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It has been shown previously that the rolC gene from Agrobacterium tumefaciens gene was stably and highly expressed in 15-year-old Panax ginseng transgenic cell cultures. In the present report, we analyze in detail the nucleotide composition of the rolC and nptII (neomycin phosphotransferase) genes, which is the selective marker used for transgenic cell cultures of P. ginseng. It has been established that the nucleotide sequences of the rolC and nptII genes underwent mutagenesis during cultivation. Particularly, 1–4 nucleotide substitutions were found per sequence in the 540 and 798 bp segments of the complete rolC and nptII genes, respectively. Approximately half of these nucleotide substitutions caused changes in the structure of the predicted gene product. In addition, we attempted to determine the rate of accumulation of these changes by comparison of DNA extracted from P. ginseng cell cultures from 1995 to 2007. It was observed that the frequency of nucleotide substitutions for the rolC and nptII genes in 1995 was 1.21 ± 0.02 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed, while in 2007, the nucleotide substitutions significantly increased (1.37 ± 0.07 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed). Analyzing the nucleotide substitutions, we found that substitution to G or to C nucleotides significantly increased (in 1.9 times) in the rolC and nptII genes compared with P. ginseng actin gene. Finally, the level of nucleotide substitutions in the rolC gene was 1.1-fold higher when compared with the nptII gene. Thus, for the first time, we have experimentally demonstrated the level of nucleotide substitutions in transferred genes in transgenic plant cell cultures.
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This work was supported by grants from the President of Russia (MK-714.2008.4), the Far East Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and of the Russian Science Support Foundation.
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Kiselev, K.V., Turlenko, A.V., Tchernoded, G.K. et al. Nucleotide substitutions in rolC and nptII gene sequences during long-term cultivation of Panax ginseng cell cultures. Plant Cell Rep 28, 1273–1278 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-009-0728-9
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