactam nitrocefin. Transfromation of A. nidulans to antibiotic resistance may also be achieved with the plasmids pHUB4 and pCH1. The effect of light on transformation of A. nidulans 6301 differs with different plasmids. In pBR322 transformants the expression of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) is markedly elevated. In these transformants, the foreign plasmid replicates by a pathway involving chromosomal integration and dissociation. The plasmid pCS75, a derivative of pUC9 (and therefore of pBR322) containing a Pst1 insert carrying genes for the large and small (S) subunits of RuBisCO from A. nidulans, is taken up and expressed in EDTA-washed cucumber cotyledon etioplasts. Expression is evidenced by the hydrolysis of nitrocefin and immunoprecipitation of labeled S subunits of RuBisCO (utilizing etioplasts which have been labeled with 35S-methionine after incubation with pCS75). The plasmid pUC9-CM carrying a cat gene is also expressed in cucumber etioplasts in a manner that demonstrates dependence both on the duration of etioplast washing by EDTA and plasmid concentration. Translation (as measured by 35S-methionine incorporation) by EDTA-washed etioplasts increases with cotyledon greening. However the enhancement of translation by prior incubation of EDTA-washed plastids with pCS75 decreases to zero during 24hr of cotyledon greening. Results suggest that the expression of foreign DNA in plastids may depend critically upon their developmental state.
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    ISSN: 1573-6822
    Keywords: hepatocytes ; hepatocarcinogenesis ; immunohistochemistry ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens on rat liver epithelial cell lines were prepared. Three antibodies, 4C3, 19C6, and 3C2, recognized surface antigens present (although in different quantities) on eight epithelial cell lines tested, irrespective of whether they were normal or transformed. For MAb 3C2, the primary antigen common to all but one cell line showed a Mr of 135 kD. In paraffin sections of liver tissue, two antibodies, 40 and 19C6, reacted exclusively with bile duct epithelium, whereas the MAb 3C2 additionally reacted with sinusoidal endothelium and the endothelium of the portal venules. In sections of livers from rats exposed to diethylnitrosamine, the MAb 19C6 selectively stained bile duct-like structures in cholangiomas, while other preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions were not stained. These results demonstrate that the monoclonal antibodies obtained may prove useful for investigating cell lineages related to propagable liver epithelial cell lines and suggest that these cells may be derived from terminal bile ductular cells.
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    ISSN: 1573-4943
    Keywords: conformational energy ; amino acid substitution ; position 13 ; P21 protein ; transformation
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The effect of the substitution of Arg for Gly 13 on the structure of the transforming region decapeptide (Leu 6-Gly 15) of the ras oncogene encoded P21 protein has been investigated using conformational energy analysis. A human malignancy has been identified that contains a ras gene with a single mutation in the thirteenth codon such that the encoded protein would have Arg substituted for Gly at this position, and transfection of cells in culture with this gene results in malignant transformation. Conformational analysis demonstrates that the Arg 13 decapeptide adopts a conformation identical to that for other peptides with substitutions at position 13 (Asp 13, Val 13) from transforming proteins that is distinctively different from that for peptides (Gly 13, Ser 13) from normal, nontransforming proteins. This is found to be an indirect effect resulting from changes in the conformation of Gly 12 produced by substitutions at position 13. These results are consistent with recent analysis of crystallographic data of proteins on conformational preferences for glycine in tripeptide sequences.
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: organic matter ; rice ; submergence ; transformation ; zinc fraction
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Laboratory and greenhouse experiments were conducted with two soilsviz., laterite and alluvial to study the transformation of applied Zn in soil fractions under submerged condition in the presence and absence of added organic matter and its relationship with Zn nutrition of rice plants. The results showed that application of organic matter caused a decrease in the concentration of Zn in shoot and root of rice plants and helped in translocating the element from root to shoot. The per cent utilization of applied Zn by plants was also found to increase by the application of organic matter. The transformation of applied Zn in different fractions in soils showed that a major portion (53.6–72.6%) of it found its way to mineral fractions leaving only 1.0–3.3, 6.6–18.9, 11.0–21.6 and 2.3–8.8% of the applied amounts in water soluble plus exchangeable, organic complexed, amorphous sesquioxides and crystalline sesquioxides bound fractions respectively. Application of organic matter favoured such transformation of applied Zn into these fractions except the mineral and crystalline sesquioxides bound ones. Simple correlation and multiple regression analyses between applied Zn in different soil fractions and fertilizer Zn content in plants showed that organic matter application increased the predictability of fertilizer Zn content in plants which has been attributed to the higher per cent recovery of applied Zn in plant available fractions in soils in presence of added organic matter.
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: plants ; antisense ; suppression ; nopaline synthase ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract We report the successful suppression of nopaline synthase (EC 1.5.1.19) enzymatic activity in the leaves of tobacco plants via the overproduction of RNAs complementary to the nopaline synthase (nos) mRNA. Several different regions of the nos gene were fused, in antisense orientation, to the promoter from a strongly expressed petunia chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene. These constructions were directly introduced into a tobacco line which contained a single copy of the wild-type nos gene and transgenic plants were regenerated. The degree of nopaline synthase suppression in the leaves of the double transformants ranged up to 85% and was dependent on the particular region of the nos gene present in the antisense RNA. The most effective nos antisense sequences were derived from the 3′ half of the nos gene transcript. In addition, we report a new sensitive method for the detection and quantitation of nopaline synthase activity in crude plant extracts.
