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Regul Toxicol Pharmacol ; 54(2): 143-53, 2009 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19303906

ABSTRACT

Glyphosate tolerance can be conferred by decreasing the herbicide's ability to inhibit the enzyme 5-enol pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase, which is essential for the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids in all plants, fungi, and bacteria. Glyphosate tolerance is based upon the expression of the double mutant 5-enol pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (2mEPSPS) protein. The 2mEPSPS protein, with a lower binding affinity for glyphosate, is highly resistant to the inhibition by glyphosate and thus allows sufficient enzyme activity for the plants to grow in the presence of herbicides that contain glyphosate. Based on both a review of published literature and experimental studies, the potential safety concerns related to the transgenic 2mEPSPS protein were assessed. The safety evaluation supports that the expressed protein is innocuous. The 2mEPSPS enzyme does not possess any of the properties associated with known toxins or allergens, including a lack of amino acid sequence similarity to known toxins and allergens, a rapid degradation in simulated gastric and intestinal fluids, and no adverse effects in mice after intravenous or oral administration (at 10 or 2000 mg/kg body weight, respectively). In conclusion, there is a reasonable certainty of no harm resulting from the inclusion of the 2mEPSPS protein in human food or in animal feed.


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3-Phosphoshikimate 1-Carboxyvinyltransferase/toxicity , Consumer Product Safety , Food, Genetically Modified/toxicity , Glycine/analogs & derivatives , Herbicides/toxicity , Mutation , Plants, Genetically Modified , Zea mays/genetics , 3-Phosphoshikimate 1-Carboxyvinyltransferase/genetics , 3-Phosphoshikimate 1-Carboxyvinyltransferase/metabolism , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Escherichia coli/enzymology , Escherichia coli/genetics , Female , Glycine/toxicity , Humans , Mice , Molecular Sequence Data , Protein Stability , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Recombinant Proteins/toxicity , Sequence Homology, Amino Acid , Toxicity Tests, Acute , Zea mays/drug effects , Zea mays/enzymology , Glyphosate
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Plant Biotechnol J ; 5(1): 118-33, 2007 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17207262

ABSTRACT

Plant 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) is part of the biosynthetic pathway leading to plastoquinone and vitamin E. This enzyme is also the molecular target of various new bleaching herbicides for which genetically engineered tolerant crops are being developed. We have expressed a sensitive bacterial hppd gene from Pseudomonas fluorescens in plastid transformants of tobacco and soybean and characterized in detail the recombinant lines. HPPD accumulates to approximately 5% of total soluble protein in transgenic chloroplasts of both species. As a result, the soybean and tobacco plastid transformants acquire a strong herbicide tolerance, performing better than nuclear transformants. In contrast, the over-expression of HPPD has no significant impact on the vitamin E content of leaves or seeds, quantitatively or qualitatively. A new strategy is presented and exemplified in tobacco which allows the rapid generation of antibiotic marker-free plastid transformants containing the herbicide tolerance gene only. This work reports, for the first time, the plastome engineering for herbicide tolerance in a major agronomic crop, and a technology leading to marker-free lines for this trait.


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4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase/genetics , Glycine max/genetics , Herbicides/toxicity , Nicotiana/genetics , Plastids/genetics , Pseudomonas fluorescens/genetics , 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase/metabolism , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Drug Tolerance/genetics , Pseudomonas fluorescens/enzymology , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Nicotiana/drug effects
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Plant Mol Biol ; 55(4): 479-89, 2004 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15604694

ABSTRACT

We describe here the development of a plastid transformation method for soybean, a leguminous plant of major agronomic interest. Chloroplasts from embryogenic tissue of Glycine max have been successfully transformed by bombardment. The transforming DNA carries a spectinomycin resistance gene (aadA) under the control of tobacco plastid regulatory expression elements, flanked by two adjacent soybean plastome sequences allowing its targeted insertion between the trnV gene and the rps12/7 operon. All generated spectinomycin resistant plants were transplastomic and no remaining wild type plastome copies were detected. No spontaneous mutants were obtained. The transformation efficiency is similar to that of tobacco plastids. All transplastomic T0 plants were fertile and T1 progeny was uniformly spectinomycin resistant, showing the stability of the plastid transgene. This is the first report on the generation of fertile transplastomic soybean.


Subject(s)
Glycine max/genetics , Plastids/genetics , Drug Resistance/genetics , Fertility/genetics , Genetic Vectors/chemistry , Genetic Vectors/genetics , Molecular Sequence Data , Plants, Genetically Modified , Plasmids/chemistry , Plasmids/genetics , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Glycine max/drug effects , Glycine max/embryology , Spectinomycin/pharmacology , Tissue Culture Techniques , Transformation, Genetic , Transgenes/genetics
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