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10406127

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-8-2
pubmed:abstractText
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has emerged as a powerful new tool in a variety of organisms. An engineered sGFP(S65T) sequence containing optimized codons of highly expressed eukaryotic proteins has provided up to 100-fold brighter fluorescence signals than the original jellyfish GFP sequence in plant and mammalian cells. It would be useful to establish a non-invasive, quantitative detection system which is optimized for S65T-type GFP, one of the brightest chromophore mutants among the various GFPs. We demonstrate here that highly fluorescent transgenic Arabidopsis can be generated, and the fluorescence intensity of whole plants can be measured under non-disruptive, sterile conditions using a quantitative fluorescent imaging system with blue laser excitation. Homozygous plants can be distinguished from heterozygous plants and fully fertile progenies can be obtained from the analyzed plants. In the case of cultured tobacco cells, GFP-positive cells can be quantitatively distinguished from non-transformed cells under non-selective conditions. This system will be useful in applications such as mutant screening, analysis of whole-body phenomena, including gene silencing and quantitative assessments of colonies from microorganisms to cultured eukaryotic cells. To facilitate the elucidation of protein targeting and organelle biogenesis in planta, we also generated transgenic Arabidopsis that stably express the plastid- or mitochondria-targeted sGFP(S65T). Etioplasts in dark-grown cotyledons and mitochondria in dry seed embryos could be visualized for the first time in transgenic Arabidopsis plants under normal growing conditions.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0960-7412
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
455-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Non-invasive quantitative detection and applications of non-toxic, S65T-type green fluorescent protein in living plants.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan. niwa@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't