利用谷氨酰胺合成酶基因（GS）作扩增标记在CHO细胞中高效表达乙型…

利用谷氨酰胺合成酶基因（ＧＳ）作扩增选择标记,结合ＣＭＶ－ＩＥ启动子,在ＣＨＯ细胞中高效表达乙型肝炎的基因。初筛克卫表达水平ＲＰＨＡ检测为１：６４,经过谷氨酰胺合成酶基因的抑制剂ＭＳＸ的两轮基因扩增。ＨＢｓＡｇ的表达水平ＲＰＨＡ在１：２５６以上。方静置培养收液,ＲＩＡ检测ＨＢｓＡｇ最高产量为９．５μｇ／毫升。表达水平较以前利用ｄｈｆｒ基因扩增选择系统所得到的高表达细胞系Ｂ４３高一倍以上。利用ＧＳ基     

选择适合表达 HBsAg 的哺乳动物细胞系

将含有重组ＨＢｓＡｇ的ｐＭＥＰ４表达性质粒转染ＨｅｐＧ２,ＣＨＯ,Ｃ１２７和ＣＶ１细胞,并用ＥＬＩＳＡ检测表达量,结果在ＨｅｐＧ２细胞中的表达量较高,在Ｃ１２７和ＣＶ１细胞中的表达量偏低,而在ＣＨＯ细胞中没有表达。     

乙型肝炎、肝硬变和肝癌中HBxAg的表达及其在肝癌发生中的作用

对３７９例良、恶性肝组织进行的免疫组织化学研究显示,３３％的慢性迁延性肝炎（６／１８）、７６％的慢性活动性肝炎（２６／３４）、９２％的肝硬变（５７／６２）和９７％的肝细胞性肝癌（ＨＣＣ）（５８／６０）中有ＨＢｘＡｇ表达,阳性率高于ＨＢｓＡｇ或ＨＢｃＡｇ。癌周肝中的ＨＢｘＡｇ阳性率显著高于非癌周肝。与其它２种ＨＢＶ抗原不同,ＨＢｘＡｇ表达在细胞类型上有较明显的选择性,在肝小多角细胞（ＳＰＬＣ）、小细胞性不典型增生（ＳＣＤ）及ＨＣＣ中较强。与ＩＧＦⅡ、ｃ－ｅｒｂＢ－２、ｃ－ｍｙｃ和ＥＧＦ－Ｒ表达进行的对照研究表明ＨＢｘＡｇ与ＩＧＦⅡ和ｃ－ｅｒｂＢ－２这２种ＨＣＣ发生相关基因的表达关系密切。ＰＣＮＡ染色结果显示ＨＢｘＡｇ阳性组织的细胞增殖活性显著高于ＨＢｘＡｇ阴性组织。我们的结果还表明ＨＢｘＡｇ表达与肝细胞不典型增生的发生和进展有关、提出ＨＢＶＸ基因可能通过其表达产物（ＨＢｘＡｇ）首先激活ＩＧＦⅡ、ｃ－ｅｒｂＢ－２基因,继而引起显著的ＳＰＬＣ增生和ＳＣＤ而参与ＨＣＣ发生的．     

牛生长激素基因的人工合成,重组克隆及高效表达

本文通过设计选择大肠杆菌高频利用密码子代替天然密码子,人工全合成３２个寡聚核苷酸片段;连接并克隆获得Ａ（２７８ｂｐ）、Ｂ（８８ｂｐ）、Ｃ（２２４ｂｐ）３个较大ＤＮＡ片段;经重组克隆、定位突变等获得阳性克隆;双向ＤＮＡ序列测定分析表明获得了两种人工全合成牛生长激素（ｂＧＨ）编码基因,即编码Ｎ－Ｍｅｔ－Ａｌａ－ｂＧＨ和Ｎ－Ｍｅｔ－Ｐｈｅ－ｂＧＨ的两个基因,而至今尚未见有人工全合成ｂＧＨ基因的报道。构建了在ＰＬｐｒｏｍｏｔｅｒ控制下含上述合成基因的表达质位ｐＢＬｂＧＨＥ７Ａ１和ｐＢＬｂＧＨＥ８,并在大肠杆菌中进行了温敏诱导表达。经ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ分析,表达产物占全菌蛋白的３７％以上。Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ－ｂｌｏｔ分析和纯化产物的Ｎ端氨基酸序列测定结果都表明上述两种人工全合成ｂＧＨ基因在大肠杆菌中得到了高效表达,表达量为现今国际文献报道的高限水平。     

