The Construction of the Eukaryotic Expression Vector of Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase Gene from Treponema pallidum and its Expression in Hela Cells

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摘要 Objective:ToconstructtherecombinantplasmidcontainingGlycerophosphodiesterphosphodiesterase(Gpd)genefromTreponemapallidumandtransfectitintoHelacellstoexpresstheencodedoutermembraneprotein.Methods:TheGpdgenewasamplifiedfromthegenomicDNAofT.pallidumbypolymerasechainreaction(PCR)andinsertedintocloningvectorpUCm-T.TheinsertedGpdgenewassubclonedintotheappropriatesiteofpcDNA3.1(+)vector.Afteridentificationbysequencingandrestrictiveenzymesdigestion,therecombinantplasmidwastransfectedintoHelacellsusingliposomes.TheexpressedproteinwasidentifiedbyimmunocytochemistryandWesternblot.Results:ThetargetGpdgenesegmentwasapproximately1059bp.TheDNAsequenceoftheGpdgenecontainedinthepcDNA3.1(+)vectorwasconsistentwiththepublishednucleotidesequence.ThehomologyofthenucleotideandputativeaminoacidsequencesoftheGpdgenebetweenT.pallidumsubsp.pallidumNicholsandvariouspathogenictreponemalstrainsrangedfrom98%to100%.ImmunocytochemistryandWesternblotanalysisshowedthattheconstructedGpd-pcDNA3.1(+)vectorexpressedafusionproteinwithacalculatedmolecularmassof41KDainHelacellsandthattheexpressedproteinreactedwiththeserafromsyphilispatients.Conclusion:ThesuccessfulconstructionandexpressionoftheeukaryoticexpressionplasmidoftheGpdgenefromT.pallidumprovideapromisingtooltofurtherstudythebiologicalactivityofT.pallidumanddevelopaDNAvaccineforsyphilis.
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出版日期 2005年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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