Acidic region-3 fused heavy chain ameliorates intein-based dual-vector delivery of the B-domain deleted FⅧ gene
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This work was supported by grants from The Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2010CM061), Science and Technology Program of Yantai City (2008152), The Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (20071108) and Scientific Research Foundation of Ludong University(LZ20083305)

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    It was previously demonstrated that an intein-catalyzed splicing of B-domain deleted coagulation factor Ⅷ (BDD-FⅧ) heavy and light chains could improve the secretion of heavy chain in cis and the splicing can occur independently of cellular entities exhibiting a splicing activity in and out of the cell. In order to improve the efficacy of intein-based dual-vector delivery of the BDD-FⅧ gene, here an additional acidic region-3 (AR-3) between Pro1640 and Ser1690 of FⅧ proven to be helpful for the secretion of heavy chain was incorporated into BDD-FⅧ heavy chain to examine its effect on secretion and bioactivity of an intein-spliced BDD-FⅧ protein. By co-transfection of the cultured HEK293 cells with genes of the ar-3 incorporated heavy chain and light chain with fused intein (HCAR3IntN and IntCLC), an ELISA and Coatest assay were performed to determine the amount of spliced BDD-FⅧ protein and coagulation activity secreted in the culture supernatant, and the intracellular BDD-FⅧ splicing was observed by Western blotting. The data showed that the amount of spliced BDD-FⅧ protein (173±26) μg/L and coagulation activity (1.31±0.15) U/ml of supernatant from gene co-transfected cells were greater than supernatant from intein-fused ar-3-free heavy and light chain genes (HCIntN and IntCLC) co-transfected cells (102 ± 12) μg/L and (0.79 ± 0.09) U/ml indicating the additional AR-3 in the heavy chain could dramatically improve the secretion and activity of intein spliced BDD-FⅧ. A spliced BDD-FⅧ protein ((35±7) μg/L) and coagulation activity ((0.28±0.08) U/ml) was also detected in the culture supernatant of combined cells separately transfected with the HCAR3IntN and IntCLC genes implying the cellular entities independent BDD-FⅧ splicing of the intein. The total protein from gene co-transfected cells displayed an obvious protein band of the spliced BDD-FⅧ detected by a FⅧ polyclone antibody indicating the intracellular BDD-FⅧ splicing. It paved a way for ongoing study on protein trans-splicing based dual-adeno-associated virus (AAV) delivery of the split BDD-FⅧ gene in gene therapy for hemophilia A animals.

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Zhu Fuxiang, Yang Shude, Liu Zelong, Miao Jing, Qu Huige, Chi Xiaoyan. Acidic region-3 fused heavy chain ameliorates intein-based dual-vector delivery of the B-domain deleted FⅧ gene[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2010,37(11):1225-1231

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  • Received:May 03,2010
  • Revised:July 29,2010
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  • Online: August 17,2010
  • Published: November 20,2010