• 제목/요약/키워드: Gene Transfer

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Cock Spermatozoa Serve as the Gene Vector for Generation of ransgenic Chicken (Gallus gallus)

  • Yang, C.C.;Chang, H.S.;Lin, C.J.;Hsu, C.C.;Cheung, J.I.;Hwu, L.;Cheng, W.T.K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제17권7호
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    • pp.885-891
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    • 2004
  • To evaluate the feasibility of using sperm-mediated gene transfer (SMGT) for carrying foreign gene into chicken oocyte, a reporter gene, CX-EGFP, was used in this study. The reporter gene was first mixed with liposome or liposome-like compound and the mixtures were further combined with ejaculated cock spermatozoa. The spermatozoa treated with liposome and CX-EGFP mixture was subsequently coincubated with DNaseI to remove the extra DNA which insured the authenticity of positive signals. The treated sperms were then subjected to transgene (reporter gene) existence analysis and artificial insemination of laying hens. Obtained results indicated that the spermatozoa were able to take-in the foreign DNA; which was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and Southern blot analysis. In the following experiment, fresh ejaculated sperms were mixed with CX-EGFP-liposome or CX-EGFP-liposome-like complex then used for artificial insemination of each of six laying hens. Eggs laid between day-3 and day-7 post insemination were collected. Newly hatched chicks, two out of 53 from CX-EGFP/liposome treated group and two out of 21 from CXEGFP/liposome-like treated group, were proven to be transgenic. This study suggests that SMGT is a powerful method for generating transgenic chickens.

Application of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline-Assisted Objective Function on Optimization of Heat Transfer Rate Around a Cylinder

  • Dey, Prasenjit;Das, Ajoy K.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제48권6호
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    • pp.1315-1320
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    • 2016
  • The present study aims to predict the heat transfer characteristics around a square cylinder with different corner radii using multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS). Further, the MARS-generated objective function is optimized by particle swarm optimization. The data for the prediction are taken from the recently published article by the present authors [P. Dey, A. Sarkar, A.K. Das, Development of GEP and ANN model to predict the unsteady forced convection over a cylinder, Neural Comput. Appl. (2015) 1-13]. Further, the MARS model is compared with artificial neural network and gene expression programming. It has been found that the MARS model is very efficient in predicting the heat transfer characteristics. It has also been found that MARS is more efficient than artificial neural network and gene expression programming in predicting the forced convection data, and also particle swarm optimization can efficiently optimize the heat transfer rate.

Selective Gene Transfer to Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Homing Peptide-Grafted Cationic Liposomes

  • Tu, Ying;Kim, Ji-Seon
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제20권4호
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    • pp.821-827
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    • 2010
  • Gene delivery that provides targeted delivery of therapeutic genes to the cells of a lesion enhances therapeutic efficacy and reduces toxic side effects. This process is especially important in cancer therapy when it is advantageous to avoid unwanted damage to healthy normal cells. Incorporating cancer-specific ligands that recognize receptors overexpressed on cancer cells can increase selective binding and uptake and, as a result, increase targeted transgene expression. In this study, we investigated whether a peptide capable of homing to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) could facilitate targeted gene delivery by cationic liposomes. This homing peptide (HBP) exhibited selective binding to a human hepatocarcinoma cell line, HepG2, at a concentration ranging from 5 to 5,000 nM. When conjugated to a cationic liposome, HBP substantially increased cellular internalization of plasmid DNA to increase the transgene expression in HepG2 cells. In addition, there was no significant enhancement in gene transfer detected for other human cell lines tested, including THLE-3, AD293, and MCF-7 cells. Therefore, we demonstrate that HBP provides targeted gene delivery to HCC by cationic liposomes.

