Pal Maliga Explained

Pal Maliga
Birth Date:1946 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Budapest, Hungary
Fields:Agrobacterium engineering, Expression of recombinant proteins in Chloroplast, CRISPR/Cas for organellar genome engineering
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Pal Maliga is a plant molecular biologist. He is Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology and Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University. He is known for developing the technology of chloroplast genome engineering in land plants and its applications in basic science and biotechnology.

Research

Chloroplast genome engineering

The Maliga group in Szeged isolated chloroplast-encoded antibiotic-resistance[1] [2] [3] [4] and herbicide-resistant mutants[5] in cultured tobacco cells and have shown that chloroplast-encoded antibiotic-resistance gives a selective advantage to chloroplasts in cultured cells.[6] The ability to selectively enrich resistant chloroplasts was the foundation for obtaining chloroplast genome-engineered (transplastomic) tobacco plants.[7] Extensive recombination of chloroplast genomes after chloroplast fusion confirmed homologous recombination in chloroplasts,[8] [9] providing a template for the design of chloroplast transformation vectors.The Maliga laboratory achieved tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) chloroplast genome transformation in 1990 by selection for spectinomycin resistance encoded in the 16S rRNA, a process that was made efficient by selection for chimeric antibiotic resistance genes.[10] [11] [12] The significance of chloroplast genome engineering as a tool to improve photosynthetic efficiency was recognized early on.[13] In arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) efficient chloroplast transformation required knocking out a nuclear gene.[14] The toolkit for chloroplast genome engineering was completed by post-transformation excision of marker genes using phage site-specific recombinases.[15]

Agrobacterium transformation

The Maliga team constructed the pPZP Agrobacterium binary vector family,[16] that served as the backbone for the CAMBIA and GATEWAY Agrobacterium vectors. Currently they are engaged in reengineering Agrobacterium for DNA delivery to chloroplasts,[17] so that chloroplast transformation can be achieved by the floral dip protocol.

Chloroplast transcription

Chloroplast reverse genetics revealed the distinct role of two plastid RNA polymerases.[18] [19] The Maliga lab characterised plastid promoters in vivo and in vitro, and identified proteins that are parts of the plastid PEP transcription complex.[20]

Expression of recombinant proteins in chloroplasts

One of the first biotechnological applications of chloroplast engineering was expression of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crystal toxins genes, yielding 3-5% of the total leaf protein. Importantly, the insecticidal protein could be translated from the bacterial AU-rich mRNA, while for nuclear expression only synthetic GC-rich mRNAs could be used.[21] Since then, the Maliga laboratory developed chloroplast expression tools that yield 25% tetanus subunit vaccine[22] and >45% GFP in tobacco leaves.[23] Their current goal is expression of orally bioavailable recombinant proteins in tobacco and lettuce chloroplasts.

