人核糖体DNA打靶载体介导mda-7基因对肝癌的体外基因治疗研究

人核糖体DNA打靶载体pHr是一种由中南大学医学遗传学国家重点实验室开发构建的针对人类基因组的同源重组质粒载体．利用pHr构建了一种mda-7/GFP融合基因的人源基因表达载体pHr-CMG,并研究了其在肝癌细胞系Bel-7402中的作用．利用荧光显微镜、RT-PCR和Western blotting检测了mda-7/GFP融合基因的表达;利用细胞周期分析、MTT和Hoechst33258染色研究了其在细胞中的作用．结果显示,pHr-CMG载体能在Bel-7402细胞中有效表达MDA-7/GFP融合蛋白,进而抑制细胞增殖和诱导细胞凋亡,推测其可能是由载体表达了mda-7基因引起细胞在G2/M期累积所导致的．同时,实验结果证实了人核糖体DNA打靶载体系统以及pHr-CMG表达载体的有效性,为其在进一步基因治疗研究中的应用提供了理论和实验基础．     

EV71通过2A蛋白酶切割Nup62而抑制核转运

为了解EV71病毒对细胞核转运机制的影响,本研究构建了具有核定位信号的绿色荧光蛋白表达载体(pG-FP-NLS)。将此表达载体转染细胞后,使用EV71病毒感染转染细胞,结果发现EV71病毒可以有效阻止绿色荧光蛋白的核转移。将EV71病毒的2A蛋白酶真核表达载体与pGFP-NLS共转染RD细胞,可以发现2A蛋白酶可阻止具有核定位信号的绿色荧光蛋白的核转移而使绿色荧光蛋白表达于细胞浆。为了进一步研究病毒阻止核转移的机制,病毒感染细胞或通过转染2A蛋白酶真核表达载体进行Nup62的Western blotting检测,结果显示病毒以及2A蛋白酶均可引起Nup62表达下降。证明EV71可通过2A蛋白酶切割Nup62从而抑制核转运。     

新型聚乙烯亚胺衍生物体内转染活性的研究

目的:研究新型聚乙烯亚胺衍生物作为基因载体在小鼠体内的转染活性情况。方法:采用荧光素酶质粒DNA作为报告基因,与基因载体复合,对小鼠尾静脉注射,考察组织分布情况;以及对小鼠肌肉注射,应用活体成像技术考察其转染活性。结果:静脉注射后,小鼠肺组织中基因表达量最高;肌肉注射后,可以观察到活性转染结果,表达量高于对照PE(?)25KDa。结论:新型聚乙烯亚胺衍生物在体内可成功输送质粒DNA,但转染效率偏低。     

非病毒型载体介导基因转染

基因载体是制约基因转移技术发展的关键。近年来,非病毒载体由于其安全、低毒、低免疫原性等特点而备受青睐。文章以脂质体和聚乙烯亚胺为代表,介绍了非病毒载体的性质、介导转染的机制。随着人们对细胞转染机制了解的深入以及生物材料科学的迅速发展,非病毒型载体将有望实现高效、低毒、靶向特异等特点,从而成为基因治疗中的理想载体。     

新型聚乙烯亚胺衍生物在Hep G2 细胞中转染和毒性的研究

目的:研究以对苯二甲醛( Terephthalaldehyde)为连接剂的聚乙烯亚胺(Polyethyleneimine,PEI)衍生物PEI-Tp对肝癌细胞Hep G2的转染活性和细胞毒性的影响.方法:以荧光素酶质粒作为报告基因,研究高分子和DNA的复合物在Hep G2细胞中的转染活性,用MTT的方法研究高分子对Hep G2细胞的毒性.结果:Hep G2细胞转染结果显示构建的聚乙烯亚胺衍生物PEI-Tp具有高效输送质粒的能力;细胞毒性结果显示PEI-Tp随着浓度的增加,其毒性显著低于PEI25 kDa.结论:Hep G2细胞实验数据显示PEI-Tp是一种高效、低毒,在基因治疗领域有相当前景的非病毒载体.     

新型聚乙烯亚胺衍生物在Hep G2细胞中转染和毒性的研究

目的:研究以1,4-丁二醇二氯甲酸酯为连接剂的聚乙烯亚胺(Polyethyleneimine,PEI)衍生物PEI-Bu对肝癌细胞的转染活性和细胞毒性的影响.方法:以荧光素酶质粒作为报告基因,研究高分子和DNA的复合物在HepG2细胞中的转染活性,研究高分子对Hep G2细胞的毒性.结果:Hep G2细胞转染结果显示我们构建的聚乙烯亚胺衍生物PEI-Bu有比阳性对照PEI 25 kDa和Lipofectamine 2000更高的基因表达;细胞毒性结果显示PEI-Bu随着浓度的增加,其毒性显著低于PE125 kDa.结论:HepG2细胞实验教据显示PEI-Bu是一种高效、低毒,在肝脏基因治疗领域有相当前景的非病毒载体.     

