ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (5): 963-970.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.05.022

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The Establishment of a Cell Line Stably Expressing Porcine GM-CSF

LI Jun-min1,2, YONG Yan-hong2, GONG Dong-liang3, FENG Yuan1, WEI Xuan1, HE Yu-lin1*, JU Xiang-hong2*   

  1. 1. Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541004, China;
    2. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Guangdong Ocean University of Agriculture, Zhanjiang 524088, China;
    3. Department of Animal Science, Guangdong Ocean University of Agriculture, Zhanjiang 524088, China
  • Received:2016-11-28 Online:2017-05-23 Published:2017-05-23

Abstract:

This study was conducted to establish cells lines stably expressing porcine GM-CSF. The primer of porcine GM-CSF was designed according to the sequence published in NCBI, the open reading frame (ORF) was cloned by RT-PCR method. The porcine GM-CSF gene cloned consisted of 435 bp, and the ORF of porcine GM-CSF encoded a protein of 144 amino acids. The GM-CSF polypeptide had an estimated molecular mass of 16.3 ku, PI of 7.15 and displayed a high homology to Ovis aries(77.1%), Equus caballus (73.6%), Felis catus(72.2%), Bos taurus(71.5%), Canis lupus familiaris(71.3%)and Homo sapiens(70.8%), respectively. After the digestion of pIRES2-EGFP vector by EcoR I and BamH I enzyme, the ORF of porcine GM-CSF was inserted and named pIRES2-EGFP-pGM-CSF. Following, the pIRES2-EGFP-pGM-CSF was transfected into porcine intestinal epithelial cell line IPEC-J2, which was then screened by G418. Consequently, the expression of GM-CSF mRNA in transfected cells was significantly increased compared to control cells and after 24 h of transfection(P<0.01), and transfected cells also showed high expression of green fluorescent. After G418 selection and expansion (positive clone) for 30 passages, the expression of GM-CSF mRNA was increased to control compared cells. We concluded that the eukaryotic expression vector pIRES2-EGFP-pGM-CSF was constructed successfully and a cell lines that show the stable expression of porcine GM-CSF was established.

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