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    Plant molecular biology 11 (1988), S. 551-559 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; Linum usitatissimum ; plant regeneration ; Ri plasmid ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Regeneration of flax (Linum usitatissimum) following transformation by either Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying a disarmed Ti-plasmid vector, or Agrobacterium rhizogenes carrying an unmodified Ri plasmid, was examined. Hypocotyl and cotyledon explants inoculated with A. tumefaciens formed transformed callus, but did not regenerate transformed shoots either directly or via callus. However, cotyledon explants inoculated with A. rhizogenes formed transformed roots which did regenerate transformed shoots. Ri T-DNA encoded opines were detected in the transformed plantlets and Southern hybridization analysis confirmed the presence of T-DNA from the Ri plasmid in their DNA. Transformed plantlets had curled leaves, short internodes and some had a more developed root system characterized by plagiotropic behaviour.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; gene expression ; legumin (Pisum) ; Nicotiana ; seed storage protein ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract A 3.4-kilobase genomic DNA fragment from Pisum sativum L. containing the LegA gene, which encodes a major legumin storage protein, was transferred to Nicotiana plumbaginifolia using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain containing the Bin 19 binary vector system. Northern hybridisation analysis of legA-transformed plants demonstrated that legumin-specific RNA was present in developing seeds but not in developing leaves. Legumin protein was immunologically detected in the mature seeds of legA-transformed plants, and was present as the correct-size protein composed of disulphide-bonded polypeptides. It is concluded that the transferred pea genomic fragment contains all the information necessary for seed-specific expression of the legA gene, and for correct processing of the primary transcript and the precursor legumin protein.
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    Bioscience reports 8 (1988), S. 519-529 
    ISSN: 1573-4935
    Keywords: cell division ; malignancy ; transformation ; nutrient uptake ; resting state
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The problem of regulation of cell division is essentially a problem of understanding regulation of transition from the resting state of a cell to the dividing state and vice versa. In malignancy the ability to revert back to a normal resting state is impaired. A model is presented which attempts to explain the control of the above transitions through control of uptake of essential nutrients by a transport-inhibitory protein. Experimental evidence in favour of the model is given.
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    ISSN: 1860-0980
    Keywords: homogeneity analysis ; correspondence analysis ; optimal scaling ; transformation ; alternating least squares ; canonical correlation analysis ; principal component analysis
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    Topics: Psychology
    Notes: Abstract Homogeneity analysis, or multiple correspondence analysis, is usually applied tok separate variables. In this paper we apply it to sets of variables by using sums within sets. The resulting technique is called OVERALS. It uses the notion of optimal scaling, with transformations that can be multiple or single. The single transformations consist of three types: nominal, ordinal, and numerical. The corresponding OVERALS computer program minimizes a least squares loss function by using an alternating least squares algorithm. Many existing linear and nonlinear multivariate analysis techniques are shown to be special cases of OVERALS. An application to data from an epidemiological survey is presented.
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    Psychometrika 53 (1988), S. 437-454 
    ISSN: 1860-0980
    Keywords: multivariate analysis ; optimal scaling ; correspondence analysis ; structural models ; simultaneous equations ; factor analysis ; LISREL ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract We study the class of multivariate distributions in which all bivariate regressions can be linearized by separate transformation of each of the variables. This class seems more realistic than the multivariate normal or the elliptical distributions, and at the same time its study allows us to combine the results from multivariate analysis with optimal scaling and classical multivariate analysis. In particular a two-stage procedure which first scales the variables optimally, and then fits a simultaneous equations model, is studied in detail and is shown to have some desirable properties.
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    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: transformation ; gene structure ; cAMP ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
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    Notes: The cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (phosphodiesterase) of Dictyostelium discoideum plays an essential role in development by hydrolyzing the cAMP used as a chemoattractant by aggregating cells. We have studied the biochemistry of the phosphodiesterase and a functionally related protein, the phosphodiesterase inhibitor protein, and have cloned the cognate genes. A 1.8-kb and a 2.2-kb mRNA are transcribed from the singlephosphodiesterase gene. The 2.2-kb mRNA comprises the majority of the phosphodiesterase mRNA found in differentiating cells and is transcribed only during development from a promoter at least 2.5 kb upstream of the translational start site. The 1.8-kb phosphodiesterase mRNA is detected at all stages of growth and development, is present at lower levels than the developmentally induced mRNA, and is transcribed from a site proximal to the protein-coding region. The phosphodiesterase gene contains a minimum of three exons, and a 2.3-kb intron, the longest yet reported for this organism. We have shown that the pds A. gene and fourfgd genes affect, the accumulation of the phosphodiesterase mRNAs, and we believe that these loci represent a significant portion of the genes regulating expression of the phosphodiesterase. The phosphodiesterase gene was introduced into cells by transformation and used as a tool to explore the effects of cAMP on the terminal stages of development. In cells expressing high levels of phosphodiesterase activity, final morphogenesis cannot be completed, and differentiated spore and stalk cells do not form. We interpret these results to support the hypothesis that cAMP plays an essential role in organizing cell movements in late development as well as in controlling the aggregation of cells in the initial phase of the developmental program.
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    Developmental Genetics 9 (1988), S. 495-504 
    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: transformation ; extrachromosomal DNAs ; eukaryotic plasmids ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
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    Notes: Cellular slime molds are one of only three types of eukaryotes known to contain circular nuclear plasmids. Unlike the 2-μm circle in Saccharomyces, different strains of Dictyostelium can carry different, nonhomologous plasmids. Covalently closed, circular DNA plasmids have been identified in D. discoideum, D. mucoroides, D. giganteum, and D. purpureum. These plasmids range in size from 1.3-27 kb and in copy number from 50-300 molecules per cell. Plasmids have been identified in approximately one-fifth of all isolates examined. The organization of their DNA in nucleosomes establishes their presence in the nucleus. We have successfully cotransformed endogenous Dictyostelium plasmids into D. discoideum using the G418 resistance shuttle vector B10S. Transformants carrying D. discoideum plasmids are recovered at much higher frequency than those carrying plasmids from the other Dictyostelium species. We have constructed recombinant plasmids based on the D. discoideum plasmid Ddp2 and the G418 resistance gene. With these extrachromosomal vectors, transformed cells are recovered at frequencies of up to 10-4 per input cell, the vectors are stably maintained at high copy number in the absence of selection, and the vectors can be used to introduce foreign DNA sequences into D. discoideum cells.
