Expression of the bovine growth hormone alters the root morphology in transgenic tobacco plants

Kyunghee Oh, Ban Yoon Cheon, Sung Hyun Cho, Hoang Quoc Truong, Sung Han Ok, Ji Ung Jeung, Jang Won Choi, Jeong Sheop Shin

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Abstract

The bovine growth hormone (bGH) is a natural peptide hormone that controls the differentiation, growth and metabolism, and is produced in the pituitary gland of cows. For the production of bGH from plants, two different bgh clones, of which the pGAbGH1 contaions only mature peptide sequences and the pGAbGH15 contains signal sequences and the first intron, as well as mature peptide sequences, were used. Those bghs under the control of the CaMV 35S promoter and NOS terminator were introduced to tobacco plants via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. By PCR analyses using bgh and nptII specific primers, 17 and 21 putative transformants were respectively selected from pGAbGH1- and pGAbGH15-transformed tobacco plants. Northern blot analysis showed that the most of the transgenic lines expressed the bgh mRNA. Western blot analysis revealed that the pGAbGH1-transformed tobaccos produced recombinant bGH, but pGAbGH15-transformed ones did not produce the protein. Interestingly, some morphological changes were observed in the roots of transgenic tobacco plants. The transgenic tobacco plants had thick and short roots containing few root hairs in contrast to the non-transformed wild type plants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)363-367
Number of pages5
JournalTransgenic Research
Volume12
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003 Jun

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The Bioproducts and Biotechnology Research Group of Korean Ministry of Science and Technology funded this research.

Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
  • Bovine growth hormone (bGH)
  • Phenotypic change
  • Transgenic tobacco

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Genetics

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