Transformation of an edible crop with the pagA gene of Bacillus anthracis

被引:24
作者
Aziz, MA
Sikriwal, D
Singh, S
Jarugula, S
Kumar, PA
Bhatnagar, R [1 ]
机构
[1] Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, Ctr Biotechnol, New Delhi 110067, India
[2] Indian Agr Res Inst, Natl Res Ctr Plant Biotechnol, New Delhi 110012, India
关键词
anthrax; protective antigen; chloroplast; biolistics; vaccine;
D O I
10.1096/fj.04-3215fje
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Vaccination against anthrax is the most important strategy to combat the disease. This study describes a generation of edible transgenic crop expressing, functional protective antigen (PA). In vitro studies showed that the plant-expressed antigen is qualitatively similar to recombinant PA. Immunization studies in mouse animal models indicated the generation of PA-specific neutralizing antibodies and stressed the need for improving expression levels to generate higher antibody titers. Genetic engineering of a plant organelle offers immense scope for increasing levels of antigen expression. An AT-rich PA gene (pagA) coding for the 83-kDa PA molecule was thus cloned and expressed in tobacco chloroplasts. Biolistics was used for the transformation of a chloroplast genome under a set of optimized conditions. The expression of the pagA gene with 69% AT content was highly favored by an AT-rich chloroplast genome. A multifold expression level of functional PA was obtained as compared with the nuclear transgenic tobacco plants. This report describes for the first time a comprehensive study on generating transgenic plants expressing PA, which may serve as a source of an edible vaccine against anthrax. Two important achievements of expressing PA in an edible crop and use of chloroplast technology to enhance the expression levels are discussed here.
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页数:24
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