Construction of an eGFP Expression Plasmid under Control of T7 Promoter and IRES Sequence for Assay of T7 RNA Polymerase Activity in Mammalian Cell Lines

Mostafa Ghaderi; Farzaneh Sabahi; Majid Sadeghi-Zadeh; Zahra Khanlari; Azam Jamaati; Dawood Mousavi-Nasab; Nasrin Majidi-Gharenaz; Mehdi Ajorloo; Maryam Fazeli

International Journal of Cancer Management

The Official Journal of Cancer Research Center (CRC), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

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Construction of an eGFP Expression Plasmid under Control of T7 Promoter and IRES Sequence for Assay of T7 RNA Polymerase Activity in Mammalian Cell Lines

Authors:

Mostafa Ghaderi¹,

Farzaneh Sabahi^1,*,

Majid Sadeghi-Zadeh²,

Zahra Khanlari¹,

Azam Jamaati¹,

Dawood Mousavi-Nasab¹,

Nasrin Majidi-Gharenaz³,

Mehdi Ajorloo¹,

Maryam Fazeli¹

1Dept. of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2Dept. of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

3Dept. of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

International Journal of Cancer Management:Vol. 7, issue 3; e80542

Published online:Sep 30, 2014

Article type:Research Article

Received:Mar 11, 2014

Accepted:Jun 11, 2014

How to Cite:Mostafa GhaderiFarzaneh SabahiMajid Sadeghi-ZadehZahra KhanlariAzam JamaatiDawood Mousavi-Nasab Nasrin Majidi-GharenazMehdi AjorlooMaryam Fazeliet al.Construction of an eGFP Expression Plasmid under Control of T7 Promoter and IRES Sequence for Assay of T7 RNA Polymerase Activity in Mammalian Cell Lines.7(3):e80542.

Abstract

Background: Recently, the use of T7 RNA polymerase instead of other viral and cellular promoters is increasing due to high efficacy of transcription in the cell cytoplasm by this polymerase. In order to translate the transcripts produced by T7 RNA polymerase in mammalian cell lines, it is necessary to include Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) sequences. In addition, if sequence of poly A signal would be included after interested gene, the rate of expression could be increased in the cells.

Methods: For expression of eGFP in HEK-293 and T7-BHK cells by T7 RNA polymerase, the sequence of eGFP as well as IRES sequences upstream of eGFP gene and poly A signal were inserted into a pUC57 plasmid. On the other hand, gene of T7 RNA polymerase was cloned into modified pIRES2- EGFP plasmid. Then, the constructed plasmids were transfected into HEK-293 cells. T7-BHK cell was used for control of T7 RNA polymerase activity.

Results: Our results showed that using T7 RNA polymerase for expression of foreign genes in mammalian cell lines is highly efficient.

Conclusion: Highly efficient eGFP expression in HEK-293 cells showed that T7 RNA polymerase could be used for cytoplasmic RNA transcription such as production of anti-cancer proteins and oncolytic viral genomic RNA by reverse genetics.

Keywords

T7 RNA polymerase

Cancer gene therapy

Oncolytic RNA viruses

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