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Production and Purification of Non Replicative Canine Adenovirus Type 2 Derived Vectors
Published on: December 3, 2013
[Construction of plant expressive vector of human beta-defensin-2 gene]
Shaohui Cai1, Maoqun Yu, Xiaojuan Yang
1School of Pharmacy of Ji Nan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Objective:
Several evidences suggested that transgenic plants would be a facile and economic bioreactor for large-scale production of industrial and pharmaceutical recombinant proteins. This study is made in an attempt to establish plant bioreactor for expression of recombinant hBD-2.
Methods:
Recombinant hBD-2 gene with C terminal of bi-tags of myc and 6xHis was inserted into a plant expressive vector-pCAMBIA1304, which closely located the down-stream of CaMV35S promoter. Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 was transformed with the recombinant plant expressive vector: rpCAMBIA1304/hBD-2/His. The positive clones of LBA4404 transformed by rpCAMBIA1304/hBD-2/His were selected on a culture plate containing kanamycin. The callus tissues were transfected by positive clones of LBA4404, and positive callus were examined by using the resistant selection of hygromycin gene.
Results:
The evidences of enzyme digestion, PCR and sequence analysis confirmed that recombinant hBD-2 gene with C terminal of bi-tags of myc and 6xHis was correctly inserted into pCAMBIA1304 and was located between CaMV35S promoter and Nos terminal cordon to construct recombinant plant expressive vector: rpCAMBIA1304/hBD-2/His, thus indicating that rpCAMBIA1304/hBD-2/His has successfully transformed Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 and positive clones have been isolated. The results from resistant selection of hygromycin gene showed that rpCAMBIA1304/hBD-2/His has been transferred into the callus of wheat, and the differentiation of callus tissue under selective pressure of hygromycin is carried out continually.
Conclusion:
The above data suggest that the technique of transgenic plant is workable for the production of recombinant hBD-2.
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