• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.298-309
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• 2000

연구배경 : 암 유전자치료에서 각광받고 있는 HSV-tk/GCV 전략의 항암효과에는 다음과 같은 장점들이 거론되고 있다 : 1) GCV 처리에 의한 암세포 직접살상효과 2) HSV-tk 이입된 세포에 의해서 HSV-tk 이입되지 않은 주변세포를 살상하는 bystander effect 3) 생체 내 bystander eff ect로 알려 진 anti-tumor immunity. Retrovirus와 adenovirus sequence를 이용할 경우 몇몇 세포주와 마우스에서 이들이 목적유전자의 발현을 억제할 수 있다는 것이 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 retroviral나 adenoviral vector로 HSV-tk 유전자를 이입한 Lewis 폐암세포주와 폐암 마우스 모델을 통하여 HSV-tk/GCV 전략의 장점을 조사하였고 이 viral vector들 사이의 차이를 비교 조사하였다. 또한 Lewis 폐암세포주에서 butyrate를 처리한 후 HSV-tk 유전자의 발현증가를 관찰하였다. 방법 : Lewis retroviral vector와 adenoviral vector로 HSV-tk 유전자를 이입한 후 butyrate로 HSV-tk 유전자의 발현을 유도하고 Western blotting수행하여 분석하였다. 생체 외에서 HSV-tk/GCV에 의한 세포살상효과를 MTT 검사로 수행하였고 생체 내에서 LLC 나 HSV-tk 이입된 LLC 세포주를 이식하여 종양소멸 및 bystander effect를 조사 하였다. 결과 : 1. Butyrate로 HSV-tk adenovirus로 이입된 LLC에서 증가한 반면 retrovirus로 이입된 LLC에서는 증가하지 않았다. 2. 생체 외 그리고 생체 내에서 viral vector로 HSV-tk를 이입한 종양세포에 GCV 투여하는 것은 종양 세포의 살상에 효과적이었으며 LLC와 LLC-tk 세포주를 혼합한 실험에서 bystander effect도 종양세포의 성장을 억제하는 것으로 관찰되었다. 결론 : 향후 생체 외 그리고 생체 내 실험에서 adenoviral vector를 이용한 유전자 전달에 butyrate를 함께 사용하면 유전자발현을 증진시킬 것으로 사료되며 자살 유전자인 HSV-tk을 종양에 이입하여 GCV을 처리 하는 치료가 폐암유전자치료에 효과가 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 1993

A double - stranded cDNA fragment (436bp) encoding coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus(TMV) was derived from the total 480nucleotides gene after reverse transcription of TMV RNA, and subclorled into a plant expression vector pBl 121, resulting in pBL 430. The plasmid DNA containing this chimeric gene was moved from E. cofi to Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A28l, and was introduced in시 the tobacco plant by the Agrobocterium Ti - mediated transformtion system. The transformants were selected on a selection media containing kanamycin. The shoots add roots could be differentiated from the explants and whole plants were obtained. From Southern blot hybridization analysis, DNA extracted from transformants, it could be conformed that the chimeric gene fragment was inserted into the genomic DNA of tobacco plant.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 1998

This study was conducted to develop a resistant tobarro against Potato virus Y (PVY) by transformation of the plants with genetically engineered viral genes. The complimentary DNAs (cDNAS) of potato virus Y-necrosis strain (PVY-Vn) replicase mutant genes (3'-deleted, 5'-deleted and ADD-mutant Nlbs) were synthesized through RT-PCR by using purified PVY-VN RNA and synthesized primers, and cloned in the sense orientation into a plant expression vector (pMBPI), The cDNAS of the genes were transferred into Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA 4404, and then transformed into tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Burley 21) plants. Regenerated plants were tested for PVY resistance by inoculation test; 13 transgenic plants including 7 for 3'-deleted Nlb, 3 for 5'-deleted Nlb, and 3 for ADD-mutant Nlb appeared to be resistant at 4 weeks after inoculation with PVY-VN. Among the 13 transgenic tobacco plants, 8 plants had no symptom up to 14 weeks after inoculation. The progenies ($T_1$) from self-fertilization of the transgenic lines varied 0.0% to 81.2% in their resistance (% of resistant plants). The analysis of Nlb-31deleted, -5'deleted and -ADD mutant in the $T_1$ plants by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) showed that Nlb-3'deleted, -5'deleted and -ADD mutants were detected in all of the resistant plants. These results suggest that the PVY resistance was inherited in the $T_1$ generation.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.151-161
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• 2004

Transgenic plants have been studied as delivery system for edible vaccine against various diseases. Edible plant vaccines have several potential advantages as follows: an inexpensive source of antigen, easy administration, reduced need for medical personnel, economical to mass produce and easy transport, heat-stable vaccine without refrigerator, generation of systemic and mucosal immunity and safe antigen without fetal animal-virus contaminants. The amount of recombinant antigens in transgenic plants ranged from 0.002 to 0.8％ in total soluble protein, depending on promoters for the expression of interested genes and plants to be used for transformation. Throughout the last decade, edible plant vaccine made notable progresses that protect from challenges against virus or bacteria. However edible plant vaccines have still problems that could be solved. First, the strong promoter or inducible promoter or strategy of protein targeting could be solved to improve the low expression of antigens in transgenic plants. Second, the transformation technique of target plant should be developed to be able to eat uncooked. Third, marker-free vector could be constructed to be more safety. In this review we describe advances of edible plant vaccines, focusing on the yields depending on plants/promoters employed and the results of animal/clinical trials, and consider further research for the development of a new plant-derived vaccine.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2013

