Structural Insights into the Catalytic Domains of Human Matrix Metalloprotease-2 and Human Matrix Metalloprotease-9: Implications for Substrate Specificities

Structural information for the gelatinases A (MMP-2) and B (MMP-9), two members of the matrix metalloprotease (MMP) family of enzymes, has been elusive. For the first time, computational structures for the catalytic domains of MMP-2 and MMP-9 are reported herein using the program COMPOSER and the reported three-dimensional structures of the fibroblast collagenase (MMP-1), neutrophil collagenase (MMP-8) and stromelysin-1 (MMP-3). The details of the structures of the catalytic domains of gelatinases and interactions with the protein substrate are discussed. The first analysis of the extent of hydrophobicity of surfaces in the active sites of six MMPs (including the two gelatinases reported herein) is presented to provide distinction for substrate specificity among these metalloproteases. The information from the extent of hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity analysis and general topology for these MMPs was utilized in the proposal of a method for categorization of MMPs of known three-dimensional fold. These efforts provide the first information useful to experimentalists working on the biochemical properties of these important members of the MMP family of enzymes, and provide for an opportunity to compare and contrast structures of gelatinases, collagenases and stromelysins.     

Structural Insights into the Catalytic Domains of Human Matrix Metalloprotease-2 and Human Matrix Metalloprotease-9: Implications for Substrate Specificities

Structural information for the gelatinases A (MMP-2) and B (MMP-9), two members of the matrix metalloprotease (MMP) family of enzymes, has been elusive. For the first time, computational structures for the catalytic domains of MMP-2 and MMP-9 are reported herein using the program COMPOSER and the reported three-dimensional structures of the fibroblast collagenase (MMP-1), neutrophil collagenase (MMP-8) and stromelysin-1 (MMP-3). The details of the structures of the catalytic domains of gelatinases and interactions with the protein substrate are discussed. The first analysis of the extent of hydrophobicity of surfaces in the active sites of six MMPs (including the two gelatinases reported herein) is presented to provide distinction for substrate specificity among these metalloproteases. The information from the extent of hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity analysis and general topology for these MMPs was utilized in the proposal of a method for categorization of MMPs of known three-dimensional fold. These efforts provide the first information useful to experimentalists working on the biochemical properties of these important members of the MMP family of enzymes, and provide for an opportunity to compare and contrast structures of gelatinases, collagenases and stromelysins.Electronic Supplementary Material available.     

Cleavage/Alteration of Interleukin-8 by Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in the Female Lower Genital Tract

Objective

Interleukin-8 (IL-8, CXCL8) plays important roles in immune responses at mucosal sites including in the lower genital tract. Since several types of bacteria produce proteases that cleave IL-8 and many types of bacteria can be present in lower genital tract microbiota, we assessed genital fluids for IL-8 cleavage/alteration.

Study Design

Genital fluids collected by lavage from 200 women (23 HIV-seronegative and 177 HIV-seropositive) were tested for IL-8 cleavage/alteration by ELISA.

Results

IL-8 cleaving/altering activity was observed in fluids from both HIV-positive (28%) and HIV-negative women (35%). There was no clear relationship between the activity and the types of bacteria present in the lower genital tract as determined by high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. Protease inhibitors specific for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) reduced the activity and a multiplex assay that detects both inactive and active MMPs showed the presence of multiple MMPs, including MMP-1, -3, -7, -8, -9, -10 and -12 in genital secretions from many of the women. The IL-8-cleaving/altering activity significantly correlated with active MMP-9 as well as with cleavage of a substrate that is acted on by several active MMPs.

Conclusions

These studies show that multiple MMPs are present in the genital tract of women and strongly suggest that MMP-9 in genital secretions can cleave IL-8 at this mucosal site. These studies suggest that MMP-mediated cleavage of IL-8 can modulate inflammatory responses in the lower genital tract.     

