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Dual luciferase assay system for rapid assessment of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
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A new reporter system has been developed for quantifying gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system relies on two different reporter genes, Renilla and firefly luciferase, to evaluate regulated gene expression. The gene encoding Renilla luciferase is fused to a constitutive promoter (PGK1 or SPT15) and integrated into the yeast genome at the CAN1 locus as a control for normalizing the assay. The firefly luciferase gene is fused to the test promoter and integrated into the yeast genome at the ura3 or leu2 locus. The dual luciferase assay is performed by sequentially measuring the firefly and Renilla luciferase activities of the same sample, with the results expressed as the ratio of firefly to Renilla luciferase activity (Fluc/Rluc). The yeast dual luciferase reporter (DLR) was characterized and shown to be very efficient, requiring approximately 1 minute to complete each assay, and has proven to yield data that accurately and reproducibly reflect promoter activity. A series of integrating plasmids were generated that contain either the firefly or Renilla luciferase gene preceded by a multi-cloning region in two different orientations and the three reading frames to make possible the generation of translational fusions. Additionally, each set of plasmids contains either the URA3 or LEU2 marker for genetic selection in yeast. A series of S288C-based yeast strains, including a two-hybrid strain, were developed to facilitate the use of the yeast DLR assay. This assay can be readily adapted to a high-throughput platform for studies requiring numerous measurements. 相似文献
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Nieuwenhuijsen BW Huang Y Wang Y Ramirez F Kalgaonkar G Young KH 《Journal of biomolecular screening》2003,8(6):676-684
To study the biology of regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) proteins and to facilitate the identification of small molecule modulators of RGS proteins, the authors recently developed an advanced yeast 2-hybrid (YTH) assay format for GalphaZ and RGS-Z1. Moreover, they describe the development of a multiplexed luciferase-based assay that has been successfully adapted to screen large numbers of small molecule modulators of protein-protein interactions. They generated and evaluated 2 different luciferase reporter gene systems for YTH interactions, a Gal4 responsive firefly luciferase reporter gene and a Gal4 responsive Renilla luciferase reporter gene. Both the firefly and Renilla luciferase reporter genes demonstrated a 40- to 50-fold increase in luminescence in strains expressing interacting YTH fusion proteins versus negative control strains. Because the firefly and Renilla luciferase proteins have different substrate specificity, the assays were multiplexed. The multiplexed luciferase-based YTH platform adds speed, sensitivity, simplicity, quantification, and efficiency to YTH high-throughput applications and therefore greatly facilitates the identification of small molecule modulators of protein-protein interactions as tools or potential leads for drug discovery efforts. 相似文献
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HCVIRES介导萤火虫荧光素酶翻译的双顺反子载体的构建与在小鼠体内的表达 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
将HCVIRES插入双报告基因海肾荧光素酶 (Rluc)基因和萤火虫荧光素酶 (Fluc)基因之间 ,建立了“依赖帽子的扫描机制”翻译表达Rluc ,HCVIRES调控Fluc翻译的双顺反子表达载体pCI Rluc HCVIRES Fluc ,通过酶切反应及转染HepG2细胞鉴定双荧光素酶瞬间表达活性等试验 ,证实获得了表达双荧光素酶的双顺反子载体 .并应用水压转染法将双顺反子表达质粒导入小鼠体内 ,在小鼠肝脏检测到高水平表达的Rluc和Fluc .该研究成功构建一种HCVIRES介导萤火虫荧光素酶基因表达的双顺反子载体 ,并在HepG2细胞及小鼠体内进行了瞬时表达 ,为进一步建立稳定评价靶向HCVIRES药物作用的细胞及小动物模型研究奠定了基础 相似文献
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The aim of this study was to investigate and validate the use of a dual glow-signal luciferase reporter gene assay to simultaneously evaluate drug activity at two different seven-transmembrane receptor subtypes. Stable cell lines (CHO) transfected with either human corticotrophin releasing hormone 1 (hCRH1) receptors and a firefly luciferase reporter gene or hCRH2 and a Renilla luciferase reporter gene were created to provide different luciferase readouts for CRH1 and CRH2 receptors, respectively. Cells were combined for stimulation and measurement of luciferase luminescence in a 96-well plate format assay. The nonselective CRH agonists rat/human CRH and sauvagine caused concentration-dependent increases in luminescence via activation of CRH1 (firefly luciferase; pEC50 = 8.40 +/- 0.06 and 8.39 +/- 0.08, respectively, n = 8) and CRH2 (Renilla luciferase; pEC50 = 8.89 +/- 0.14 and 8.92 +/- 0.13, respectively, n = 8) receptors. The nonselective CRH antagonist astressin blocked these agonist-induced increases in luciferase at both CRH1 and CRH2 receptors. The selective CRH1 antagonist CP154,526 blocked r/hCRH- and sauvagine-induced increases in luciferase at CRH1 receptors only. These data report the expected pharmacology for CRH1 and CRH2 receptors. This assay enabled two receptor subtypes to be studied simultaneously in the same 96-well plate and generated robust data with low variability. It has the potential advantage of significant time and cost savings, with application to both basic research and compound screening. 相似文献
