title: Using chimeric piggyBac transposase to achieve directed interplasmid transposition in silkworm Bombyx mori and fruit fly Drosophila cells.
abstract: The piggyBac transposon has been long used to integrate foreign DNA into insect genomes. However, undesirable transgene expression can result from random insertions into the genome. In this study, the efficiency of chimeric Gal4-piggyBac transposase in directing integration onto a DNA target plasmid was evaluated in cultured silkworm Bombyx mori Bm-12 and fruit fly Drosophila Schneider 2 (S2) cells. The Gal4-piggyBac transposase has a Gal4 DNA-binding domain (DBD), and the target plasmid has upstream activating sequences (UAS) to which the Gal4 DBD can bind with high affinity. The results indicate that, in the Bm-12 and S2 cells, transpositional activity of Gal4-piggyBac transposase was increased by 4.0 and 7.5 times, respectively, compared to controls, where Gal4-UAS interaction was absent. Moreover, the Gal4-piggyBac transposase had the ability of directing piggyBac element integration to certain sites of the target plasmid, although the target-directing specificity was not as high as expected. The chimeric piggyBac transposase has the potential for use in site-directed transgenesis and gene function research in B. mori.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Cai-ying
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Ming-xing
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Chuan-xi
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jia-an
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D012831:Bombyx / Q000235:genetics*; D002460:Cell Line; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional / Q000379:methods*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*; D019895:Transposases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D019895:Transposases
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