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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants" University of California - Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts\, natural product synthesis\, and agricultural crop engineering. The plant cell wall is a barrier that limits the ease and throughput with which exogenous biomolecules can be delivered to plants. Current delivery methods either suffer from host range limitations\, low transformation efficiencies\, tissue regenerability\, tissue damage\, or unavoidable DNA integration into the host genome. Here\, we demonstrate efficient diffusion-based biomolecule delivery into tissues and organs of intact plants of several species with a suite of pristine and chemically-functionalized high aspect ratio nanomaterials [1]. Efficient DNA delivery and strong protein expression without transgene integration is accomplished in mature Nicotiana benthamiana\, Eruca sativa (arugula)\, Triticum aestivum (wheat) and Gossypium hirsutum (cotton) leaves and arugula protoplasts [2]. Notably\, we demonstrate that transgene expression is transient and devoid of transgene integration into the plant host genome\, of potential utility for easing regulatory oversight of transformed crops as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) [3\, 4]. We also demonstrate a nanoparticle-based strategy in which small interfering RNA (siRNA) is delivered to mature Nicotiana benthamiana leaves and effectively silence a gene with 95% efficiency. We find that nanomaterials both facilitate biomolecule transport into plant cells\, while also protecting polynucleotides such as RNA from nuclease degradation. DNA origami and nanostructures and gold nanoparticles further enable siRNA delivery to plants [5]\, which we use to elucidate force-independent transport phenomena of nanoparticles to the plant cell wall [6\, 7]. Lastly\, we demonstrate protein delivery with newly-discovered peptide-based nanoparticles towards DNA-free genome editing. Our work provides a tool for species-independent\, targeted\, and passive delivery of genetic material\, without transgene integration\, into plant cells for diverse plant biotechnology applications.  \n1. Demirer\, G.S.\, Zhang\, H.\, Goh\, N.S.\, Grandio\, E.G.\, Landry\, M.P. Carbon nanotube-mediated DNA delivery without transgene integration in intact plants. Nature Protocols (2019)  \n2. Demirer\, G.S.\, Zhang\, H.\, Matos\, J.\, Goh\, N.\, Cunningham\, F.J.\, Sung\, Y.\, Chang\, R.\, Aditham\, A.J.\, \, Chio\, L.\, Cho\, M.J.\, Staskawicz\, B.\, Landry\, M.P. High Aspect Ratio Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Functional Genetic Material Without DNA Integration in Mature Plants. Nature Nanotechnology (2019)  \n3. Landry\, M.P.‡\, Mitter\, N.‡ How nanocarriers delivering cargoes in plants can change the GMO landscape. Nature Nanotechnology (2019)  \n4. Demirer\, G.S.‡\, Silva\, T.N.\, Jackson\, C.T.\, Thomas\, J.B.\, Ehrhardt\, D.\, Rhee\, S.Y.‡\, Mortimer\, J.C.‡\, Landry\, M.P.‡ Nanotechnology to advance CRISPR/Cas genetic engineering of plants. Nature Nanotechnology (2021)  \n5. Zhang\, H.\, Zhang\, H.\, Demirer\, G.S.\, Gonzales-Grandio\, E.\, Fan\, C.\, Landry\, M.P.‡ Engineering DNA nanostructures for siRNA delivery in plants. Nature Protocols (2020)  \n6. Zhang\, H.*\, Demirer\, G.S.*\, Zhang\, H.\, Ye\, T.\, Goh\, N.S.\, Aditham\, A.J.\, Cunningham\, F.J.\, Fan\, C.\, Landry\, M.P. Low-dimensional DNA Nanostructures Coordinate Gene Silencing in Mature Plants. PNAS (2019)  \n7. Zhang\, H.*\, Goh\, N.S.*\, Wang\, J.\, Demirer\, G.S.\, Butrus\, S.\, Park\, S-J\, Landry\, M.P.‡ Nanoparticle Cellular Internalization is Not Required for RNA Delivery to Mature Plant Leaves. Nature Nanotechnology (2021) 
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-nanomaterials-enable-delivery-of-genetic-material-without-transgene-integration-in-mature-plants-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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