小鼠γ干扰素/上皮生长因子受体结合域融合蛋白的构建及其抗肿瘤活性的提高

采用基因工程和蛋白质工程技术,构建了一种新颖的小鼠γ干扰素/上皮生长因子受体结合域融合蛋白,该蛋白保留了完全的抗病毒活性,达到10~8IU/L菌液;利用~(125)I-mEGF进行的受体结合竞争抑制实验,证明融合蛋白所带有的上皮生长因子结合域有与EGF竞争结合受体的功能;体外抗乳腺癌细胞增殖实验证明融合蛋白具有比干扰素母体分子更明显的抗肿瘤细胞增殖效应;在小鼠B16黑色素瘤模型上,融合蛋白和干扰素母体治疗后的2组小鼠,平均瘤体重量分别为1.6和2.6g,具有统计学差异.表明融合蛋白具有比干扰素母体分子更强的体内肿瘤生长抑制作用.     

肿瘤特异表达的单纯疱疹病毒胸苷激酶基因对人肺腺癌的实验治疗

利用CEA(癌胚抗原)只在肺腺癌中表达,而不在正常肺组织中表达的特点,构建了由CEA启动子控制的单纯疱疹病毒胸苷激酶基因(HSV-TK)的逆转病毒载体(pCEATK),然后将pCEATK导入表达CEA的人肺腺癌细胞GL和不表达CEA的HeLa细胞,在体内外观察了Ganciclovir(GCV)的治疗效果和“旁观者效应”.结果表明pCEATK只在表达CEA的肺腺癌GL细胞中特异表达,而不在HeLa细胞表达;GL的pCEATK转染细胞对GCV的敏感性增加了992倍,在裸鼠体内GCV也可以明显抑制GL转染细胞的生长,并有明显的“旁观者效应”现象;而HeLa的pCEATK转染细胞体内外对GCV的敏感性没有明显变化.这提示由CEA启动子控制的HSV-TK的逆转病毒载体对表达CEA的人肺腺癌的基因治疗可能是治疗人肺腺癌的有效方法.     

Construction of a novel fusion protein harboring mouse inter- feron γ and epidermal growth factor receptor binding domain and enhancement of its antitumor activity

A novel fusion protein harboring mouse interferon γ and epidermal growth factor receptor binding domain was constructed with the method of genetic and protein engineering. The fusion protein kept complete antiviral activity with the titer of 108 IU per liter of culture. The EGF-RBD of the fusion protein exhibited competitive binding activity against 125I-mEGF for mEGF receptors on A431 cells. The fusion protein was shown to be more potent in in-hibiting the growth of cultured mouse breast carcinoma cells than interferon γ. Experimental data on mouse B16 malig-nant melanoma model indicated that the tumor weight of fusion protein-treated group was statistically significantly smaller than that of interferon γ-treated group. The work here provides a necessarily reliable clue for the upcoming clinical employment of a novel class of targeting interferons.     

腺病毒4型E3区核苷酸序列测定及其基因结构与功能分析

本文将Ａｄ４基因组相当于７３．３－８９．２基因图谱单位的ＤＮＡ片段进行了序列测定及基因结构分析,它包括了Ａｄ４Ｅ３区全基因及该区两侧的部分序列。序列分析表明,Ａｄ４ Ｅ３区从ＴＡＴＡＡ ｂｏｘ起至该区基因结束共４７７８ｂｐ,编码１１个大于６ｋＤ的开放读码框架。对Ａｄ４ Ｅ３区ＯＲＦ分析结果表明,Ａｄ４ Ｅ３区编码的１９．３ｋ,１５ｋ,１０．４ｋ蛋白,分别与Ａｄ２ Ｅ３区的ｇｐ１９ｋ,１４．ｋ和１０