Anthocyanins 在主食庄稼的 anthocyanin 生合成的高抗氧化剂活动,和工程例如米饭(Oryza sativa L.) ,能为改进人的健康提供支持健康的食物。然而,为 biofortification 设计新陈代谢的小径仍然保持困难,并且因为它的 biosynthetic 小径的复杂基因规章的网络,在米饭内乳设计 anthocyanin 生产的以前的尝试失败了。在这研究,我们为叠的 transgene 开发了一个高效率的向量系统并且使用了它在米饭内乳设计 anthocyanin 生合成。我们做了包含内乳特定的倡导者驾驶的八 anthocyanin 相关的基因(从从薄荷科植物的玉米和六结构的基因 ?的二规章的基因) 的构造,加为标记切除的一个可选的标记和基因。有这构造的米饭的转变产生了新奇 biofortified germplasm 紫色内乳瑞斯(用汉语的叫的 Zijingmi ) ,它在内乳有高 anthocyanin 内容和抗氧化剂活动。这 anthocyanin 生产源于 transgenes 和产生激活的表示(或改进) 13 内长的 anthocyanin 生合成基因的表示,那是 silenced 或在野类型的米饭内乳在底层表示。这研究为叠的 transgene 提供一个有效、万用的工具箱并且为一条复杂生物小径的成功的工程表明它的使用,建议为在工厂的农学的特点的合成生物学和改进的这个工具箱的潜在的用途。
Anthocyanins have high antioxidant activities, and engineering of anthocyanin biosynthesis in staple crops, such as rice (Oryza sativa L.), could provide health-promoting foods for improving human health. However, engineering metabolic pathways for biofortification remains difficult, and previous attempts to engineer anthocyanin production in rice endosperm failed because of the sophisticated genetic regulatory network of its biosynthetic pathway. In this study, we developed a high-efficiency vector system for transgene stacking and used it to engineer anthocyanin biosynthesis in rice endosperm. We made a construct containing eight anthocyanin-related genes (two regulatory genes from maize and six structural genes from Coleus) driven by the endosperm-specific promoters,plus a selectable marker and a gene for marker excision. Transformation of rice with this construct generated a novel biofortified germplasm "Purple Endosperm Rice" (called "Zijingmi" in Chinese), which has high anthocyanin contents and antioxidant activity in the endosperm. This anthocyanin production results from expression of the transgenes and the resulting activation (or enhancement) of expression of 13 endogenous anthocyanin biosynthesis genes that are silenced or expressed at low levels in wild-type rice endosperm. This study provides an efficient, versatile toolkit for transgene stacking and demonstrates its use for successful engineering of a sophisticated biological pathway, suggesting the potential utility of this toolkit for synthetic biology and improvement of agronomic traits in plants.