[Establishment of transgenic mouse line skin-specifically expressing hCTLA4-Ig]

Yi Chuan Xue Bao. 2005 Sep;32(9):916-22.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

hCTLA4-Ig,which is capable of inhibiting T cell activation and rendering T cell to be anergy by blocking co-stimulatory signal pathway, is recognized as a potential therapeutic molecule to extend the survival of skin graft in burn medicine. To investigate whether the survival of skin graft can be further extended by skin-specific expression of hCTLA4-Ig, a skin-specific expression vector was constructed by pacing the encoding sequence of hCTLA4-Ig under the drive of K14 promoter, and a transgenic mouse line was established with the vector. RT-PCR and Northern blot assay indicated that hCTLA4-Ig was skin-specifically expressed in transgenic mice at a rather high level. Compared with the expression of GAPDH, the expression of hCTLA4-Ig remained constant through generations and over lifetime. The results of this paper indicated that a transgenic mouse line skin-specifically and constitutively expressing hCTLA4-Ig had been established.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abatacept
  • Adenoviridae / genetics
  • Animals
  • Blotting, Northern
  • Blotting, Southern
  • Gene Expression*
  • Genetic Vectors / genetics
  • Humans
  • Immunoconjugates / genetics*
  • Keratin-14 / genetics
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Skin / metabolism*
  • Transfection

Substances

  • Immunoconjugates
  • Keratin-14
  • Abatacept