An immunologically active chimaeric protein containing herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein D

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2) cause both persistent and latent infections, including recurrent cutaneous disease, lethal neonatal disease, central nervous system disease and other clinical syndromes. Modified live vaccines or conventionally prepared subunit vaccines have generally been unsuccessful in the treatment of HSV-1 and HSV-2 infections from the standpoints of safety and efficacy. It has been established that HSV-1 and HSV-2 infectivity may be neutralized in vitro with antisera directed specifically against each of the four major glycoproteins of the virus (gA/gB, gC, gD and gE) and antisera against glycoprotein gD, of either HSV-1 or HSV-2, are capable of neutralizing both HSV-1 and HSV-2 infectivity in vitro and in vivo. We have previously reported on the identification, DNA sequence and expression at low level in Escherichia coli of the gD gene of HSV-1 strain Patton. Here we describe construction of a hybrid gene encoding a chimaeric protein containing HSV-1 gD, bacteriophage lambda Cro and E. coli beta-galactosidase (gD-beta-gal) protein, which is expressed at high level in E. coli. Moreover, the chimaeric protein elicits antibodies in rabbits that not only immunoprecipitate gD from cells infected with HSV-1 and HSV-2 but also neutralize HSV-1 and HSV-2 infectivity in vitro.     

基于基因表达谱芯片杂交分析Lamprey-PHB2转染前后Chang liver细胞的基因表达差异

选取了10个物种与本课题组前期克隆得到的东北七鳃鳗抗增殖蛋白2(Lm-PHB2)进行氨基酸序列相似性对比,检测PHB2基因进化水平,结果表明各物种的PHB2氨基酸序列在PHB结构域处高度保守,但在N-端和C-端氨基酸序列保守性较低.将重组质粒pEGFP-N1-Lm-PHB2瞬时转染入张氏肝(CHL)细胞后,利用基因表达谱芯片技术分析基因的表达差异.结果显示CHL细胞中共有270条显著差异表达基因,其中显著上调基因共141条,显著下调基因共129条,涉及细胞信号转导、细胞周期调节、细胞增殖、细胞代谢和细胞凋亡等多个方面.通过实时荧光定量聚合酶链式反应(PCR)对基因表达谱芯片分析结果进行验证,结果显示转染pEGFP-N1-Lm-PHB2质粒后,细胞周期基因CDC25C、氧化应激相关基因(CAT,SOD,GST)和抗细胞凋亡基因HAX1均有显著性差异.     

A viral microRNA functions as an orthologue of cellular miR-155

All metazoan eukaryotes express microRNAs (miRNAs), roughly 22-nucleotide regulatory RNAs that can repress the expression of messenger RNAs bearing complementary sequences. Several DNA viruses also express miRNAs in infected cells, suggesting a role in viral replication and pathogenesis. Although specific viral miRNAs have been shown to autoregulate viral mRNAs or downregulate cellular mRNAs, the function of most viral miRNAs remains unknown. Here we report that the miR-K12-11 miRNA encoded by Kaposi's-sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) shows significant homology to cellular miR-155, including the entire miRNA 'seed' region. Using a range of assays, we show that expression of physiological levels of miR-K12-11 or miR-155 results in the downregulation of an extensive set of common mRNA targets, including genes with known roles in cell growth regulation. Our findings indicate that viral miR-K12-11 functions as an orthologue of cellular miR-155 and probably evolved to exploit a pre-existing gene regulatory pathway in B cells. Moreover, the known aetiological role of miR-155 in B-cell transformation suggests that miR-K12-11 may contribute to the induction of KSHV-positive B-cell tumours in infected patients.     

HCAP1基因对Raji细胞凋亡及凋亡相关蛋白Bax/Bcl - 2的作用

目的：研究外源HCAP1基因产物对Burkitt淋巴瘤细胞系Raji细胞凋亡及凋亡相关蛋白Bax／Bcl-2的作用。方法：用脂质体介导的基因转移方法，把外源HCAP1基因转染到Raji细胞中，用流式细胞术和Hochest 33258荧光染色检测细胞凋亡；用Western blot检测外源HCAP1基因对凋亡相关蛋白Bax和Bcl-2蛋白表达的调节。结果：外源HCAPl基因导入Raji细胞24、48和96h后，细胞凋亡率增加。Western blot显示Bax／Bel-2蛋白表达比值明显增高。结论：转染外源性HCAP1基因可诱导Raji细胞凋亡，使Bax／Bcl-2蛋白表达比例上调可能是HCAP1诱导凋亡的机制之一。     

一个由 HSV-1诱导的人成纤维细胞差异基因的电子克隆和特性分析

目的 :对单纯疱疹病毒1型感染KMB -17细胞后的早期基因反应进行研究。方法 :从HSV -1感染后细胞特异性cDNA文库中筛选出一个EST片段 (GeneBank登录号:Aw307599) ,NorthernBlot分析证实了该基因片段的病毒相关特异性 ,并采用生物信息学的方法进行基因的电子克隆。结果 :克隆出一个新的全基因序列HSP -5contig(GeneBank登录号 :AY142148)。结论 :HSP -5含有完整的ORF框架 ,cds全长456bp,编码156个氨基酸 ;对该基因及其编码蛋白序列的特征进行了分析和预测 ,初步推测了该基因和编码蛋白的结构特点。     

Uptake of apoptotic cells drives the growth of a pathogenic trypanosome in macrophages

After apoptosis, phagocytes prevent inflammation and tissue damage by the uptake and removal of dead cells. In addition, apoptotic cells evoke an anti-inflammatory response through macrophages. We have previously shown that there is intense lymphocyte apoptosis in an experimental model of Chagas' disease, a debilitating cardiac illness caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Here we show that the interaction of apoptotic, but not necrotic T lymphocytes with macrophages infected with T. cruzi fuels parasite growth in a manner dependent on prostaglandins, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and polyamine biosynthesis. We show that the vitronectin receptor is critical, in both apoptotic-cell cytoadherence and the induction of prostaglandin E2/TGF-beta release and ornithine decarboxylase activity in macrophages. A single injection of apoptotic cells in infected mice increases parasitaemia, whereas treatment with cyclooxygenase inhibitors almost completely ablates it in vivo. These results suggest that continual lymphocyte apoptosis and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by macrophages have a role in parasite persistence in the host, and that cyclooxygenase inhibitors have potential therapeutic application in the control of parasite replication and spread in Chagas' disease.     

Role for carbohydrate structures in TGF-beta 1 latency

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) (reviewed in refs 1-3) is a family of molecules that are made up as disulphide-bonded dimers of at least three different types of homologous polypeptides. The active molecules are cleaved from the C termini of precursors. TGF-beta 1, like other forms of TGF-beta, is synthesized and secreted in a latent high relative molecular mass form (L-TGF-beta 1) from which active TGF-beta 1 can be released by transient and probably unphysiological acidification. The latent complex from human platelets contains one dimeric TGF-beta 1 molecules, which is noncovalently associated with a disulphide-bonded complex of one dimeric remnant of the precursor and a single molecule of the so-called TGF-beta 1 binding protein (TGF-beta 1-BP). We report here that enzymatic removal in vitro of the carbohydrate structures in the remnant of the TGF-beta 1 precursor produces biologically active TGF-beta 1 from the latent complex, suggesting that carbohydrate structures are of importance in rendering TGF-beta 1 inactive in the complex in vivo.     

Genetic retrieval of viral genome sequences from herpes simplex virus transformed cells

Oncogenic transformation of cultured cells by inactivated herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 has been demonstrated. Expression of HSV information in these transformed cells has been shown by immunofluorescence studies, detection of HSV neutralizing antibody in sera from tumour-bearing animals and by hybridization of HSV-specific RNA. Molecular hybridization studies of DNA from HSV-2 transformed hamster cells have detected up to 40% of the HSV genome present in several copies. Complementation of three HSV-2 temperature-sensitive mutants when superinfecting the RE1 rat embryo cell line (transformed by the HSV-2 temperature-sensitive mutant ts1) suggests that resident viral genes can be expressed. Brown et al. used a similar approach to detect HSV information latent in human ganglia. We report here retrieval of intertypic HSV recombinants from HSV transformed cells after superinfection with ts mutants of the alternative serotype of HSV. Restriction enzyme analysis which clearly differentiates between HSV-1 and HSV-2 DNA has demonstrated the isolation of recombinants spanning the genome and of virus indistinguishable from the original transforming virus.     

