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La clonación molecular y la expresión del receptor humano del factor de necrosis tumoral de 55 kd
H Loetscher1, Y C Pan, H W Lahm
1Central Research Units, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche LTD, Basel, Switzerland.
Cell
|April 20, 1990
Resumen
Los investigadores purificaron el receptor del factor de necrosis tumoral (TNF) de 55 kd y determinaron su secuencia de aminoácidos. Este trabajo identificó el receptor TNF.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Inmunología Inmunología.
- Biología celular Biología celular.
Sus antecedentes:
- Dos receptores distintos para el factor de necrosis tumoral (TNF), 55 kd y 75 kd, se expresan en niveles bajos en varias células.
- Comprender la estructura y función de los receptores de TNF es crucial para comprender las respuestas inflamatorias e inmunes.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para purificar y caracterizar el receptor TNF de 55 kd.
- Determinar la base molecular de la función del receptor TNF e identificar posibles objetivos terapéuticos.
Principales métodos:
- Purificación del receptor TNF de 55 kd de las células HL60.
- Determinación de secuencias parciales de aminoácidos.
- Reacción en cadena de la transcriptasa-polimerasa inversa (RT-PCR) utilizando primers de oligonucleótidos degenerados para amplificar un fragmento de ADNc.
- Cribado de una biblioteca de ADNc de placenta humana utilizando el fragmento amplificado como sonda.
- Expresión del cDNA clonado en células COS-1 y un sistema de baculovirus para evaluar las propiedades de unión al TNF.
Principales resultados:
- Se determinaron las secuencias parciales de aminoácidos de los 55 kd receptores TNF.
- Un fragmento de 66 bp de ADNc fue amplificado y utilizado para identificar clones superpuestos de una biblioteca de ADNc de placenta humana.
- El cDNA de longitud completa predice una proteína receptor TNF de 455 aminoácidos con dominios funcionales distintos (líder, extracelular, transmembrana, intracelular).
- El receptor TNF expresado confería propiedades de unión al TNF comparables a las del receptor nativo.
- Se observó una homología de secuencia significativa entre el receptor TNF de 55 kd y el dominio extracelular del receptor NGF.
Conclusiones:
- El estudio purificó y caracterizó con éxito el receptor TNF de 55 kd, aclarando su estructura molecular.
- Los hallazgos proporcionan una base para la comprensión de las vías de señalización de los receptores TNF y su papel en la enfermedad.
- La homología con el receptor NGF sugiere posibles mecanismos de señalización compartidos o relaciones evolutivas.
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