Mobility assays confirm the broad host-range activity of the Minos transposable element and validate new transformation tools

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 269-275

  Klinakis, A G ^b   Loukeris, T G ^a,d   Pavlopoulos, A ^b   Savakis, C ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect transgenesis; Minos; Transformation vector; Transposable element; Transposition assay

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; GENE INSERTION; MINOS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESISTANCE GENE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SPODOPTERA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELANOGASTER; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 0034210681     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00183.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Arca, B., Zabalou, S., Loukeris, T.G. and Savakis, C. (1997) Mobilization of a Minos transposon in Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes and chromatid repair by heteroduplex formation. Genetics 145: 267-279.
2. Ausubel, M.F., Brent, R., Kingston, E.R., Moore, D.D., Seidman, G.J., Smith, A.J. and Struhl, K. (1999) Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
3. Coates, C.J., Jasinskiene, N., Miyashiro, L. and James, A.A. (1998) Mariner transposition and transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 3748-3751.
4. Coates, C.J., Turney, C.L., Frommer, M., O'Brochta, D.A. and Atkinson, P.W. (1997) Interplasmid transposition of the mariner transposable element in non-drosophilid insects. Mol Gen Genet 253: 728-733.
5. Coates, C.J., Turney, C.L., Frommer, M., O'Brochta, D.A., Warren, W.D. and Atkinson, P.W. (1995) The transposable element mariner can excise in non-drosophilid insects. Mol Gen Genet 249: 246-252.
6. Fadool, J.M., Hartl, D.L. and Dowling, J.E. (1998) Transposition of the mariner element from Drosophila mauritiana in zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 5182-5186.
7. Franz, G., Loukeris, T.G., Dialektaki, G., Thompson, C.R.L. and Savakis, C. (1994) Mobile Minos elements from Drosophila hydei encode a two-exon transposase with similarity to the paired DNA-binding domain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91: 4746-4750.
8. Franz, G. and Savakis, C. (1991) Minos, a new transposable element from Drosophila hydei, is a member of the Tc1-like family of transposons. Nucleic Acids Res 19: 6646.
9. Gay, P., Le Coq, D., Steinmetz, M., Berkelman, T. and Kado, C.I. (1985) Positive Selection Procedure for Entrapment of Insertion Sequence Elements in Gram-Negative Bacteria. J Bacteriol 164: 918-921.
10. Gibson, T.J., Rosenthal, A. and Waterston, R.H. (1987) Lorist6, a cosmid vector with BamHl, Notl, Scal and Hindlll cloning sites and altered neomycin phosphotransferase gene expression. Gene 53: 283-286.
11. Gueiros-Filho, J.F. and Beverley, M.S. (1997) Trans-kingdom transposition of the Drosophila element mariner within the Protozoan, Leishmania. Science 276: 1716-1719.
12. Handler, A.M. and Harrell, R.A. (1999) Germline transformation of Drosophila melanogaster with the piggyBac transposon vector. Insect Mol Biol 8: 449-458.
13. Handler, A.M., McCombs, S.D., Fraser, M.J. and Saul, S.H. (1998) The lepidopteran transposon vector, piggyBac, mediates germ-line transformation in the Mediterranean fruit fly. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 7520-7525.
14. Jasinskiene, N., Coates, C.J., Benedict, M.Q., Cornel, A.J., Rafferty, C.S., James, A.A. and Collins, F.H. (1998) Stable transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, with the Hermes element from the housefly. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 3743-3747.
15. Ketting, R.F., Fisher, S.E.J. and Plasterk, R.H. (1997) Target site choice determinants of the Tc1 transposon of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Res 25: 4041-4047.
16. Korswagen, H.C., Durbin, R.M., Smits, M.T. and Plasterk, R.H. (1996) Transposon Tc1-derived, sequence-tagged sites in Caenorhabditis elegans as markers for gene mapping. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 14680-14685.
17. Lampe, D.J., Churchill, M.E. and Robertson, H.M. (1996) A purified mariner transposase is sufficient to mediate transposition in vitro. EMBO J 19: 5470-5479.
18. Lampe, D.J., Grant, T.E. and Robertson, H.M. (1998) Factors affecting the transposition of the Himar1 mariner transposon in vitro. Genetics 149: 179-187.
19. Lidholm, D.A., Lohe, A.R. and Hartl, D.L. (1993) The transposable element mariner mediates germline transformation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 134: 859-868.
