Secretion of human interleukin 2 by recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG.
AUTOR(ES)
Kong, D
RESUMO
The human interleukin 2 (huIL-2) gene was introduced into Mycobacterium bovis BCG by using the integrative vector pMV306. To express and secrete huIL-2 from BCG, two different plasmids, CI and CII, were made. In CI, the huIL-2-encoding region was under the control of the alpha-antigen promoter of BCG; in CII, the expression of huIL-2 was regulated by the heat shock protein 60 promoter. A signal peptide sequence isolated from the naturally secreted alpha-antigen of BCG was inserted between the promoter and huIL-2-encoding region to facilitate secretion. Both huIL-2 expression plasmids were integrated into the BCG genome when introduced into the BCG Pasteur strain by electroporation. Approximately 150 U of huIL-2 was secreted into the medium of a BCG-CII culture, while the BCG-CI cells secreted approximately one-sixth of that amount. When the IL-2-expressing BCG strain BCG-CII was injected intravenously into BALB/c mice, the number of BCG cells in the spleens of these mice was significantly less than the number in the control mice. The decreased number of IL-2-expressing BCG cells is likely due to the augmentation of the host immune response by the secreted huIL-2, although the exact mechanism is not known.
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