Abstract:
:We constructed a plasmid containing bovine leukemia virus (BLV)-tax gene driven by SR alpha promoter, designated as pME-BLVtax, to activate the promoter of the long terminal repeat (LTR) of BLV in various tumor cells. Activation of the promoter of BLV-LTR by pME-BLVtax was confirmed by luciferase assay. When the cells, such as COS-1, C8, and KU-1, were transfected with a plasmid pBLV-LUC1, which contained the luciferase gene under the control of BLV-LTR, and pME-BLVtax, luciferase was expressed in these cells, whereas no luciferase gene expression was observed when only pBLV-LUC1 was introduced into the cells. Activation of the BLV-LTR promoter was regulated by pME-BLVtax and 0.5 microg of pME-BLVtax was sufficient for the expression of the gene under the control of BLV-LTR. Furthermore, pME-BLVtax was used to direct the cell expression of the gene for diphtheria toxin A-chain under the control of BLV-LTR (pLTR-DT) to various tumor cell lines, KU-1, C8, COS-1, BL2M3, and HeLa cells. The transfection was carried out with cationic liposomes. In this experiment, co-transfection of pLTR-DT with pME-BLVtax exerted selective growth inhibitory effects on the tumor cell lines. Moreover, three co-introductions of pLTR-DT with pME-BLVtax into the cell lines resulted in significant inhibition of the cell growth. This result suggests that the delivery of the pLTR-DT and pME-BLVtax genes into tumor cells by the use of cationic liposomes may be potentially useful as a novel approach for the treatment of tumor cells.
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Microbiol Immunoljournal_title
Microbiology and immunologyauthors
Tana,Watarai S,Aida Y,Tajima S,Kakidani H,Onuma M,Kodama Hdoi
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