核糖体基因区打靶载体电转染肝细胞的孵育条件的优化

目的:提高核糖体基因区打靶载体的转染效率,优化其电转染肝细胞的孵育条件.方法:在其它电转染参数一致的前提下,设计了6组不同的孵育条件,通过分析转染后细胞活率以及48h后目的基因GFP的表达效率,来比较多组不同的孵育条件对电转染效率的影响.结果:6组条件中,转染前21℃,1min,转染后21℃,1min孵育,得到的转染效率最优,比其它的条件得到的转染效率高50%.结论:孵育条件的优化能提高为核糖体基因区靶向表达我体在体外电转染肝细胞的转染效率.     

新型非病毒三元复合DNA载体的研究

基因治疗是未来临床医学最具潜力的治疗方式,目前阻碍临床基因治疗发展的主要因素是缺乏安全和高效的基因载体,因此研究理想的非病毒转基因载体具有重要的意义.构建了由质粒DNA(D)-抗DNA抗体(A)-阳离子脂质体(C)组成的三元复合纳米基因载体(DAC),研究表明,三组分在磷酸缓冲液中可通过分子组装形成复合纳米胶束,DAC在细胞培养中表现出显著高效的基因表达,DAC在血管平滑肌细胞中的基因转染效率比不含抗DNA抗体的二元组合(DC)高4倍,比不含阳离子脂质体的二元组合(DA)约高11倍.激光共聚焦荧光显微观察证明,DAC细胞摄取量和DNA进入细胞核的量均明显高于对照组,而DC二元组合(不含抗DNA抗体)的DNA很少进入细胞核,细胞在DAC存在下生长正常.未发现细胞毒性.研究结果提示,DAC的作用机理主要是三元复合胶束中DNA的装载量比二元载体大得多,抗DNA抗体与阳离子脂质体的协同作用明显有利于DNA被细胞摄取和胞吞,从而提高了基因的转染和表达.     

核糖体蛋白L6/Taxreb107的核定位信号的分析

核糖体蛋白L6（RpL6,Taxreb107）含有三个具有核定位信号特征的基序.用作者构建的核定位信号捕获系统分析了这些核定位信号是否具有介导蛋白质进行核转位的功能.将RpL6/Taxreb107分段插入核定位信号捕获载体的克隆位点后转化宿主酵母,发现其前两个核定位信号可以介导融合蛋白进入细胞核,而第三个核定位信号无此作用.将RpL6/Taxreb107分段与绿色荧光蛋白融合后转染培养的哺乳类细胞,证实了以上在酵母中所得的结果.进一步发现RpL6/Taxreb107的前两个核定位信号同时具有核仁定位的功能.当在细胞中表达的早期,进入核内的融合蛋白优先定位于核仁.这些结果一方面有助于理解RpL6/Taxreb107核转位的机理,同时说明作者构建的核定位信号捕获系统也可用在蛋白质中寻找核定位信号.     

非病毒载体聚乙烯亚胺介导DNA转染的研究

目的 研究新型非病毒类载体聚乙烯亚胺（PEI）的最适转染条件.方法 分析各种因素对25ku线性PEI转染效率的影响,优化实验条件.结果 PEI与DNA的质量比≥2能保证DNA与PEI完全结合,最佳混合时间为10 min,但血清的存在将降低其结合效率.在一定范围内提高PEI与DNA的质量比有利于提高转染效率.293T细胞最适转染密度为培养面积的80%.结论 确定了PEI转染细胞的最优条件.     

人体肠道病毒组学研究进展

人体微生物组计划开展近10年来,大量的研究显示人体微生物通过各种方式深刻地影响着人体健康。人体肠道内丰富多样的病毒构成了肠道病毒组,是人体微生物组的重要组成部分,和人体健康密切相关。本文综述了近些年国际上人体肠道病毒组研究的最新进展,分别从人体肠道病毒组的组成特征、肠道病毒组-细菌组-人体间的相互作用及其对人体健康的影响、病毒组研究的技术策略及挑战等方面进行了论述,探讨了肠道病毒组在人体疾病预防和治疗领域应用的可行性。     

In vitro cultivation of human renal cell cancer

Summary A technique for initiating and propagating epithelial cell cultures of human renal cell cancer and adjacent nontumor kidney is described. Seventy-five percent of the tumors and 79% of the adjacent kidney specimens cultured with this method have shown initial outgrowth and have been subcultured at least once. Two renal cell cancer cultures initiated by this method have now been in continuous culture more than 6 months, have been subcultured 27 and 19 times, and now appear to be stable lines. The ability to establish long-term in vitro cultures of human renal cell cancers will facilitate studies concerning the immunoreactivity, cholesterol metabolism, the isolation of renal-cell-cancer-specific antigens, and in vitro chemotherapy testing and will further our understanding of the basic biology of human renal cell cancer. American Cancer Society Clinical Fellow 1975–1976. Supported in part by Grants CA 13095-03 and CA 15551-03 from the National Cancer Institute.     

