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Overexpression of the potential herbicide target sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase from Spinacia oleracea in transgenic tobacco

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Several proteins are recalcitrant to expression in Escherichiacoli. To explore transgenic plants as an alternative expressionsystem, the gene encoding the potential herbicide target sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase, EC 3.1.3.37) was expressed in transgenic tobacco(Nicotiana tabaccum) under the control of a duplicatedCaMV 35S RNA promoter. The active protein, a key enzyme in the Calvin cycle,accumulated to approximately 1.2% of total soluble protein. In order to purifyrecombinant SBPase, a sequence encoding six histidine residues was insertedC-terminally which allows a one step purification via Ni2+-NTAaffinity chromatography. N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of the purifiedprotein confirmed processing of the transit peptide and revealed the previouslyunknown cleavage site. The transit peptide consists of 67 amino acids followedby the mature SBPase subunit of 342 amino acids including the C-terminalfusion. Purified SBPase was found to be enzymatically active after reduction with DTTand showed many biochemical properties of the native enzyme such as thedependence on Mg2+ and a pH optimum of 8.3. Subsequently, SBPaseproduced in transgenic tobacco was used in large-scale screening for thediscovery of novel herbicides.

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    Anja Seuter, Marco Busch & Rüdiger Hain

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Seuter, A., Busch, M. & Hain, R. Overexpression of the potential herbicide target sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase from Spinacia oleracea in transgenic tobacco. Molecular Breeding 9, 53–61 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019297521424

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