Development of a retroviral vector for inducible expression of transforming growth factor beta 1.
AUTOR(ES)
McGeady, M L
RESUMO
A retroviral vector system for the expression of exogenous genes under the control of an inducible promoter was developed. By utilizing this system, the cDNA for human transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) was inserted into a retroviral vector under the control of an internal mouse metallothionein promoter and introduced via infection into normal rat kidney fibroblasts (NRK-49F) and epithelial cells (NRK-52E), Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO), and the human monocytic cell line U937. Control of TGF-beta 1 expression, achieved by Cd2+ induction of vector-encoded TGF-beta 1 mRNA, was cell line specific and resulted in a concomitant increase in neutralizable TGF-beta 1 production by the cells. Autocrine stimulation of vector-containing cells by vector-encoded TGF-beta 1 was detected by an increase in soft-agar colony formation of NRK-49F infectants compared with that of the control cells. In addition, the use of a second internal promoter in a retroviral vector of similar design allowed isolation of stable infectants from a cell line (CHO) in which the viral long terminal repeat does not function efficiently.
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