SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION FOR CLONING OF GENES TRANSACTIVATED BY HCV CORE PROTEIN / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

To construct a cDNA subtractive library of genes transactivated by hepatitis C virus core protein with suppression subtractive hybridization technique. mRNA was isolated from HepG2 cells transfected with pcDNA3 1(-)-core and pcDNA3 1(-) empty vector,respectively, then cDNA was synthesized. After restriction enzyme RsaI digestion, small sized cDNA were obtained. Then tester cDNA was divided into two groups and ligated to the specific adaptor 1 and adaptor 2, respectively. After tester cDNA was hybridized with driver cDNA twice and underwent two times of nested PCR, and then it was subcloned into T/A plasmid vectors to set up the subtractive library. Amplification of the library was carried out with E.coli strain JM109. The cDNA were sequenced and analyzed in GenBank with Blast search after PCR. The subtractive library of genes transactivated by HCV core protein was constructed successfully. The amplified library contained 233 positive clones. Colony PCR product showed that 213 clones contained 100~ 1 000 bp inserts. Sequence analysis was performed in 63 clones. Six of the sequences were unknown genes before. The full length sequences were obtained with bioinformatics method,which had been accepted by GenBank. It suggested that six novel cDNA sequences might be target genes transactivated by HCV core protein.