Genetic engineering of plant secondary metabolism: Accumulation of 4-hydroxybenzoate glucosides as a result of the expression of the bacterial ubiC gene in tobacco

Plant Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 811-819

  Siebert, Marion ^a   Sommer, Susanne ^a   Li, Shu Ming ^a   Wang, Zhao Xin ^a   Severin, Klaus ^a   Heide, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0030265546     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.2.811     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Abad P, Marais A, Cardin L, Poupet A, Ponchet M (1988) The effect of benzoic acid derivatives on Nicotiana tabacum growth in relation to PR-b1 production. Antiviral Res 9: 315-327
2. Baulcombe DC, Saunders GR, Bevan MW, Mayo MA, Harrison BD (1986) Expression of biologically active viral satellite RNA from the nuclear genome of transformed plants. Nature 321: 446-449
3. Baumann G, Raschke E, Bevan M, Schöffl F (1987) Functional analysis of sequences required for transcriptional activation of a soybean heat shock gene in transgenic tobacco plants. EMBO J 6: 1161-1166
4. Bradford MM (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72: 248-254
5. Bullock WO, Fernandez JM, Short JM (1987) XL1Blue: a high efficiency plasmid transforming recA Escherichia coli strain with beta galactosidase selection. Biotechniques 5: 376-378
6. 2]shikimic acid. J Labelled Compd Radiopharm 31: 589-594
7. Cooper-Driver G, Comer-Zamodits JJ, Swain T (1972) The metabolic fate of hydroxybenzoic acids in plants. Z Naturforsch 27c: 943-946
8. Cvrikova M, Nedelnik J, Eder J, Binarova P (1993) Changes in pattern of phenolic acids induced by culture filtrate of Fusarium oxysporum in alfalfa plants differing in susceptibility to the pathogen. J Plant Physiol 142: 1-5
9. Dellaporta SL, Wool J, Hicks J B (1983) A plant DNA minipreparation: version II. Plant Mol Rep 1: 19-21
10. Fecker L, Rügenhagen C, Berlin J (1993) Increased production of cadaverine and anabasine in hairy root cultures of Nicotiana tabacum expressing a bacterial lysine decarboxylase gene. Plant Mol Biol 23: 11-21
11. Hain R, Reif HJ, Krause E, Langebartels R, Kindl H, Vornam B, Wiese W, Schmelzer E, Schreier P, Stöcker R, Stenzel K (1993) Disease resistance results from foreign phytoalexin expression in a novel plant. Nature 361: 153-156
12. Heide L, Floss HG, Tabata M (1989) Incorporation of shikimic acid into p-hydroxybenzoic acid in Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell cultures. Phytochemistry 28: 2643-2645
13. Heide L, Tabata M (1987) Geranylpyrophosphate:p-hydroxybenzoate geranyltransferase activity in extracts of Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell cultures. Phytochemistry 26: 1651-1655
14. Hoekema A, Hirsch PR, Hooykaas PJJ, Schilperoort RA (1983) A binary plant vector strategy based on separation of vir- and T-region of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid. Nature 303: 179-180
15. Höfgen R, Willmitzer L (1988) Storage of competent cells for Agrobacterium transformation. Nucleic Acids Res 16: 9877
16. Horsch RB, Fry JE, Hoffmann NL, Eichholtz D, Rogers SG, Fraley RT (1985) A simple and general method for transferring genes into plants. Science 227: 1229-1231
17. Hrazdina G, Jensen RA (1992) Spatial organization of enzymes in plant metabolic pathways. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 43: 241-267
18. Klick S, Herrmann K (1988) Glucosides and glucose esters of hydroxybenzoic acids in plants. Phytochemistry 27: 2177-2180
19. Lawrence J, Cox GB, Gibson F (1974) Biosynthesis of ubiquinone in Escherichia coli K-12: biochemical and genetic characterization of a mutant unable to convert chorismate into 4-hydroxybenzoate. J Bacteriol 118: 41-45
20. Logemann J, Schell J, Willmitzer L (1987) Improved method for the isolation of RNA from plant tissues. Anal Biochem 163: 16-20
21. Löscher R, Heide L (1994) Biosynthesis of p-hydroxybenzoate from p-coumarate and p-coumaroyl coenzyme A in cell-free extracts of Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell cultures. Plant Physiol 106: 271-279
22. Murashige T, Skoog F (1962) A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures. Physiol. Plant 15: 473-497
23. Nichols BP, Green JM (1992) Cloning and sequencing of Escherichia coli ubiC and purification of chorismate pyruvate-lyase. J Bacteriol 174: 7352-7359
24. Pennock JF, Threlfall DR (1983) Biosynthesis of ubiquinone and related compounds. In J Porter, SL Spurgeon, eds, Biosynthesis of Isoprenoid Compunds, Vol 2. Wiley, New York, pp 191-203
25. Pichersky E, Bernatzky R, Tanksley SD, Cashmore AR (1986) Evidence for selection as a mechanism in the concerted evolution of Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) genes encoding the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83: 3880-3884
26. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual, Ed 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
27. Schnitzler J-P, Madlung J, Rose A, Seitz HU (1992) Biosynthesis of p-hydroxybenzoic acid in elicitor-treated carrot cell cultures. Planta 188: 594-600
28. Siebert M, Bechthold A, Melzer M, May U, Berger U, Schröder G, Schröder J, Severin K, Heide L (1992) Ubiquinone biosynthesis. Cloning of the genes coding for chorismate pyruvate-lyase and 4-hydroxybenzoate octaprenyl transferase from Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett 307: 347-350
29. Siebert M, Severin K, Heide L (1994) Formation of 4-hydroxybenzoate in Escherichia coli: characterization of the ubiC gene and its encoded enzyme chorismate pyruvate-lyase. Microbiology 140: 897-904
30. Sommer S, Severin K, Camara B, Heide L (1995) Intracellular localization of geranylpyrophosphate synthase from cell cultures of Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Phytochemistry 38: 623-627
31. Sugita M, Manzara T, Pichersky E, Cashmore A, Gruissem W (1987) Genomic organization, sequence analysis and expression of all five genes encoding the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from tomato. Mol Gen Genet 209: 247-256
32. Tabata M, Fujita Y (1985) Production of shikonin by plant cell cultures. In P Day, M Zaitlin, A Hollaender, eds, Biotechnology in Plant Science. Academic Press, Orlando, FL, pp 207-218
33. Tabata M, Umetani Y, Ooya M, Tanaka S (1988) Glucosylation of phenolic compounds by plant cell cultures. Phytochemistry 27: 809-813
34. Vanish-Perron C, Vieira J, Messing J (1985) Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13 mp18 and pUC19 vectors. Gene 33: 103-119
35. Yazaki K, Fukui H, Tabata M (1986) Accumulation of p-O-β-D-glucosyl-benzoic acid and its relation to shikonin biosynthesis in Lithospermum cell cultures. Phytochemistry 25: 1629-1632
36. Young IG, Langman L, Luke RK, Gibson F (1971) Biosynthesis of the iron-transport compound enterochelin: mutants of Escherichia coli unable to synthesize 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate. J Bacteriol 106: 51-57
37. Yun DJ, Hashimoto T, Yamada Y (1992) Metabolic engineering of medicinal plants. Transgenic Atropa belladonna with an improved alkaloid composition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89: 11799-11803