Summary
The vitopine Ti plasmid pTiS4 of Agrobacterium vitis has an unusual T-DNA organization. The pTiS4 oncogenes, localized by screening selected pTiS4 clones for growth-inducing activity, are localized on three T-DNAs, whereas in all other characterized Ti plasmids one or two T-DNAs are found. The nucleotide sequences and predicted amino acid sequences of the pTiS4 oncogenes set them apart from the corresponding genes from other Ti or Ri plasmids. The oncogenes induce the same type of reaction on various test plants as the well-known pTiAch5 oncogenes but the pTiS4 ipt gene induces considerably more shoots than its Ach5 homologue. We have also identified the gene coding for vitopine synthase as well as a vitopine synthase pseudogene. Both sequences show homology to the octopine synthase gene. In terms of both nucleotide sequence and overall organization, the pTiS4 T-DNAs appear to be only distantly related to previously characterized T-DNAs.
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Abbreviations
- Ap:
-
ampicillin
- IS:
-
insertion sequence
- iaaH :
-
indole acetamide hydrolase
- iaaM :
-
tryptophan monooxygenase
- ipt :
-
isopentenyl transferase
- Km:
-
kanamycin
- LB:
-
Luria broth
- m/a:
-
mannopine/agropine
- o/c:
-
octopine/cucumopine
- ocs :
-
octopine synthase
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Canaday, J., Gérard, JC., Crouzet, P. et al. Organization and functional analysis of three T-DNAs from the vitopine Ti plasmid pTiS4. Molec. Gen. Genet. 235, 292–303 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279373
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