Expression of hGM-CSF in silk glands of transgenic silkworms using gene targeting vector

Transgenic Research - Tập 21 - Trang 101-111 - 2011
Renyu Xue1,2, Huimei Chen1, Linlin Cui1, Guangli Cao1,2, Wenlin Zhou3, Xiaojian Zheng1, Chengliang Gong1,2
1Pre-Clinical Medical and Biological Science College, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
2National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
3Sericulture Research Institute of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Tóm tắt

The silk gland of the silkworm is a highly specialized organ that has the wonderful ability to synthesize and secrete silk protein. To express human granucyto-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) in the posterior silk glands of gene-targeted silkworms, a targeting vector pSK-FibL-L-A3GFP-PH-GMCSF-LPA-FibL-R was constructed, harboring a 1.2 kb portion of the left homogenous arm (FibL-L), a 0.5 kb portion of the right homogenous arm (FibL-R), fibroin H-chain-promoter-driven hGM-CSF and silkworm actin 3-promoter-driven gfp. The targeting vector was then introduced into the eggs of silkworm, and the transgenic silkworms were verified by PCR and DNA hybridization after being screened for the gfp gene. Western blotting analysis using an antibody against hGM-CSF demonstrated a specific band with a molecular weight of 22 kD in the silk glands of the G3 generation transgenic silkworms. The level of expression of hGM-CSF in the posterior silk glands of the G3 generation transgenic silkworms was approximately 2.70 ng/g of freeze-dried powdered posterior silk gland. These results showed that the heterologous gene could be introduced into the silkworm genome and expressed successfully. Further more, the exogenous genes existing in the G5 transgenic silkworm identified by PCR confirmed its integration stability. In addition, the silk glands containing expressed hGM-CSF performed the function of significantly increasing leukocyte count of CY-treated mice in a time-and-dose-dependent manner.

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