Hoffman B L, Ullrich A, Wold W S, Carlin C R
Institute for Molecular Virology, St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri 63110.
Mol Cell Biol. 1990 Oct;10(10):5521-4. doi: 10.1128/mcb.10.10.5521-5524.1990.
We have used retrovirus-mediated gene transfer to introduce sequences encoding a 10,400-molecular-weight (10.4K) adenovirus protein previously shown to down regulate the receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF) into two murine cell lines that possess human EGF receptors (EGF-Rs). Assays for receptor expression showed that acute infection resulted in rapid, constitutive down regulation of the EGF-R via a pathway that appears to be endosome mediated. This represents the first demonstration that 10.4K expression in the absence of other virus-encoded proteins is sufficient to elicit this response. The usefulness of this approach for the study of 10.4K-mediated signal transduction in cells with a nontransformed phenotype is discussed.
我们利用逆转录病毒介导的基因转移,将编码一种分子量为10400(10.4K)的腺病毒蛋白的序列导入两种具有人表皮生长因子受体(EGF-Rs)的小鼠细胞系中,该蛋白先前已被证明可下调表皮生长因子(EGF)受体。受体表达分析表明,急性感染通过一种似乎由内体介导的途径导致EGF-R的快速、组成性下调。这首次证明,在没有其他病毒编码蛋白的情况下,10.4K蛋白的表达足以引发这种反应。本文讨论了这种方法在研究具有非转化表型的细胞中10.4K介导的信号转导方面的实用性。