Sutherland L C, Williams G T
Department of Biological Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
J Immunol Methods. 1997 Sep 24;207(2):179-83. doi: 10.1016/s0022-1759(97)00118-x.
The strength of various viral promoters was examined in human T lymphoblastoid cell lines. CMV, RSV and SV40 promoter based-luciferase constructs were transiently transfected into CEM-C7 and Jurkat cells in order to compare promoter strength in each cell type. It was found that the CMV promoter was 10-fold stronger than the RSV promoter in Jurkat cells, but equivalent to the RSV promoter in CEM-C7 cells. Both the CMV and RSV promoters were significantly stronger than the SV40 promoter in Jurkat and CEM-C7 cells. In summary, promoter strengths are cell line specific (Jurkat: CMV > RSV >> SV40; CEM-C7: RSV = CMV >> SV40) and care must be exercised in choosing promoters intended to provide overexpression of chimeric genes.
在人T淋巴母细胞系中检测了各种病毒启动子的强度。基于巨细胞病毒(CMV)、劳斯肉瘤病毒(RSV)和猴空泡病毒40(SV40)启动子的荧光素酶构建体被瞬时转染到CEM-C7和Jurkat细胞中,以便比较每种细胞类型中的启动子强度。发现在Jurkat细胞中,CMV启动子比RSV启动子强10倍,但在CEM-C7细胞中与RSV启动子相当。在Jurkat和CEM-C7细胞中,CMV和RSV启动子均明显强于SV40启动子。总之,启动子强度具有细胞系特异性(Jurkat:CMV > RSV >> SV40;CEM-C7:RSV = CMV >> SV40),在选择旨在提供嵌合基因过表达的启动子时必须谨慎。