bcl-2反义寡核苷酸对膀胱癌BIU87细胞株的影响

目的:探讨bcl-2反义寡核苷酸对培养的膀胱癌BIU87细胞株的影响.方法:采用bcl-2基因第1外显子的反义寡核苷酸,以硫代磷酸修饰(PS-ASON),序列为5′-TCTCCCAGCGTGCGCCAT-3′,与膀胱癌细胞株BIU87共同孵育作为实验组.加入正义的bcl-2寡核苷酸,序列为5′-TACCGCGTGCGACCCTCT-3′(PS-SON)作为对照组,用流式细胞仪检测细胞凋亡和坏死率,电镜观察细胞形态变化.结果:与对照组相比,实验组的细胞坏死率明显上调,电镜下细胞形态呈坏死改变.结论:bcl-2的反义寡核苷酸引起膀胱癌细胞大量坏死,可能成为膀胱癌的治疗方法之一.     

Survivin反义寡核苷酸对骨肉瘤细胞凋亡的诱导效应

目的：利用骨肉瘤OS-732细胞，探讨survivin反义寡核苷酸（ASODN）对survivin基因表达的影响及其诱导肿瘤细胞凋亡的效应。 方法: 设计合成特异性靶向survivin的ASODN，以不同浓度和时间对OS-732细胞进行转染，并设空白、正义（SODN）对照组进行比较。采用RT-PCR、Western blotting、免疫细胞化学技术检测各组OS-732细胞中survivin mRNA、蛋白表达状态，吖啶橙/溴化乙锭（AO/EB）染色法、流式细胞仪检测细胞凋亡水平和形态变化，MTT法检测细胞生长抑制情况，激酶活性测定法检测细胞中caspase-3活性程度。 结果: 转染ASODN各组OS-732细胞survivin mRNA和蛋白表达均明显弱于空白对照组、SODN组；细胞凋亡率（AI）显著增加，细胞生长相应受抑，caspase-3活性显著提高；上述效应在ASODN各组存在一定的时间浓度依赖性；而SODN各组与空白对照组间各项指标均无明显差异。 结论: ASODN能够特异性下调OS-732细胞中survivin基因表达，激活凋亡效应蛋白酶caspase-3，在诱导肿瘤细胞凋亡、抑制增殖中发挥重要作用。     

脂质体转染细胞周期素B1反义脱氧寡核苷酸对HL60细胞增殖调控的影响

目的:探讨脂质体转染细胞周期素B1(cyclinB1)反义脱氧寡核苷酸(ASON)对HL60细胞增殖调控的作用。方法:用针对cyclinB1mRNA5’端编码区起始密码子(ATG/AUG)的ASON,通过脂质体导入HL60细胞共培养后,用流式细胞术(FCM)和RT-PCR分别检测cyclinB1蛋白和mRNA的表达水平,电镜和原位细胞凋亡检测法(POD)、FCM及DNA凝胶电泳法检测细胞凋亡。结果:CyclinB1ASON组与SON及空白对照组相比,ASON能特异地抑制cyclinB1蛋白及mRNA水平的表达,当ASON的浓度达到一定程度时,HL60细胞的增殖及集落形成率均明显受抑制,出现细胞凋亡,并且此作用随ASON浓度的升高而增强。结论:CyclinB1的特异ASON能封闭其蛋白及mRNA的表达水平,可剂量依赖性地抑制白血病细胞增殖,诱导细胞凋亡。     

脂肪分化相关蛋白反义寡核苷酸降低乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶活性

目的：已经发现随着细胞内胆固醇酯的积聚，脂肪分化相关蛋白的表达明显增加。本文进一步探讨脂肪分化相关蛋白干预细胞内胆固醇代谢的作用位点。 方法： Ox-LDL组为80 mg/L 氧化低密度脂蛋白与C57BL/6J小鼠腹腔巨噬细胞共同孵育，Ox-LDL+antisense组另加1 mmol/L脂肪分化相关蛋白反义寡核苷酸，在不同的时点取样，共观察4 d。使用荧光分光光度计观察细胞内胆固醇酯的改变；使用脂肪分化相关蛋白抗体间标法结合流式细胞术，观察脂肪分化相关蛋白表达量的变化；使用Ox-r［CL-3H］LDL和液体闪烁计数器观察细胞对氧化低密度脂蛋白摄入量的变化，并同时测定乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶的活性。 结果： 72 h后，Ox-LDL+antisense组细胞内胆固醇酯（19.9±1.9）mg/g protein显著低于Ox-LDL组（46.6±3.4）mg/g protein。4 d观察期间，脂肪分化相关蛋白蛋白的表达量两组细胞都增加，从12 h时点开始，Ox-LDL组大于Ox-LDL+antisense组，在4 d时点，Ox-LDL组明显高于Ox-LDL+antisense组。两组细胞摄入Ox-r［CL-3H］LDL的量逐渐增加，但是，Ox-LDL+antisense组摄入量从1 d后明显低于Ox-LDL组，在2 d和4 d时点，两组差别仍有显著性。乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶相对活性从6 h到2 d表现为增加，在2 d时点，两组比较差别显著，Ox-LDL+antisense组的活性明显低于Ox-LDL组。但从2 d到4 d，乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶相对活性稳定。ACAT的活性与脂肪分化相关蛋白蛋白的表达量相关分析表明，Ox-LDL组R2＝0.6176 （P＜0.05），Ox-LDL+antisense组R2＝0.8212（P＜0.05）。 结论： 抑制脂肪分化相关蛋白表达能引起细胞摄入外源性脂蛋白减少和乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶的活性降低，提示脂肪分化相关蛋白与脂滴的代谢功能密切相关，且乙酰辅酶A:胆固醇酰基转移酶有可能是其潜在的位点。     