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    Applied Organometallic Chemistry 2 (1988), S. 303-307 
    ISSN: 0268-2605
    Keywords: Arsenic ; arsenic compounds ; transformation ; determination ; biological significance ; Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
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    Notes: Arsenic has a reputation as a poison, because arsenic trioxide was used during medieval times as an agent for murder. Lingering memories of these events make any arsenic-containing material suspect. Toxicity is a property of a specific compound and varies with the composition and structure of compounds. Developments in analytical methodology made it possible not only to determine total arsenic in a variety of matrices but also arsenic compounds. Knowledge about the arsenic cycle in marine systems has expanded considerably during the past decade. The marine arsenic cycle appears to be more complex than the cycle in the terrestrial environment. More attention must be given to the minor arsenic-containing compounds detected in organisms and experiments should be undertaken that provide information about the biochemical pathways used for the transformation of arsenic compounds.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 37 (1988), S. 225-231 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: glycosyltransferase ; cell surface ; transformation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Recent studies have desmonstrated that Rous sarcoma virus-transformed baby hamster kidney (RS-BHK) cells express twofold higher levels of those N-linked oligosac-charides that contain the sequence [GlcNAc-β(1,6)Man (1,6)] compared to nontrans-formed parental BHK cells (Pierce and Arango, J. Biol. Chem. 261, 10772 [1986]). We have investigated in RS-BHK and BHK cells the activity of UDP-GlcNAc:α-D-mannoside β(l,6)N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V, the enzyme that begins the synthesis of the sequence that is increased in the RS-BHK cells. We have measured GnT V activity using UDP- [3H]- GlcNAc and a synthetic oligosaccharide acceptor, GlcNAcβ(1,2)Man α(1,6)Manβ-O- (Ch2)8COOCH3, separating the radioactive product by a newly devised reverse-phase chromatographic technique. Assayed under optimal conditions, the specific activity of GnT V is about fourfold higher in RS-BHK sonicates than in BHK sonicates, suggesting that this increase in activity may be the primary mechanism that causes the increase in [GlcNAcβ(1,6) Man] sequences in the RS-BHK cells. The apparent Km, values of the enzymes in RS-BHK and BHK cell sonicates for UDP-GIcNAc and the synthetic acceptor are similar, as are the pH optima. These results suggest that the increase in GnT V-specific activity in RS-BHK cells is not caused by the presence in these cells of a GnT V with markedly different kinetic properties.
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    Keywords: vanadate ; phosphotyrosine ; transformation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Rous sarcoma virus-trans formed baby hamster kidney fibroblasts (RSV/B4-BHK) adhere to a fibronectin-coated substratum by means of dot-like adhesion sites called podosomes in view of their shape and function as cellular feet (Tarone et al.: Exp Cell Res 159:141, 1985). Podosomes concentrate tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, including pp60v-src, and appear in many cells transformed by oncogenes coding for tyrosine kinases. In this paper we used orthovanadate, an inhibitor of phosphotyrosine phosphatases, in order to increase the cellular concentration of phosphotyrosine and to study whether this treatment induced the cytoskeleton remodeling leading to the formation of podosomes. Indeed, orthovanadate (10-100 μM) induced in a time-and dose-dependent manner the redistribution of F-actin and the formation of podosomes in BHK cells. Cytoskeleton remodeling occurred along with a marked increase of tyrosine phosphorylatcd proteins. The vanadate effect on the cytoskeletal phenotype was enhanced by the simultaneous treatment of cells with a phorbol ester. Under the latter conditions almost all BHK cells showed podosomes. The vanadate effect was reversible insofar as podosomes and tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins disappeared. Then, vanadate treatment of normal cells induced the cascade of events leading to the cytoskeletal changes typical of transformation and suggested that the transformed cytoskeletal phenotype may he primarily induced by the tyrosine phosphorylation of unknown target(s) operated by endogenous kinases.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 37 (1988), S. 61-78 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: heparan sulfate ; transformation ; cell surface proteoglycans ; growth control ; cancer glycosaminoglycans ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Cell surface proteoglycans are strategically positioned to regulate interactions between cells and their surrounding environment. Such interactions play key roles in several biological processes, such as cell recognition, adhesion, migration, and growth. These biological functions are in turn necessary for the maintenance of differentiated phenotype and for normal and neoplastic development. There is ample evidence that a special type of proteoglycan bearing heparan sulfate side chains is localized at the cell surface in a variety of epithelial and mesenchymal cells. This molecule exhibits selective patterns of reactivity with various constituents of the extracellular matrix and plasma membrane, and can act as growth modulator or as a receptor. Certainly, during cell division, membrane constituents undergo profound rearrangement, and proteoglycans may be intimately involved in such processes. The present work will focus on recent advances in our understanding of these complex macromolecules and will attempt to elucidate the biosynthesis, the structural diversity, the modes of cell surface association, and the turnover of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in various cell systems. It will then review the multiple proposed roles of this molecule, with particular emphasis on the binding properties and the interactions with various intracellular and extracellular elements. Finally, it will focus on the alterations associated with the neoplastic phenotype and will discuss the possible consequences that heparan sulfate may have on the growth of normal and transformed cells.
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    Breast cancer research and treatment 10 (1987), S. 217-227 
    ISSN: 1573-7217
    Keywords: breast cancer ; chromosome translocation ; gene amplification ; growth factor receptors ; neuroblastoma ; oncogenes ; prognosis ; proto-oncogenes ; small cell lung cancer ; transformation
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    Topics: Medicine
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    ISSN: 1573-4943
    Keywords: conformational energy ; three-dimensional structure ; amino acid substitutions ; P21 proteins ; transformation
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The structural effects of amino acid substitutions at positions 12 and 16 in the amino-terminal segment (Tyr 4-Ala 18) of the ras-oncogene-encoded P21 proteins have been investigated using conformational energy analysis. The P21 protein with Val at position 12 and Lys at position 16 is known to have high transforming ability, while the P21 protein with Val at position 12 and Asn at position 16 is known to have poor transforming ability, similar to that of the normal protein (with Gly at 12 and Lys at 16.) The current results demonstrate a significant conformational change at position 15 induced by the substitution of Asn for Lys at position 16, which could explain this alteration in transformation potential. These findings are consistent with previous results suggesting the existence of a normal and a malignancy-causing conformation for the P21 proteins and suggest that the critical transforming region may encompass residues 12–15.
