TY - JOUR
T1 - High-level accumulation of recombinant miraculin protein in transgenic tomatoes expressing a synthetic miraculin gene with optimized codon usage terminated by the native miraculin terminator
AU - Hiwasa-Tanase, Kyoko
AU - Nyarubona, Mpanja
AU - Hirai, Tadayoshi
AU - Kato, Kazuhisa
AU - Ichikawa, Takanari
AU - Ezura, Hiroshi
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We thank members of the Ezura laboratory for helpful discussions. We thank Sun HJ, Uchi S and Yano M for cloning of the miraculin terminator region. This study was supported by the project ‘‘Development of Fundamental Technologies for the Production of High-value Materials Using Transgenic Plants,’’ by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan to H.E. Micro-Tom seeds (TOMJPF00001) were provided by the Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, through the National BioResource Project (NBRP) of the MEXT, Japan.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - In our previous study, a transgenic tomato line that expressed the MIR gene under control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter and the nopaline synthase terminator (tNOS) produced the taste-modifying protein miraculin (MIR). However, the concentration of MIR in the tomatoes was lower than that in the MIR gene's native miracle fruit. To increase MIR production, the native MIR terminator (tMIR) was used and a synthetic gene encoding MIR protein (sMIR) was designed to optimize its codon usage for tomato. Four different combinations of these genes and terminators (MIR-tNOS, MIR-tMIR, sMIR-tNOS and sMIR-tMIR) were constructed and used for transformation. The average MIR concentrations in MIR-tNOS, MIR-tMIR, sMIR-tNOS and sMIR-tMIR fruits were 131, 197, 128 and 287 μg/g fresh weight, respectively. The MIR concentrations using tMIR were higher than those using tNOS. The highest MIR accumulation was detected in sMIR-tMIR fruits. On the other hand, the MIR concentration was largely unaffected by sMIR-tNOS. The expression levels of both MIR and sMIR mRNAs terminated by tMIR tended to be higher than those terminated by tNOS. Read-through mRNA transcripts terminated by tNOS were much longer than those terminated by tMIR. These results suggest that tMIR enhances mRNA expression and permits the multiplier effect of optimized codon usage.
AB - In our previous study, a transgenic tomato line that expressed the MIR gene under control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter and the nopaline synthase terminator (tNOS) produced the taste-modifying protein miraculin (MIR). However, the concentration of MIR in the tomatoes was lower than that in the MIR gene's native miracle fruit. To increase MIR production, the native MIR terminator (tMIR) was used and a synthetic gene encoding MIR protein (sMIR) was designed to optimize its codon usage for tomato. Four different combinations of these genes and terminators (MIR-tNOS, MIR-tMIR, sMIR-tNOS and sMIR-tMIR) were constructed and used for transformation. The average MIR concentrations in MIR-tNOS, MIR-tMIR, sMIR-tNOS and sMIR-tMIR fruits were 131, 197, 128 and 287 μg/g fresh weight, respectively. The MIR concentrations using tMIR were higher than those using tNOS. The highest MIR accumulation was detected in sMIR-tMIR fruits. On the other hand, the MIR concentration was largely unaffected by sMIR-tNOS. The expression levels of both MIR and sMIR mRNAs terminated by tMIR tended to be higher than those terminated by tNOS. Read-through mRNA transcripts terminated by tNOS were much longer than those terminated by tMIR. These results suggest that tMIR enhances mRNA expression and permits the multiplier effect of optimized codon usage.
KW - Codon optimization
KW - Miraculin
KW - Miraculin terminator
KW - Read-through
KW - Transgenic tomato
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U2 - 10.1007/s00299-010-0949-y
DO - 10.1007/s00299-010-0949-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 21076835
AN - SCOPUS:78650754837
VL - 30
SP - 113
EP - 124
JO - Plant Cell Reports
JF - Plant Cell Reports
SN - 0721-7714
IS - 1
ER -