Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory, Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, 100 Mallett St., Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
Plasmid. 2010 May;63(3):155-60. doi: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.01.002. Epub 2010 Feb 2.
Lentiviral gene delivery has become widely used. Similarly, the Gateway cloning technology that allows restriction-independent cloning of genes into target vectors is becoming increasingly popular. Here, we have generated two Gateway-compatible lentiviral transfer vectors for expression of carboxy-terminal fluorescence tagged fusion proteins, pLVU/GFP and pLVU/RED. We used a restriction enzyme-independent PCR-based approach to introduce the carboxy-terminal fluorescence tags, EmGFP and DsRed, respectively. Both vectors combine the advantages of restriction enzyme/ligation-independent cloning using the Gateway system with a attR1-CmR-ccdB-attR2 recombination cassette, together with expression of fluorescence tagged fusion proteins driven by the robust mammalian ubiquitin C (UbC) promoter. We tested the vectors by expressing different proteins together with the carboxy-terminal fluorescence tags in 293T and SH-SY5Y cells. Both pLVU/GFP and pLVU/RED can be utilized in different experiments, including protein localization studies and live-cell in vivo imaging.
慢病毒基因传递已得到广泛应用。同样,允许基因不受限制地克隆到靶载体的 Gateway 克隆技术也越来越流行。在这里,我们生成了两个适用于表达羧基末端荧光标记融合蛋白的 Gateway 兼容慢病毒转移载体,pLVU/GFP 和 pLVU/RED。我们使用基于酶切的 PCR 方法分别引入羧基末端荧光标签 EmGFP 和 DsRed。这两个载体都结合了 Gateway 系统的限制酶/连接酶独立克隆的优点,以及带有 attR1-CmR-ccdB-attR2 重组盒的荧光标记融合蛋白的表达,由强大的哺乳动物泛素 C(UbC)启动子驱动。我们通过在 293T 和 SH-SY5Y 细胞中表达不同的蛋白质和羧基末端荧光标签来测试这些载体。pLVU/GFP 和 pLVU/RED 都可以用于不同的实验,包括蛋白质定位研究和活细胞体内成像。