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Revision as of 19:27, 27 September 2013
Fungal Toolkit
Scroll over each icon to find out more about the components of our toolkit!
Regulatory Elements
Provide modular protein expression controls for genetic constructs.
Selection Markers
Allow for the selection of desired fungal transformants.
Characterization
Quantifies gene expression levels using fluorescent proteins.
Homologous Constructs
Enable integration of genetic constructs into specific regions of fungal genomes.
Biosafety
Implements measures to prevent horizontal gene transfer and induce a kill switch.
Protoplasting
Background
Transformation of plant and fungal cells is difficult due to their cell walls that block passage of foreign DNA. Protoplasting is the method by which the cells walls of plant and fungal cells are digested to produce cells without cell walls, called protoplasts. Through additional methods, such as electroporation and PEG transformation, DNA can be uptaken by the protoplasts and then regrown into cells containing specific genes.Method
Usually this species is protoplasted using lywallzyme and novozyme. However, these enzymes are exclusively available in China. So, protoplasting was attempted with driselease and glucanex instead. After several attempts, we found that the enzymes are unable to digest the cell wall without also killing the cell. In addition, the Ganoderma mycelium was hard to pellet when centrifuging and made the protoplasting procedure difficult. Thus, Cochliobolus heterostrophus was used instead. Protoplasting was successful using driselease and glucanex and then transformed via PEG solution.References
Sun L, Cai H, Xu W, Hu Y, Gao Y, Lin Z (2001). Efficient Transformation of the Medicinal Mushroom Ganoderma lucidum. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 19, 383a-383j.Amir Sharon (ed.), Molecular and Cell Biology Methods for Fungi, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 638. Turgeon BG, Condon B, Liu J, Zhang N (2010). Protoplast Transformation of Filamentous Fungi.