Bio-therapeutics from human milk: prospects and perspectives

Human milk is elixir for neonates and is a rich source of nutrients and beneficial microbiota required for infant growth and development. Its benefits prompted research into probing the milk components and their use as prophylactic or therapeutic agents. Culture-independent estimation of milk microbiome and high-resolution identification of milk components provide information, but a holistic purview of these research domains is lacking. Here, we review the current research on bio-therapeutic components of milk and simplified future directions for its efficient usage. Publicly available databases such as PubMed and Google scholar were searched for keywords such as probiotics and prebiotics related to human milk, microbiome and milk oligosaccharides. This was further manually curated for inclusion and exclusion criteria relevant to human milk and clinical efficacy. The literature was classified into subgroups and then discussed in detail to facilitate understanding. Although milk research is still in infancy, it is clear that human milk has many functions including protection of infants by passive immunization through secreted antibodies, and transfer of immune regulators, cytokines and bioactive peptides. Unbiased estimates show that the human milk carries a complex community of microbiota which serves as the initial inoculum for establishment of infant gut. Our search effectively screened for evidence that shows that milk also harbours many types of prebiotics such as human milk oligosaccharides which encourage growth of beneficial probiotics. The milk also trains the naive immune system of the infant by supplying immune cells and stimulatory factors, thereby strengthening mucosal and systemic immune system. Our systematic review would improve understanding of human milk and the inherent complexity and diversity of human milk. The interrelated functional role of human milk components especially the oligosaccharides and microbiome has been discussed which plays important role in human health.     

Modeling human extraembryonic mesoderm cells using naive pluripotent stem cells

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Efficient production of human tumour necrosis factor in Escherichia coli

Human tumour necrosis factor (TNF) cDNA was isolated from a cDNA library prepared using TNF mRNA from human alveolar macrophages. Using the cDNA, various expression plasmids were constructed and their TNF producibility was examined in Escherichia coli. The best transformants produced a TNF polypeptide in a yield of about 20% of cellular proteins. The purified TNF polypeptide was lacking a methionine residue at the N-terminus, and possessed the expected physical and chemical properties and the biological activities characteristic of TNF.     

Ethical Issues in the Use of Data from Testing of Human Subjects to Support Risk Assessment

The public understands and supports the ethical use of human subjects in medical research, recognizing the unique role for this type of study in the development of new drugs and therapeutic strategies for treatment of disease. The use of data from human subjects can also be of value in understanding the circumstances under which individuals exposed to chemicals in the food supply, in the workplace, or in the environment might experience toxicity, i.e., in support of risk assessment. However, questions have been raised as to whether this latter type of research is ethical, or can be performed in an ethical manner. Under what circumstances is it acceptable to intentionally expose human subjects to potentially toxic agents? This is an extremely important issue for the risk assessment community to address, because it affects in a fundamental way the types of information that will be available to conduct human health risk assessments. Four papers in this issue offer viewpoints on the value of human data, the circumstances under which human subjects might be exposed to toxic chemicals for research purposes, the ethical problems associated with this research, and the role of human vs. animal data in the development of toxicity values for human health risk assessment     

Homogeneous antibodies directed against human cell surface antigens: I. The mouse spleen fragment culture response to T and B cell lines derived from the same individual

The use of the mouse spleen fragment culture system is extended to the production of antibodies to human lymphoblastoid cell lines. These antibodies were tested for reactivity against the immunizing cell line, and against a second cell line which had been derived from the same human blood sample. Many of the antibodies were found to discriminate between the 2 isogenic lines. These results demonstrate the potential of the mouse spleen fragment culture system to provide homogeneous reagents which detect distinguishing markers on closely related human cells.     

Brief communication: Evaluating grandmother effects

Women who have outlived child‐bearing have long been described as postreproductive. But contributions they make to the survival or fertility of their descendants enhance the reproduction of their genes. Consequently, natural selection affects this characteristic stage of human life history. Grandmother effects can be measured in data sets that include births and deaths over several generations, but unmeasured covariates complicate the task. Here we focus on two complications: cohort shifts in mortality and fertility, and maternal age at death. We use the Utah Population Database to show that longevity of grandmothers may be associated with fewer grandchildren, as reported by Madrigal and Melendez‐Obando (Am J Phys Anthropol 136 (2008) 223–229) for a Costa Rican sample, even when grandmother effects are actually positive. Am J Phys Anthropol 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.