Bradyrhizobium japonicum ROKS 26 균주를 glycine및 Iysozyme을 처리하여 spheroplast를 형성시킨 후 Agrobacterium tumefaciens에서 분리한 Ti plasmid를 분리하여 형질전환 시키고 octopine 영양 요구성에 의하여 transformants를 분리하였다. 그 결과 Ti plasmid가 도입된 transformants의 형질전환율은 $1{ imes}10^{-7}$ 정도 되었다. 얻어진 transformant의 plasmid를 조사한 결과 도입된 Ti plasmid 존재가 확인되었으며, 2차원 전기영동법으로 균체 단백질을 분석한 결과 수용세포인 Bredyrhizobium japonicum ROKS 26과 transformant간의 단백질 구성 차이도 화인되었다. 또한 transformant의 근류 형성력을 조사한 결과 본래의 근류의근류형성력을 가지고 있었으나, crown gall형성에 있어서는 Agrobacterium tumefaciens 15955에 의한 gall보다는 크기에 있어 차이가 있었다.
Bradyrhizobium japonicum spheroplasts were prepared by culturing cells in the presence of glycine, follwed by treatment with lysozyme. The cells were examined by electron microscopy during the formation of spheroplast. Then Ti plasmid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens 15955 was introduced into Bradyrhizobium japonicum by glycine-lysozyme induced spheroplast transformation. After cell wall regeneration, transformants were selected by the ability of utilization of octopine. Transformation were received at a frequency of $1{ imes}10^{-7}$. The transformants obtained from spheroplast transformation harbored the introduced Ti plasmid, which was identified by agarose gel electrophoresis. Furthermore, the differences in their gene products were observed between the transformant and the recipient cell by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The transformants which still possessed the same ability nodulate soybean (Glycine max.) as that of the original host strain, acquired the ability to induce tumor on Petunia hybrida like Agrobacterium, but formed the small crown galls in size compared to those of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