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    Plant molecular biology 8 (1987), S. 363-373 
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    Keywords: transformation ; MgCl2-PEG-electroporation ; competence ; protoplasts
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    Notes: Abstract Direct gene transfer into plant protoplasts has been recently developed, and conditions for high frequency transformation of SR1 tobacco protoplasts established. In this paper we analyse numerous transformation parameters in a comparative study on SR1 Nicotiana tabacum and N. plumbaginifolia, and report on a simple chemical technique for very efficient protoplast transformation. It is based on the synergistic interaction of MgCl2 and PEG. The technique yielded up to 1400 transformants per 3×105 treated N. tabacum protoplasts (up to 4.8% of the survivors, late selected clones). Using N. plumbaginifolia, the frequencies were 10-fold lower, indicating that the ‘competence’ for transformation has a species-specific component.
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    Keywords: acetosyringone ; Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; Arabidopsis thaliana ; leaf explants ; regeneration ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract High frequency transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf explants has been obtained using a disarmed Ti plasmid containing the coding region of a neomycin phosphotransferase gene (NPT II) as a selectable marker. The rate of transformation ranged from 55 to 63 percent when acetosyringone (AS), a natural wound response molecule, was added to an Agrobacterium tumefaciens culture prior to incubation with leaf segments. Without acetosyringone, the transformation rate was approximately 2 to 3 percent. Calli resistant to G418 were regenerated into mature flowering plants in the presence of 10 μg/ml G418. Southern analysis and neomycin phosphotransferase assays confirmed the insertion and expression of the NPT II gene in regenerated Arabidopsis plants.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; binary vector ; kanamycin resistance ; transformation ; secondary metabolism
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    Notes: Abstract Co-transfer of Agrobacterium rhizogenes T-DNA and T-DNA from the A. tumefaciens binary vector pBin19 (Bevan, 1984) was studied in detail using Nicotiana rustica. High frequencies of co-transfer of T-DNA's were observed, even when no selection pressure was exerted. Increased levels of pBin19 T-DNA were found in hairy root cultures with selection at higher levels of kanamycin sulphate (50–200 μg ml−1). Several other species were also transformed by A. rhizogenes carrying pBin19 and A. rhizogenes harbouring a different binary factor, pAGS125 (Van den Elzen et al., 1985), was used to transform N. rustica hairy roots to confer hygromycin B resistance.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; cotton ; Gossypium hirsutum L. ; regeneration ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cotyledon tissues have been efficiently transformed and plants have been regenerated. Cotyledon pieces from 12-day-old aseptically germinated seedlings were inoculated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains containing avirulent Ti (tumor-inducing) plasmids with a chimeric gene encoding kanamycin resistance. After three days cocultivation, the cotyledon pieces were placed on a callus initiation medium containing kanamycin for selection. High frequencies of transformed kanamycin-resistant calli were produced, more than 80% of which were induced to form somatic embryos. Somatic embryos were germinated, and plants were regenerated and transferred to soil. Transformation was confirmed by opine production, kanamycin resistance, immunoassay, and DNA blot hybridization. This process for producing transgenic cotton plants facilitates transfer of genes of economic importance to cotton.
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    Keywords: geminivirus ; Ti-plasmid ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract Tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV), a member of the geminivirus group, has a genome consisting of two DNA molecules designated the A and B components. Both are required for infectivity in healthy plants, although the former has been shown to replicate independently in transgenic plants containing tandem direct repeats of the A genome component. In the studies presented here, petunia plants transgenic for either both components (A×B hybrids) or the A component alone were examined for the presence of virus particles and encapsidated, single stranded viral DNA. The results of DNase protection experiments and direct observation of extracts from transgenic plants by electron microscopy indicate that single stranded TGMV DNA is in both cases packaged into paired particles identical to those obtained from virus-infected plants. DNase-treated virions isolated from A×B hybrid petunia are infectious when inoculated onto healthy Nicotiana benthamiana. Likewise, virions obtained from transgenic A petunia are infectious for plants transgenic for the B component. Our observations of TGMV replication in transgenic plants indicate that TGMV A DNA encodes all viral functions necessary for the replication and encapsidation of viral DNA. The possible role of the B component in TGMV replication is discussed.
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    Plant and soil 104 (1987), S. 143-146 
    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: decomposition ; ferulic acid ; lignin-related compounds ; mine soil microorganisms ; ring-fission products ; transformation ; vanillic acid
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Spectrophotometric, chromatographic, and ion-exchange procedures were used to follow microbial transformation and degradation of lignin-related compounds during incubation in liquid culture. Analyses of solvent extracts from fermentation media showed that selected mine soil microorganisms were able to modify one or more of the structural components of vanillic and ferulic acids, including methoxyl groups, carbon side-chains, and aromatic rings.
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    Plant and soil 104 (1987), S. 175-181 
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    Keywords: rice ; soils ; submergence ; transformation ; zinc fractions
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Distribution of different forms of Zn in 16 acid alluvial rice growing soils of West Bengal (India) and their transformation on submergence were studied. The results showed that more than 84% of total Zn occurred in the relatively inactive clay lattice-bound form while a smaller fractionviz. 1.1, 1.6, 11.1 and 2.0 per cent of the total occurred as water-soluble plus exchangeable, organic complexed, amorphous sesquioxide-bound and crystalline sesquioxide bound forms, respectively. All these four Zn forms showed significant negative correlations with soil pH (r=−0.48**, −0.39*, −0.61** and −0.67**, respectively), while the latter two Zn forms showed significant positive correlations with Fe2O3 (0.68** and 0.88***) and Al2O3 (0.89*** and 0.75***) content of the soils. The different Zn forms were found to have positive and significant correlations amongst each other, suggesting the existence of a dynamic equilibrium of these forms in soil. Submergence caused an increase in the amorphous sesquioxide-bound form of Zn and a decrease in each of the other three forms. The magnitude of such decreases in water-soluble plus exchangeable and crystalline sesquioxide-bound forms was found to be correlated negatively with initial pH values of the soils and positively with the increase in the amorphous sesquioxide-bound form, indicating their adsorption on the surface of the freshly formed hydrated oxides of Fe, which view was supported by the existence of significant positive correlation between the increase in the amorphous sesquioxide-bound form of Zn and that in AlCl3-extractable iron. The existence of a positive correlation between the decrease in crystalline sesquioxide-bound Zn and that in Fe2O3 content in soil suggested that on waterlogging the soil Zn occluded in the cry talline sesquioxide was released as a result of reduction of Fe2O3.