ErbB 수용체를 이용한 난소암세포 표적 유전자치료 벡터의 개발 (Development of the Gene Therapy Vector for Targeting Ovarian Cancer Cells through ErbB Receptors)

  • 정인실;방성호
    • 미생물학회지
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    • 제47권1호
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2011
  • 암의 유전자치료에서 암세포로의 선택적 유전자전달 매체의 부족은 치료효과의 감소를 야기하는 문제이다. 본 연구에서는 난소암 유전자치료의 효율을 높이기 위한 목적으로 난소암세포로 선택적인 유전자전달을 하도록 개량된 아데노바이러스 벡터를 제조하고, 그 효율성을 난소암세포주를 이용하여 조사하였다. 난소암세포에 과다발현하는 분자인 ErbB receptor를 표적하도록 아데노바이러스 외피단백질 fiber에 ErbB receptor에 대한 ligand인 heregulin으로부터 유래한 펩티드를 부착하였다. 53개의 아미노산으로 구성된 외부 펩티드를 fiber에 부착하였을 때 바이러스 감염에 중요한 기능을 하는 fiber 삼량체 구조 형성에 영향을 미치지 않았다. Fiber를 조작한 개량 아데노바이러스는 야생형 fiber를 가진 1세대 아데노바이러스 벡터에 비해 선택적으로 난소암으로 유전자를 전달하는 비율이 증가하였다. 특히 항암제에 저항성을 가진 난소암세포주 OVCAR3에서 유전자전달 효율이 약 5배 증가되었다. 따라서 난소암의 유전자치료에서 개량된 아데노바이러스로 치료 유전자를 전달하면 치료의 효율성을 향상시킬 수 있을 것이다.

Gene Therapy for Oral Cancer

  • Chung, In-Jae
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.273-280
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    • 2007
  • New treatment approaches are needed to improve the effectiveness of oral cancer treatment, since surgical resection of the tumor in oral region causes various oral dysfunctions. The molecular biology of oral cancer has been progressively delineated. Concurrently, gene therapy techniques have been developed that allow targeting or replacement of dysfunctional genes in cancer cells, offering the potential to treat a wide range of cancer. Oral carcinoma is attractive target for gene therapy because of its accessibility. In this article, we review the current status of gene therapy as applied to oral carcinoma.

Production of Transgenic Homozygous Diploid in Mud Loach(Misgurnus mizolepis) I. Transfer of Luciferase Gene and Evaluation of Mud Loack Expression Vector

  • Nam Yoon Kwon;Kim Moo-Sang;Lee Hyung-Ho;Kim Dong Soo
    • 한국양식학회지
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.293-300
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    • 1996
  • Validities of several gene transfer methods including microinjection, electroporation and lipo-fection with luciferase gene (pRSVL), and effectiveness of mud loach expression vector which contains ARS from mud loach on production of transgenic mud loach were evaluated. Microiniection revealed the $0\~8\%$ of transgene incidence in 2-week-old fish with significant mosaicism. Electroporation and lipofection of mud loach sperm also successfully introduced the transgene into sperm cells, and transferred the foreign DNA into zygote. Gene transfer by electroporation and lipofection showed a range of $0\~28\%$ and $0\~48.1\%$ of transgene incidence, respectively in newly hatched larvae, altough most DNA introduced were gradually degraded with the development of fish. Microinjections of mud loach expression vector caused a significantly reduced survival rate of mud loach embryos with severe teratogenic effects, and ARS/Luc transgene could not be detected in normally developed fish after microinjection.

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재조성된 베큘로바이러스 벡터의 유전자 전이와 발현 (Gene Transfer and Expression of Newly Reconstructed Baculovirus Vectors)

  • 김지영;김현주;사영희;홍성갑
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.923-926
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    • 2016
  • 베큘로바이러스 벡터가 cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter, polyhedron promoter, vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSVG), enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), protein transduction domain (PTD)의 유전자로 재조성 되었다. 이렇게 재조성된 베큘로바이러스 벡터는 다양한 세포주와 조직에 감염시켰다. 우리는 이 재조성된 벡터와 다른 대조 벡터를 비교하여 유전자의 전이와 유전자 발현을 비교하였다. 결론적으로 이 재조성된 베큘로바이러스 벡터의 유전자의 전이와 발현의 효율이 대조 벡터 보다 우수한 효율을 나타내었다.