汉滩病毒囊膜糖蛋白g2基因重组腺病毒的构建与表达

获得汉滩病毒G2 基因 ,构建其重组腺病毒并在HEK2 93细胞中包装表达 ,为研究汉滩病毒基因疫苗提供了实验基础。设计引物采用PCR从含汉滩病毒 \|76 1 1 8株M基因的M5 6质粒扩增出糖蛋白G2 基因片段 ,并将其克隆入腺病毒载体Adeno XviralDNA ,筛选获得重组腺病毒DNA ,转染HEK2 93细胞 ,包装、扩增后得到汉滩病毒G2 基因重组腺病毒原种 ;并在感染细胞内初步表达 ,用ELISA检测表达产物。得到了含汉滩病毒G2 基因的重组腺病毒 ,其滴度约为 1 0 10 pfu/mL ,同时在感染的HEK2 93细胞中检测到汉滩病毒糖蛋白G2 的表达。含汉滩病毒糖蛋白G2 基因重组腺病毒的成功构建 ,为研究汉滩病毒基因疫苗提供了实验基础     

重组Nkx2．5腺病毒的构建及心肌细胞感染实验

利用AdEasy腺病毒表达系统构建了Nkx2．5重组腺病毒．Nkx2．5基因克隆入pAdTrackcmv质粒,pAdTtrackcmv—Nkx2．5经Pme I线性化后转化含pAdEasy-1的BJ5183菌进行同源重组,以构建pAdEsay-Nkx2．5重组质粒．pAdEsay—Nkx2．5转染293A细胞进行病毒包装．以Ad-Nkx2．5重组腺病毒感染Hela及乳鼠心肌细胞,检测了Nkx2．5蛋白表达及对下游ANF和β-MHC基因的表达调控;并采用感染病毒的H9c2心肌细胞经H2O2处理建立细胞凋亡模型,采用噻唑蓝法和荧光染色法检测了细胞存活率和凋亡细胞的形态变化．结果显示,Nkx2．5过表达能抑制H2O2诱导的H9c2细胞凋亡．     

OX40L在小鼠B16黑素瘤细胞中表达及对活化淋巴细胞凋亡影响

目的:构建OX40L的真核表达载体,分析其在B16细胞中的表达,研究OX40L对活化T淋巴细胞凋亡的影响.方法:以小鼠C57BL/6脾脏的cDNA为模板,PER扩增小鼠OX40L基因,构建真核表达载体pVAX1-OX40L,转染B16细胞后,荧光染色检测OX40L的表达;利用AnnexinV-PE凋亡试剂盒,检测B16黑素瘤细胞-淋巴细胞体外混合培养中对活化淋巴细胞凋亡的影响.结果:成功构建OX40L的真核表达载体,并转染B16细胞中,流式细胞术和激光共聚焦显微术均可检测到OX40L表达于B16细胞表面.淋巴细胞体外混合培养显示,表达OX40L的B16细胞组活化淋巴细胞的凋亡率为6.57%,而空质粒转染组为17.24%.结论:OX40L能表达于B16细胞表面,并能显著抑制活化淋巴细胞凋亡.     

Viral MIPα homologous with human MIP-1α acts on HIV co-receptor CCR5

The function and usage of vMIPa encoded by K6 gene of herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) which has homology with human macrophage protein (MIP) have not been clearly known. In the present note the K6 gene of HHV8 was cloned and transfected into NIH3T3 cells and E. coli cells. Conditional media from the 3T3-transfected cells and K6 product vMIPa from E. coli . Cells were used to perform the experiments of ligand-receptor binding and cellular adhesion with peripheral blood macrophages. The conditional media and the purified vMIPa from E. coli could compete to bind to CCR5 located on macrophages from peripheral blood with I¹²⁵-hMIP-1a chemokine of human. Cellular adhesion showed that the conditional media from transfected cells and the purified vMIPa did not induce the adhesion of macrophages from peripheral blood to ICAM-1. In conclusion, vMIPa encoded by K6 gene of HHV8 can bind to CCR5 of peripheral blood macrophage cells and does not induce their adhesion. This suggests that vMIPa enclosed CCR5, also known as HIV co-receptor, may be used to prevent and treat HIV infection.     