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    Keywords: Folivores ; marsupials ; allelochemicals ; transformation ; detox-ification
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    Notes: Abstract Measurements were made of the quantity and composition of the steam-volatile essential oils in gastrointestinal tract contents of greater gliders fedEucalyptus radiata foliage and brushtail possums fedE. melliodora foliage. In both species, there was less oil in the stomach contents than in an equivalent mass of foliage. Only minor losses of leaf oils occurred during mastication by greater gliders, and absorption from the stomach appeared to be the major reason for the difference in the oil content of ingested leaves and of stomach contents. The apparent digestibility of oils over the whole gut was 96–97 %, although oils from the cecum and feces of both species contained compounds not present in the original leaf oils. Absorption of oils before they reach the hindgut should reduce the severity of antimicrobial effects but may involve a metabolic cost to the animal in detoxification and excretion.
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    Keywords: c-Ha-ras ; metallothionein ; oncogene ; ras ; transformation ; tumorigenicity ; zinc
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    Notes: Abstract A C3H/10T1/2 cell line containing an inducible metallothionein-ras hybrid oncogene was conditionally and reversibly transformed upon exposure to zinc ions. Interestingly, although the cell line was fully malignant when expressing only low levels ofras, complete morphological transformation required much higher levels.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 35 (1987), S. 51-68 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: steroid receptors ; heat shock protein ; transformation ; phosphorylation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: This brief review explores some recent observations relating to the structure of untransformed glucocorticoid and progesterone receptors and the mechanism by which the receptors are transformed to the DNA-binding state. In their molybdate-stabilized, untransformed state, progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors exist as a heteromeric 8-9S complex containing one unit of steroid binding phosphoprotein and one or two units of the 90 kD heat shock protein hsp90. When the receptors are transformed, the steroid-binding protein dissociates from hsp90. In cytosol preparations, temperature-mediated dissociation proceeds much more rapidly in the presence of hormone. The dissociated receptor binds to DNA with high affinity, regardless of whether it is in the hormone-bound or the hormone-free state. These observations raise the possibility that the primary, and perhaps the only, role for the hormone is to promote dissociation of the receptor-hsp90 complex.Molybdate, vanadate, and tungstate inhibit receptor transformation to the DNA-binding form, an effect that appears to reflect the ability of these transition metal oxyanions to stabilize the complex between the steroid receptor and hsp90. By promoting the formation of disulfide bonds, hydrogen peroxide also stabilizes the glucocorticoid receptor-hsp90 complex and prevents receptor transformation. A small, heat-stable factor present in all cytosol preparations inhibits receptor transformation, and, when the factor is removed, glucocorticoid receptors are rapidly transformed. This ubiquitous factor has the physical properties of a metal anion, and it is proposed that molybdate and vanadate affect steroid receptor complexes by interacting with a metal anion-binding site that is normally occupied by this endogenous receptor-stabilizing factor.
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    Keywords: myc-related genes ; nucleotide sequence ; transformation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The myc family of cellular oncogenes contains three well-defined members: c-myc, N-myc and L-myc. Additional structural and functional evidence now suggests that other myc-family oncogenes exist. The overall structure and organization of the c-, N-. and L-myc genes and transcripts are very similar. Each gene contains three exons: encoding a long 5′ untranslated leader and a long 3′ untranslated region. The proteins encoded by these myc genes share several stretches of significant homology. The conservation of sequences at the carboxy-terminus of the L-myc protein suggests that it is also a DNA-binding, nuclear-associated protein. Each myc gene will cooperate with an activated Ha-ras oncogene to cause transformation of primary rat embryo fibroblasts. Characteristics of several new myc-family members are described.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 33 (1987), S. 87-94 
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    Keywords: c-AMP ; G-proteins ; Ki-ras oncogene ; proliferation ; transformation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Rat kidney (NRK) cells infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the Kirsten sarcoma virus were arrested in the G0/G1phase of their cell cycle by incubation in serum-deficient medium at a p21-inactivating temperature of 41°C. These quiescent ts K-NRK cells were then stimulated to transit g1 and initiate DNA replication by lowering the temperature to 36°C, which rapidly reactivated p21 Reactivating the viral Ki-RAS protein by temperature shift led to an increase in adenylate cyclase activity in early G1 phase. The Ki-RAS protein increased the sensitivity of adenylate cyclase to guany1 nucleotides by a mechanism that seemed to involve inactivation of the enzyme's inhibitory G1regulatory protein.
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    Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine 102 (1986), S. 1004-1007 
    ISSN: 1573-8221
    Keywords: erythrocytes ; transformation ; ultrastructure ; sensitization
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    Cellular and molecular life sciences 42 (1986), S. 1036-1038 
    ISSN: 1420-9071
    Keywords: Abelson virus ; centromere ; chromosome condensation ; premature chromosome condensation ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary By fusing interphase cells to cells undergoing mitosis, the interphase chromosomes can be visualized. When analyzed in this way, chromosomes of normal mouse cells show characteristic undercondensed centromeric regions. We have found that the centromeric regions of chromosomes from Abelson virus-transformed cells are fully condensed. Abelson virus transforms mouse cells by introducing into them a virally encoded phosphokinase that is expressed constitutively. Thus, we propose that the condensation of centromeric chromatin is a result of overphosphorylation by the Abelson virus phosphokinase, and that the centromeric region is the relevant target of overphosphorylation in transformed cell growth.