20. Lobo, N., Li, X. and Fraser, M.J. Jr (1999) Transposition of the piggyBac element in embryos of Drosophila melanogaster, Aedes aegypti and Trichoplusia ni. Mol Gen Genet 261: 803-810.
21. Lohe, A.R. and Hartl, D.L. (1996) Germline transformation of Drosophila virilis with the transposable element mariner. Genetics 143: 365-374.
22. Loukeris, T.G., Arca, B., Livadaras, I., Dialektaki, G. and Savakis, C. (1995a) Introduction of the transposable element Minos into the germ line of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 9485-9489.
23. Loukeris, T.G., Livadaras, I., Arca, B., Zabalou, S. and Savakis, C. (1995b) Gene transfer into the Medfly, Ceratitis capitata, with a Drosophila hydei transposable element. Science 270: 2002-2005.
24. Loukeris, T.G. (1996) Use of the Minos transposable element from Drosophila hydei as a gene transfer vector for Diptera. PhD Thesis. University of Crete, Greece.
25. Lozovskaya, E.R., Nurminsky, D.I., Hartl, D.L. and Sullivan, D.T. (1996) Germline Transformation of Drosophila virilis Mediated by the Transposable Element hobo. Genetics 142: 173-177.
26. Lycett, G.J. and Crampton, J.M. (1993) Stable transformation of mosquito cell lines using a hsp70:: neo fusion gene. Gene 136: 129-136.
27. O'Brochta, D.A., Warren, W.D., Saville, K.J. and Atkinson, P.W. (1996) Hermes a functional non-Drosophilid insect gene vector from Musca domestica. Genetics 142: 907-914.
28. O'Brochta, D.A., Warren, W.D., Saville, K.J. and Atkinson, P.W. (1994) Interplasmid transposition of Drosophila hobo elements in non-drosophilid insects. Mol Gen Genet 244: 9-14.
29. Pinkerton, A.C., O'Brochta, D.A. and Atkinson, P.W. (1996) Mobility of hAT transposable elements in the Old World bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. Insect Mol Biol 5: 223-227.
30. Raz, E., van Luenen, H.G., Snhaerringer, B., Plasterk, R.H. and Driever, W. (1998) Transposition of the nemetode Caenorabditis elegens Tc3 element in the zebrafish Danio Rerio. Curr Biol 8: 82-88.
31. Rio, D.C., Laski, F. and Rubin, G.M. (1986) Identification and immunochemical analysis of biochemically active Drosophila P element transposase. Cell 44: 21-32.
32. Rubin, G.M. and Spradling, A.C. (1982) Genetic transformation of Drosophila with transposable element vectors. Science 218: 348-353.
33. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F. and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
34. Sarkar, A., Coates, C.J., Whyard, S., Willhoeft, U., Atkinson, P.W. and O'Brochta, D.A. (1997a) The Hermes element from Musca domestica can transpose in four families of cyclorrhaphan flies. Genetica 99: 15-29.
35. Sarkar, A., Yardley, K., Atkinson, P.W., James, A.A. and O'Brochta, D.A. (1997b) Transposition of the Hermes element in embryos of the vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 27: 359-363.
36. Schneider, I. (1972) Cell lines derived from late embryonic stages of Drosophila melanogaster. J Embryol Exp Morphol 27: 353-365.
37. Schouten, G.J., van Luenen, H.G., Verra, N.C., Valerio, D. and Plasterk, R.H. (1998) Transposon Tc1 of the nematode Caenorabditis elegans jumps in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res 26: 3013-3017.
38. Shimizu, K., Kamba, M., Sonobe, H., Kanda, T., Klinakis, A.G., Savakis, C. and Tamura, T. (2000) Extrachromosomal transposition of the transposable element Minos occurs in embryos of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Insect Mol Biol 9: 277-281.
39. Steinmetz, M., Le Coq, D., Aymerich, S., Gonzy-Treboul, G. and Gay, P. (1985) The DNA sequence of the gene for the secreted Bacillus subtilis enzyme levansucrase and its genetic control sites. Mol Gen Genet 200: 220-228.
40. Thibault, S.T., Luu, H.T., Vann, N. and Miller, T.A. (1999) Precise excision and transposition of piggyBac in pink bollworm embryos. Insect Mol Biol 8: 119-123.
41. Van Luenen, H.G. and Plasterk, R.H. (1994) Target site choice of the related transposable elements Tc1 and Tc3 of. Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Res 22: 262-269.
42. Varma, M.G. and Pudney, M. (1969) Mosquito cell culture. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 63: 429.
43. Vos, J.C., Baere, I. and Plasterk, R.H. (1996) Transposase is the only nematode protein required for in vitro transposition of Tci. Genes Dev 10: 755-761.
44. Zhang, L., Sankar, U., Lampe, D., Robertson, H.M. and Graham, F.L. (1998) The Himar mariner transposase cloned in a recombinant adenovirus vector is functional in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res 26: 3687-3693.