Inhibition of in vivo tumorigenicity and invasiveness of a human glioblastoma cell line transfected with antisense uPAR vectors

Our previous studies showed that glioblastomas express increased urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptors (uPARs) in comparison to low-grade gliomas (Yamamoto et al., Cancer Res., 54, 5016-5020, 1994). To explore whether downregulation of uPAR inhibits tumor formation and invasiveness, a human glioblastoma cell line was transfected with a cDNA construct corresponding to 300 bp of the human uPAR's 5¢ end in an antisense orientation, resulting in a reduced number of uPA receptors. Co-culture studies with tumor spheroids and fetal rat brain aggregates showed that antisense SNB19-AS1 cells expressing reduced uPAR failed to invade fetal rat brain aggregates. Intracerebral injection of SNB19-AS1 stable transfectants failed to form tumors and were negative for uPAR expression in nude mice. Thus uPAR appears in this model to be essential for tumorigenicity and invasion of glioblastomas in vivo.     

Antisense oligonucleotides and short interfering RNAs silencing the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 improve proliferation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients’ primary skeletal myoblasts

Increased levels of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 associated with decreased myoblast proliferation may be involved in the dystrophic process in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Therefore we are interested to improve the proliferation of primary myoblasts of DMD patients by a reduction in p21 using either antisense oligonucleotides (ASO) or short interfering RNAs (siRNA). After transient transfection of myoblasts in cell culture proliferation was analyzed using a 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine assay comparing specific transfected cells with untransfected cells and cells transfected with scrambled ASO and luciferase siRNA, respectively. Four of five Dystrophin-deficient (Dys^–) cell culture samples revealed an increase in proliferation between 7% and 18% compared to untransfected cells and between 8% and 36% compared to cells transfected with scrambled ASO. Transfection with siRNA was performed for selected samples to determine whether siRNA is more effective in gene silencing than ASO. The increase in proliferation using luciferase siRNA as reference was comparable to or less than ASO data using scrambled ASO as reference. Using untransfected cells as reference, the increase in proliferation was higher for siRNA than ASO (20–47% vs. 7–18%), but the data must be carefully interpreted with respect to nonspecific effects on gene expression by siRNA. Our findings of transient p21 gene silencing represent a basis for viral vector-mediated drug-inducible p21 shRNA expression in Dys^– myoblasts which might enhance, prolong and regulate the proliferation effect.S. Endesfelder and A. Kliche contributed equally to this work     

小鼠β_2m反义核酸重组荧光蛋白表达载体的构建及表达研究

本研究应用分子生物学技术 ,构建小鼠 β2 m反义核酸重组荧光蛋白表达载体pEGFP β2 mAN ,经过酶切、PCR鉴定 ,以及序列分析证实克隆的正确性。然后用脂质体转染NIH3T3细胞 ,经过RT PCR及Westernblot检测 ,观察重组质粒对细胞β2 mmRNA和蛋白表达的影响 ,同时在荧光显微镜下直接观察细胞转染的结果。结果证明pEGFP β2 mAN已成功导入NIH3T3细胞中 ,且有效表达 ,在荧光显微镜下可见梭形绿色荧光细胞 ;与同步转染的小鼠 β2 m正、反义核酸表达载体pcDNA3 β2 mSN、pcDNA3 β2 mAN的转染结果一起进行分析 ,转染pcDNA3 β2 mSN细胞的 β2 mmRNA和蛋白表达水平升高 ,而转染pcD NA3 β2 mAN和pEGFP β2 mAN的细胞 β2 mmRNA和蛋白表达水平降低。小鼠 β2 m反义核酸重组荧光蛋白表达载体pEGFP β2 mAN的转染结果显示 :它不但可以降低NIH3T3细胞 β2 m基因的表达 ,而且为观察脂质体转染效果提供了直观、即时的方法     

Metastatic potential of human CX-1 colon adenocarcinoma cells is dependent on the expression of sialosyl Le a antigen

Several lines of evidence indicate that sialosyl Le a , tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen present on human colon carcinoma cells, is involved in formation of metastases. To study the role of this carbohydrate structure in development of metastases, we have used the clone of human colon carcinoma CX-1 cells transfected with antisense expression vector containing fragment of cDNA for a1,3/4-fucosyltransferase (FT III), which is involved in synthesis of sialosyl Le a tetrasaccharide. It has been reported previously that, in contrast to the parental cells, the antisense-transfected CX-1.1AS5 cells do not express sialosyl Le a and do not adhere to E-selectin-expressing CHO cells. In the present work we have studied the formation of liver metastases by CX-1.1AS5 cells after their orthotopic or intrasplenic implantation into athymic nu/nu mice. After orthotopic implantation of sialosyl Le a -negative colon carcinoma CX-1.1AS5 cells, the number of mice with liver metas-tases was markedly lower (21% of mice) in comparison with their number after implantation of the parental CX-1.1 cells (86% of mice). However, no differences in ability to form colonies in liver were observed between parental CX-1.1 cells and antisense-transfected CX-1.1AS5 cells after intrasplenic inoculation. The liver metastases were formed in 89% and 84% of mice, respectively. Our data support the thesis on the importance of sialosyl Le a antigen expression in the development of liver metastases by colon cancer cells, and indicate the role of transplantation route and primary tumor localization in formation of metastases.© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998     

Development and characterization of DNAzyme candidates demonstrating significant efficiency against human rhinoviruses

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