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    Methods in cell science 10 (1986), S. 117-123 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: growth factors ; DNA synthesis ; cancer ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary A rapid mitogenic assay suitable for the detection of transforming growth factors in the extracts of tissues or cells or in the medium conditioned by tumor cells in vitro is described. The method utilizes a nontumorigenic mouse embryo cell line (AKR-2B cells) maintained in serum-free conditions. Three classes of growth factors can be distinguished using this assay.
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    Methods in cell science 10 (1986), S. 173-177 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: SHE ; clonal assay ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary Procedures for the preparation of cryopreserved Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) cell pools and for the performance of the SHE clonal transformation assay are described. Attention to experimental details and the screening of cell pools and serum lots are important factors in obtaining consistent results with this clonal assay.
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    Methods in cell science 10 (1986), S. 185-188 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: transformation ; survival in aggregation ; carcinogenesis
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    Notes: Summary A sensitive and rapid transformation assay procedure is described. The end point, cell survival in aggregation, is measured by counting viable cells dissociated from aggregates in suspension for 4 d. When cells, previously treated with increased concentrations of a carcinogen, are suspended in liquid medium above an agar base, aggregates are formed, while untreated and solvent control cells remain primarily as single cells and show a rapid decline in cell survival; cells that had been treated with chemical carcinogen survive longer in suspension. When used as a marker for in vitro transformation, this end point can assess the carcinogenic potential of an agent.
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    Methods in cell science 10 (1986), S. 157-164 
    ISSN: 1573-0603
    Keywords: BALB/c-3T3 cells ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary The BALB/c-3T3 cell transformation assay evaluates the morphologic transforming potential of test chemicals using cultured mammalian cells as targets. The assay is semiquantitative and employs a contact-inhibited clone of cells derived from the original BALB/c-3T3 mouse cell line. Transforming activity, or a focus, is recognized as a dense layer of morphologically altered cells superimposed on a monolayer of the normal cell phenotype. The induction of transforming activity in a standard assay has been reported to correlate well with the carcinogenicity of many test chemicals in rodent bioassay; however, the standard assay does not detect carcinogens of all chemical classes. This report describes an operational protocol for the standard BALB/c-3T3 cell transformation assay. In addition, it provides assay acceptance criteria and a discussion of a method to evaluate transforming activity data.
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    Methods in cell science 10 (1986), S. 165-172 
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    Keywords: transformation ; fibroblast ; C3H/10T1/2 ; mouse ; carcinogenesis
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    Notes: Summary Basic cell culture conditions required for execution of cell transformation studies with C3H/10T1/2 mouse embryo fibroblasts are described. These protocols permit assessment of the ability of chemicals to convert nontumorigenic C3H/10T1/2 cells to a tumorigenic phenotype characterized by altered controls upon in vitro cell division. Recent assay modifications that enhance the sensitivity of this focus formation assay and permit the study of multistage transformation processes are noted.
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    Keywords: transformation ; human fibroblasts ; anchorage independence ; soft agar
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    Notes: Summary We have determined the assay conditions necessary for quantifying the frequency of carcinogen-induced transformation of diploid human fibroblasts to anchorage independence. Emphasis is placed on the importance of using medium that supports clonal growth of the particular type of cells under investigation and titrating the percent of fetal bovine serum used in the assay to obtain a low, but measurable number of anchorage-independent colonies in the untreated control cultures. With this method, the target cells can be derived from adults as well as newborns and need not be in early passage, as long as they are able to grow vigorously.
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    Cell biology and toxicology 2 (1986), S. 9-20 
    ISSN: 1573-6822
    Keywords: amino acid transport ; α-aminoisobutyrate ; glutamate ; glutamine ; glutamine synthetase ; hormones ; primary hepatocyte cultures ; rat liver epithelial cells ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract The capacities of Na+-dependent transport of α-aminoisobutyrate, glutamine and glutamate in four established and three transformed rat liver epithelial cell lines were found to be considerably higher than those of isolated and cultured hepatocytes. At least for transport systems A and G− this seemed to be due to elevated values of V max , whereas the values for K m were quite comparable to those of hepatocytes. In contrast to hepatocytes, however, no significant hormonal stimulation of amino acid uptake could be detected in the cell lines. Each normal cell line expressed a distinct pattern of transport capacities with respect to the three systems measured and this was not altered by chemical transformation of the lines. The individual patterns of the lines showed no similarity to presumptive patterns of subpopulations of liver parenchymal cells. In particular, there was no evidence for a direct relationship of one of the cell lines with a small subpopulation of parenchymal cells located adjacent to hepatic venules as revealed by additional measurements of glutamine synthetase, a marker enzyme for this particular subpopulation. It is concluded that established rat liver epithelial cell lines express features characteristic of normal hepatocytes with respect to amino acid transport, but have developed a distinct phenotype adapted to a rapid, hormone-independent growth in vitro. Alteration of their phenotype by transformation is not coupled with a further increase in amino acid transport capacity.
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  • 58
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; A. rhizogenes ; hairy root ; plant ; transformation ; vector
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    Notes: Summary Binary Ti plasmid vector systems consist of two plasmids in Agrobacterium, where one plasmid contains the DNA that can be transferred to plant cells and the other contains the virulence (vir) genes which are necessary for the DNA transfer but are not themselves stably transferred. We have constructed two nononcogenic vectors (pARC4 and pARC8) based on the binary Ti plasmid system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens for plant transformation. Each vector contains the left and right termini sequences from pTiT37. These sequences, which determine the extent of DNA transferred to plant cells, flank unique restriction enzyme sites and a marker gene that functions in the plant (nopaline synthase in pARC4 or neomycin phosphotransferase in pARC8). After construction in vitro, the vectors can be conjugatively transferred from E. coli to any of several Agrobacterium strains containing vir genes. Using A. rhizogenes strain A4 containing the resident Ri plasmid plus a vector with the nopaline synthase marker, we found that up to 50% of the hairy roots resulting from the infection of alfalfa or tomato synthesized nopaline. Thus, vector DNA encoding an unselected marker was frequently co-transferred with Ri plasmid DNA to an alfalfa or a tomato cell. In contrast, the frequency of co-transfer to soybean cells was difficult to estimate because we encountered a high background of non-transformed roots using this species. Up to five copies of the vector DNA between the termini sequences were faithfully transferred and maintained in most cases suggesting that the termini sequences and the vir genes from the Ri and Ti plasmids are functionally equivalent.
