Table 1 - Expression of bacterial genes in transgenic tobacco: methods, applications and future prospects

Table 1. Recombinant bacterial proteins expressed in transgenic tobacco.

Bacterium	Gene	Expressed protein	Function	Reference
Pseudomonas syringae	argK	ROCT ornithine carbamoyltransferase	Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola	Hatziloukas and Panopoulos (1992)
Halobacterium halobium	bO	Bacterio-opsin (BO)	Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci	Rizhsky and Mittler (2001)
Ralstonia solanacearum	popA	PopA	Resistance to Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae	Belbahri et al. (2001)
Escherichia coli	entC	Isochorismate isomerase	Salicylic acid production	Verberne et al. (2000)
Pseudomonas fluorescence	pmsB	Pyruvate lyase	Salicylic acid production	Verberne et al. (2000)
Erwinia carotovora	expI	N-oxoacyl-homoserine lactone (OHL)	Resistance to Erwinia carotovora	Mae et al. (2001)
Bacillus sp. 240B1	aiiA	Acyl-homoserine lactonase	Resistance to Erwinia carotovora	Dong et al. (2001)
Bacillus thuringiensis	cry2Aa	Crystal protein (Cry2Aa2)	Insect resistance	Kota et al. (1999)
Actinomyces A19249	choM	ChoM	Resistance to boll weevil larvae	Corbin et al. (2001)
Agrobacterium tumefaciens	ipt	Cytokinin isopentenyl transferase	Resistance to tobacco hornworm	Smigocki et al. (1993)
Streptomyces hygroscopicus	bar	PPT acetyltransferase	Bialaphos tolerance	Lutz et al. (2001)
Escherichia coli	aroA-M1	EPSPS	Glyphosate tolerance	Wang et al. (2003)
Arthrobacter oxydans	pcd	PMPH	Phenmedipham tolerance	Streber et al. (1994)
*Ralstonia eutrophus*	tfdA	2,4-D monooxygenase	2,4-D tolerance	Lyon et al. (1989)
Ochrobactrum anthropi	pqrA	Paraquat resistant protein (PqrA)	Paraquat tolerance	Jo et al. (2004)
Escherichia coli	betA	CDH	Enhance salt tolerance	Holmström et al. (2000)
Escherichia coli	betB	BADH	Enhance salt tolerance	Holmström et al. (2000)
Arthrobacter pascens	cox	Choline oxidase	Enhance salt tolerance	Huang et al. (2000)
Erwinia uredovora	crtZ	b-carotene hydroxylase	Enhance UV tolerance	Götz et al. (2002)
Synechococcus vulcanus	desC	Acyl-lipid desaturase	Enhance cold tolerance	Orlova et al. (2003)
Escherichia coli	merA	Mercuric ion reductase	Mercury degradation	He et al. (2001)
Enterobacter cloacae	nsfl	NR	TNT degradation	Hannink et al. (2001)
Enterobacter cloacae	onr	PETN	TNT degradation	French et al. (1999)
Bacillus anthracis	pag	PA protein	Anthrax vaccine	Watson et al. (2004)
Clostridium tetani	tetC	Tetanus toxin protein C subunit (TetC)	Tetanus vaccine	Tregoning et al. (2003)
Escherichia coli	ltb	LT B subunit	Gastroenteritis vaccine	Kang et al. (2003)
Escherichia coli	eae	Intimin	E. coli O157:H7 vaccine	Judge et al. (2004)
Vibrio cholerae	ctb	CT B subunit	Cholera vaccine	Daniell et al. (2001)
Escherichia coli	mtlD	Mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase	Mannitol production	Tarczynski et al. (1992)
Ralstonia eutropha	phbA	β -ketothiolase	PHB production	Bohmert et al. (2002)
Acidothermus cellulolyticus	e1	Cellulase endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase (E1)	Cellulase production	Jin et al. (2003)
Bacillus licheniformis	amyl	α-amylase	Alpha-amylase production	Pen et al. (1992)