Serum Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Levels in the Diagnosis of Functioning Adrena Tumors

ObjectiveTo investigate whether serum matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) levels can be used as a diagnostic tool in determining the functioning status of benign adrenal tumors.MethodsIn this case-control study, medical records of patients with adrenal tumors who consecutively presented to an endocrinology clinic between August 2005 and October 2008 were evaluated. Operation was recommended when the incidentaloma was larger than 4 cm or when a hypersecreting tumor was suspected. A control group of healthy persons matched for age, body mass index, and sex was also enrolled. Patients underwent routine endocrinologic examinations. MMP-9 levels were compared preoperatively and postoperatively. Findings were compared among patients with functioning adrenal tumors, patients with nonfunctioning adrenal tumors, and control participants.ResultsOf 370 patients with adrenal tumors, 50 with adrenal incidentaloma met the inclusion criteria. Twenty- five healthy individuals were enrolled as controls. Group 1 included 20 patients with functioning adrenal tumors (14 with Cushing syndrome and 6 with pheochromocytoma), and Group 2 included 30 patients with nonfunctioning adrenal tumors. MMP-9 levels were higher in patients with nonfunctioning adrenal tumors and functioning adrenal tumors than in control participants (P < .001). MMP-9 levels in patients with functioning adrenal tumors were significantly higher than those in patients with nonfunctioning adrenal tumors (P = .002). After operation, levels decreased significantly in patients with Cushing syndrome and in those with pheochromocytoma; however, patients with Cushing syndrome and pheochromocytoma had similar MMP-9 levels preoperatively and postoperatively. No significant linear correlation existed between tumor volume and MMP-9 levels. A significant positive correlation was determined between preoperative MMP-9 concentrations and 24-hour urinary fractionated metanephrine and epinephrine (r = 0.938, P = .006; r = 0.965, P = .002, respectively), between MMP-9 levels and baseline cortisol levels (r = 0.402, P = .003), and between MMP-9 levels and cortisol levels obtained after dexamethasone suppression testing (r = 0.357, P = .006).ConclusionOur data suggest that serum MMP-9 levels may be useful in differentiating benign subclinical functioning adrenal tumors from benign nonfunctioning adrenal tumors. (Endocr Pract. 2010;16:419-427)     

结直肠癌患者血清基质金属蛋白酶水平及其临床意义

目的:探讨结直肠癌患者血清基质金属蛋白酶水平及其临床意义。方法:采用Bio-plex200悬浮芯片系统检测33例结直肠癌患者(其中13例为结直肠癌转移患者,20例为结直肠癌非转移组)和30例正常对照组血清中基质金属蛋白酶(MMP)-1、2、3、7、8、9、10、12、13的浓度。结果:与正常对照组相比,结直肠癌患者血清MMP-2、MMP-7、MMP-8、MMP-9、MMP-10、MMP-13的浓度显著上调(P0.05),而MMP-1、MMP-3、MMP-12的浓度并无显著性差异(P0.05);与结直肠癌非转移组患者相比,结直肠癌转移组患者血清MMP-2和MMP-7的浓度显著升高(MMP-2:P=0.029;MMP-7:P=0.002)。结论:基质金属蛋白酶可能在结直肠癌的发生、发展过程中起重要作用;MMP-2和MMP-7可能成为结直肠癌发生和转移的预测和评估指标。     

Serum Levels of Interleukin-9 Correlate with Negative Prognostic Factors in Extranodal NK/T-Cell Lymphoma

Interleukin-9 (IL-9) is more functionally diverse than previously expected, especially with regards to lymphomagenesis. However, the relationship between IL-9 and the clinicopathological features of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma is less well established. Patients with this lymphoma in Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center between January 2003 and March 2013 were systematically reviewed in an intention-to-treat analysis. Baseline serum IL-9 levels were determined using sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. A total of seventy-four patients were enrolled in this study. The mean concentration of serum IL-9 for all patients was 6.48 pg/mL (range: 1.38–51.87 pg/mL). Age, B symptoms and local lymph node involvement were found to be related to high serum IL-9 levels. Patients with low IL-9 levels tended to have higher rates of complete remission. Notably, the median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were longer in the low IL-9 level group than in the high IL-9 level group (PFS: 68.7 months vs. 28.3 months, P<0.001; OS: 86 months vs. 42.8 months, P = 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed independent prognostic factors for PFS. Similarly, high IL-9 levels (P = 0.003) and old age (P = 0.007) were independently predictive of shorter OS. Serum IL-9 is closely related to several clinical features, such as age, B symptoms and local lymph node involvement. It can also be a significant independent prognostic factor for extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, which suggests a role for IL-9 in the pathogenesis of this disease and offers new insight into potential therapeutic strategies.     