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    Plant molecular biology 7 (1986), S. 43-50 
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    Keywords: transformation ; Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; Zea mays
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    Notes: Summary Virulent strains of the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens infect dicotyledonous plants and elicit a profound neoplastic response which results in crown gall formation (18). The inciting agent has been shown to be a high molecular weight plasmid (Ti) a section of which, the T-DNA, integrates into the host plant's genome (4, 28, 30). Although transformation of this kind was presumed to be limited to dicots, the detection of enzyme activities linked to the expression of T-DNA has been demonstrated in monocots from the families Liliaceae and Amaryllidaceae (10, 11). In this communication, we present evidence that a member of the commercially important Gramineae also is subject to A. tumefaciens directed transformation. This conclusion is based on two observations. First, seedlings of Zea mays that have had the bacteria introduced into wound sites defined by a region which includes the scutellar node and mesocotyl express the activity of enzymes whose synthesis is associated with the translation of T-DNA transcripts. Specifically, strain specific lysopine dehydrogenase activity has been detected in B6 infected material, whereas nopaline dehydrogenase activity is reported only in those plants inoculated with C58N. Second, the detection of either of these activities in extracts made from infected maize plants requires that the assaulting bacterial strain be competent with respect to the transfer of T-DNA. The vir - strains, JK195 and 238MX, are not, and transformation does not seem to occur. In this connection, the corresponding opine synthase activities are not observed.
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    ISSN: 1573-4943
    Keywords: conformational energy ; three-dimensional structure ; amino acid substitution ; P21 proteins ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract The conformational effects of different amino acid substitutions for Gly at position 12 in theras-oncogene-encoded P21 proteins have been investigated using conformational energy calculations. Mutations that cause amino acid substitutions for Gly 12 result in a protein that produces malignant transformation of cells. It had previously been shown that substitution of Val, Lys, or Ser for Gly at position 12 results in a major conformational change, and that the preferred lowest energy structure for each of the substituted peptides is identical. It is now found that substitution for Gly 12 of other amino acids that have widely disparate helix-nucleating potentials and completely different side chains (Asp, Asn, Cys, Phe, Tle, Leu, and Ala) all produce this identical lowest energy conformation. This finding is consistent with the recent results of site-specific mutagenesis experiments showing that P21 proteins containing these amino acids at position 12 all promote malignant transformation of cells and suggests the existence of a “malignancy-causing” conformation for the P21 proteins.
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    Keywords: Ti plasmid ; Hygromycin ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary We show here that plant cells are sensitive to the antibiotic hygromycin-B4. We also show that a chimaeric gene consisting of the nopaline synthase (nos) gene regulatory elements and the E. coli derived hygromycin phosphotransferase (hpt) gene, when transferred to plants' cells, confers resistance to hygromycin B. The chimaeric nos-hpt gene enables efficient selection of DNA transfer to plant cells when used in conjunction with Ti plasmid-derived binary vectors in cocultivation experiments.
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    Keywords: conformational energy ; three-dimensional structure ; amino acid substitution ; P21 proteins ; transformation
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of amino acid substitutions for Gly 13 on the structure of the transforming region (Leu 6-Gly 15) of the P21 proteins have been explored using conformational energy calculations. It has been found that the substitution of Asp for Gly at this position results in a protein capable of transforming cells into malignant ones. Proteins that contain Ser at position 13 (but no other substitutions), however, transform cells with a greatly reduced activity. The transforming peptide with Asp 13 adopts a conformation that is different from the one for the peptide from the normal protein (with Gly 12 and Gly 13) and that may result in expression of a higher energy malignancy-producing form. The Ser-containing peptide adopts as its lowest energy conformation one that is identical to that of the peptide from the normal protein, thus explaining its lack of transforming activity. From analysis of the interactions preventing the Asp 13-containing peptide from adopting the “normal” conformation, it is predicted that substitutions of amino acids with branched side chains atC β, such as Val, Ile, and Thr, should promote cell transformation. This prediction with Val has recently been confirmed in genetic experiments.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 28 (1985), S. 1-6 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: epidermal growth factor ; 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate ; EGF ; TPA ; promotion ; initiation ; transformation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Unlike 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-l3-acctate, epidermal growth factor (EGF) could not promote the appearance of type III foci from initiated C3H10T1/2 cells. At appropriate concentrations, EGF induced the formation of type II colonies in the absence of any initiator. At higher concentrations, EGF suppressed the induction of both type II and type III colonies elicited by methylcholanthrene.
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    Euphytica 85 (1955), S. 131-134 
    ISSN: 1573-5060
    Keywords: apple ; transformation ; Agrobacterium ; preculture ; azacytidine
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Leaf explants of apple cvs Gala and Golden Delicious were infected with the Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain AGL0(pMOG410). The effects of a 2 d preculture of the explants before infection and the addition of 5-azacytidine to the selection medium were studied. The percentages of GUS-positive explants after 5 w did not significantly alter due to these treatments. One of the ‘Gala’ shoots, which was removed from a leaf explant cultured for 8 w on selection medium, proved to be GUS-positive and will be analyzed further. In general, however, it should be concluded that regeneration of transgenic shoots directly from leaf tissue was not very effective.
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    Keywords: Lycopersicon ; tomato ; tomato spotted wilt virus ; tospovirus ; transformation ; virus resistance
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    Notes: Summary Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) causes significant economic losses in the commercial culture of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Culture practices and introgression of natural sources of resistance to TSWV have only been marginally effective in controlling the TSWV disease. Recently however, high levels of protection against TSWV have been obtained by transforming tobacco with a chimaeric gene cassette comprising the TSWV nucleoprotein gene. This report demonstrates the successful application of this newly-created TSWV resistance gene in cultivated tomato. Transformation of an inbred tomato line with the TSWV nucleoprotein gene cassette resulted in high levels of resistance to TSWV that were maintained in hybrids derived from the parental tomato line. Therefore, transformant lines carrying the synthetic TSWV resistance gene make suitable progenitors for TSWV resistance to be incorporated into the breeding programmes of tomato.
