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This work was supported by a grant from The Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2010CM061), Science and Technology Program of Yantai City (2008152), the Scientific Research Foundation from Education Ministry for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars (20071108) and the Discipline Construction Funds of Ludong University
We previously demonstrated that leucine zippers fused to intein could increase secretion of spliced B-domain-deleted coagulation factor Ⅷ (BDD-FⅧ) protein and activity by dual-vector based BDD-FⅧ gene transfected cell in vitro through improving protein trans-splicing. In this study, a pair of plasmid vectors expressing human BDD-FⅧ heavy and light chain fused with lucine zipper and split Ssp DnaB intein was co-injected into C57BL/6 mice via the portal vein. Fourty-eight hours post-injection, the level of heavy chain and FⅧ coagulation activity in collected plasma were determined and shown as (298±67) μg/L and (1.15±0.29) U/ml respectively, greater than that of control mice injected with both vectors without leucine zippers ((179±59) μg/L and (0.58±0.19) U/ml). It demonstrated that leucine zippers fused intein could increase FⅧ coagulation activity in plasma of mice with intein-based dual-vector BDD-FⅧ gene delivery through improved protein trans-splicing. It provided evidence for ongoing hemophilia A gene therapy using dual-AAV vecors.
ZHU Fu-Xiang, LIU Ze-Long, MIAO Jing, QU Hui-Ge, CHI Xiao-Yan. Intein-Fused Lucine Zippers Increase Plasma Coagulation Activity by Improving Protein Trans-Splicing in Dual-Vector Factor Ⅷ Gene Delivered Mice[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2012,39(12):1220-1225
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