Cephalexin Levels in Human Bile in Presence of Biliary Tract Disease

Cephalexin was given to 24 patients before and after operation on the bile ducts and gall bladder. Two patients had obstructive jaundice. Samples of the bile were taken either directly from the gall bladder at operation or via the T-tube. Cephalexin was excreted in the bile, peak levels being obtained after two to three hours. These levels could be raised if probenecid was given concurrently. Higher levels were found in patients with functioning gall-bladders. A trial of cephalexin seems justified for the treatment of typhoid carriers.     

Postoperative Serum Levels of sCD26 for Surveillance in Colorectal Cancer Patients

One of the main aims of the follow-up after curative resection of colorectal cancer is the early detection and treatment of tumor recurrence. We previously demonstrated decreased preoperative soluble CD26 (sCD26) levels in serum from colorectal cancer patients. We extended now the study to investigate if sCD26 levels in postoperative serum serve as marker of recurrence of the disease during surveillance. Soluble sCD26 was measured in pre- and postoperative serum samples of 43 patients with primary colorectal cancer. Carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 19.9 and 72.4 levels were also measured during surveillance. The average follow-up period was 41.8±20.8 months. sCD26 levels during follow-up showed well-defined patterns in patients without disease (n = 28), and in patients with tumor persistence (n = 2), local recurrence (n = 3) or distant metastasis (n = 10). Disease-free patients showed stable levels between 460–850 ng/mL during follow-up, while high (over 850 ng/mL) and unstable sCD26 levels were found before recurrence was diagnosed. The mean maximum/minimum sCD26 ratios during surveillance were 1.52, 2.12 and 2.63 for patients with no recurrence, local recurrence and metastasis, respectively (p = 0.005). From the cut-off obtained from a receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curve built with the maximum/minimum sCD26 ratios and the upper and lower cut-offs of sCD26, we were able to discriminate patients with and without recurrent disease. We propose that the measurement of serum sCD26 during the follow-up of patients diagnosed of colorectal cancer could be valuable for the early detection of local and distant recurrence. A large, randomized, prospective trial should be performed to confirm our findings.     

腹腔镜对结直肠癌患者血清基质金属蛋白酶、胃肠激素及应激激素水平的影响

目的:探讨腹腔镜对结直肠癌患者血清基质金属蛋白酶、胃肠激素及应激激素水平的影响。方法:将110例结直肠癌患者纳入本研究,随机分为对照组和观察组,均55例,分别给予对照组和观察组患者开腹手术治疗和腹腔镜手术治疗,对比治疗前后患者的血清基质金属蛋白酶、胃肠激素及应激激素水平。结果:治疗前,两组血清基质金属蛋白酶(Matrix metalloproteinase,MMP)MMP-2、MMP-9、血清胃动素(Motilin,MTL)、胃泌素(Gastrin,GAS)、皮质醇(Cortisol,Cor)、去甲肾上腺素(Noradrenaline,NE)水平比较差异均无统计学意义(P0.05);与组内治疗前相比,两组治疗后血清MMP-2、MMP-9、MTL、GAS水平均显著降低,血清COR、NE水平均显著升高,差异有统计学意义(P0.05);观察组治疗后血清MMP-2、MMP-9、NE、COR水平均明显低于对照组,血清GAS、MTL水平均明显高于对照组,差异对比均有显著性(P0.05)。结论:腹腔镜治疗结直肠癌可有效降低患者血清基质金属蛋白酶水平,促进胃肠功能恢复,减轻机体应激损伤。     

The Function and Significance of SELENBP1 Downregulation in Human Bronchial Epithelial Carcinogenic Process

Background

Our quantitative proteomic study showed that selenium-binding protein 1 (SELENBP1) was progressively decreased in human bronchial epithelial carcinogenic process. However, there is little information on expression and function of SELENBP1 during human lung squamous cell cancer (LSCC) carcinogenesis.

