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Published on: June 4, 2012
[Construction of eukaryotic expression vector of hMTH1 gene antisense RNA]
Gao-feng Jiang1, Zhi-xiong Zhuang, Qi-zhan Liu
1Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Objective:
To construct pEGFP-C1-T vector, an eukaryotic expression plasmid of hMTH1 gene antisense RNA.
Methods:
The conservative region of hMTH1 gene was amplified by RT-PCR after total RNA being extracted from human embryo lung fibroblast (HLF) and then cloned into pGEM-T vector. After the recombinant plasmid was certified by DNA sequencing, the conservative region of hMTH1 gene was inserted into pEGFP-C1 vector reversedly and pEGFP-C1-T vector was constructed. The efficiency of antisense inhibition was verified by Western blotting after cell transfection.
Results:
423 bp fragment including conservative region of hMTH1 gene was obtained by RT-PCR. After cloned by pGEM-T vector and certified by DNA sequencing, pEGFP-C1-T vector was successfully constructed by means of recombinant DNA technology. Additionally pEGFP-C1-T vector could efficiently decrease hMTH1 protein level by 46%.
Conclusion:
The efficient expression vector of hMTH1 gene antisense RNA, pEGFP-C1-T has been constructed successfully.
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