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The sea pansy Renilla reniformis luciferase serves as a sensitive bioluminescent reporter for differential gene expression in Candida albicans. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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T Srikantha A Klapach W W Lorenz L K Tsai L A Laughlin J A Gorman D R Soll 《Journal of bacteriology》1996,178(1):121-129
The infectious yeast Candida albicans progresses through two developmental programs which involve differential gene expression, the bud-hypha transition and high-frequency phenotypic switching. To understand how differentially expressed genes are regulated in this organism, the promoters of phase-specific genes must be functionally characterized, and a bioluminescent reporter system would facilitate such characterization. However, C. albicans has adopted a nontraditional codon strategy that involves a tRNA with a CAG anticodon to decode the codon CUG as serine rather than leucine. Since the luciferase gene of the sea pansy Renilla reinformis contains no CUGs, we have used it to develop a highly sensitive bioluminescent reporter system for C. albicans. When fused to the galactose-inducible promoter of GAL1, luciferase activity is inducible; when fused to the constitutive EF1 alpha 2 promoter, luciferase activity is constitutive; and when fused to the promoter of the white-phase-specific gene WH11 or the opaque-phase-specific gene OP4, luciferase activity is phase specific. The Renilla luciferase system can, therefore, be used as a bioluminescent reporter to analyze the strength and developmental regulation of C. albicans promoters. 相似文献
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An in vivo dual-luciferase assay system for studying translational recoding in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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A new in vivo assay system has been developed to study programmed frameshifting in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Frameshift signals are inserted between the Renilla and firefly luciferase reporter genes contained in a yeast expression vector and the two activities are directly measured from cell lysates in one tube. Similar to other bicistronic reporter systems, this one allows the efficient estimation of recoding efficiency by comparison of the normalized activity ratios from each luciferase protein. The assay system has been applied to HIV-1 and L-A directed programmed -1 frameshifting and Ty1 and Ty3 directed +1 frameshifting. The assay system is amenable to high-throughput screening. 相似文献
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本研究报道了微小RNA靶分子鉴定及其活性分析的内参内置型双荧光素酶单载体与其应用.利用非连接酶依赖的基因克隆技术,借助一步式二元搭桥耦联长距离PCR及大肠杆菌体内同源重组方法,将萤火虫荧光素酶基因(Firefly luc)融合到pRL-TK载体的海肾荧光素酶基因(Renilla luc)和氨苄青霉素抗性基因之间,构建为两种荧光素酶基因表达框并置的单载体报告系统,命名为pMiSensor. 在海肾荧光素酶基因的3′非翻译区引入多克隆位点Xba I和Apa I,便于克隆目的基因的3′UTR.海肾荧光素酶为报告基因,萤火虫荧光素酶为内参基因.多种哺乳动物细胞系的转染实验证实,pMiSensor可同时有效表达两种报告基因,其酶活显示出宽广的线性范围.通过构建pMiSensor-CCNE1报告载体,证明pMiSensor能够重现miR16对细胞周期蛋白CCNE1的调控作用.通过转染miR16抑制剂,证明pMiSensor-CCNE1可作为一种灵敏的生物感应器,探测细胞内微小RNA的活性变化.该双荧光素酶单载体具有重复性高、操作简便、定量准确的优点,适用于微小RNA靶分子的筛选、鉴定和确认, 也适用于在细胞水平定量分析微小RNA的活性变化. 相似文献
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Tatsuki Sugi Tatsunori Masatani Fumi Murakoshi Shin-ichiro Kawazu Kentaro Kato 《Analytical biochemistry》2014
Toxoplasma gondii can differentiate into tachyzoites or bradyzoites. To accelerate the investigation of bradyzoite differentiation mechanisms, we constructed a reporter parasite, PLK/DLUC_1C9, for a high-throughput assay. PLK/DLUC_1C9 expressed firefly luciferase under the bradyzoite-specific BAG1 promoter. Firefly luciferase activity was detected with a minimum of 102 parasites induced by pH 8.1. To normalize bradyzoite differentiation, PLK/DLUC_1C9 expressed Renilla luciferase under the parasite’s α-tubulin promoter. Renilla luciferase activity was detected with at least 102 parasites. By using PLK/DLUC_1C9 with this 96-well format screening system, we found that the protein kinase inhibitor analogs, bumped kinase inhibitors 1NM-PP1, 3MB-PP1, and 3BrB-PP1, had bradyzoite-inducing effects. 相似文献
