目的:构建含活性缺陷型小鼠端粒酶催化亚基(去除氨基酸702-712的mTERT,命名为mTERTΔ)基因的慢病毒载体,检测其表达和功能。方法:从先前构建的表达mTERT全长的pDC315-EGFP-mTERT质粒中,通过缺失突变PCR扩增小鼠mTERTΔ基因,构建真核表达载体GV287-EGFP/mTERTΔ。鉴定正确后将目的基因克隆入慢病毒载体pGC-LV,得重组载体pGC-LV/mTERTΔ-EGFP,采用Lipofectamine2000将其转染293T细胞,包装慢病毒颗粒LV-mTERTΔ-EGFP后感染神经干细胞和原代神经元,TRAP-PCR方法检测端粒酶活性,荧光显微镜观察目的片段表达和细胞增殖情况。结果:成功构建TERTΔ基因片段,测序证明重组慢病毒载体pGC-LV/mTERTΔ-EGFP构建成功。包装慢病毒颗粒LV-mTERTΔ-EGFP可以感染神经干细胞和神经元,端粒酶活性测试证明目的蛋白的端粒酶催化活性缺陷,抑制神经干细胞增殖,抑制内源性mTERT功能。结论:慢病毒载体LV-mTERT-EGFP构建成功,可以表达无活性mTERT片段。
Objective:To construct lentiviral vector carrying activity-defective mTERT(deleting amino acid 702-712,named mTERTΔ) and to detect its expression and function.Methods:Mice mTERTΔ gene was amplified by our previous constructed plasmid pDC315-EGFP-mTERT carrying the whole gene encoding mTERT by deletion mutant PCR.Then,eukaryotic expression vector of GV287-EGFP/mTERTΔ was constructed.After DNA sequence analysis,mTERTΔ was cloned into lentiviral vector pGC-LV to construct recombinant vector pGC-LV/mTERTΔ-EGFP.pGC-LV/mTERTΔ-EGFP was transfected into 293T cells by Lipofectamine2000 to package lentiviral particle LV-mTERTΔ-EGFP.The particles were transfected into neuronal stem cells and primary neurons.TRAP-PCR was performed to detect telomerase activity,and fluorescence microscopy was performed to observe fragment expression and cell proliferation.Results:TERTΔ gene fragment was successfully constructed,and the analysis of DNA sequence proved that the recombinant lentiviral vector pGC-LV/mTERTΔ-EGFP was successfully constructed.Package of lentiviral particle LV-mTERTΔ-EGFP were transfected into neuronal stem cells and primary neurons.The expressed mTERTΔ detected by telomerase activity test was activity defective,and inhibited neural stem cell proliferation and endogenous mTERT function.Conclusion:The lentiviral vector of LV-mTERTΔ-EGFP was constructed successfully and infected cells could express activity-defective mTERT.