Record Details

Expression of accessory colonization factor subunit A (ACFA) of Vibrio cholerae and ACFA fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).

DIR@IMTECH: CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Expression of accessory colonization factor subunit A (ACFA) of Vibrio cholerae and ACFA fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
 
Creator Sharma, Manoj Kumar
Jani, Dewal
Thungapathra, M
Gautam, J K
Meena, L S
Singh, Yogendra
Ghosh, Amit
Tyagi, Akhilesh Kumar
Sharma, Arun Kumar
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description In earlier study from our group, cholera toxin B subunit had been expressed in tomato for developing a plant-based vaccine against cholera. In the present investigation, gene for accessory colonization factor (acf) subunit A, earlier reported to be essential for efficient colonization in the intestine, has been expressed in Escherichia coli as well as tomato plants. Gene encoding for a chimeric protein having a fusion of cholera toxin B subunit and accessory colonization factor A was also expressed in tomato to generate more potent combinatorial antigen. CaMV35S promoter with a duplicated enhancer sequence was used for expression of these genes in tomato. Integration of transgenes into tomato genome was confirmed by PCR and Southern hybridization. Expression of the genes was confirmed at transcript and protein levels. Accessory colonization factor A and cholera toxin B subunit fused to this protein accumulated up to 0.25% and 0.08% of total soluble protein, respectively, in the fruits of transgenic plants. Whereas protein purified from E. coli, in combination with cholera toxin B subunit can be used for development of conventional subunit vaccine, tomato fruits expressing these proteins can be used together with tomato plants expressing cholera toxin B subunit for development of oral vaccine against cholera.
 
Publisher Elsevier Science
 
Date 2008-05-20
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1061/1/ghosh2008.pdf
Sharma, Manoj Kumar and Jani, Dewal and Thungapathra, M and Gautam, J K and Meena, L S and Singh, Yogendra and Ghosh, Amit and Tyagi, Akhilesh Kumar and Sharma, Arun Kumar (2008) Expression of accessory colonization factor subunit A (ACFA) of Vibrio cholerae and ACFA fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Journal of biotechnology, 135 (1). pp. 22-7. ISSN 0168-1656
 
Relation http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168165608001077
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1061/