Enhancing effect of porcine coagulation factor VIII A1 and A3 domains on secretion of post-translationally spliced human/porcine hybrid coagulation factor VIII / 生理学报
Acta Physiologica Sinica
;
(6): 373-381, 2010.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-337737
ABSTRACT
Low levels of coagulation factor VIII (fVIII) protein expression caused by its inefficient secretion and the over-sized fVIII gene affect the transgene-based gene therapy for hemophilia A adversely. Our previous study demonstrated that intein-mediated protein trans-splicing for delivery of the fVIII gene with a dual-vector system could improve secretion of post-translationally spliced fVIII by light chain in cis. In this study, a human/porcine hybrid fVIII (HP-fVIII) containing replaced A1 and A3 domains of porcine fVIII was investigated for secretion and activity of the spliced HP-fVIII after intein-based dual-vector delivery of the HP-fVIII gene. A pair of expression plasmids comprising intein-fused HP-fVIII heavy and light chains were constructed and transiently co-transfected into COS-7 cells. The spliced HP-fVIII and bio-activity in culture media were quantitatively analyzed by ELISA and Coatest method respectively. The intracellular splicing of HP-fVIII was detected by Western blotting. The results showed that in the culture supernatant of cells co-transfected with HP-fVIII, the amount and activity of spliced HP-fVIII were significantly higher than those of spliced hfVIII secreted from the cells co-transfected with human fVIII [(184+/-34 ng/mL) vs (48+/-12) ng/mL, P<0.01; (1.18+/-0.22) IU/mL vs (0.31+/-0.10) IU/mL, P<0.01], demonstrating the dramatically enhancing effect of porcine A1 and A3 domains on the secretion of intein-spliced HP-fVIII. The spliced HP-fVIII protein and its activity were also detected in the supernatant from combined cells separately transfected with intein-fused HP-fVIII heavy and light chain genes, indicating that the intein-mediated HP-fVIII splicing was independent of cellular mechanism and could occur outside the cell after the secretion of precursor proteins. Additionally, an intracellularly spliced HP-fVIII band was found with a molecular weight similar to human fVIII protein, confirming the HP-fVIII splicing. These results provided experimental basis for ongoing study using intein-based dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector to transfer HP-fVIII gene in animal models.
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Main subject:
Swine
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins
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Factor VIIIa
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Chlorocebus aethiops
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Dependovirus
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COS Cells
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Protein Splicing
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Trans-Splicing
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Inteins
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Genetic Vectors
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Acta Physiologica Sinica
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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