Expression of green fluorescent protein gene with baculovirus vector in insect cells

The green fluorescence of bioluminescent jellyfishAequorea victoria is due to the presence of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). To examine whether the GFP gene can be applied as a reporter gene in insect cells, a baculovirus transfer vector containing the neomycin resistance gene (neo) was established. The GFP gene was subcloned into the vector downstream of the polyhedrin gene (ocu) promoter. In the presence of G418, the recombinant virus can be purified. Expression of the GFP gene in the recombinant virus should give rise to synthesis of the GFP with a molecular weight of 30×10³ dalton, and is observable by the strong green light irradiated by ultraviolet or blue light in viable intact insect cells. The GFP produced in insect cells has typical fluorescent spectra indistinguishable from those of the purified native GFP. The GFP gene as a good reporter gene can be applied to the baculovirus-insect cell expression system. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Hu Jianhong: born in July, 1972, Master graduate student     

Green fluorescent protein （GFP） transsenic pig produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Transgenic somatic cell nuclear transfer is a very promising route for producing transgenic farm animals. Research on GFP transgenic pigs can provide useful information for breeding transgenic pigs, human disease models and human organ xenotransplantation. In this study, a liposomal transfecUon system was screened and transgenic embryos were reconstructed by nuclear transfer of GFP positive cells into enucleated in vitro matured oocytes. The development of reconstructed embryos both in vitro and in vivo was observed, and GFP expression was determined. The results showed that porcine fe- tal-derived fibroblast cells cultured with 4.0 μL/mL liposome and 1.6 μg/mL plasmid DNA for 6 h resulted in the highest transfecUon rate （3.6%）. The percentage of GFP reconstructed embryos that de- veloped in vitro to the blastocyst stage was 10%. Of those the GFP positive percentage was 48%. Reconstructed transgenic embryos were transferred to 10 recipients. 5 of them were pregnant, and 3 delivered 6 cloned piglets in which 4 piglets were transgenic for the GFP as verified by both GFP protein expression and GFP DNA sequence analysis. The percentage of reconstructed embryos that resulted in cloned piglets was 1.0%; while the percentage of piglets that were transgenic was 0.7%. This is the first group of transgenic cloned pigs born in China, marking a great progress in Chinese transgenic cloned pig research.     

Chromosomal localization of a novel retinoic acid induced geneRA28 and protein distribution of its encoded protein

GeneRA28 is a retinoic acid induced novel gene isolated in our laboratory previously. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) was used to induce lung adenocarcinoma cell line GLC-82, andRA28 was obtained by subtractive hybridization. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has emerged as a unique tool for examining introcellular phenomena in living cells. GFP possesses an intrinsic fluorescence at 488 nm that does not require other co-factors. In this report, an eukaryotic expression plasmid pEGFP-C1-RA28 was constructed and transfected with parental cell line GLC-82 to analyze protein expression and its distribution in living cells. Moreover, radiation hybrid (RH) technique was used to localizeRA28 to the chromosome. The results show that geneRA28 is mapped to the chromosome 19q13.1 region, its encoded protein is distributed on cell membrane. All the results further demonstrate that GFP and RH techniques are accurate, fast, repetitive, and will be powerful methods for investigating the gene and protein localization.     

Generating of rice OsCENH3-GFP transgenic plants and their genetic applications

In order to investigate rice functional centromeres, OsCENH3-GFP chimeric gene was constructed and transformed into the indica rice variety, Zhongxian 3037, mediated by Agrobacturium. The integration of the exogenous genes in the transgenic plants was confirmed by PCR and Southern blotting. The transgenic plants grow normally during their whole life time, just like Zhongxian 3037. No significant defects were detected in either mitosis or meiosis of the transgenic plants. The overlapping of GFP signals and anti-CENH3 foci in both mitotic and meiotic cells from T0 and T1 generation plants indicated that GFP had been successfully fused with CENH3, so the GFP signals can well represent the CENH3 locations on each chromosome. To evaluate the applicability of the transgenic plants to other genetic studies, fluorescence in situ hybridization （FISH） using rice centromeric tandem repetitive sequence CentO as the probe was conducted on the zygotene chromosomes of pollen mother cells （PMCs）. It has been revealed that the GFP signals are overlapping with CentO FISH signals, showing that CentO is one of the key elements constituting rice functional centromeres. Immunofluorescent staining using anti-o-tublin antibody and anti-PAIR2 antibody on the chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis stages of the transgenic plants further reveals that OsCENH3-GFP transgenic plants can be widely used for studying rice molecular biology, especially for tagging functional centromeres in both living cells and tissues.     

