Construction and properties of a cell line constitutively expressing the herpes simplex virus glycoprotein B dependent on functional alpha 4 protein synthesis.
AUTOR(ES)
Arsenakis, M
RESUMO
We report the construction of a cell line constitutively expressing the glycoprotein B (gB) of herpes simplex virus (HSV) 1. The cell line was constructed in two steps. In the first, a baby hamster kidney cell line was transfected with the DNA of a plasmid containing the neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the antibiotic G418 and the gene specifying a temperature-sensitive (ts-) alpha 4 protein of HSV-1, the major viral regulatory protein. A clonal cell line, alpha 4/c113, selected for resistance to the antibiotic G418, expressed high levels of alpha 4 protein constitutively. Superinfection of these cells with HSV-2 resulted in twofold induction of the resident HSV-1 alpha 4 gene. In the second step, alpha 4/c113 cells were transfected with the DNA of a plasmid carrying the gB gene and the mouse methotrexate resistance dihydrofolate reductase gene. A clonal cell line, alpha 4/c113/gB, selected for methotrexate resistance expressed gB constitutively. Expression of both gB and alpha 4 continued unabated for at least 32 serial passages. Cells passaged serially in medium containing both methotrexate and G418 after passage 10 contained a higher copy number of the alpha 4 gene and produced larger amounts of both gB and alpha 4 proteins than did cells maintained in medium containing methotrexate alone. Expression of gB was dependent on the presence of functional alpha 4 protein inasmuch as expression of gB ceased on shift up to nonpermissive temperatures, when shifted to permissive temperatures, the cell line reinitiated expression of gB after a delay commensurate with the length of incubation at the nonpermissive temperature, and the cell-resident HSV-1 gB gene was expressed at the nonpermissive temperature in cells infected with a recombinant expressing a ts+ alpha 4 protein and an HSV-2 gB. The properties of the alpha 4/c113 cell line suggest that it may express other viral genes induced by alpha 4 protein constitutively, provided that the product is not toxic to the cells.
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