Molecular design of photosynthesis-elevated chloroplasts for mass accumulation of a foreign protein

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In order to increase production of a useful protein by the chloroplast transformation technique, it seems to be necessary to determine the upper limit for the accumulation of a biologically active foreign protein in chloroplasts and then improve photosynthetic capacity and plant productivity. Here we show that the stromal fractions of tobacco chloroplasts could accommodate an additional 200-260 mg ml-1 of green fluorescent protein in the stroma without any inhibition of gas exchange under various light intensity and growth conditions. The minimum amount of fructose-1,6-/sedoheptulose-1,7- bisphosphatase (FBP/SBPase) limiting photosynthesis was then calculated. Analyses of the photosynthetic parameters and the metabolites of transformants into which FBP/SBPase was introduced with various types of promoter (PpsbA, Prrn, Prps2 and Prps12) indicated that a 2- to 3-fold increase in levels of FBPase and SBPase activity is sufficient to increase the final amount of dry matter by up to 1.8-fold relative to the wild-type plants. Their increases were equivalent to an increase of <1 mg ml-1 of the FBP/SBPase protein in chloroplasts and were calculated to represent <1% of the protein accumulated via chloroplast transformation. Consequently, >99% of the additional 200-260 mg ml-1 of protein expressed in the chloroplasts could be used for the production of useful proteins in the photosynthesis- elevated transplastomic plants having FBP/SBPase. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. All rights reserved.

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Yabuta, Y., Tamoi, M., Yamamoto, K., Tomizawa, K. I., Yokota, A., & Shigeoka, S. (2008). Molecular design of photosynthesis-elevated chloroplasts for mass accumulation of a foreign protein. Plant and Cell Physiology, 49(3), 375–385. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcn014

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