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Inducible and Reversible Dominant-negative DN Protein Inhibition
Published on: January 7, 2019
Construction of a thermostable cell adhesion protein for reverse transfection
JooYoun Bae1, Sayaka Goto, Masayasu Mie
1Department of Biological Information, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
Transfection arrays are useful to analyze multiple genes at one time. In order to carry out gene transfection, cells are cultured on a plate on which genes are spotted to make extracellular matrix. However, this method is limited by low cell adhesion and transfection efficiency. To overcome these problems, we attempted to construct a novel extracellular matrix protein consisting of a variety of functional peptides. Here we fused the elastin derived peptide Ala-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly-Val (APGVGV) with the cell adhesive peptides, Pro-His-Ser-Arg-Asn (PHSRN) and Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD). The resulting fusion proteins, E12PSGR, had high cell adhesive activity, transfection efficiency, and thermal stability.
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