鼠白细胞介素12(mIL-12)在昆虫细胞中的表达

EXPRESSION OF MURINE INTERLEUKIN 12(mIL-12) IN INSECT CELLS

人IL-12的作用具有种属特异性,无法对鼠淋巴细胞起作用。因此,为了在啮齿动物模型上研究该细胞因子的免疫学效应,并评价其临床应用前景,就很有必要获得重组鼠IL-12(mIL-12)。为此,我们首先构建了两个表达载体pVL1393-mp40和pVL1393-mp35,并分别与线性化多角体病毒基因组DNA共转染昆虫细胞株Sf9,用目视法筛选出重组病毒AcNPV-mp40和AcNPV-mp35,然后共感染昆虫细胞,使mp40和mp35在昆虫细胞中共表达。经实时BIA和Northern blot分析,表明重组mIL-12在昆虫细胞中表达成功。经还原条件下的SDS-PAGE分析,重组mp40和mp35的分子量分别为40KDa和22KDa。非还原条件下的Western blot结果显示,重组mIL-12的表观分子量为80KDa。用抗体捕获法在条件培液中测到了重组产物的生物活性,经与参照标准相比照,重组mIL-12的表达量约为10-15μg/10~6细胞。

Since human IL-12 is species-specific in its functions and elicits little biological responses from mouse lymphocytes, it is necessary to express reconabinant murine IL-12 for the usage in studying the effects of this cy-tokine in various rodent models. Thereby, we can investigate the role of IL-12 in immune response in vivo and evaluate its potential clinical utility. Thus, we firstly constructed two expression vectors, pVL1393-mp40 and pVL1393-mp35. They were used to co-trans-fect the insect cells(Sf9) separately with lin-earized polyhedrosis virus genomic DNA. Two kinds of recombinant viruses AcNPV-mp40 and AcNPV-mp35 were visually screened out, and mp40 and mp35 were co-expressed in the insect cells co-infected by AcN- PV-mp40 and AcNPV-mp35. The results of real-time Biomolecular Interaction Analysis (BIA) and Northern blot demonstrated that the recombinant mIL-12 was expressed successfully in the insect cells. The molecular weights of recombinant mp40 and mp35 were 40KDa and 22KDa on SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions, respectively. The apparent molecular weight of recombinant mIL-12 is 80KDa under non-reducing conditions of Western blot. Biological activity of the recombinant product was detected in conditional medium using antibody-capture bioassay. The expression level of recombinant mIL-12 was about 10-15μg/106 cells, as compared with the calibration curve of mIL-12.