ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2007, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (8): 827-831.doi:

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Construction and Expression in IBRS-2 Cells of the Eukaryotic Expressed Plasmid of MIC3 from Toxoplasma gondii

JIANG Tao;ZHANG Dong-lin;NIE Hao;YAO Bao-an;ZHAO Jun-long   

  1. 1 National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; 2College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China; 3College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-08-25 Published:2007-08-25

Abstract: The sequence encoding MIC3 was obtained by amplification from genomic DNA of Toxoplasma gondii RH strain and cloned into the vector pMD18-T. The target gene was subcloned into the eukaryotic vector pcDNA3.1 after the identification of MIC3 in pMD18-T by enzyme digesting, PCR amplification and sequencing. Then the target recombinant plasmids pcMIC3 were transfected into IBRS-2 cells, and the positive cells containing pcMIC3 plasmids were obtained under the selection of G418. The expressed proteins from the positive cells were detected by SDS-PAGE, Western blot and ELISA.The results showed that the DNA sequence identity was 99.9% between amplified MIC3 and that from GenBank. The molecular weight of the recombinant MIC3 protein with good immuno-activity was about 39.2 ku. These available data would lay the foundation for further studying on DNA vaccine against Toxoplasma gondii.