Interleukin-18 (IL-18) has been known to induce interferon-${\gamma}$ (IFN-${\gamma}$) production and promote Th1 immunity. Although mammalian IL-18 has been characterized in great detail, the properties and application of chicken IL-18 remain largely uninvestigated as of yet. In this study, we evaluated the immunomodulatory properties of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chicken interleukin-18 (chIL-18) on immune responses induced by avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines. After oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18, chickens were vaccinated intramuscularly with the recommended dose of either inactivated AI H9N2 vaccine or ND (B1 strain) vaccine. Chickens receiving a primary vaccination were boosted using the same protocol 7 days later. Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses were evaluated in terms of HI antibody titers and proliferation and mRNA expression of IFN-${\gamma}$ and IL-4 of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in response to specific antigen stimulation. According to our results, oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18 induced enhanced humoral and Th1-biased cell-mediated immunity against AI and ND vaccines, compared to that of chickens received S. enterica serovar Typhimurium harboring empty vector. Therefore, we conclude that our proposed vaccination regimen using inactivated AI and ND viruses along with oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18 may provide a novel approach in protecting chicken from currently circulating AI and ND virus strains.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.432-437
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• 2016

Interleukin-11 (IL-11) is a cytokine that plays a key regulatory role in the immune system. Recombinant human IL-11 (rhIL-11) exerts a preventative effect against apoptotic cell death and inhibits preadipocyte differentiation. IL-11 also is used to stimulate the bone marrow to produce platelets in order to prevent low platelets that may be caused by chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the high production cost of IL-11 associated. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of transgenic plants for the cost-effective production of rhIL-11. Production of rhIL-11 proteins in whole-plant expression system will be more economical when compared to the current E. coli based expression system. The human rhIL-11 gene was codon optimized to maximize plant host system expression. IL-11 expression vector under the control of a constitutive cauliflower mosaic virus 35S (CaMV 35S) promoter was introduced into tobacco by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The 5'-leader sequence (called ${\Omega}$) of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as a translational enhancer was added to construct. Transgenic tobacco plants expressing various levels of rhIL-11 protein were generated. Western blotting of the stably transformed lines demonstrated accumulation of the appropriately sized rhIL-11 protein in leaves. This research demonstrated the efficacy of using tobacco as an expression system for the production of rhIL-11.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.1098-1105
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• 2017

Vesicular stomatitis virus G glycoprotein (VSV-G) has been widely used for pseudotyping retroviral, lentiviral, and artificial viral vectors. The objective of this study was to establish a potential approach for large-scale production of VSV-G. To this end, VSV-G was cloned with an N-terminal His-tag into Pichia pastoris expression vector pPIC3.5K. Three clones ($Mut^s$) containing the VSV-G expression cassette were identified by PCR. All clones proliferated normally in expansion medium, whereas the proliferation was reduced significantly under induction conditions. VSV-G protein was detected in cell lysates by western blot analysis, and the highest expression level was observed at 96 h post induction. VSV-G could also be obtained from the condition medium of yeast protoplasts. Furthermore, VSV-G could be incorporated into Ad293 cells and was able to induce cell fusion, leading to the transfer of cytoplasmic protein. Finally, VSV-G-mediated DNA transfection was assayed by flow cytometry and luciferase measurement. Incubation of VSV-G lysate with the pGL3-control DNA complex increased the luciferase activity in Ad293 and HeLa cells by about 3-fold. Likewise, incubation of VSV-G lysate with the pCMV-DsRed DNA complex improved the transfection efficiency into Ad293 by 10% and into HeLa cells by about 1-fold. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that VSV-G could be produced from P. pastoris with biofunctionalities, demonstrating that large-scale production of the viral glycoprotein is feasible.

• 한국미생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.121-124
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• 2002