乙型肝炎病毒表面抗原S和前S1融合基因转基因细胞系的建立与细胞性质的研究

构建了ｐＣＨＢＳＳＩＧ质料,其特点是ＣＭＶ立即早期启动子调控乙型肝炎（乙肝）表面抗原Ｓ＋前Ｓ１融合基因在前,ＳＶ４０早期启动子调控ＧＳ扩增基因在后,此质粒转化到ＣＨＯ－ｄｈｆｒ＾－细胞中,经克隆加ＭＳＸ及ＭＴＸ筛选、扩增,建立了７个高效表达乙肝表达抗原Ｓ及前Ｓ１融合蛋白细胞系ＧｄＳＳ１,并检测了其中ＧｄＳＳ１－１８细胞系的生物学特性,结果表明：未发现微生物污染,无致瘤性、遗传稳定,电镜下可观察到２     

核酸免疫可特异地诱发小鼠对乙型肝炎病毒表面抗原S+PreS1免疫反应

运用改造后的乙型肝炎病毒表面抗原Ｓ＋ＰｒｅＳ１融合基因（将ＰｒｅＳ１区肝细胞受体结合位点（２１－４７ａａ）编码基因融合到Ｓ蛋白Ｃ端２２３位残基下游）,构建了一系列真核表达载体,并在ＣＨＯ细胞上有效表达了分泌型的、具有Ｓ＋ＰｒｅＳ１双重抗原性的融合蛋白颗粒。用上述质粒ＤＮＡ肌肉免疫Ｃ５７ＢＬ／６Ｊ小鼠,成功地检测到了抗－ＨＢｓ和抗－ＰｒｅＳ１抗体,加强免疫能显著改善免疫效果。本研究还建立了检测抗－ＰｒｅＳ１的竞争抑制法和羊抗人ＨＢｓＡｇ封闭法,两种方法符合率达９６％,但后者更为敏感。用羊抗人ＨＢｓＡｇ封闭法测得抗－ＰｒｅＳ１滴度最高可达１：１２８０以上。     

含有Epstein-Barr病毒膜抗原的重组表达质粒及其基因免疫

将Ｅｐｓｔｅｉｎ－Ｂａｒ（ＥＢ）病毒主要的膜抗原（ＭＡ）ＢＬＬＦ１基因片段插入ｐＨＤ１０１－３质粒的ＣＭＶ启动子下游,构建了真核表达质粒ｐＨＤ－ｇｐ３５０,并转染２９３细胞进行瞬间表达。用免疫荧光法从细胞膜检测到表达的抗原能与其单克隆抗体发生特异性结合,Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ－ｂｌｏｔ法证实,表达的抗原分子量为３５０ｋＤ．用能在真核细胞表达的重组质粒ｐＨＤ－ｇｐ３５０的ＤＮＡ,经Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ２Ｂ柱纯化后,注射经普鲁卡因预处理的Ｂａｌｂ／Ｃ小鼠的四头肌,观察到ＥＢＶ－ＩｇＡ／ＭＡ抗体水平比ＥＢＶ－ＩｇＧ／ＭＡ低,而ＥＢＶ－ＩｇＡ／ＭＡ的持续时间比ＥＢＶ－ＩｇＧ／ＭＡ长。采用表达ＥＢＶＭＡ的质粒ＤＮＡ与ＣＨＯ细胞表达的ＭＡ蛋白免疫小鼠,均获得抗ＥＢＶＭＡ的抗体。     