Awards and honors

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Notes and References

  1. Maliga, P, Sz-Breznovits, A, Marton, L . Streptomycin resistant plants from callus culture of haploid tobacco . Nature New Biology . 244 . 131. 29–30 . July 1973 . 4515911 . 10.1038/NEWBIO244029A0 . 26838425.
  2. Cseplo, A, Maliga, P . Lincomycin resistance, a new type of maternally inherited mutation in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia . Current Genetics . 6 . 2. 105–109 . November 1982 . 24186475 . 10.1007/BF00435208 . 7925902.
  3. Cseplo, A, Maliga, P . Large scale isolation of maternally inherited lincomycin resistance mutations in diploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplast cultures . Molecular and General Genetics . 196 . 3. 407–412 . 1984 . 10.1007/BF00436187 . 24421287.
  4. Svab Z, Maliga P . Mutation proximal to the tRNA binding region of the Nicotiana plastid 16S rRNA confers resistance to spectinomycin . Molecular and General Genetics . 228 . 1–2. 316–319 . August 1991 . 1832206 . 10.1007/BF00282483 . 34949950.
  5. Cseplo, A, Medgyesy, P, Hideg, E, Demeter, S, Marton, L, Maliga, P . Triazine-resistant Nicotiana mutants from photomixotrophic cell cultures . Molecular and General Genetics . 200 . 508–510 . August 1985 . 3 . 10.1007/BF00425742 . 44212543.
  6. Moll, B, Polsby, L, Maliga, P . Streptomycin and lincomycin resistances are selective plastid markers in cultured Nicotiana cells . Molecular and General Genetics . 221 . 245–250 . December 1989 . 2 . 10.1007/BF00261727 . 19879921.
  7. Maliga, P . Plastid transformation in higher plants . Annual Review of Plant Biology . 55 . 289–313 . June 2004 . 15377222. 10.1146/ANNUREV.ARPLANT.55.031903.141633 . 36725756.
  8. Medgyesy, P, Fejes, E, Maliga, P . Interspecific chloroplast recombination in a Nicotiana somatic hybrid . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 82 . 6960–6964 . October 1985 . 20 . 16593619. 10.1073/PNAS.82.20.6960 . 391289 . 1985PNAS...82.6960M . 20080861.
  9. Fejes, E, Maliga, P . Extensive homologous chloroplast DNA recombination in the pt14 Nicotiana somatic hybrid . Theoretical and Applied Genetics . 79 . 28–32 . 1990 . 1 . 24226115. 10.1007/BF00223782 . 1575818.
  10. Svab, Z, Hajdukiewicz, P, Maliga, P . Stable transformation of plastids in higher plants . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 87 . 8526–8530 . 1990 . 21 . 11607112. 10.1073/PNAS.87.21.8526 . 54989 . 1990PNAS...87.8526S . 8024062.
  11. Svab, Z, Maliga, P . High-frequency plastid transformation in tobacco by selection for a chimeric aadA gene . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 90 . 913–917 . February 1993 . 3 . 8381537. 10.1073/pnas.90.3.913 . 45780 . 1993PNAS...90..913S . 7281078. free .
  12. Carrer, H, Hockenberry, TN, Svab, Z, Maliga, P . Kanamycin resistance as a selectable marker for plastid transformation in tobacco . Molecular and General Genetics . 241 . 49–56 . October 2004 . 1–2 . 8232211. 10.1007/BF00280200 . 2291268.
  13. News: Step Seen Toward Altering Photosynthesis . New York Times . November 2, 1990 .
  14. Yu, Q, Lutz, K, Maliga, P . Efficient plastid transformation in Arabidopsis . Plant Physiology . 175 . 186–193 . 2017 . 1 . 28739820. 10.1104/pp.17.00857 . 5580780 . 206339557.
  15. Lutz, K, Maliga, P . Construction of marker-free transplastomic plants . Current Opinion in Biotechnology . 2007. 18 . 2 . 107–114 . 17339108. 10.1016/J.COPBIO.2007.02.003 . 40899963.
  16. Hajdukiewicz P, Svab Z, Maliga P . The small, versatile pPZP family of Agrobacterium binary vectors for plant transformation . Plant Molecular Biology . 25 . 989–994 . September 1994. 6 . 7919218. 10.1007/BF00014672 . 9877624.
  17. Matsuoka, A, Maliga, P . Prospects for Reengineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens for T-DNA delivery to Chloroplasts . Plant Physiology . 186 . 215–220 . 2021 . 33620481. 10.1093/plphys/kiab081 . 8154051 . 232017220.
  18. Allison, LA, Simon, LD, Maliga, P . Deletion of rpoB reveals a second distinct transcription system in plastids of higher plants . The EMBO Journal . 1996 . 15 . 11 . 2802–2809 . 8654377. 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00640.x . 450217 . 39505448.
  19. Hajdukiewicz, P, Allison, LA, Maliga, P . The two RNA polymerases encoded by the nuclear and the plastid compartments transcribe distinct groups of genes in tobacco plastids . The EMBO Journal . 1997 . 16 . 13 . 4041–4048 . 9233813. 10.1093/emboj/16.13.4041 . 1170027 . 10769603.
  20. Suzuki, J, Ytterberg, AJ, Beardslee, TA, Allison, LA, vanWijk, KJ, Maliga, P . Affinity purification of the tobacco plastid RNA polymerase and in vitro reconstitution of the holoenzyme . Plant J. . 2004 . 40 . 1 . 164–172 . 15361150. 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2004.02195.X . 24662704. free .
  21. McBride, KE, Svab, Z, Schaaf, DJ, Hogan, PS, Stalker, DM, Maliga, P . Amplification of a Chimeric Bacillus Gene in Chloroplasts Leads to an Extraordinary Level of an Insecticidal Protein in Tobacco . Bio/Technology . 1995 . 13 . 4 . 362–365 . 9634777. 10.1038/NBT0495-362 . 2154428.
  22. Tregoning, J, Nixon, P, Kuroda, H, Svab, Z, Clare, S, Bowe, F, Fairweather, N, Ytterberg, J, vanWijk, KJ, Dougan, G, Maliga, P . Expression of tetanus toxin fragment C in tobacco chloroplasts . Nucleic Acids Res. . August 1985 . 31 . 4 . 1174–1179 . 12582236. 10.1093/NAR/GKG221 . 150239 . 15125002.
  23. Yu Q, Tungsuchat-Huang T, Verma K, Radler MR, Maliga P . Independent translation of ORFs in dicistronic operons, synthetic building blocks for polycistronic chloroplast gene expression . Plant J. . August 1985 . 103 . 6 . 2318–2329 . 32497322. 10.1111/tpj.14864 . 219328497. free .

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