ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2006, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (11): 1093-1098.doi:

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Construction of Eukaryotic Expression Vector Containing Human Cardiac α-actin Promoter and It’s Application

  

  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-11-25 Published:2006-11-25

Abstract: Human cardiac α-actin promoter obtained from the human heart genome by polymerase chain reaction(PCR) was ligated into the same fragment of pEGFPN1(moved CMV promoter by AseI/Bgl II).The constructed expression vector, named α-actin-pEGFP-N1 which contains neor gene and GFP gene as positive selection markers,was transferred into mice ES cells by Lipofectamine 2000 It’s found that DNA concentration should be 3.0-5.0μg/mL, transfer time was 2-3h, 200μg/mL G418 was used as perfect working concentration. Fluorescent observation and immunocytochemistry assay (PCNA and antibody of α-actin) demonstrated the transfected cells show high levels of α-actin and GFP expression, basically maitain its natural characteristic compared with wild mice ES cells. The results suggest that human cardiac αactin promoter may be useful in the study of mice ES cells specific differentiation into cardiomyocytes.