This work was initiated to develope a recombinant oral poliovaccine (OPV), which is highly advanced in safety (minimizing VAPP) by introducing Type 2,3 poliovirus epitopes into our RPS-Vax system. We have introduced several potential vaccine epitopes of poliovirus Type 2, and 3 into RPS-Vax system, resulting in production of recombinant polioviruses. Any of these chimeric viruses, however, were not detected for their foreign gene expression by serotype-specific mouse antiserum. We have designed several folding units to stabilize the introduced vaccine protein and attached short epitope-concatamer or epitope-multimer to them, followed by production of chimeric viruses. Only those who have an HIV-1 Tat-mediated folding unit were nicely detected for the introduced foreign proteins by anti-Tat antiserum and type-specific peptide-induced antisera. Nevertheless, introduced epitopes were not detected in Western blot experiment with each serotype-specific antiserum. None of the mice inoculated with these chimeric viruses showed preventative immunity when challenged with Lansing and Leon wildtype 2 and 3 poliovirus, and the antiserum did not show neutralizing capacity in vitro. Conformational epitope covering B/C loop region of type 2 and 3 were newly designed by computer modeling, and introduced into the RPS-Vax vector system, followed by production of chimeric viruses. Introduced epitope regions were nicely detected by anti-Tag23 mAb or peptide antibody, but still not detected by poliovirus antiserum. Nevertheless, neutralizing antibody was detected in the Tg-PVR mice even when inoculated once with these chimeric viruses. Also, the immunized mice showed perfect preventative immunity against the wild Type poliovirus Lancing or Leon. When boosted appropriately, those chimeric virus-inoculated Tg-PVR mice produced equivalent amounts of neutralizing antibody to those in Sabin 2/3-immunized mice. These data strongly suggest that our recombinant poliovirus (RPS-PV2 and RPS-PV3) can be used as a safe and effective rec-OPV instead of any preexisting poliovaccine.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 레트로 바이러스를 이용하여 형질전환 돼지를 생산하기 위한 기초 연구로써 유전자 도입 효율을 증진시키기 위해 sucrose와 poly-brene을 사용하여 그 효과를 조사하였다. 유전자(hGH) 전달체로는 vesicular stomatitis virus gly-coprotein pseudotyped retroviral vector (VSV-G)를 사용하였다. 체외에서 성숙된 돼지 난자는 매우 협소한 위란강내 공간을 가지며 따라서 위란강내 공간의 확장은 필수조건이다. sucrose 처리는 수정율및 배발달에는 영향을 미치지 않았으며 sucrose 처리를 통해 돼지난자는 위란강의 공간이 확장되어 충분한 양의 바이러스 벡터의 주입이 가능하였다. PCR 분석 결과 8.3 %의 유전자 도입율을 나타낸 무처리군에 비해 0.5, 1, 2, 3 % sucrose 처리군에서 39.3, 43.3, 35.7, 40.7 %의 높은 유전자 도입율을 나타내었다. 추가적으로 돼지난자는 sucrose 처리에 의해 다정자 침입의 억제 효과를 나타내었다. 일반적으로 레트로 바이러스를 이용한 세포에의 높은 유전자 도입 효과를 나타내는 것으로 알려진 polybrene을 바이러스와 공동 주입한 결과 0.5, 5, 50$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$의 농도에서 각각 56.5, 50.0, 57.1 %의 도입율을 나타냄으로써 바이러스 단독 주입군의 34.6%보다 높은 효율을 나타내었다. 그러나 50$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$의 농도를 주입하였을 경우, 분할율과 배반포발달율이 43.3 및 4.6%를 나타냄으로써 바이러스 단독주입군의 72.0, 17.3%보다 유의적으로 낮았다. 이상의 결과를 종합할 때, sucrose의 처리는 돼지 난자의 발달에 영향을 주지 않으며 유전자 도입효율을 증진시킬 수 있었으며, 추가적으로 다정자 침입억제효과를 보였다. 또한 polybrene의 사용은 낮은 농도에서 유전자 도입효율을 증진시켰다. 이러한 결과들은 형질 전환 돼지의 생산 가능성을 높이는데 이용될 수 있다고 사료된다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제50권
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• pp.56-62
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• 2023

35S cauliflower mosaic virus 프로모터의 조절을 받고 인트론이 포함된 β-Glucuronidase (gus) gene과 35S cauliflower mosaic virus (enhanced) 프로모터의 조절을 받는 blpR유전자가 있는 pCAMBIA3301 벡터가 포함된 AGL-1 균주를 사용하였다. 아그로박테리움을 이용한 형질전환 체계와 PPT (D-L-phosphinothricin) 선발을 통하여 나리 인편조직으로부터 형질전환 식물체가 획득되었다. 본 연구에서 나리 레드플레임'품종의 인편조직에 선발 및 목적유전자로 바스타 제초제저항성 유전자인 blpR 유전자를 도입하였다. 상기 실험 결과, 20분의 접종시간과 5일간의 아그로박테리움과의 공동배양이 100개의 접종된 인편개체에서 각각 24, 27개의 높은 PPT 저항성 개체가 관찰되었고 신초까지 형성된 인편을 19.6 및 22.7개를 생산하는 우수한 형질전환 결과를 보여주었다. 이렇게 제초제를 이용하여 선발되었을 뿐만 아니라 도입된 reporter 유전자인 gus도 발현되었음을 확인하였고 선발유전자이자 목적유전자인 blpR 유전자도 PCR 검정을 통해 도입되었음을 확인하였다. 12주 이상의 선발과정을 거치고 gus 및 PCR 검정을 거친 형질전환 개체들은 발근 배지를 거쳐 순화 후 화분으로 이식하여 높은 활착율을 보여주었다. 결론적으로 본 연구에서 확립한 프로토콜을 이용하면 평균 20% 이상의 형질전환 효율을 나타내고 본 연구에 기술된 아그로박테리움 매개 형질전환 체계에 향후 보완이 필요하지만, 우수 품종개발을 위한 나리 육종 프로그램에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.