Characterising standard genetic parts and establishing common principles for engineering legume and cereal roots

Feike, Doreen, Korolev, Andrey, Soumpourou, Eleni, Murakami, Eiichi, Reid, Dugald, Breakspear, Andy, Rogers, Christian, Radutoiu, Simona, Stougaard, Jens, Harwood, Wendy, Oldroyd (JIC), Giles and Miller, J. Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0882-033X (2019) Characterising standard genetic parts and establishing common principles for engineering legume and cereal roots. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 17 (12). pp. 2234-2245. ISSN 1467-7644

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Abstract

Plant synthetic biology and cereal engineering depends on the controlled expression of transgenes of interest. Most engineering in plant species to date has relied heavily on the use of a few, well-established constitutive promoters to achieve high levels of expression; however, the levels of transgene expression can also be influenced by the use of codon optimisation, intron-mediated enhancement and varying terminator sequences. Most of these alternative approaches for regulating transgene expression have only been tested in small-scale experiments, typically testing a single gene of interest. It is therefore difficult to interpret the relative importance of these approaches and to design engineering strategies that are likely to succeed in different plant species, particularly if engineering multi-genic traits where the expression of each transgene needs to be precisely regulated. Here we present data on the characterisation of 46 promoters and 10 terminators in Medicago truncatula, Lotus japonicus, Nicotiana benthamiana and Hordeum vulgare, as well as the effects of codon optimisation and intron-mediated enhancement on the expression of two transgenes in H. vulgare. We have identified a core set of promoters and terminators of relevance to researchers engineering novel traits in plant roots. In addition, we have shown that combining codon optimisation and intron-mediated enhancement increases transgene expression and protein levels in barley. Based on our study, we recommend a core set of promoters and terminators for broad use, and also propose a general set of principles and guidelines for those engineering cereal species.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 May 2019 13:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 22:37
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71097
DOI:	10.1111/pbi.13135

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