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GMO 격리포장에서의 유전자변형 들잔디로부터 토착미생물로의 수평유전자전달 평가 (Evaluation of horizontal gene transfer from genetically modified zoysiagrass to the indigenous microorganisms in isolated GMO field)

  • 배태웅;이효연;류기현;이태형;임평옥;윤필용;박신영;류기중;송필순;이용억
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • 제34권1호
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2007
  • The release of genetically modified organisms ($GMO_{s}$) into the environment has the potential risks regarding the possibility of gene transfer from $GMO_{s}$ to natural organisms and this needs to be evaluated. This study was conducted to monitor the possible horizontal gene transfer from herbicide-resistant zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.) to indigenous microorganisms. We have first examined the effect of field-released GM zoysiagrass on the microbial flora in the gut of locust (Locusts mlgratoria). The microbial flora was analyzed through determining the 165 rDHA sequences of microorganisms. The comparison of the microbial flora in the gut of locusts that were captured at the field of GM zoysiagrass and of wild-type revealed that there is no noticeable difference between these two groups. This result indicates that the GM zoysiagrass does not have negative impact on microbial flora in the gut of locust. We then investigated whether the horizontal gene transfer occurred from GM zoysiagrass to microbes in soil, rhizosphere and faecal pellets from locusts by utilizing molecular tools such as Southern hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). When the total DNAs isolated from microbes in GM zoysiagrass and in wild-type zoysiagrass fields were hybridized with probes for bar or hpt gene, no hybridization signal was detected from both field isolates, while the probes were hybridized with DNA from the positive control. Absence of these genes in the FNAs of soil microorganisms as well as microbes in the gut of locust was further confirmed by PCR. Taken together, our data showed that horizontal gene transfer did not occur in this system. These results further indicate that frequencies of transfer of engineered plant DNA to bacteria are likely to be negligible.

Development of In Vitro Porcine Oocytes Following Intracytoplasmic Injection of Sperm-Mediated GFP Gene

  • Kim, J.H.;Seong, H.H.;Park, J.K.;Im, S.K.;Kim, S.W.;Lee, Y.K.;Lee, P.Y.;Choi, Y.J.;Kim, Y.K.;Kim, J.H.;Chang, W.K.
    • 한국수정란이식학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수정란이식학회 2002년도 국제심포지엄
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    • pp.69-69
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    • 2002
  • Transgenic animals production tools have been valuable for research and purpose. The current methods of gene transfer, microinjection and nuclear transfer, which are widely used in transgenic animal production, but all most methods has only had limited success in production of larger species. Here, we report the possibility of a sperm-mediated gene transfer method in porcine embryos. Oocytes were collected from ovaries harvested at a local slaughterhouse were matured in 500${mu}ell$ drops of TCM-199 under mineral oil at 38.5$^{\circ}C$ in a humidified atmosphere of 5%CO2 in air. After 42-43h of in vitro maturation oocytes were denuded. for sperm injection into the cytoplasm of the porcine oocytes, sperm suspension in NIM medium are subjected extraction with TritonX-100 before mixing with a green fluorescent gene (GFP). Sperm with Tritonx-100 were prepared by adding TritonX-100 to a final volume of 0.05% in the sperm suspension and mixing by trituration for 60s before two wishes in NIM medium at 2$^{\circ}C$. A(ter wishing, sperm were mixed with TritonX-100 at $25^{\circ}C$ followed by washes at 2$^{\circ}C$. Sperm were resuspended in ice cold NIM to a final volume of 400${mu}ell$ and 2-20ng/${mu}ell$ DNA were triturated on ice for 60s. All microinjection was performed in HEPES-buffered CZB medium at room temperature within 2h. After culture in NCSU-23 for 72h, percent of porcine embryos transfected GFP gene are 20.7%(6/29) in 20ng/${mu}ell$ sperm-DNA mixed group and other groups were 3.7 %(2/54)and 4.7%(3/67). These data suggests that sperm-mediated gene transfer method should be used to the production tool of transgenic pig efficiently.

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