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Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation.

D McElroy, W Zhang, J Cao, R Wu
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Field of Botany, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
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W Zhang
Field of Botany, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
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J Cao
Field of Botany, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
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Published February 1990. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.2.2.163

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We have characterized the 5' region of the rice actin 1 gene (Act1) and show that it is an efficient promoter for regulating the constitutive expression of a foreign gene in transgenic rice. By constructing plasmids with 5' regions from the rice Act1 gene fused to the coding sequence of a gene encoding bacterial beta-glucuronidase, we demonstrate that a region 1.3 kilobases upstream of the Act1 translation initiation codon contains all of the 5'-regulatory elements necessary for high-level beta-glucuronidase (GUS) expression in transient assays of transformed rice protoplasts. The rice Act1 primary transcript has a noncoding exon separated by a 5' intron from the first coding exon. Fusions that lack this Act1 intron showed no detectable GUS activity in transient assays of transformed rice protoplasts. Deletion analysis of the Act1 5' intron suggests that the intron-mediated stimulation of GUS expression is associated, in part, with an in vivo requirement for efficient intron splicing.

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Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation.
D McElroy, W Zhang, J Cao, R Wu
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Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation.
D McElroy, W Zhang, J Cao, R Wu
The Plant Cell Feb 1990, 2 (2) 163-171; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.2.2.163
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