Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 54, No. 388, pp. 1675-1683,
July 1, 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Virus-induced silencing of sterol biosynthetic genes: identification of a Nicotiana tabacum L. obtusifoliol-14
-demethylase (CYP51) by genetic manipulation of the sterol biosynthetic pathway in Nicotiana benthamiana L.*
Received 5 December 2002; Accepted 2 April 2003
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Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Département Isoprénoïdes, Institut de Botanique, 28 rue Goethe, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
* The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been submitted to GenBank with the accession numbers AF116915 and AY065641. Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Newcastle, UK. To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: +33 (0)3 90 24 18 84. E-mail: Hubert.Schaller{at}ibmp-ulp.u-strasbg.fr
Obtusifoliol-14
-demethylase (CYP51) is implicated in plant sterol biosynthesis. An Arabidopsis expressed sequence tag encoding a CYP51 was used as a probe to isolate Nicotiana tabacum L. cDNAs. Two types of cDNA clones were identified. Nt CYP51-1 and Nt CYP51-2 shared 97% identity together and around 75% with other plant CYP51s. The function of the encoded enzyme has been demonstrated in planta by manipulating the sterol biosynthetic pathway at the gene level. The endogenous CYP51 of Nicotiana benthamiana was silenced upon inoculation of the plantlets with POTATO VIRUS X::Nt CYP51-1 transcripts. This resulted in the accumulation of obtusifoliol, the substrate of CYP51, and other 14-methyl sterols, with a concomitant growth reduction phenotype. Virus-induced gene silencing was also applied to another steroidogenic enzyme, the 
7-sterol-C5(6)-desaturase, and this resulted in the accumulation of 7-sterols in infected plants instead of the pathway end-products 5-sterols.
Key words: CYP51, gene silencing, Nicotiana, obtusifoliol-14-demethylase, sterol biosynthesis.
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