Cheung, Wai Kuen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-76). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / List of Figures --- p.v / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Abbreviations --- p.vii / Acknowledgements --- p.ix / Abstract --- p.xi / 摘要 --- p.xiii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Centromere and Kinetochore --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Kinetochore Subunits: Centromeric Nucleosomes --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- CenH3: The Centromere Specific Histone --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- The Centromeric DNA: Tandem Repeats and Retrotransposons --- p.8 / Chapter 1.5 --- The Genetic and Epigenetic Nature of the Centromeres --- p.9 / Chapter 1.6 --- Point Centromeres and Regional Centromeres --- p.10 / Chapter 1.7 --- Holocentric Chromosomes --- p.11 / Chapter 1.8 --- Hypothesis --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Materials and methods --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1 --- Chemicals --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2 --- Bacterial strains in routine cloning --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- Plant materials in cloning and transformation --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Construction of LnCENH3-GFP and CeHCP3-DsRED chimeric gene cassettes for rice transformation --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5 --- Cloning of CENH3 gene of Luzula spp --- p.22 / Chapter 2.6 --- Construction of full length OsCENH3 RNAi and 150bp OsCENH3 RNAi constructs for rice transformation --- p.22 / Chapter 2.7 --- Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.japonica. cv. Nipponbare) --- p.24 / Chapter 2.8 --- Gene gun transformation of rice (Oryza sativa L.japonica. cv. Nipponbare) by Biolistic PDS-1000/He´ёØ System (Bio-rad) --- p.26 / Chapter 2.9 --- Detection of transgenes expression --- p.28 / Chapter 2.10 --- Nuclear protein extraction --- p.29 / Chapter 2.11 --- Protein-DNA Binding Assay --- p.30 / Chapter 2.12 --- Protein precipitation by methanol-chloroform --- p.32 / Chapter 2.13 --- Western blot analysis of proteins from Protein-DNA binding assay --- p.33 / Chapter 2.14 --- Tubulin immunolocalization of root tips --- p.33 / Chapter 2.15 --- Bioinformatics analysis --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Results --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1 --- Plant transformation vectors construction --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2 --- Rice transformation --- p.38 / Chapter 3.3 --- Transgenic plants screening --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4 --- Analysis of the codon usages of CeHCP-3 gene in C. elegans and O. sativa --- p.42 / Chapter 3.5 --- In vitro Protein-DNA binding assays --- p.44 / Chapter 3.6 --- Subcellular localization study of LnCENH3 in rice --- p.46 / Chapter 3.7 --- Chromosome morphology of the transgenic rice expression LnCENH3 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.8 --- Tubulin immunolocalization of LnCENH3-GFP transgenic rice --- p.49 / Chapter 3.9 --- Cloning of CENH3s in Luzula genus --- p.51 / Chapter 3.10 --- Bioinformatics analysis of Luzula CENH3s --- p.53 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Discussion --- p.57 / Chapter 4.1 --- Expression of fusion proteins in rice --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2 --- Incorporation of LnCENH3-GFP in nucleosomes --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3 --- Expression pattern of LnCENH3-GFP in rice --- p.58 / Chapter 4.4 --- Formation of additional kinetochores on transgenic rice chromosome --- p.60 / Chapter 4.5 --- Deletion of 8 amino acids in LeCENH3 --- p.62 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.65 / References --- p.66 / Chapter 5.1 --- Appendix --- p.77
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_327362 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Cheung, Wai Kuen., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Life Sciences. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, xiii, 79 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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