Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a marker during pollen development

Transgenic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 279-294

  Ottenschläger, Iris ^a,b   Barinova, Ioulia ^a   Voronin, Viktor ^a   Dahl, Marlis ^a   Heberle‐Bors, Erwin ^a   Touraev, Alisher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Max Delbruck Laboratorium der Max Planck Gesellschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antirrhinum; Arabidopsis; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); In vitro; Microspores; Particle bombardment; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MATURATION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN DEVELOPMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033177866     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008938728051     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Baulcombe DC, Chapman S and Santa Cruz S (1995) Jellyfish green fluorescent protein as a reporter for virus infections. Plant J 7: 1045-1053.
2. Brewbaker JL and Kwack BH (1963) The essential role of calcium ion in pollen germination and pollen tube growth. Am J Bot 50: 859-865.
3. Chalfie M, Tu Y, Euskirchen G, Ward WW and Prasher DC (1994) Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression. Science 263: 802-805.
4. Cheng L, Fu J, Tsukamoto A, Hawley RG (1996) Use of green fluorescent protein variants to monitor gene transfer and expression in mammalian cells. Nat Biotechnol 14: 606-610.
5. Chiu W-L, Niwa Y, Zeng W, Hirano T, Kobayashi H and Sheen J (1996) Engineered GFP as a vital reporter in plants. Curr Biol 6: 325-330.
6. Christensen AH and Quail PH (1996) Ubiquitin promoter-based vectors for high-level expression of selectable and/or screenable marker genes in monocotyledonous plants. Trans Res 5: 213-218.
7. Crameri A, Whitehorn E, Tate E and Stemmer W (1995) Improved green fluorescent protein by molecular evolution using DNA shuffling. Nat Biotechnol 14: 315-318.
8. Cubitt A, Heim R, Adams S, Boyd A, Gross L and Tsien R (1995) Understanding, improving and using green fluorescent proteins. Trends Biochem Sci 20: 448-455.
9. Davis, SJ and Viestra, RD (1998) Soluble, highly fluorescent variants of green fluorescent protein (GFP) for use in higher plants. Plant Mol Biol 36: 521-528.
10. Dumas C and Knox RB (1983) Callose and determination of pistil viability and incompatibility. Theor Appl Genet 67: 1-10.
11. Grebenok RJ, Pierson E, Lambert GM, Gong F, Afonso CL, Haldeman-Cahill R, Carrington JC and Galbraith DW (1997) Green-fluorescent protein fusions for efficient characterization of nuclear targeting. Plant J 11: 573-586.
12. Haseloff J and Amos B (1995) GFP in plants. Trends Genet 11: 328-329.
13. Haseloff J, Siemering KR, Prasher DC and Hodge S (1997) Removal of a cryptic intron and subcellular localization of green fluorescent protein are required to mark transgenic Arabidopsis plants brightly. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94: 2122-2127.
14. Heim R and Tsien Y (1995) Engineering green fluorescent protein for improved brightness, longer wavelengths and fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Curr Biol 6: 178-182.
15. Heim R, Prasher DC, Tsien RY (1994) Wavelength mutations and posttranslational autooxidation of green fluorescent protein. Biochemistry 91: 12501-12504.
16. Horsh RB, Fry JE, Hoffman NL, Eichholtz D, Rogers SG and Fraley RT (1985) A simple and general method for transferring genes to plants. Science 227: 1229-1231.
17. Hu W and Cheng CL (1995) Expression of Aequorca green fluorescent protein in plant cells. FEBS Lett 369: 331-334.
18. Jefferson R, Kavanagh T and Bevan M (1987) GUS fusions: B-glucuronidase activity as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants. EMBO J 6: 3901-3907.
19. Keller NL and Hamilton DA (1998) Transient expression of the green fluorescent protein in pollen. Sex Plant Reprod 11: 163-165.
20. Kohler R, Cao J, Zipfel W, Webb W and Hanson MR (1997a) Exchange of protein molecules through connections between higher plant plastids. Science 276: 2039-2042.
21. Kohler RH, Zipfel WR, Webb WW and Hanson MR (1997b) The green fluorescent protein as a marker to visualize plant mitochondria in vivo. Plant J 11: 613-621.
22. Leffel SM, Marbon SA and Neal CS Jr (1997) Applications of green fluorescent protein in plants. BioTechniques 23: 912-918.
23. Mascarenhas JP (1990) Gene activity during pollen development. Annu Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol 41: 317-338.
24. Murashige T and Skoog F (1962) A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue cultures. Physiol Plant 15: 473-497.
25. Oparka KJ, Roberts AG, SantaCruz S, Boevink P, Prior D and Smallcombe A (1997) Using GFP to study virus invasion and spread in plant tissues. Nature 388: 401-402.
26. Pang SZ, DeBoer DL, Wan Y, Guangning Y, Layton JG, Neher MK, Armstrong CL, Fry JE, Hinchee MAW and Fromm ME (1996) An improved green fluorescent protein gene as a vital marker in plants. Plant Physiol 112: 893-900.
