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Expression of foreign DNA inChlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Source :
- FEMS Microbiology Letters. 65:77-81
- Publication Year :
- 1989
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1989.
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Abstract
- A chimeric octopine synthase-neomycin phosphotransferase (ocs-nptII) gene was used to transform Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to kanamycin resistance. Southern hybridization using DNA isolated from one transformant, T6. 1, indicated that the entire ocs-nptII gene and at least part of the plasmid were integrated into nuclear DNA. Neomycin phosphotransferase II activity has been detected in T6.1 cell extracts. Northern hybridizations, employing a radiolabeled ocs-nptII sequence, revealed a T6.1 transcript approximately the same size as a homologous transcript isolated from E. coli carrying the nptII gene. Although T6.1 is an extremely rare examiple of a stable C. reinhardtii transformant, its occurence nevertheless indicates that bacterial genes can be expressed in the nucleus of the alga.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15746968 and 03781097
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e16ed3c76f076ae666f3d13105036c56