携带p53基因的重组腺病毒的构建及对肿瘤细胞抑制的研究

１　材料与方法１１　质粒ｐＣＭＶｐ５３ＢＡＭ由美国约翰·霍普金斯肿瘤中心ＢｅｒｔＶｏｇｅｌｓｔｅｉｎ教授赠送［５］;ｐＲＳｅｔＡ购于Ｉｎｖｉｔｒｏｇｅｎ公司;ｐＣＡ１３和ｐＢＨＧ１１为ＭｉｃｒｏｂｉｘＢｉｏｓｙｓｔｅｍＩｎｃ．产品。ｐＢＨＧ１１包含腺病毒Ａｄ５基因组３６ｋｂ中的约３４ｋｂ序列,但Ａｄ５Ｅ１区１８８ｂｐ至１３３９ｂｐ缺失,代之以氨苄青霉素抗性基因和复制起始位点。ｐＢＨＧ１１缺少包装信号φ（２２ｂｐ至３４２ｂｐ）和Ａｄ５Ｅ３区（２７８６５ｂｐ至３０９９５ｂｐ序列）。ｐＣＡ１３…     

用杆状病毒载体在家蚕细胞中表达HBeAg基因

以ＰＣＲ技术扩增含有ＰｒｅＣ信号肽序列及完整的ＨＢｅＡｇ基因的序列（即ＨＢｃＡｇ基因５′端４４７ｂｐ）,在５′端加上合适的酶切位点,克隆到家蚕核多角体病毒转移载体ｐＢｍ０３０上,与野生型ＢｍＮＰＶＤＮＡ共转染家蚕ＢｍＮ细胞,空斑纯化后得到多角体基因失活的重组病毒。ＥＬＩＳＡ法测定表明培养液上清中ＨＢｅＡｇ效价达１∶３２０００,细胞内ＨＢｅＡｇ效价为１∶２０００,培养液及细胞内的ＨＢｃＡｇ含量极低（＜１∶１６０）。研究结果表明,ＢｍＮ细胞能正确识别与切割ＨＢｅＡｇ信号肽序列,所表达的ＨＢｅＡｇ效价高,纯度好,明显优于大肠杆菌表达系统     

芝田硫化叶菌麦芽寡糖基海藻糖合酶基因在大肠杆菌中的克隆和表达

用ＰＣＲ 方法从芝田硫化叶菌中扩增了编码一种新酶,即麦芽寡糖基海藻糖合酶（ ＭＴＳａｓｅ） 的基因,扩增的２－２ｋｂ ＤＮＡ 插入到原核表达载体ｐＢＶ２２０ 中,构建成重组质粒ｐＳＢＧＴ１ 。ｐＳＢＧＴ１ 中ＭＴＳａｓｅ 基因在大肠杆菌中得到表达。ＳＤＳＰＡＧＥ 分析表达产物ＭＴＳａｓｅ蛋白的分子量约为７４ｋＤａ ,同核苷酸序列测定所推导的值相符。表达产物占细胞总蛋白约４－４ ％ 。ｐＳＢＧＴ１ 产生的重组酶作用于淀粉部分水解物,使ＤＥ 值降低,得到非还原糖或低还原糖。     

A Hybrid System Using Both Promoter Activation and Gene Amplification for Establishing Exogenous Protein Hyper-Producing Cell Lines

