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A Robotic Platform for High-throughput Protoplast Isolation and Transformation
Published on: September 27, 2016
Protoplast Isolation and Transfection in the Single-Cell C4 Species Bienertia sinuspersici
Shiu-Cheung Lung1, Nilanth Yogadasan2, Makoto Yanagisawa3
1School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Abstract:
We have developed an optimized protocol for isolating protoplasts from chlorenchyma cells of the single-cell C4 species Bienertia sinuspersici. The isolated protoplasts maintained the integrity of the unique single-cell C4 intracellular compartmentation of organelles as observed in chlorenchyma cells after cell wall digestion. Approximately over 80% of isolated protoplasts expressed the fusion reporter gene following the polyethylene glycol-mediated transfection procedures. Overall, fluorescent protein fusion tagged with various intraorganellular sorting signals validated the potential use of the transient gene expression system in subcellular localization and organelle dynamics studies.

