rpc00112: Arabidopsis thaliana At tom-c transgenic callus culture

Note

  • Components

    • A 9-cm plastic Petri dish, containing cells placed on semi-solid medium

  • Notice

    • Subculture the cells to fresh medium immediately after arrival.

    • Do not store the cell culture in a refrigerator and a freezer.

    • Maintain aseptic conditions of the cell culture, and work in a laminar flow cabinet.

  • Method

    • Culture medium: mLS medium, 0.2 mg/L 2,4-D, 0.4% (w/v) gellan gum, pH 5.8 (medium no. 71)

    • Culture conditions: 27°C, dark

    • Subculture: 14–21-day intervals

  • Citation of cell line

    When results obtained by using this cell line are published in a scientific journal, it should be cited in the following manner: “Arabidopsis thaliana At tom-c cell line (rpc00112) was provided by the RIKEN BRC through the National BioResource Project of the MEXT, Japan.”

Introduction

Arabidopsis At tom-c cell line was established by subculturing the At tom suspension culture on a semi-solid culture medium. The parent At tom cell line of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. accession Columbia a triple mutant that has tom1-2 (ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis), tom3-1 (ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis), and thh1-1 (T-DNA insertion) mutations (Nishikiori et al. 2011 [1]). The At tom protoplasts show complete inhibition of tobamovirus multiplication. The At tom-c cells are grown on a modified Linsmaier and Skoog (mLS) medium supplemented with 0.2 mg/L 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), and solidified with 0.4% (w/v) gellan gum, pH 5.8. Our At tom-c cell culture has been maintained in the dark at 27°C and subcultured at 14–21-day intervals.

Materials

Chemicals and stock solutions

(All stock solutions are stored at 4°C)

  • MS salt mix

    Murashige and Skoog Plant Salt Mixture, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation (#392-00591)

  • Sucrose

  • BY2_P

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    KH2PO4

    80

  • LS_VT_modified

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Thiamine·HCl

    0.4

    myo-Inositol

    40

  • 2,4-D (0.2 mg/mL)

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    2,4-D sodium monohydrate

    0.236

    (2,4-Dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid sodium salt monohydrate, Sigma-Aldrich (D6679)

  • Gellan gum

    Gellan gum, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation (#073-03071)

  • KOH (1 N)

Glassware and equipment

  • Petri dish (9 cm diameter, 2 cm height), sterile

  • Forceps, sterilized before use

  • Surgical tape

    3M™ Micropore™ Surgical Tape, 12.5 mm × 9.1 m, 3M Japan Limited (#1530-0)

Preparation of mLS medium (medium no. 71)

  1. Dissolve the following chemicals in approximately 800 mL of distilled water.

    Chemical

    Amount

    MS salt mix

    1 bag (1 L)

    Sucrose

    30 g

  2. Add following stock solutions, and fill up to approximately 950 mL with distilled water.

    Stock solution

    Volume (mL)

    BY2_P

    2.5

    LS_VT_modified

    2.5

    2,4-D (0.2 mg/mL)

    1

  3. Adjust the pH of the solution to 5.8 with KOH (1 N), and fill up to 1 L with distilled water.

  4. Add 4 g of gellan gum to the medium.

  5. Autoclave the medium at 121°C for 20 min.

  6. Pour 30 mL of the medium into a 9-cm Petri dish.

Methods

  1. Pick up an appropriate amount of callus cells from a 14–21-day-old culture with a forceps and place the cells onto fresh mLS medium.

  2. Seal the Petri dishes using two rounds of surgical tape.

  3. Incubate cell cultures under the dark condition at 27°C.

Notes

  • We send At tom-c cells on semi-solid mLS medium in a 9-cm disposable Petri dish. The cells should be subcultured to fresh mLS medium immediately after arrival.

  • In order to maintain At tom-c callus culture stably, it is essential to observe the growth of cells carefully. Because proliferation of At tom-c cells is affected by culture conditions, such as a room temperature, aeration conditions of the culture and so on, an amount of cells transferred to fresh medium and the subculture intervals may vary from one lab to another. We usually inoculate seven pieces of At tom-c callus (about 5-mm in diameter) on 30 mL of mLS medium in a 9-cm Petri dish, and culture them for 14–21 days.

  • Suspension cultures can be derived from YU-1-c callus cultures by subculturing them into a liquid culture medium. The suspension culture method is the same as rpc00056 At tom.

Genotyping

Maintenance history

References

Protocols