title: [Construction and expression analysis of micro-linear vector as a new general gene therapy vector].
abstract: The most difficult field in gene therapy is that vector system should offer both a means of successful transfection and a maximum of safety for the patient. Viral vectors and plasmid vectors are traditional vectors; they may cause unwanted immunological side effects resulting from the expression of nontherapeutic genes. Our aim is to develop a new general gene therapy vector which is suggested to be called as Micro-Linear Vector. The gene expression cassette is capped by our designed cap, including promoter, enhancer, objective gene, and RNA-stabilizing sequence, so it can defend the exnuclease in the eukaryotic cell, at the same time, DNA not encoding the objective gene is reduced to a minimum. The GFP gene is separated from the pEGFP-N3 plasmid, and acts as a reporter gene to construct the Micro-Linear Vector, then both the new vector and the plasmid are transfected to cells, the results are tested by fluorescence microscope and flow cytometry. The results show that the Micro-Linear Vector has a high effective of transfection and safety in 293, 3T3, CNE2 and B95-8 cell lines, at the same time it is less toxicity than the plasmid. We can get the rudiments of conclusion that Micro-Linear Vector has high effection of the transfection and more safety than tradition plasmid in eukaryotic cell.
authors.affiliation: Center of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
authors.forename: Hongsheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Bailu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Wenying
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000818:Animals; D018899:CpG Islands; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D014162:Transfection / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins