Expression of human soluble TRAIL in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast

Science China Press., Co. Ltd. - Tập 51 - Trang 1703-1709 - 2006
Zongqi Yang1,2, yinü Li2, Feng Chen3, Dong Li1, Zhifang Zhang2, Yanxin Liu3, Dexian Zheng3, Yong Wang1, Guifang Shen2
1College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
2Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
3National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) induces selectively apoptosis in various tumor cells and virus-infected cells, but rarely in normal cells. A chloroplast expression vector, p64TRAIL, containing the cDNA coding for the soluble TRAIL (sTRAIL), was constructed with clpP-trnL-petB-chlL-rpl23-rpl2 as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid homologous recombinant fragments and spectinomycin-resistant aadA gene as a select marker. The plasmid p64TRAIL was transferred into the chloroplast genome of C. reinhardtii by the biolistic method. Three independently transformed lines were obtained by 100 mg/L spectinomycin selection. PCR amplification, Southern blot analysis of the sTRAIL coding region DNA and cultivation cells in the dark all showed that the exogenous DNA had been integrated into chloroplast genome of C. reinhardtii. Western blot analysis showed that human soluble TRAIL was expressed in C. reinhardtii chloroplast. The densitometric analysis of Western blot indicated that the expressed human sTRAIL protein in the chloroplasts of C. reinhardtii accounted for about 0.43%–0.67% of the total soluble proteins. These experimental results demonstrated the possibility of using transgenic chloroplasts of green alga as bioreactors for production of biopharmaceuticals.

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