Comparison between polyethylene glycol- and polyethylenimine-mediated transformation of Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Kuwano, Tetsuya ^a,b   Shirataki, Chikako ^a   Itoh, Yasuo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ca2+; Filamentous fungi; Polyethylene glycol; Polyethylenimine; Transformation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DNA; MACROGOL; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CALCIUM; DNA, FUNGAL; PLASMIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYMERS; PROTOPLASTS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 48749112392     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0204-z     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. Akinc A, Thomas M, Klibanov AM, Langer R (2005) Exploring polyethylenimine-mediated DNA transfection and the proton sponge hypothesis. J Gene Med 7:657-663
2. Anne J, Peberdy JF (1975) Conditions for induced fusion of fungal protoplasts in polyethylene glycol solutions. Arch Microbiol 105:201-205
3. Ballance DJ, Buxton FP, Turner G (1983) Transformation of Aspergillus nidulans by the orotidine-5′-phosphate decarboxylase gene of Neurospora crassa. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 112:284-289
4. Banerjee P, Weissleder R, Bogdanov A Jr (2006) Linear polyethyleneimine grafted to a hyperbranched poly(ethylene glycol)-like core: A copolymer for gene delivery. Bioconjug Chem 17:125-131
5. Berridge MJ, Bootman MD, Roderick HL (2003) Calcium signalling: dynamics, homeostasis and remodelling. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 4:517-529
6. Boussif O et al (1995) A versatile vector for gene and oligonucleotide transfer into cells in culture and in vivo: Polyethylenimine. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92:7297-7301
7. Bundock P, den Dulk-Ras A, Beijersbergen A, Hooykaas PJ (1995) Trans-kingdom T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Embo J 14:3206-3214
8. Burgers PM, Percival KJ (1987) Transformation of yeast spheroplasts without cell fusion. Anal Biochem 163:391-397
9. Case ME, Schweizer M, Kushner SR, Giles NH (1979) Efficient transformation of Neurospora crassa by utilizing hybrid plasmid DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76:5259-5263
10. Chakraborty BN, Kapoor M (1990) Transformation of filamentous fungi by electroporation. Nucleic Acids Res 18:6737
11. Dauty E, Verkman AS (2005) Actin cytoskeleton as the principal determinant of size-dependent DNA mobility in cytoplasm: A new barrier for non-viral gene delivery. J Biol Chem 280:7823-7828
12. de Groot MJ, Bundock P, Hooykaas PJ, Beijersbergen AG (1998) Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of filamentous fungi. Nat Biotechnol 16:839-842
13. de Vries J, Heine M, Harms K, Wackernagel W (2003) Spread of recombinant DNA by roots and pollen of transgenic potato plants, identified by highly specific biomonitoring using natural transformation of an Acinetobacter sp. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4455-4462
14. Dunlap DD, Maggi A, Soria MR, Monaco L (1997) Nanoscopic structure of DNA condensed for gene delivery. Nucleic Acids Res 25:3095-3101
15. Fiddy C, Trinci AP (1976) Mitosis, septation, branching and the duplication cycle in Aspergillus nidulans. J Gen Microbiol 97:169-184
16. Fincham JR (1989) Transformation in fungi. Microbiol Rev 53:148-170
17. Gems D, Johnstone IL, Clutterbuck AJ (1991) An autonomously replicating plasmid transforms Aspergillus nidulans at high frequency. Gene 98:61-67
18. Gietz RD, Schiestl RH, Willems AR, Woods RA (1995) Studies on the transformation of intact yeast cells by the LiAc/SS-DNA/PEG procedure. Yeast 11:355-360
19. Harashima S, Takagi A, Oshima Y (1984) Transformation of protoplasted yeast cells is directly associated with cell fusion. Mol Cell Biol 4:771-778
20. Hinnen A, Hicks JB, Fink GR (1978) Transformation of yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 75:1929-1933
21. Hoffmann B, Eckert SE, Krappmann S, Braus GH (2001) Sexual diploids of Aspergillus nidulans do not form by random fusion of nuclei in the heterokaryon. Genetics 157:141-147
22. Kafer E (1965) Origins of translocations in Aspergillus nidulans. Genetics 52:217-232