We previously developed a promoter-activated production (PAP) system using amplified ras oncogene to activate the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter controlling the foreign gene in mammalian cells. CHO cells were demonstrated to be suitable for the PAP system. Here, we show that very high-level production of a recombinant protein was achieved when the human CMV promoter was inserted into a glutamine synthetase (GS) minigene expression plasmid, pEE14. A highly productive host CHO cell line, ras clone I containing amplified ras oncogene, was further transfected with the plasmid expressing both hIL-6 gene and GS minigene, and selected with methionine sulphoximine. We were able to establish a hIL-6 hyper-producing cell line, D29, which exhibited a peak productivity rate of approximately 40 μg hIL-6 10^?6 cells day^?1 through a combination of the PAP system and the GS gene amplification system. The cellular productivity of D29 cells was about 13-fold higher than control hIL-6-producing cells derived from CHO cells whose hIL-6 gene was amplified by the GS gene amplification system, and about 5-fold higher than the I13 cells established by the PAP system, which contains amplified ras oncogene and non-amplified hIL-6 gene. When D29 cells were cultured for a month, an accumulation rate of approximately 80 μg hIL-6 ml^?1 per 3 days was achieved on the 9th day. These results indicate that this PAP and GS hybrid system enables the efficient and rapid establishment of recombinant protein hyper-producing cell lines.     

Development of a highly-efficient CHO cell line generation system with engineered SV40E promoter

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells have been one of the most widely used host cells for the manufacture of therapeutic recombinant proteins. An effective and efficient clinical cell line development process, which could quickly identify those rare, high-producing cell lines among a large population of low and non-productive cells, is of considerable interest to speed up biological drug development. In the glutamine synthetase (GS)-CHO expression system, selection of top-producing cell lines is based on controlling the balance between the expression level of GS and the concentration of its specific inhibitor, l-methionine sulfoximine (MSX). The combined amount of GS expressed from plasmids that have been introduced through transfection and the endogenous CHO GS gene determine the stringency and efficiency of selection. Previous studies have shown significant improvement in selection stringency by using GS-knockout CHO cells, which eliminate background GS expression from the endogenous GS gene in CHOK1SV cells. To further improve selection stringency, a series of weakened SV40E promoters have been generated and used to modulate plasmid-based GS expression with the intent of manipulating GS-CHO selection, finely adjusting the balance between GS expression and GS inhibitor (MSX) levels. The reduction of SV40E promoter activities have been confirmed by TaqMan RT-PCR and GFP expression profiling. Significant productivity improvements in both bulk culture and individual clonal cell line have been achieved with the combined use of GS-knockout CHOK1SV cells and weakened SV40E promoters driving GS expression in the current cell line generation process. The selection stringency was significantly increased, as indicated by the shift towards higher distribution of producing-cell populations, even with no MSX added into cell culture medium. The potential applications of weakened SV40E promoter and GS-knockout cells in development of targeted integration and transient CHO expression systems are also discussed.     

Improving the efficiency of CHO cell line generation using glutamine synthetase gene knockout cells

Although Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, with their unique characteristics, have become a major workhorse for the manufacture of therapeutic recombinant proteins, one of the major challenges in CHO cell line generation (CLG) is how to efficiently identify those rare, high‐producing clones among a large population of low‐ and non‐productive clones. It is not unusual that several hundred individual clones need to be screened for the identification of a commercial clonal cell line with acceptable productivity and growth profile making the cell line appropriate for commercial application. This inefficiency makes the process of CLG both time consuming and laborious. Currently, there are two main CHO expression systems, dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)‐based methotrexate (MTX) selection and glutamine synthetase (GS)‐based methionine sulfoximine (MSX) selection, that have been in wide industrial use. Since selection of recombinant cell lines in the GS‐CHO system is based on the balance between the expression of the GS gene introduced by the expression plasmid and the addition of the GS inhibitor, L‐MSX, the expression of GS from the endogenous GS gene in parental CHOK1SV cells will likely interfere with the selection process. To study endogenous GS expression's potential impact on selection efficiency, GS‐knockout CHOK1SV cell lines were generated using the zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology designed to specifically target the endogenous CHO GS gene. The high efficiency (～2%) of bi‐allelic modification on the CHO GS gene supports the unique advantages of the ZFN technology, especially in CHO cells. GS enzyme function disruption was confirmed by the observation of glutamine‐dependent growth of all GS‐knockout cell lines. Full evaluation of the GS‐knockout cell lines in a standard industrial cell culture process was performed. Bulk culture productivity improved two‐ to three‐fold through the use of GS‐knockout cells as parent cells. The selection stringency was significantly increased, as indicated by the large reduction of non‐producing and low‐producing cells after 25 µM L‐MSX selection, and resulted in a six‐fold efficiency improvement in identifying similar numbers of high‐productive cell lines for a given recombinant monoclonal antibody. The potential impact of GS‐knockout cells on recombinant protein quality is also discussed. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2012; 109:1007–1015. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A high‐yielding CHO transient system: Coexpression of genes encoding EBNA‐1 and GS enhances transient protein expression

