LI Xin, et al. Construction of eukaryotic expression vector of artificial zinc finger protein gene of specific binding to X gene promoter of HBV and its expression. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 36(3):270-273(2011)
LI Xin, et al. Construction of eukaryotic expression vector of artificial zinc finger protein gene of specific binding to X gene promoter of HBV and its expression. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 36(3):270-273(2011) DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.2011.03.002.
Construction of eukaryotic expression vector of artificial zinc finger protein gene of specific binding to X gene promoter of HBV and its expression
Objective: To construct eukaryotic expression vector of zinc finger protein(ZFP) gene
and to detect the eukaryotic expression vector of zinc ZFP gene expressed in eukaryotic cells and search the available ZFP as DNA binding domain of artificial transcription factor(ATF).Methods:Full length ZFP gene was synthesized and cloned into pEGFP-N1 plasmids to construct the recombinant plasmids pEGFP-N1/ZFP and pEGFP-N1/ZFP-flag that were identified by colony PCR and sequencing.Recombinant plasmids were transformed into COS-7 cells by liposome Lipofectamine 2000.The expressed EGFP was observed under fluorescent microscope and the ZFP expression was detected by RT-PCR and Western blot.Results:Recombinant plasmids pEGFP-N1/ZFP and pEGFP-N1/ZFP-flag were constructed correctly which could express ZFP well in the transformed COS-7 cells.Conclusion:It is feasible that engineered artificial zinc finger proteins obtained by bioinformatics technique and codon optimization can be successfully expressed in eukaryotic cells.