27. Park S-H and Raines RT (1997) Green fluorescent protein as a signal for protein-protein interactions. Protein Science 6: 2344-2349.
28. Pines JN (1995) Using GFP in mammalian cells. Trends Genet 11: 326-327.
29. Prasher DC (1995) Using GFP to see the light. Trends Genet 11: 320-323.
30. Prasher DC, Eckenrode VK, Ward WW, Prendergast FG and Cormier MJ (1992) Primary structure of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein. Gene 111: 229-233.
31. Presley JF, Cole NB, Schroer TA, Hirschberg K, Zaal KJM and Lippincott-Schwartz J (1997) ER-to-Golgi transport visualized in living cells. Nature 389: 81-85.
32. Reichel C, Mathur J, Eckes P, Langenkemper K, Koncz C, Schell J, Reiss B and Maas Ch (1996) Enhanced green fluorescence by the expression of an Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein mutant in mono-and dicotyledonous plant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 5888-5893.
33. Roberts MR, Foster GD, Blundell RP, Robinson S, Kumar A, Draper J and Scott R (1993) Gametophytic and sporophytic expression of an anther-specific Arabidopsis thaliana gene. Plant J 3: 111-120.
34. Rouwendahl GJA, Mendes O, Wolbert EJH and de Boer DA (1997) Enhanced expression in tobacco of the gene encoding green fluorescent protein by modification of its codon usage. Plant Mol Biol 33: 989-999.
35. Sambrook J, Fritch EF and Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Press, 2nd edition, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
36. Sanford JC, Smith FD and Russell JA (1993) Optimizing the biolistic process for different biological applications. Methods Enzym 27: 483-509.
37. Seffens WS, Almoguera C, Wilde DH, Vonder Haar RA and Thomas TL (1990) Molecular analysis of a phylogenetically conserved carrot gene: developmental and environmental regulation. Dev Genet 11: 65-76.
38. Sheen J, Hwang S, Niwa Y, Kobayashi H and Galbraith DW (1995) Green fluorescent protein as a new vital marker in plant cells. Plant J 8: 777-784
39. Shivanna KR and Johri BM (1985) The Angiosperm Pollen: Structure and Function. Wiley Eastern Ltd, New Delhi.
40. Siemering K, Golbik R, Sever R and Haseloff J (1996) Mutations that suppress the thermosensitivity of green fluorescent protein. Curr Biol 6: 1653-1663.
41. Stauber RH, Horie K, Carney P, Hudson EA, Tarasova NI, Gaitanaris GA and Pavlakis GN (1998) Development and applications of enhanced green fluorescent protein mutants. Biotechniques 24: 462-471.
42. Stöger E, Benito Moreno R-M, Ylstra B, Vicente O and Heberle-Bors E (1992) Comparison of different techniques for gene transfer into mature and immature tobacco pollen. Trans Res 1: 71-78.
43. Takada T, Iida K, Awaji T, Itoh K, Takahashi R, Shibui A, Yoshida K, Sugano S and Tsujimoto G (1997) Selective production of transgenic mice using green fluorescent protein as a marker. Nal Biotechnol 15: 458-461.
44. Tian L, Sequin A and Charest PC (1997) Expression of the green fluorescent protein gene in conifer tissues. Plant Cell Rep 16: 267-266.
45. Touraev A, Fink CS, Stöger E and Heberle-Bors E (1995) Pollen selection: a transgenic reconstruction approach. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 12165-12169.
46. Touraev A, Stöger E, Voronin V and Heberle-Bors E (1997) Plant male germ line transformation. Plant J 12: 949-956.
47. Twell D (1994) The diversity and regulation of gene expression in the pathway of male gametophyte development. In: Scott RJ and Stead AD (eds) Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Plant Reproduction. Seminar Series 55, pp. 83-135. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
48. Twell D, Yamaguchi J and Mc Cormick S (1990) Pollen specific gene expression in transgenic plants: coordinate regulation of two different tomato gene promoters during microsporogenesis. Development 109: 705-713.
49. Vain P, Worland B, Kohli A, Snape JW and Christou P (1998) The green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a vital screenable marker in rice transformation. Theor Appl Genet 96: 164-169.
50. Wang J, Shi HZ, Zhou C, Yang HY, Zhang XL and Zhang RD (1998) beta-glucuronidase gene and green fluorescent protein gene expression in de-exined pollen of Nicotiana tabacum by microprojectile bombardment. Sex Plant Reprod 11: 159-162.
51. Wang S and Hazelrigg T (1994) Implications for bed mRNA localization from spatial distribution of exu protein in Drosophila oogenesis. Science 369: 400-403.
52. Yang TT, Cheng LZ and Kain SR (1996) Optimized codon usage and chromophore mutations provide enhanced sensitivity with the green fluorescent protein. Nucl Acids Res 24: 4592-4593.
53. Yeh K, Gustafson K and Boulianne G (1995) Green fluorescent protein as a vital marker and reporter of gene expression in Drosophila. Genetics 92: 7036-7040.