Recombinant baculoviruses are widely used to express heterologous genes in insect cells (7,9). The baculovirus expression system has many advantages, such as the capacity for large DNA insertion, a high level of recombinant protein synthesis, and the production of proteins that are similar in biological activity, stability, and posttranslational modifications (e.g., glycosylation, phosphorylati...

Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein (ASC) is an adaptor molecule of caspase-1 activation that stimulates the secretion of multiple pro-inflammatory cytokines. We investigated the regulatory effects of ASC in the P388D1 macrophage-like cell line. Data showed that ASC overexpression induced by pEGFP-ASC-C2 transfection significantly increased caspase-1 expression and interleukin (IL)-1β and I...

In recent years, gene therapy has become a promising technology to enhance endothelialization of artificial vascular grafts. The ideal gene therapy requires a gene carrier with low cytotoxicity and high transfection efficiency. In this paper, we prepared a biodegradable cationic copolymer poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide)-graft-PEI (PLGA-g-PEI), grafted Cys-Ala-Gly-Trp (CAGW) peptide onto this cop...

The capacity for nucleotide excision repair of a normal (WISH) and three tumour (MCF-7, HeLa, Namalva) cell lines treated with human recombinant interferons (hrIFN-alpha and hrIFN-gamma) was compared by the host cell reactivation assay. The cells were transfected with in vitro UV-damaged plasmid DNA (pEGFP-N1). The repair capacity was determined by measuring the fluorescence intensity of the ex...

Liposomes modified with TAT peptide (TATp-liposomes) showed fast and efficient translocation into the cell cytoplasm with subsequent migration into the perinuclear zone. TATp-liposomes containing a small quantity (<or=10 mol %) of a cationic lipid formed firm noncovalent complexes with DNA. Here, we present results demonstrating both in vitro and in vivo transfection with TATp-liposome-DNA comp...

The direct transfer of genetic materials into mammalian cells is an indispensable technique. We have developed calcium alginate (CA) microbeads which can deliver plasmid DNAs and yeast artificial chromosomes into plant and yeast cells. In this paper, we demonstrate the effective transfection of mammalian cells by CA microbeads immobilizing plasmid DNAs. The transfection was performed using the ...

Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is mainly expressed in muscle. It plays an important role in muscle, but less research on the regulation of cattle UCP3 has been performed. In order to elucidate whether cattle UCP3 can be regulated by muscle-related factors, deletion of cattle UCP3 promoter was amplified and cloned into pGL3-basic, pGL3-promoter and PEGFP-N3 vector, respectively, then transfected in...