Methods

iTRAQ-tagging combined with 2D LC-MS/MS analysis was used to identify differentially expressed proteins in the human bronchial epithelial carcinogenic process. SELENBP1, member of selenoproteins family and progressively downregulated in this process, was selected to further study. Both Western blotting and immunohistochemistry were performed to detect SELENBP1 expression in independent sets of tissues of bronchial epithelial carcinogenesis, and ability of SELENBP1 for discriminating NBE (normal bronchial epithelium) from preneoplastic lesions from invasive LSCC was evaluated. The effects of SELENBP1 downregulation on the susceptibility of benzo(a)pyrene (B[a]P)-induced human bronchial epithelial cell transformation were determined.

Results

102 differentially expressed proteins were identified by quantitative proteomics, and SELENBP1 was found and confirmed being progressively decreased in the human bronchial epithelial carcinogenic process. The sensitivity and specificity of SELENBP1 were 80% and 79% in discriminating NBE from preneoplastic lesions, 79% and 82% in discriminating NBE from invasive LSCC, and 77% and 71% in discriminating preneoplastic lesions from invasive LSCC, respectively. Furthermore, knockdown of SELENBP1 in immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line 16HBE cells significantly increased the efficiency of B[a]P-induced cell transformation.

Conclusions

The present data shows for the first time that decreased SELENBP1 is an early event in LSCC, increases B[a]P-induced human bronchial epithelial cell transformation, and might serve as a novel potential biomarker for early detection of LSCC.     

Ampicillin Levels in Human Bile in the Presence of Biliary Tract Disease

Ampicillin levels were measured in the serum and in the bile from both the gall bladder and the common bile duct in patients undergoing surgery for biliary tract diseases. In patients with radiologically non-functioning gall bladders ampicillin was either not present or its concentration was lower than normal. Therapeutic levels were present in the common bile duct of all patients except those with obstruction of the common bile duct. Hence ampicillin fails appreciably to penetrate the obstructed viscus in obstructive biliary tract disease, and it is unlikely to be effective in treating infection associated with this.     

基质金属蛋白酶- 9, 组织抑制因子- 1 在进展期 胃癌中的表达与意义

目的：研究基质金属蛋白酶-9（matrix metalloproteinase-9,MMP-9）及其组织抑制因子-1（tissue inhibitor of metallopmteinase—1,TMP-1）在进展期胃癌中的表达情况,探讨二者的表达与胃癌侵袭转移闻的关系及二者间的联系。方法：应用免疫组化方法检测70例进展期胃癌标本中MMP-9,TIMP-1的表达,并进行回顾性随访。结果：馒反肌层以上者MMP-9的阳性表达（66．67％）明显高于肿瘤局限于粘膜、粘膜下者（20％P〈0.01）。MMP-9阳性表达与胃癌的淋巴转移与肝转移有相关性（P〈0．01）。TIMP-1的表达随胃癌浸润深度增加而减少,当肿瘤突破浆膜时TIMP-1的表达呈现陡降趋势（P〈0．01）。结论：MMP-9的过阳性表达和TIMP-1的表达失衡可能与胃癌转移行为有关。TIMP-1可能抑制胃癌的浸润转移。     

人基质金属蛋白酶-9在酵母Pichia pastoris中的表达

基质金属蛋白酶 - 9( MMP- 9)可促进恶性肿瘤的侵袭、转移 ,并在组织重建、胚胎发育以及伤口愈合等生理过程中发挥重要作用 .为研究这一蛋白的性质 ,并以之为靶标筛选抗肿瘤转移药物 ,在酵母 Pichia pastoris中实现了重组人 MMP- 9蛋白的高效、高活性、分泌表达 .首先用 PCR扩增了 MMP- 9基因编码区 (不含信号肽序列 ) ,经测序证实后 ,将其插入 p PIC9质粒中 ,构建表达载体 .用 Li C1 - PEG法转化酵母后 ,采用明胶 -酶谱法筛选获得 5株高效分泌表达 MMP- 9的克隆 ,经PCR证实 MMP- 9基因整合在阳性克隆的染色体中 .重组蛋白分子量为 93k D,表达量为 1 0 mg/L.重组蛋白可水解明胶及 型胶原 ,并可经有机汞 APMA诱导发生自剪切 ,转换成 85k D的激活形式 ,表明重组蛋白具有与天然人 MMP- 9蛋白相似的底物水解活性和自剪切激活特性 .     

Determinants of Secretion and Intracellular Localization of Human Herpesvirus 8 Interleukin-6

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) interleukin-6 (vIL-6) is distinct from human and other cellular IL-6 proteins in that it does not require the nonsignaling α-receptor subunit for the formation of gp130-based signal transducing complexes and also is largely retained intracellularly rather than being secreted. We and others have reported that vIL-6 is retained and is active in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) compartment, and data from our laboratory have demonstrated that intracellular vIL-6 is functional in the autocrine promotion of proliferation and survival of HHV-8 latently infected primary effusion lymphoma cells. It has also been reported that vIL-6 secretion in gp130-deficient cells can be enhanced by introduced gp130, thereby implicating the signal transducer in vIL-6 trafficking to the cell surface. We examine here the requirements for intracellular retention and localization of vIL-6. Using vIL-6-hIL-6 chimeric and point-mutated vIL-6 proteins, we identified regions and residues of vIL-6 influencing vIL-6 secretion. However, there was no correlation between vIL-6 secretion and gp130 interaction. We found that vIL-6, but not hIL-6, could associate stably with ER-resident chaperone protein calnexin. Glycosylation-dependent interaction of vIL-6 with calnexin correlated with proper protein folding, but there was no direct relationship between vIL-6-calnexin interaction and intracellular retention. While calnexin depletion had little influence on absolute amounts of secreted vIL-6, it led to markedly reduced levels of intracellular cytokine. This was reversed by gp130 transduction, which had no detectable effect on vIL-6 secretion, but redistributed vIL-6 into ER-distinct locations in calnexin-depleted cells, specifically. Our data reveal that calnexin plays a role in ER localization of vIL-6 and that gp130 promotes ER exit, but not secretion, of the viral cytokine.The viral homologue of interleukin-6, vIL-6, specified by human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) shows only 25% amino acid identity to human IL-6 (hIL-6) but is highly related structurally (2, 5). Despite the high degree of conservation of three-dimensional structure and equivalence of receptor interaction interfaces (1, 6), the viral cytokine can associate functionally with the gp130 signal transducer in the absence of the gp80 α-subunit, absolutely required for cellular IL-6 signaling through gp130. The nonsignaling gp80 subunit can be incorporated into vIL-6-induced signaling complexes and indeed seems to have a stabilizing effect that enhances signal transduction (1, 3, 11). Another major difference between vIL-6 and cellular IL-6 proteins, including hIL-6, is that the viral cytokine is very inefficiently secreted, retained largely within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) compartment, where it is able to transduce signal via gp80-deficient vIL-6₂/gp130₂ tetrameric complexes, exclusively (4, 15). Thus, the unique ability of vIL-6 to signal intracellularly may be explained by its gp80 independence; hIL-6 cannot signal in the ER even when targeted to this compartment (4). The biological significance of intracellular, strictly autocrine signaling by vIL-6 was demonstrated recently in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) cells, which are latently infected with HHV-8; these cells grew with markedly reduced kinetics and displayed higher rates of apoptosis upon shRNA-mediated vIL-6 depletion relative to cocultured untransduced cells (4). Thus, vIL-6 appears not only to be expressed in latently infected PEL cultures but also to be biologically active in this setting via intracrine signaling.Despite these findings and other mechanistic studies of vIL-6, the means by which the viral cytokine is retained in the ER and secreted so inefficiently is unknown. The elegant work of Meads and Medveczky (15) demonstrated the slow secretion kinetics of vIL-6 relative to hIL-6 and implicated gp130 as a necessary cofactor for vIL-6 secretion. Thus, vIL-6 expressed in gp130-negative Ba/F3 cells was able to be secreted only if gp130 was supplied via expression vector transduction. However, most cell types express gp130; thus, while the signal transducer may be involved in vIL-6 trafficking, the underlying explanation for the very slow rate of vIL-6 secretion must involve other factors.We report here investigations of the structural requirements for vIL-6 intracellular retention, the influence of gp130 on this process, and the possible involvement of ER-resident chaperon proteins for retention of vIL-6 in the ER. Our data identify effects of structural alterations and point mutations of vIL-6 on secretion efficiency, the lack of gp130 involvement in these observed effects, mechanistically relevant interactions of calnexin with the viral cytokine, and the influence of gp130 on vIL-6 subcellular localization and stability in the context of calnexin depletion. The results presented thus further advance our understanding of vIL-6-cellular protein interactions that impact upon its intracellular function.     