Loss of integrin alpha(v)beta6-mediated TGF-beta activation causes Mmp12-dependent emphysema

Integrins are heterodimeric cell-surface proteins that regulate cell growth, migration and survival. We have shown previously that the epithelial-restricted integrin alpha(v)beta6 has another critical function; that is, it binds and activates latent transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). Through a global analysis of pulmonary gene expression in the lungs of mice lacking this integrin (Itgb6 null mice) we have identified a marked induction of macrophage metalloelastase (Mmp12)--a metalloproteinase that preferentially degrades elastin and has been implicated in the chronic lung disease emphysema. Here we report that Itgb6-null mice develop age-related emphysema that is completely abrogated either by transgenic expression of versions of the beta6 integrin subunit that support TGF-beta activation, or by the loss of Mmp12. Furthermore, we show that the effects of Itgb6 deletion are overcome by simultaneous transgenic expression of active TGF-beta1. We have uncovered a pathway in which the loss of integrin-mediated activation of latent TGF-beta causes age-dependent pulmonary emphysema through alterations of macrophage Mmp12 expression. Furthermore, we show that a functional alteration in the TGF-beta activation pathway affects susceptibility to this disease.     

表达鸡传染性支气管炎病毒SD/97/01株S1蛋白的重组杆状病毒的构建

采用BAC－TO－BAC杆状病毒表达载体体系构建了表达鸡传染性支管炎病毒（IBV）呼吸型毒株SD／97／01S1蛋白的重组杆病病毒，含SD／97／01株S1基因原重组质粒p MDSD9701S1用BamHI和SalI双酶切后，回收的片段并克琶杆病病毒转座载体pFASTBACHTa中多角体基因启动子的下游，筛选出重组转座质粒pFASTSD9701S1U并转化大肠杆菌DH10BAC后,获得重组穿梭质粒rBacmidSD9701S1，用重组穿俊质粒DNA转染昆虫Sf9细胞，获得了含SD／97／01S1基因的重组杆状病毒rAcSD9701S1，重组病毒感染Sf9细胞后，用SDS－PAGE、Westernblot和IFA对细胞表达产物进行检测和分析。结果表明：构建的重组杆状病毒能够在昆虫细胞中表达SD／97／01的S1蛋白，该蛋白具有天然蛋白的抗原性。     

分泌性BACE1蛋白在昆虫细胞的表达

为了获得有活性的重组β-secretase并研究其功能,寻找特异性抑制剂,应用RT-PCR技术,从人胚胎脑组织特异性扩增并克隆了人BACE1编码基因的胞外片断(BACE1-454)。测序后与质粒pFastBac连接,得到含BACE1-454基因的重组质粒pFast-BACE1-454。将其转化到含有杆状病毒穿梭载体Bacmid的感受态细胞DH10Bac中进行转座重组,用琼脂糖凝胶电泳和PCR扩增对重组穿梭载体Bacmid-BACE1-454进行鉴定。将Bacmid-BACE1-454经脂质体介导转染Sf9细胞,收获病毒。用重组杆状病毒颗粒感染昆虫细胞,表达蛋白,免疫印迹证实所获蛋白产品具有特异的免疫反应性。     

Selective inhibition of the anchorage-independent growth of myc-transfected fibroblasts by retinoic acid

Fischer rat 3T3 (FR3T3) fibroblasts transfected with a cellular myc gene can be induced to grow and form colonies in soft agar by treatment either with epidermal growth factor (EGF) alone or with the combination of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and type-beta transforming growth factor (TGF-beta). We now show that induction of anchorage-independent growth by each of these sets of growth factors involves different cellular pathways which can be distinguished by their sensitivity to retinoic acid. Colony formation induced by the combined action of PDGF and TGF-beta is 100-fold more sensitive to inhibition by retinoic acid than is colony formation induced by treatment of the myc-transfected cells with EGF. Moreover, retinoic acid (10(-8) M) is inhibitory for colony growth whenever TGF-beta is present, regardless of whether the effects of TGF-beta are stimulatory, as occurs in the presence of PDGF, or inhibitory, as found in the presence of EGF.