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Promoter analysis typically employs a reporter gene fused to a test promoter combined with a second reporter fused to a control promoter that is used for normalization purposes. However, this approach is not valid when experimental conditions affect the control promoter. We have developed and validated a single secreted luciferase reporter (SSLR) assay for promoter analysis that avoids the use of a control reporter. The approach uses an early level of expression of a secreted luciferase linked to a test promoter as an internal normalization control for subsequent analysis of the same promoter. Comparison of the SSLR assay with the dual luciferase reporter (DLR) assay using HMGCR (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase) and LDLR (low-density lipoprotein receptor) promoter constructs, which are down-regulated by 25-hydroxycholesterol, show that both assays yield similar results. Comparison of the response of the HMGCR promoter in SSLR transient assays compared very favorably with the response of the same promoter in the stable cell line. Overall, the SSLR assay proved to be a valid alternative to the DLR assay for certain applications and had significant advantages in that measurement of only one luciferase is required and monitoring can be continuous because cell lysis is not necessary. 相似文献
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We describe a newRenilla reniformis luciferase reporter gene,RiLUC, which was designed to allow detection of luciferase activity in studies involvingAgrobacterium-based transient expression studies. TheRLUC gene was altered to contain a modified intron from the castor bean catalase gene while maintaining consensus eukaryotic splicing
sites recognized by the plant spliceosome.RLUC andRiLUC reporter genes were fused to the synthetic plant SUPER promoter. Luciferase activity within agrobacteria containing the SUPER-RLUC construct increased during growth in culture. In contrast, agrobacteria harboring the SUPER-RiLUC gene fusion showed no detectable luciferase activity. Agrobacteria containing these gene fusions were cotransformed with
a compatible normalization plasmid containing a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (CaMV) joined to the firefly luciferase
coding region (FiLUC) and infused into tobacco leaf tissues through stomatal openings. The kinetics of luciferase production from theRLUC orRiLUC reporters were consistent, with expression of theRiLUC gene being limited to transiently transformed plant cells.RiLUC activity from the reporter gene fusions was measured transiently and within stably transformed tobacco leaf tissues. Analysis
of stably transformed tobacco plants harboring either reporter gene fusion showed that the intron altered neither the levels
of luciferase activity nor tissue-specific expression patterns driven by the SUPER promoter. These results demonstrate that
theRiLUC reporter gene can be used to monitor luciferase expression in transient and stable transformation experiments without interference
from contaminating agrobacteria. 相似文献
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Noninvasive bioluminescence imaging of herpes simplex virus type 1 infection and therapy in living mice 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
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Luker GD Bardill JP Prior JL Pica CM Piwnica-Worms D Leib DA 《Journal of virology》2002,76(23):12149-12161
Mouse models of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection provide significant insights into viral and host genes that regulate disease pathogenesis, but conventional methods to determine the full extent of viral spread and replication typically require the sacrifice of infected animals. To develop a noninvasive method for detecting HSV-1 in living mice, we used a strain KOS HSV-1 recombinant that expresses firefly (Photinus pyralis) and Renilla (Renilla reniformis) luciferase reporter proteins and monitored infection with a cooled charge-coupled device camera. Viral infection in mouse footpads, peritoneal cavity, brain, and eyes could be detected by bioluminescence imaging of firefly luciferase. The activity of Renilla luciferase could be imaged after direct administration of substrate to infected eyes but not following the systemic delivery of substrate. The magnitude of bioluminescence from firefly luciferase measured in vivo correlated directly with input titers of recombinant virus used for infection. Treatment of infected mice with valacyclovir, a potent inhibitor of HSV-1 replication, produced dose-dependent decreases in firefly luciferase activity that correlated with changes in viral titers. These data demonstrate that bioluminescence imaging can be used for noninvasive, real-time monitoring of HSV-1 infection and therapy in living mice. 相似文献