Focused and nontargeted approaches were used to assess the impact associated with introduction of new high-flux pathways in
Arabidopsis thaliana
by genetic engineering. Transgenic
A. thaliana
plants expressing the entire biosynthetic pathway for the tyrosine-derived cyanogenic glucoside dhurrin as accomplished by insertion of
CYP79A1
,
CYP71E1
, and
UGT85B1
from
Sorghum bicolor
were shown to accumulate 4% dry-weight dhurrin with marginal inadvertent effects on plant morphology, free amino acid pools, transcriptome, and metabolome. In a similar manner, plants expressing only
CYP79A1
accumulated 3% dry weight of the tyrosine-derived glucosinolate,
p
-hydroxybenzylglucosinolate with no morphological pleitropic effects. In contrast, insertion of
CYP79A1
plus
CYP71E1
resulted in stunted plants, transcriptome alterations, accumulation of numerous glucosides derived from detoxification of intermediates in the dhurrin pathway, and in loss of the brassicaceae-specific UV protectants sinapoyl glucose and sinapoyl malate and kaempferol glucosides. The accumulation of glucosides in the plants expressing CYP79A1 and CYP71E1 was not accompanied by induction of glycosyltransferases, demonstrating that plants are constantly prepared to detoxify xenobiotics. The pleiotrophic effects observed in plants expressing sorghum CYP79A1 and CYP71E1 were complemented by retransformation with
S. bicolor UGT85B
. These results demonstrate that insertion of high-flux pathways directing synthesis and intracellular storage of high amounts of a cyanogenic glucoside or a glucosinolate is achievable in transgenic
A. thaliana
plants with marginal inadvertent effects on the transcriptome and metabolome.
采用有针对性和非有针对性的方法,评估了通过
基因工程引入新的高通量途径对拟南芥的影响。表达了源自高粱的整个
酪氨酸衍生的
氰甙dhurrin的
生物合成途径,包括插入了CYP79A1、CYP71E1和UGT85B1,的转
基因拟南芥植物被证明可以积累4%的dhurrin干重,对植物形态、游离
氨基酸池、转录组和代谢组的不良影响微乎其微。同样,只表达CYP79A1的植物可以积累3%的
酪氨酸衍生的糖苷,即p-羟基
苯甲醇糖苷,没有形态多向性影响。相比之下,插入CYP79A1和CYP71E1会导致矮化的植物、转录组改变、积累许多源自dhurrin途径中间产物解毒的糖苷,以及失去十字花科特有的紫外线保护剂芥子酰
葡萄糖和芥子酰
苹果酸和卡培
菲糖苷。表达CYP79A1和CYP71E1的植物中糖苷的积累并未伴随着糖基转移酶的诱导,表明植物始终准备解毒外源物质。通过重新转化S.bicolor UGT85B,可以补充表达高粱CYP79A1和CYP71E1的植物中观察到的多向性效应。这些结果表明,在转
基因拟南芥植物中插入定向合成和细胞内储存大量
氰甙或糖苷的高通量途径是可行的,对转录组和代谢组的不良影响微乎其微。