Abstract
Objective: To test the feasibility of secretion of functional chondroitinase ABC (ChABC), a bacterial enzyme that promotes axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury, from human bone marrow stromal cells (hBMSCs). Results: A lentiviral-expression vector, Lenti6.3-ChABC-3F, carrying the ChABC-3F gene without the bacterial leader sequence (aa 1-24) was constructed. Transfection of these Lenti6.3-ChABC-3F lentivirus led to stable expression in and secrection of ChABC proteins from hBMSCs for at least ten passages in culture in vitro, which was demonstrated by QRT-PCR, immunostaining, western blotting and ELISA. Moreover, the secreted ChABC proteins exhibited similar functional activity as the commercially-available ChABC. Conclusions: The lentivirus-mediated transfection of chondroitinase ABC gene without the bacterial leader sequence induced substantial long-term secretion of functional ChABC in hBMSCs.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 893-900 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Biotechnology Letters |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2016 |
Funding
This work was supported by Grants from the Special Foundation for Science and Technology Key Plan of Guangdong Province (No. 2011A030400007); the Special Foundation for Science and Technology Key Plan of Guangzhou City (No. 2011Y1-00033-6); and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30801184).
Keywords
- Bone marrow stromal cells
- Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans
- Chondroitinase ABC
- Lentivirus
- Secretion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Biotechnology