Green fluorescent protein （GFP） as a vital marker for studying the interaction of Phytophthora sojae and soybean

Transgenic Phytophthora sojae strains that produce green fluorescent protein （GFP） were obtained after stable DNA integration using the Hsp70 promoter and the Ham34 terminator of Bremia lactucae. The expression of GFP during different developmental stages of P. sojae was observed using fluorescent microscopy. Based on this reporter system, the histopathologic events caused by the pathogen in soybean leaves, hypocotyls and roots were monitored. Meanwhile, the difference in resistance between different soybean cultivars against P. sojae was analyzed microscopically in roots. The results indicate that GFP can be stably expressed in zoosporangia, zoospores, cysts, hyphae and oospores of P. sojae. Using the GFP marker, the infecting pathogens in leaves, hypocotyls and roots of host could be distinctly visualized. The germ tube length of cysts germinating on the roots of resistant cultivar Nannong 8848 was longer than that on the roots of susceptible cultivar Hefeng 35. These results show for the first time that this eukaryotic reporter can be used in P. sojae as a stable and vital marker, allowing the study of genetics of this hemibiotrophic pathogen.     

Investigation of hrDNA targeting vector-mediated tumor-specific suicide gene therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Vectors pose most pivotal problem of gene therapy[1]. Because of the high transfection efficiency both in vitro and in vivo, the viral vector has been employed in 70% clinical trials of gene therapy (http://www.wiley.co.uk/ genmed/clinical). However, thei…     

Introduction of exogenous DNA into cotton via the pollen-tube pathway with GFP as a reporter

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene from the jellyfishAequorea victoria as a vital reporter for gene expression in plants is considered to have several advantages over other reporter genes. The pBIN35S-mGFP4 plasmid DNA has been introduced into cotton embryos by the pollen-tube pathway method. A transformed seedling has been verified according to its GFP-related fluorescence and Southern blotting analysis. The results provided direct and convincing facts in cytology and molecular biology for the pollen-tube pathway method, an efficient transformation technique used in plants.     

灰树花多糖硫酸酯化衍生物的制备与抑制HMEC迁移的作用

灰树花(Grifola fondose)高浓缩精粉经热水提取,95%乙醇沉淀,获得水溶性灰树花粗多糖GFP.GFP依次经DEAE-cellulose阴离子交换树脂及Sephadex G-100葡聚糖凝胶分离纯化得到GFP1-F,GFP1-M及GFP1-L3种不含蛋白质的葡聚糖纯品,其分子量依次为1.09×105,1.93×104和2.76×103Da.采用吡啶-氯磺酸法对其进行硫酸酯化修饰,硫酸酯化衍生物GFP1-FS,GFP1-MS及GFP1-LS的红外光谱分析表明,3个样品均在1 236.90cm-1和811.81cm-1有硫酸酯键的特征吸收峰,13C NMR证明C-6上的羟基被酯化.并且GFP1-FS的硫酸酯化程度最高,其取代度DS为1.07;GFP1-MS与GFP1-LS的硫酸酯化程度相当,DS分别为0.66和0.61.划痕法实验结果表明,经1 000μg/mL的GFP1-FS,GFP1-MS及GFP1-LS处理24h后向划痕区迁移的细胞数明显减少,分别为对照组的73.33%,34.17%和67.21%,均具有抑制人微血管内皮细胞(HMEC)迁移的活性,其中GFP1-MS的效果最为显著,这可能与GFP1-MS所具有的复杂分支结构有关.     

Ethernet over PDH技术中GFP封装模块的设计与实现

介绍Ethernet over PDH技术中GFP封装模块的设计,该设计遵循ITU-TG.7041[1]制定的GFP协议,可作为通用模块完成以太网MAC帧封装和解封装过程,应用于各种非以太网线路传输以太网数据的场合。本设计提供cHEC单bit纠错功能、将突发的以太网传输变为流畅、连续的数据流。设计采用Modelsim仿真工具完成功能仿真,通过Xilinx的XC3S1400AFT256-5芯片完成验证,并成功应用于一款以太网转多路E1芯片。     

