Comparison of the impact of viral and plant-derived promoters regulating selectable marker gene on maize transformation and transgene expression
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Comparison of the impact of viral and plant-derived promoters regulating selectable marker gene on maize transformation and transgene expression
Abstract
The choice of promoter regulating the selectable marker gene impacts transformation efficiency, copy number and the expression of selectable marker and flanking genes in maize. Viral or plant-derived constitutive promoters are often used to regulate selectable marker genes. We compared two viral promoters, cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV 35T) and sugarcane bacilliform virus (SCBV) with two plant promoters, rice actin1 (OsAct1) and maize ubiquitin 1 (ZmUbi1) to drive aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase (aad-1) selectable marker gene in maize inbred line B104. ZmUbi1- and OsAct1-containing constructs demonstrated higher transformation frequencies (43.8 and 41.4%, respectively) than the two viral promoter constructs, CaMV 35T (25%) and SCBV (8%). Interestingly, a higher percentage of single copy events were recovered for SCBV (82.1%) and CaMV 35T (59.3%) promoter constructs, compared to the two plant-derived promoters, OsAct1 (40.0%), and ZmUbi1 (27.6%). Analysis of protein expression suggested that the viral promoter CaMV 35T expressed significantly higher AAD-1 protein (174.6 ng/cm2) than the OsAct1 promoter (12.6 ng/cm2) in T0 leaf tissue. When measured in T2 callus tissue, the two viral promoters both had higher expression and more variability than the two plant-derived promoters. A potential explanation for why viral promoters produce lower transformation efficiencies but higher percentages of low copy number events is discussed. In addition, viral promoters regulating aad-1 were found to influence the expression of upstream flanking genes in both T0 leaf and T2 callus tissue.
Keywords: Aad-1 and yfp genes; Copy number; Gene expression; Maize; Promoter choice; Transformation efficiency.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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