23. Kafer E, Scott BR, Dorn GL, Stafford R (1982) Aspergillus nidulans: systems and results of tests for chemical induction of mitotic segregation and mutation. I. Diploid and duplication assay systems. A report of the U.S. EPA Gene-Tox Program. Mutat Res 98:1-48
24. Kaminskyj SG, Hamer JE (1998) hyp loci control cell pattern formation in the vegetative mycelium of Aspergillus nidulans. Genetics 148:669-680
25. Kawai S et al (2004) Molecular insights on DNA delivery into Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 317:100-107
26. Khalil IA, Kogure K, Akita H, Harashima H (2006) Uptake pathways and subsequent intracellular trafficking in nonviral gene delivery. Pharmacol Rev 58:32-45
27. Koukaki M, Giannoutsou E, Karagouni A, Diallinas G (2003) A novel improved method for Aspergillus nidulans transformation. J Microbiol Methods 55:687-695
28. Kubodera T, Yamashita N, Nishimura A (2000) Pyrithiamine resistance gene (ptrA) of Aspergillus oryzae: Cloning, characterization and application as a dominant selectable marker for transformation. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 64:1416-1421
29. Kunath K et al (2003) Low-molecular-weight polyethylenimine as a non-viral vector for DNA delivery: Comparison of physicochemical properties, transfection efficiency and in vivo distribution with high-molecular-weight polyethylenimine. J Control Release 89:113-125
30. Lentz BR (1994) Polymer-induced membrane fusion: Potential mechanism and relation to cell fusion events. Chem Phys Lipids 73:91-106
31. Louie D, Serwer P (1994) Quantification of the effect of excluded volume on double-stranded DNA. J Mol Biol 242:547-558
32. May GS (1989) The highly divergent beta-tubulins of Aspergillus nidulans are functionally interchangeable. J Cell Biol 109:2267-2274
33. Mukherjee S, Mohan PM, Chary KV (2007) Magnesium promotes structural integrity and conformational switching action of a calcium sensor protein. Biochemistry 46:3835-3845
34. Natsume T, Egusa M, Kodama M, Johnson R, Itoh T, Itoh Y (2004) An appropriate increase in the transcription of Aspergillus nidulans uvsC improved gene targeting efficiency. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 68:1649-1656
35. Nelson G et al (2004) Calcium measurement in living filamentous fungi expressing codon-optimized aequorin. Mol Microbiol 52:1437-1450
36. Neu M, Fischer D, Kissel T (2005) Recent advances in rational gene transfer vector design based on poly(ethylene imine) and its derivatives. J Gene Med 7:992-1009
37. Neukamm B, Stahl U, Lang C (2002) Endocytosis is involved in DNA uptake in yeast. Biochim Biophys Acta 1572:67-76
38. Olmedo-Monfil V, Cortes-Penagos C, Herrera-Estrella A (2004) Three decades of fungal transformation: Key concepts and applications. Methods Mol Biol 267:297-314
39. Pontecorvo G, Roper JA, Hemmons LM, Macdonald KD, Bufton AWJ (1953) The genetics of Aspergillus nidulans. Adv Genet 5:141-238
40. Remy-Kristensen A, Clamme JP, Vuilleumier C, Kuhry JG, Mely Y (2001) Role of endocytosis in the transfection of L929 fibroblasts by polyethylenimine/DNA complexes. Biochim Biophys Acta 1514:21-32
41. Ruiz-Diez B (2002) Strategies for the transformation of filamentous fungi. J Appl Microbiol 92:189-195
42. Sambrook J, Russell DW (2001) Molecular cloning: A laboratory manual, 3rd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor
43. Saupe SJ, Glass NL (1997) Allelic specificity at the het-c heterokaryon incompatibility locus of Neurospora crassa is determined by a highly variable domain. Genetics 146:1299-1309
44. Shin JY et al (2005) Low molecular weight polyethylenimine for efficient transfection of human hematopoietic and umbilical cord blood-derived CD34+ cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1725:377-384
45. Sonawane ND, Szoka FC Jr, Verkman AS (2003) Chloride accumulation and swelling in endosomes enhances DNA transfer by polyamine-DNA polyplexes. J Biol Chem 278:44826-44831
46. van Solingen P, van der Plaat JB (1977) Fusion of yeast spheroplasts. J Bacteriol 130:946-947
47. Yelton MM, Hamer JE, Timberlake WE (1984) Transformation of Aspergillus nidulans by using a trpC plasmid. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 81:1470-1474