An efficient rapid protein expression system is crucial to support early drug development. Transient gene expression is an effective route, and to facilitate the use of the same host cells as for subsequent stable cell line development, we have created a high‐yielding Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) transient expression system. Suspension‐adapted CHO‐K1 host cells were engineered to express the gene encoding Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen‐1 (EBNA‐1) with and without the coexpression of the gene for glutamine synthetase (GS). Analysis of the transfectants indicated that coexpression of EBNA‐1 and GS enhanced transient expression of a recombinant antibody from a plasmid carrying an OriP DNA element compared to EBNA‐1‐only transfectants. This was confirmed with the retransfection of an EBNA‐1‐only cell line with a GS gene. The retransfected cell lines showed an increase in transient expression when compared with that of the EBNA‐1‐only parent. The transient expression process for the best CHO transient cell line was further developed to enhance protein expression and improve scalability by optimizing the transfection conditions and the cell culture process. This resulted in a scalable CHO transient expression system that is capable of expressing 2 g/L of recombinant proteins such as antibodies. This system can now rapidly provide gram amounts of recombinant antibody to supply preclinical development studies that has comparable product quality to antibody produced from a stably transfected CHO cell line. © 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 30:132–141, 2014     

用于生产重组蛋白药物的抗凋亡CHO宿主细胞株的建立

哺乳动物工程细胞在大规模培养生产重组蛋白时很容易发生细胞凋亡,从而导致生产过程提前终止,造成生产成本高昂。细胞代谢产物氨已被证明可以促进细胞凋亡,而线粒体膜整合蛋白Bcl-2可以通过促进线粒体膜完整性而抑制细胞凋亡。本实验应用谷氨酰胺合成酶加压系统在CHO工程细胞中高效表达中国仓鼠Bcl-2蛋白,使细胞具有抗凋亡能力的同时,利用谷氨酸和氨合成谷氨酰胺而有效降低培养基中氨的含量,从而达到抑制细胞凋亡的目的。     

Improvement of the efficiency and quality in developing a new CHO host cell line

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a ubiquitous tool for industrial therapeutic recombinant protein production. However, consistently generating high-producing clones remains a major challenge during the cell line development process. The glutamine synthetase (GS) and dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) selection systems are commonly used CHO expression platforms based on controlling the balance of expression between the transgenic and endogenous GS or DHFR genes. Since the expression of the endogenous selection gene in CHO hosts can interfere with selection, generating a corresponding null CHO cell line is required to improve selection stringency, productivity, and stability. However, the efficiency of generating bi-allelic genetic knockouts using conventional protocols is very low (<5%). This significantly affects clone screening efficiency and reduces the chance of identifying robust knockout host cell lines. In this study, we use the GS expression system as an example to improve the genome editing process with zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), resulting in improved GS-knockout efficiency of up to 46.8%. Furthermore, we demonstrate a process capable of enriching knockout CHO hosts with robust bioprocess traits. This integrated host development process yields a larger number of GS-knockout hosts with desired growth and recombinant protein expression characteristics.     

