基因修饰对鸡新城疫病毒F48E9株HN基因DNA疫苗表达效力的影响

DNA疫苗的免疫效果与抗原基因的表达量和免疫原性有直接关系, 为了提高目的基因的表达量, 本研究对NDV F48E9株的HN基因进行了修饰, 对修饰前后HN基因表达水平进行了比较。利用分子生物学软件将NDV F48E9株的HN基因的密码子全部替换为鸡体内偏嗜性密码子, 同时在HN基因的5′端加上同样已替换密码子的禽流感病毒HA蛋白信号肽序列以期望提高目的蛋白在细胞中的表达。修饰后HN基因命名为SoptiHN, 剔除信号肽的HN基因命名为optiHN。将SoptiHN、optiHN和F48E9株的HN基因分别克隆到真核表达载体pVAX1和含有多个鸡体内最适免疫刺激序列CpG-ODN的载体pVAX1-CpG中, 将他们分别命名为pV-SoptiHN、pVC-SoptiHN、pV-optiHN、pVC-optiHN和pV-HN、 pVC-HN, 用这些质粒转染293T细胞, 48小时后间接免疫荧光和Western blotting检测细胞中瞬时表达的HN蛋白。结果显示, 与未经修饰的HN基因相比, 修饰后的HN基因体外瞬时表达水平明显提高, 并且密码子优化与添加信号肽序列这两种途径都可以提高HN基因的体外表达量。

Effect of Modified NDV F48E9 Strain HN Gene and in vitro Expression of Its DNA Vaccine

Improving expression of antigen is critical to the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines. To achieve this goal, we modified the NDV F48E9 strain HN gene by optimizing the condon usage and inserting the secretary leader sequence A/Goose/Guangdong/ 1/96 (H5N1) HA gene, Accession No. AF144305]. The HN gene modified and knocked the signal peptide off were named SoptiHN and optiHN. The three sequence: SoptiHN, optiHN and the NDV F48E9 strain HN gene were inserted into the vector pVAX1 and vector pVAX1-CpG including CpG-ODN sequence respectively. Then we got six recombinant plasmids: pV-SoptiHN, pVC-SoptiHN, pV-optiHN, pVC-optiHN, pV-HN and pVC-HN. By optimizing condon usage in transiently transfected 293T cells, expression levels of HN gene were higher from the codon-optimized gene than the counterpart. Moreover, both optimization of condon usage and addition of signal peptide could improve expression of HN gene in vitro.