Synthetic Promoter Screening Using Poplar Mesophyll Protoplast Transformation

Autor: Yongil Yang, Yuanhua Shao, Timothy Chaffin, Amir Ahkami, Eduardo Blumwald, C. Neal Stewart Jr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Bio-Protocol, Vol 13, Iss 8 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2331-8325
DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4660
Popis: Plant protoplasts are useful to study both transcriptional regulation and protein subcellular localization in rapid screens. Protoplast transformation can be used in automated platforms for design-build-test cycles of plant promoters, including synthetic promoters. A notable application of protoplasts comes from recent successes in dissecting synthetic promoter activity with poplar mesophyll protoplasts. For this purpose, we constructed plasmids with TurboGFP driven by a synthetic promoter together with TurboRFP constitutively controlled by a 35S promoter, to monitor transformation efficiency, allowing versatile screening of high numbers of cells by monitoring green fluorescent protein expression in transformed protoplasts. Herein, we introduce a protocol for poplar mesophyll protoplast isolation followed by protoplast transformation and image analysis for the selection of valuable synthetic promoters.Graphical overview
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