RNA干扰沉默PID1基因在C2C12细胞中表达的研究

 构建和筛选对PID1（phosphotyrosine interaction domain containing 1, PID1）基因有RNA干扰作用的PID1-shRNA表达载体。据小鼠PID1 cDNA序列,优化设计了4条shRNA及1条阴性干扰序列,插入pGPU6/GFP/Neo载体中,得到pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-1、pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-2、pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-3、pGPU6/GFP/Neo PID1 4和pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-NC。干扰载体转染C2C12细胞,以RT-PCR和Western blot技术检测shRNA对C2C12细胞中PID1 mRNA和蛋白表达的下调作用。结果表明：靶向PID1基因的4个shRNA重组质粒载体经测序分析,其shRNA编码序列与预期设计的完全一致,经酶切鉴定和测序分析证实,靶向PID1基因的shRNA重组质粒载体构建成功。进一步将构建的4个表达载体分别转染C2C12细胞,24h后细胞中PID1基因mRNA表达水平依次下调 (23.58±1.87)%、(75.44±0.77)%、(70.52±0.41)% 和 (56.60±3.13)%。48 h后细胞中PID1蛋白表达水平依次降低 (30.15±5.05)%、(71.86±4.85)%、(67.93±2.28)% 和 (56.81±2.01)%。所筛选出的pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-2、pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-3和pGPU6/GFP/Neo-PID1-4三个表达载体均能高效地抑制转染细胞PID1 mRNA和蛋白的表达,为进一步研究PID1基因的功能奠定了基础。     

Mouse neural stem cells culturedin vitro and expressing an exogenous gene

Neural stem cells are the multipotential, self-renewing cells in central nerve system, and play an essential role in the development and differentiation of nerve system. Neural stem cells can be used to treat the nerve system diseases, especially, the transplantation of neural stem cells to rescue the degenerated neural cells has become a very promising therapeutic way. We successfully cultured neural stem cells isolated from the brains of embryonic micein vitro and determined their distribution in the E17 mice brains. The neural stem cells were transfected with adenoviral vector carrying GFP (green fluorescence protein) gene and then highly expressed the exogenous gene. It paves the way for gene therapy of degenerative nerve system diseases.     

Prokaryotic expression and characterization of a pea actin isoform （PEAcl） fused to GFP

Actins widely exist in eukaryotic cells and play important roles in many living activities. As there are many kinds of actin isoforms in plant cells,it is difficult to purifyeach actin isoform in sufficient quantities for analysing itsphysicochemical properties. In the present study, apea(pisum Sativum L.)actin isoform (PEAc1)fused to His-tag at its amino terminus and GFP(green fluorescent protein)atits Carboxyl terminus were expressed in E. coli in inclusionbodies. The fusion protein (PEAc1-GFP)was highly purifiedwith the yield of above 2 mg/L culture by dissolving inclu-sions in 8 mol/L urea,renaturing by dialysis in a gradient of urea,and affinity binding to Ni-resin. The purified mono-meric PEAc1-GFP could efficiently bind on DNase I andinhibit the latter抯 enzyme activity. PEAc1-GFP could po-lymerise into green fluorescent filamentous structures(F-PEAc1-GFP),which could be labelled byTRITC-phalloidin,a specific agent for observing microfila-ments. The PEAc1-GFP polymerlzation curve was identicalwith that of chicken skeletal muscle actin. The critical con-centration for PEAc1-Gfp to polymerise into filaments is 0.24 μmol/L.The F-PEAc1-GFP could stimulate myosinMg-ATPase activity in a protein concentration dependantmanner (about 4 folds at 1 mg/mL F-PEAc1-GFP). The re-sults above show that the PEAc1 fused to GFP retained theassembly characteristic of actin, indicating that gene fusion,prokaryotic expression, denaturation and renaturation,andaffinity chromatography is a useful strategy for obtainingplant actin isoform proteins in a large amount.     

根癌农杆菌介导的GFP在洋葱表皮细胞定位研究

采用根癌农杆菌介导的方法,以受控于CaMV35S启动子的携带有GFP报告基因的双元植物表达载体pCAMBIA1300-35S-GFP转化洋葱表皮细胞.荧光显微镜下观察结果显示,GFP基因在经浸染和共培养后的洋葱表皮细胞中得到了表达,绿色荧光分布在细胞核和细胞质中,为进一步研究新基因的亚细胞定位和瞬时表达奠定了基础.     

