Isolation of Hypervirulent Agrobacterium spp from Korea and Application for Transformation of Tobacco

한국산 고감염 Agrobacterium spp의 분리 및 연초의 형질전환에 이용

  • Published : 1998.05.01

Abstract

Total of 78 strains were characterized based on the morphological characteristics of colonies isolated on Schroth, and New & Kerr's media for selection of hypervirulent wild-type Agrobacterium spp from galls, hairy root-like process and soil of Populus, Malus, Salix and Diopyros in Korea. Among them, 48 strains were able to induce tumors in carrot disc. Hypervirulent A. tumefaciens SP101 and SM042 were identified as biotype 1 and biotype 2, respectively, These strains formed fast growing, larger tumors as compared to those induced by other strains. The binary vector pGA643 with kanamycin resistant gene was mobilized from E. coli MC100 into A. tumefaciens strain SM042 isolated from soil, and/or disarmed vector PC2760 using a triparental mating method with E. coli HB101/pRK2013, and transconjugants, A. tumefaciens SM643 and PC643 were obtained in minimal media containing kanamycin and tetracycline. Tobacco tissues were cocultivated with conjugant Agrobacterium and then transferred to selective medium with 2,4-D and kanamycin to induce the transformants. Calli were formed more efficiently in cocultivation with A. tumefaciens SM643 than that with A. tumefaciens PC643. Most of calli transformed with A. tumefaciens PC643 were friable and regenerated into normal plantlets, while the calli transformed with A. tumefaciens SM643 were compact, hard, and mixed with friable calli. The friable calli formed normal shoots, while compact calli did not form shoots but only grew to typical compact tumor calli. When the shoots formed directly from tobacco stems without callus induction after transformation by A. tumefaciens SM643 with wild-type Ti-plasmid, normal transformed plants can be induced without using disarmed Ti-plasmid.

한국에서 자생한 자연산 tumor 조직과 근권토양으로부터 형질전환율이 높은 hypervirulent Agrobacterium spp를 분리하기 위해서 Salix, Diospyros, Populus 및 Malus에서 형성된 tumor 조직과 근권토양을 채취하괴 Schroth 선택배지와 New and Kerr 배지를 이용하여 78 균주의 colony를 특성에 따라 분리하였다. 이중에서 48 균주가 당근 disc에서 tumor를 형성하였으며 tumor를 형성한 균주중 형성시기가 빠르며 크기가 커 hypervirulent 균주로 생각되는 A. tumefaciens SP101을 biotype 1, 그리고 A. tumefaciens SM042를 biotype 2로 동정하였다. 토양중에서 선발한 A. tumefaciens SM042와 disarmed A. tumefaciens PC2760에 kanamycin 저항성 유전자를 함유하고 있는 binary vector pGA643을 도입하여 conjugant인 A. tumefaciens SM643과 A. tumefaciens PC643을 kanamycin과 tetracycline이 함유된 최소배지에서 획득하였다. 연초의 형질전환을 위해서 conjugant Agrobacterium과 연초조직을 동시배양 후 2,4-D와 kanamycin이 함유된 선발배지에 치상하여 형질전환을 유도한 결과 A. tumefaciens SM643이 A. tumefaciens PC643보다 더 많은 캘러스가 형성되었다. 그러나 A. tumefaciens PC643을 사용한 형질전환 캘러스는 대부분 friable한 캘러스로 유도되었으며 정상적으로 식물체로 생장하였으나 A. tumefaciens SM643을 사용한 캘러스는 매우 딱딱하며 둥그런 형태의 캘러스와 friable한 캘러스가 혼재한 상태로 생장하였으며, 이중에서 friable한 캘러스는 정상적인 shoot가 형성되었으나 딱딱한 캘러스로 유도된 형질전환체는 식물체로 형성되지 않고 반구형 미색의 전형적인 tumor 캘러스로 생장하였다. 한편 형질전환시 캘러스를 유도하지 않고 직접 shoot를 형성시킨 결과 disarmed Ti-plasmid를 사용하지 않고 wild-type Ti-plasmid를 사용해도 정상적인 형질전환체를 획득할 수 있었다.

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