Improved recombinant gene expression in CHO cells using matrix attachment regions

The use of animal cells such as Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells for recombinant gene expression provides many advantageous features such as proper folding and post-translational modification of the recombinant protein. However, recombinant genes introduced into animal cells are often expressed at low levels mainly due to position effects from the neighboring chromatin context. The tedious and time-consuming selection and amplification procedure has been the major hurdle for using animal cell line such as CHO cells. To improve mammalian cell expression systems, we screened a variety of matrix/scaffold attachment region (MAR/SAR) elements for their ability to insulate transgene expression from the position effects in CHO cells. We found that the human beta-globin MAR element is particularly effective as the frequency of beta-Gal positive colonies was increased by up to 80%. The expression levels of these colonies were also enhanced about seven-fold. These improvements appear to be related to the increased copy numbers and a higher efficiency of expression of the integrated genes. When this element was used to express soluble TGF-beta type II receptor (sTbetaRII) through the gene amplification system, the frequency of colonies expressing detectable amounts of sTbetaRII was much higher than that of the control vector. We could also generate high sTbetaRII producers with uniform growth properties by a simple two-step amplification process involving two concentrations of methotrexate. This eliminates the need to isolate individual colonies followed by multi-step treatments of methotrexate and thereby greatly simplifies this mammalian expression system.     

CHO/dhfr-细胞定点整合高效表达系统的建立

为了克服随机整合建立高表达细胞株时“位置效应”所带来的不可预知的后果,我们尝试建立基于定点整合的CHO高效表达系统。首先设计一个新的高效筛选载体pMCEscan。该载体含有报告基因（k2tPA）、扩增基因（dhfr）、重组酶识别序列（FRT）及筛选基因（neo）,且neo基因的表达经过系统的弱化,确保能够对基因组中的整合位点进行大规模的高效筛选。然后利用该载体转染CHO／dhfr^-细胞并进行大规模筛选以获得足够多的阳性克隆,并对阳性克隆进行系统分析,筛选出报告基因表达水平高、单拷贝且扩增效果好的克隆,此克隆被认为筛选载体整合入CHO细胞基因组中转录热点（Hotspot）区域,从而获得了能够实现外源基因在基因组中定点整合和有效表达的CHO／dhfr-细胞系。随后利用位点特异性重组系统（FLP-FRT）将外源基因定点整合到Hotspot区域,以实现外源基因在CHO细胞基因组中的定点整合及高效表达。并利用该细胞系实现了k2tPA的高表达,表达量达到17．1μg／10^6cell·24h。该研究致力于CHO细胞基因组中高表达位点的寻找和确认,建立基于定点整合的哺乳动物细胞高效表达系统。     

Microarray platform affords improved product analysis in mammalian cell growth studies

High throughput (HT) platforms serve as a cost‐efficient and rapid screening method for evaluating the effect of cell‐culture conditions and screening of chemicals. We report the development of a HT cell‐based microarray platform to assess the effect of culture conditions on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Specifically, growth, transgene expression and metabolism of a GS/methionine sulphoximine (MSX) CHO cell line, which produces a therapeutic monoclonal antibody, was examined using a microarray system in conjunction with a conventional shake flask platform in a non‐proprietary medium. The microarray system consists of 60‐nL spots of cells encapsulated in alginate and separated in groups via an 8‐well chamber system attached to the chip. Results show the non‐proprietary medium developed allows cell growth, production, and normal glycosylation of recombinant antibody and metabolism of the recombinant CHO cells in both the microarray and shake flask platforms. In addition, 10.3 mM glutamate addition to the defined base medium results in lactate metabolism shift in the recombinant GS/MSX CHO cells in the shake flask platform. Ultimately, the results demonstrate that the HT microarray platform has the potential to be utilized for evaluating the impact of media additives on cellular processes, such as cell growth, metabolism, and productivity.