Introduction of temperature-sensitive helper and donor plasmids into Bac-to-Bac baculovirus expression systems

In the baculovirus shuttle vector(bacmid) system, a helper plasmid and a donor plasmid are employed to insert heterologous genes into a cloned baculovirus genome via Tn7 transposition in Escherichia coli. The helper and donor plasmids are usually cotransfected with constructed bacmids into insect cells, which will lead to integration of these plasmids into the viral genome,and hence to the production of defective virions. In this study, to facilitate the preparation of plasmid-free recombinant bacmids, we modified a set of helper and donor plasmids by replacing their replication origins with that of a temperature-sensitive(ts) plasmid, p SIM6. Using the resulting ts helper plasmid p MON7124 ts and the ts donor plasmid p FB1ts-PH-GFP, a recombinant bacmid,b Ac WT-PG(-), was constructed, and the transposition efficiency was found to be 33.1%. The plasmids were then removed by culturing at 37 °C. For b Ac WT-PG(-), the infectious progeny virus titer and the protein expression level under the control of the polyhedrin promoter were similar to those of a bacmid constructed with unmodified helper and donor plasmids. These ts plasmids will be useful for obtaining plasmid-free bacmids for both heterologous protein production and fundamental studies of baculovirus biology.

甲型H1N1流感病毒HA基因在昆虫细胞中的截短表达

目的:利用Bac-to-Bac Baculovirus Expression System表达重组HA蛋白,Western blot及IFA方法鉴定其表达。方法:采用PCR方法扩增A/California/04/2009(H1N1)HA基因,将其克隆到pFastBacHT A载体上,重组质粒pFastBacHT-HA经双酶切及测序鉴定正确后,转化阳性重组载体进入E.coli DH10Bac感受态细胞中,通过Bluo-gal蓝白斑筛选、PCR鉴定获得重组转座子rBacmid-HA。从重组转座子中提取rBacmid-HA质粒DNA转染sf 9昆虫细胞,制备重组杆状病毒。重组杆状病毒感染sf 9细胞表达重组蛋白,Western blot及IFA鉴定重组蛋白表达情况。结论:成功构建了甲型H1N1流感病毒HA基因的昆虫杆状病毒表达载体,该表达载体转染昆虫细胞后制备的重组杆状病毒病毒滴度较高,重组杆状病毒表达的重组蛋白经Western blot及IFA鉴定后具有良好的免疫反应原性。