Wang Jun, Tekle Ephrem, Oubrahim Hammou, Mieyal John J, Stadtman Earl R, Chock P Boon
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8012, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Apr 29;100(9):5103-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0931345100. Epub 2003 Apr 15.
RNA interference is an effective method to silence specific gene expression. Its application to mammalian cells, however, has been hampered by various shortcomings. Recently, it was reported that introduction of 22-bp double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) would specifically suppress expression of endogenous and heterogeneous genes in various mammalian cell lines. However, using this method, we failed to knock out proteins of interest effectively. Here we report the development of a stable and controllable method for generating dsRNA intracellularly. Tetracycline-responsive transactivator-containing cells were transfected with a vector capable of tetracycline-induced bidirectionally overexpressing sense and antisense RNA to form dsRNA in vivo. With this method, glutaredoxin, monitored by Western blot, was knocked out by overexpressing 290-base sense and antisense RNA in NIH 3T3 cells controlled by tetracycline or doxycycline. By using these glutaredoxin knocked-out cells, we have demonstrated that actin deglutathionylation plays a key role in growth factor-mediated actin polymerization, translocalization, and reorganization near the cell periphery.
RNA干扰是一种使特定基因表达沉默的有效方法。然而,其在哺乳动物细胞中的应用受到了各种缺点的阻碍。最近,有报道称,引入22个碱基对的双链RNA(dsRNA)可特异性抑制多种哺乳动物细胞系中内源性和异源基因的表达。然而,使用这种方法,我们未能有效地敲除感兴趣的蛋白质。在此,我们报告了一种在细胞内产生dsRNA的稳定且可控方法的开发。将含有四环素反应性反式激活因子的细胞用一种能够在四环素诱导下双向过表达正义和反义RNA以在体内形成dsRNA的载体进行转染。通过这种方法,在四环素或强力霉素控制下,在NIH 3T3细胞中过表达290个碱基的正义和反义RNA,通过蛋白质印迹法监测,谷氧还蛋白被敲除。通过使用这些谷氧还蛋白敲除的细胞,我们证明了肌动蛋白去谷胱甘肽化在生长因子介导的肌动蛋白聚合、转位和细胞周边附近的重组中起关键作用。