Prognostic Value,Clinicopathologic Features and Diagnostic Accuracy of Interleukin-8 in Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Background

The prognostic value and diagnostic accuracy of Interleukin-8 (IL-8) in colorectal cancer have been assessed with several studies, but the conclusions were inconclusive. Thus we performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of IL-8 expression on colorectal cancer prognosis, clinicopathologic features and diagnostic accuracy.

Methods

Comprehensive search strategies were used to search relevant literature in the PubMed, EBSCO and the ISI Web of Science databases. The correlation between IL-8 expression and prognosis, clinicopathologic features and diagnostic accuracy was analyzed.

Results

A total of 18 articles met the inclusion criteria, including 1509 patients for clinicopathologic features or prognosis evaluation and 725 participants for diagnostic evaluation. The results suggested that overexpression of IL-8 was significantly associated with poor prognosis in colorectal cancer (HR = 1.54, 95%CI 1.03–2.32), especially in Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) stage IV patients (HR = 2.28, 95%CI 1.60–3.25). With further subgroup analysis, we found that high IL-8 level in serum was significantly correlated with poor prognosis (HR = 2.13, 95%CI 1.49–3.05). In addition, significant correlations were observed between high IL-8 expression and advanced stage (OR = 3.01, 95%CI 1.98–4.56), lymphatic metastasis (OR = 2.24, 95%CI 1.39–3.63), and liver metastasis (OR = 3.47, 95%CI 1.74–6.89). Moreover, IL-8 had high diagnostic accuracy, with pooled sensitivity 0.70(95%CI 0.66–0.74), specificity 0.91(95%CI 0.86–0.94), positive likelihood ratio (LR) 7.00(95%CI 2.48–19.73), negative LR 0.24(95%CI 0.09–0.64), diagnostic OR 24.00(95%CI 5.52–104.38).

Conclusions

This study showed that IL-8 could be a potential indicator for detecting colorectal cancer and predicting prognosis. In addition, high IL-8 level was significantly correlated with advanced stage, lymphatic metastasis, liver metastasis.     

Survivin反义寡核苷酸诱导SW620细胞凋亡过程中对caspase-3表达的影响

目的：观察survivin反义寡核苷酸（ASODN）对人结肠癌细胞株SW620增殖、凋亡的影响,并初步探讨其分子机制。方法：靶向survivin基因中与caspase-3结合的部位设计、合成反义寡核苷酸并通过脂质体将其转染至人结肠癌细胞SW620中。噻唑蓝（MTT）法观察survivinASODN对SW620细胞增殖的抑制作用,测定IC50;转染36h后,Hoechst33342染色荧光显微镜下观察检测SW620细胞核变化,RT-PCR检测survivinASODN处理后SW620细胞中caspase-3mRNA表达,分光光度法检测caspase-3酶活性．结果：转染8h后,SW620细胞中可见黄绿色荧光均匀分布：不同浓度survivinASODN处理SW620细胞44h后,SW620细胞增殖显著受到抑制,IC50为1×10^-6M。2×10^-7,4×10^-7,6×10^-7,8×10^-7 and1.2×10^-6M的survivinASODN处理后,细胞生长抑制率分别为15．38±0．022％、2404±0．023％、30．87±0．027％、45．02±0．018％和65．01±0．024％：Hoechest33342染色后荧光显微镜下可观察到染色质凝集并出现凋亡小体,RT-PCR检测到caspase-3mRNA表达上调,另外caspase-3酶活性显著升高。结论靶向survivin基因中与caspase-3结合的部位设计合成的survivinASODN可抑制显著结肠癌SW620增殖、诱导细胞凋亡,其机制与诱导caspase-3表达,提高caspase-3酶活性有关。     

