title: Cooperation between human DAF and CD59 in protecting cells from human complement-mediated lysis.
abstract: The complement (C) regulatory proteins decay accelerating factor (DAF, CD55) and CD59 could protect host cells using different mechanisms from C-mediated damage at two distinct levels within the C pathway. Co-expression of DAF and CD59 would be an effective strategy to help overcome host C-induced xenograft hyperacute rejection. In this study, we made a construct of recombinant expression vector containing DAF and CD59 cDNA and the stable cell lines were obtained by G418 selection. Extraneous genes integration and co-expression were identified by PCR, RT-PCR and Western blot analysis. Human c-mediated cytolysis assays showed that NIH/3T3 cells transfected stably with pcDNA3-CD59, pcDNA3-DAF, and pcDNA3-CD59DAF-DP were protected from Cmediated damage and that synchronously expressed human CD59 and DAF provided the most excellent protection for host cells as compared with either human CD59 or DAF expressed alone. Therefore, the construct represents an effective and efficacy strategy to overcome C-mediated damage in cells and, ultimately, in animals.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wenlan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Zhouzhou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Huanjie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Wanhong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wenxin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000818:Animals; D018958:CD55 Antigens / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D018957:CD59 Antigens / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D003165:Complement System Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019610:Cytoprotection / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D018958:CD55 Antigens; D018957:CD59 Antigens; D003165:Complement System Proteins