Effect of HS2 and HS3 elements on erythroid-specific expression in transgenic mice

The expression plasmids CMV/GFP, HS2ALL, HS3ALL and HS23ALL were selected to investigate the effect of HS2 and HS3 element on erythroid-specific expression in transgenic mice. These plasmids were digested with restriction enzymes and purified. And five DNA fragments, CMV/GFP, HS2/GFP, CMV/HS2/GFP, HS23/GFP and HS3/GFP were obtained. After purification, the above DNA fragments were microinjected into the pre-nuclei of the mice fertilized eggs and transgenic mice were generated, with an integration rate of 10.89%. The green fluorescence protein(GFP) expression in many transgenic mouse tissues was determined by FACS analysis. The results showed that the HS2 and 1.7 kb of β-globin gene promoter were sufficient for the erythroid-specific expression of β-globin gene. The GFP expression of different recombinant constructs was also analyzed in blood of all the transgenic mice with FACS. The results indicated that HS2 and HS3 had the same enhancement activity on the regulation of β-globin gene expression. Moreover, these two elements showed a significant synergistic effect on gene expression at the transgenic mouse level, although the GFP expression varied largely among different transgenic mouse litters.     

SCFP,a novel fiber-specific promoter in cotton

To investigate the expression pattern of GhSCFP which was isolated from cotton fiber cDNA library, a 1006 bp upstream fragment of the gene was cloned by chromosome walking and fused to GUSand GFP respectively. Histochemical GUS and GFP fluorescence analysis revealed that the expression of the report genes driven by the promoter sequence was detectable only in outer layer cells during the seed development in the transgentic tobaccos. In transgenic cotton, strong GUS activity was observed in spherical protrusions on 0 dpa （days post anthesis） ovule surface, and in the 2-36 dpa fiber cells, while no GUS signals were detected in the root, leaves, stem, corolla, anther and stigma. Our data demonstrated that GhSCFP upstream sequence is a cotton fiber-specific promoter and this promoter will be useful in the molecular research on fiber cell development and in cotton fiber improvements by genetic modification.     

TD1修饰绿色荧光蛋白透皮功能的研究

TD1作为一种含有11个氨基酸的短肽,具有良好的促进蛋白类大分子透皮的功能.过去的研究显示TD1可以有效协助胰岛素通过皮肤进入循环并最终降低血糖.在本研究中我们构建了一种TD1 N端修饰的GFP融合蛋白(TGFP). 我们的实验表明, 与TD1与GFP蛋白的混合物相比, TGFP具有更加良好的透皮功能.这一发现为透皮给药研究提供了一条新的途径,并对解释TD1透皮功能具有指导意义.     

Foreign gene transfer into Chinese shrimps (Penaeus chinensis) with gene gun

Plasmids pG DNA-RZ1 with a GFP (green fluorescent protein) reporter gene and a ribozyme gene incising penaeid white spot baculovirus (WSBV) were first introduced into the fertilized eggs of Chinese shrimps by gene gun. The treated and control samples of different development stages were observed with a fluorescent microscope. The transient expression of GFP gene was high in nauplius and zoea larvae. Results from RT-PCR and PCR for adults showed that the foreign genes had been transferred into the shrimps and had expressed the corresponding proteins. This work has established a transgenic method for penaeid shrimps, which will set base for the application of genetic engineering breeding into industry.     

Global unfolding of a substrate protein by the Hsp100 chaperone ClpA.

The bacterial protein CIpA, a member of the Hsp100 chaperone family, forms hexameric rings that bind to the free ends of the double-ring serine protease ClpP. ClpA directs the ATP-dependent degradation of substrate proteins bearing specific sequences, much as the 19S ATPase 'cap' of eukaryotic proteasomes functions in the degradation of ubiquitinated proteins. In isolation, ClpA and its relative ClpX can mediate the disassembly of oligomeric proteins; another similar eukaryotic protein, Hsp104, can dissociate low-order aggregates. ClpA has been proposed to destabilize protein structure, allowing passage of proteolysis substrates through a central channel into the ClpP proteolytic cylinder. Here we test the action of ClpA on a stable monomeric protein, the green fluorescent protein GFP, onto which has been added an 11-amino-acid carboxy-terminal recognition peptide, which is responsible for recruiting truncated proteins to ClpAP for degradation. Fluorescence studies both with and without a 'trap' version of the chaperonin GroEL, which binds non-native forms of GFP, and hydrogen-exchange experiments directly demonstrate that ClpA can unfold stable, native proteins in the presence of ATP.     

绿色荧光蛋白在分子细胞生物学研究中的应用

绿我荧光蛋白具有优良的特性,在蓝光或长紫外光的激发下,不需要任何外源底物或内源辅助因子的参入就能发出绿色荧光,绿色荧光蛋白基因的表达可用来监控活细胞或生物体中基因表达和蛋白质的定位,这是一个革命性的进展,而且,对基因ＤＮＡ序列的改造可能使绿色荧光蛋白的发光特性更加优良,从而共应用范围会更加广泛。