Design of an HIV-1 lentiviral-based gene-trap vector to detect developmentally regulated genes in mammalian cells
AUTOR(ES)
Lai, Zhennan
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
The recent development of HIV-1 lentiviral vectors is especially useful for gene transfer because they achieve efficient integration into nondividing cell genomes and successful long-term expression of the transgene. These attributes make the vector useful for gene delivery, mutagenesis, and other applications in mammalian systems. Here we describe two HIV-1-based lentiviral vector derivatives, pZR-1 and pZR-2, that can be used in gene-trap experiments in mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. Each lentiviral gene-trap vector contains a reporter gene, either β-lactamase or enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), that is inserted into the U3 region of the 3′ long terminal repeat. Both of the trap vectors readily integrate into the host genome by using a convenient infection technique. Appropriate insertion of the vector into genes causes EGFP or β-lactamase expression. This technique should facilitate the rapid enrichment and cloning of the trapped cells and provides an opportunity to select subpopulations of trapped cells based on the subcellular localization of reporter genes. Our findings suggest that the reporter gene is driven by an upstream, cell-specific promoter during cell culture and cell differentiation, which further supports the usefulness of lentivirus-based gene-trap vectors. Lentiviral gene-trap vectors appear to offer a wealth of possibilities for the study of cell differentiation and lineage commitment, as well as for the discovery of new genes.
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