重组hIL—12病毒在Sf9细胞传代中遗传稳定性的研究

将含重组白细胞介素12(hIL—12)的杆状病毒(Ac—hIL12)经空斑纯化后,在草地贪夜蛾Sf9细胞中进行连续无稀释传代到P55代,收集被P15、P25、P35、P45、P55代重组病毒感染的细胞,抽提胞内病毒(ICV)DNA。根据重组病毒构建的原理,在P35cDNA和P40 cDNA的3′末段设计一对引物进行PCR,扩增出了包括P35cDNA、Polyhedrin启动子、P10启动子和P40 cDNA序列在内的全长约2．0kb片段,克隆至T Vector进行序列测定后发现,在第PmP25和P35代所扩增出的序列没有发生任何突变。但在P45代,P35 cDNA中就有3个碱基发生了点突变(461T→C,517A→G以及630C→T),Polyhedrin启动子的 1位后插入了一个碱基T,P40 cDNA与P10启动子区(230bp)没有变化;而第P55代除了以上碱基突变以外,P10启动子区—168位的G替换突变为T,—136与—135位之间插入一个碱基T,以及—122位缺失一个碱基T。以上结果表明杆状病毒在体外细胞连续传代过程中可导致外源基因本身的突变。     

重组hIL-12病毒在Sf9细胞传代中遗传稳定性的研究

将含重组白细胞介素12(hIL-12)的杆状病毒(Ac-hIL12)经空斑纯化后,在草地贪夜蛾Sf9细胞中进行连续无稀释传代到P55代,收集被P15、P25、P35、P45、P55代重组病毒感染的细胞,抽提胞内病毒(ICV)DNA.根据重组病毒构建的原理,在P35 cDNA和P40 cDNA的3′末段设计一对引物进行PCR,扩增出了包括P35 cDNA、Polyhedrin启动子、P10启动子和P40 cDNA序列在内的全长约2.0kb片段,克隆至T Vector进行序列测定后发现,在第P15、P25和P35代所扩增出的序列没有发生任何突变.但在P45代,P35cDNA中就有3个碱基发生了点突变(461T→C,517A→G以及630C→T),Polyhedrin启动子的+1位后插入了一个碱基T,P40 cDNA与P10启动子区(230bp)没有变化;而第P55代除了以上碱基突变以外,P10启动子区-168位的G替换突变为T, -136与-135位之间插入一个碱基T,以及-122位缺失一个碱基T.以上结果表明杆状病毒在体外细胞连续传代过程中可导致外源基因本身的突变.     

直组人嗜中性白细胞活化蛋白-1/白细胞介素-8的纯化与鉴定

本文利用SDS-PAGE及蛋白质电泳印迹技术,从带有相应表达质粒的重组大肠杆菌裂解液中,将所表达的重组人嗜中性白细胞活化蛋白-1/白细胞介素-8(NAP-1/IL-8)转移至聚偏二氟乙烯膜上,直接进行N-末端15个氨基酸的序列分析,从而确证该目标蛋白得到高效表达和正确加工。随后采用Bio-Gel P30凝胶过滤层析和Mono-S阳离子交换层析对重组人NAP-1/IL-8进行了分离纯化,纯化产品达到SDS-PAGE纯。利用琼脂糖平板法测定了纯化产品的嗜中性白细胞趋化活性,推算其比活为2.8×10~5U/mg蛋白。又利用SDS-PAGE测出重组NAP-1/IL-8的分子量约为8.5kD,但根据凝胶过滤层析的洗脱时间推定,在溶液中确实存在分子量稍大于14.4kD的NAP-1/IL-8二聚体。