| 摘要 |
A de novo designed, artificial storage protein has been stably expressed in plants. This protein was designed to have high levels of all the essential amino acids needed for human nutrition. Expressing the gene coding for this protein in crop plants will greatly improve the nutritional quality of the resulting crops. The gene has also been observed to increase the overall level of protein production in a plant. This property will allow enhanced levels of production of other valuable proteins by a plant. For example, a transgenic plant with a gene encoding for insulin may produce higher levels of insulin when the plant also expresses a gene for an artificial storage protein. The method will also allow enhanced production of nonprotein products. Contransfomation with a gene of interest can result in enhanced levels of the protein product of the gene of interest or a product synthesized thereby. |