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    Keywords: Brassica napus ; disease tolerance ; oxalic acid ; oxalate oxidase ; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum ; transformation
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Oxalic acid is thought to have a primary role in the pathogenicity of several plant pathogens, notably Sclerotinia selerotiorum. A gene coding for the enzyme oxalate oxidase was isolated from barley roots and introduced into oilseed rape as a means of degrading oxalic acid in vivo. This report describes the production of several transgenic plants of oilseed rape and the characterisation of these plants by Southern, Western and enzyme activity assays. Plants were shown to contain an active oxalate oxidase enzyme and were tolerant of exogenously supplied oxalic acid.
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    Keywords: alfalfa ; alpha-amylase ; field performance ; manganese-dependent lignin peroxidase ; Medicago sativa ; transformation
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Transgenic alfalfa plants expressinBacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase and mangaese-dependent lignin peroxidase (Mn-P) from Phanerochaete chrysosporium were produced using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation system. In each case, there was a range of expression of the introduced gene among independent transgenic plants. Plants producing alpha-amylase showed no alteration of phenotype. Production of Mn-P in alfalfa, howeven, in most cases adversely affected plant growth and development. Affected plants were stunted with yellowing foliage, but survived and produced seed. Results from field trials showed that Mn-P production in transgenic alfalfa reduced dry matter yield and plant height. The extent of these symptoms and yield reduction was, for the most part, related to the level of foreign protein production as estimated by Western analysis. Field data from transgenic plants expressing alpha-amylase showed that there was no effect of foreign protein production on plant performance. Expression of Mn-P was shown to segregate in sexual progeny derived from transgenic plants.
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    Euphytica 85 (1955), S. 1-12 
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    Keywords: genetic engineering ; gene targets ; mapping ; markers ; transformation ; QTLs
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    Keywords: transformation ; silicon carbide ; whiskers ; maize
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary We review here the most recently developed technique for maize transformation which involves the vortexing of silicon carbide whiskers with maize cells in the presence of plasmid DNA. Fertile transgenic plants have been regenerated following whisker-mediated transformation which is compared with the alternatives described to date, namely protoplast uptake, particle bombardment and electroporation of intact tissue.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens ; electroporation ; particle gun ; polyethylene glycol ; regeneration ; transformation
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    Notes: Summary Suitable sunflower tissues and cells were transformed either by direct gene transfer into protoplasts, particle bombardment, or Agrobacterium co-culture. While all techniques allowed efficient short-term or transient expression of the introduced gene(s) in the respective tissues, stable transformation was only observed after transformation with Agrobacterium. The latter technique was suitable for the production of transgenic callus from seedling cotyledons and occasional shoots with chimaeric expression of the transgene. Detailed analysis of the interaction of Agrobacterium with this explant showed that infection efficiency was critically dependent on the co-culture conditions, and that the preferentially-transformed cells were not the ones competent for regeneration.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; transformation ; lily ; β-glucuronidase
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Lily cv. Harmony was inoculated with several Agrobacterium strains to study its susceptibility to Agrobacterium infection and transformation. Tumorous tissue formation on inoculated stem internodes of sterile-grown plantlets, as well as expression of a β-glucuronidase marker gene interrupted by an intron in cells of inoculated stem nodes, indicate that the monocotyledon Lilium is a host for Agrobacterium.
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    Keywords: Agrobacterium ; plant regeneration ; potato ; Solanum tuberosum ; tissue culture ; transformation
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary To provide a truly genotype-independent transformation system, it is necessary to be able to transform a wide range of potato genotypes. The ability to regenerate shoots in vitro was determined for 34 potato varieties using tuber disc explants. Following a culture regime used extensively in previous studies with the variety Desiree, half of the varieties could be regenerated from tuber discs and half could not. From a sample of varieties that could be regenerated from tuber discs, all but one variety gave transgenic plants. Twelve varieties were evaluated for the capacity to regenerate shoots from leaf and internode explants excised from in vitro grown plants. All of the varieties tested regenerated adventitious shoots. Leaf and internode explants from 5 varieties were subsequently used for transformation, and transgenic plants were produced from two potato varieties that did not give transgenic plants from tuber disc explants. Some varieties could not be transformed by either method, and will require modification of the in vitro regeneration and transformation system to be successful.
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  • 73
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    Keywords: Hordeum vulgare ; isolated microspores ; particle bombardment ; transformation
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary A highly regenerable, isolated microspore system for barley, Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Igri, has been developed which is amenable to transformation studies using particle bombardment. The system allows DNA to be delivered to microspores at the single cell stage and both transient and stable transformation events have been demonstrated. The potential advantages of using isolated microspores as the target tissue in routine transformation systems are discussed.
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  • 74
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    Keywords: Bacillus thuringiensis ; maize ; microprojectile bombardment ; transformation
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary A synthetic Bt gene encoding a truncated version of the CryIA(b) protein derived from Bacillus thuringiensis was successfully introduced into elite maize using microprojectile bombardment of immature embryos. The method used to initiate and identify transformation events is described. We describe the detailed parameters used for the Biolistics device as well as the plasmids used for the transformations. The plasmids contained the synthetic Bt gene driven by either the 35S CaMV promoter or a combination of two tissue-specific promoters, leaf and pollen, derived from maize. Specific conditions for the culture of Type I callus from immature embryos, the phosphinothricin (PPT) selection protocol, and the regeneration of plants are discussed. T0 and T1 plants were initially identified using the pH-dependent chlorophenol red test and/or the histochemical β-glucuronidase (GUS) assay. PCR and Southern data confirm the presence of the 35S CaMV promoter and the synthetic Bt gene.
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