摘要
目的:利用合成生物学方法构建尿酸介导的基因回路,在细胞水平上研究回路对尿酸稳态的调控作用。方法:以耐辐射异常球菌R1基因组中转录抑制物基因hucR及其结合位点基因hucO为基础,化学合成具有转录抑制功能的基因mUTs及其结合位点的8串联结构hucO8,构建基因回路;转染HeLa细胞,通过检测分泌型碱性磷酸酶(SEAP)的表达量来验证回路的作用原理和对尿酸的感应作用;在此基础上,用优化的黄曲霉菌尿酸氧化酶(Uox)基因smUox替换SEAP基因,转染HeLa细胞,通过检测转染前后培养基中尿酸浓度的变化,验证回路对尿酸的调节作用。结果:分别构建了优化的转录抑制物表达载体pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs、报告基因表达载体pSEAP-hucO8、优化的黄曲霉菌Uox表达载体phucO8-smUox、pBudCE4.1-smUox,双向共表达载体pBudCE4.1-SEAP-mUTs、pBudCE4.1-mUTs-smUox;单独转染pBudCE4.1-SEAP-mUTs或共转染pSEAP-hucO8和pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs,通过检测培养基中SEAP的表达量,证明双载体及单载体回路对尿酸的感应作用;用smUox替换SAEP基因后,通过检测转染48 h后培养基中尿酸含量的变化,证明双载体及单载体基因回路均具有一定的尿酸调节能力。结论:在细胞水平上,构建的双载体基因回路(phucO8-smUox、pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs)和单载体基因回路(pBudCE4.1-mUTs-smUox)均可实现对尿酸的感应及调控作用,在一定范围内通过增加mUTs与hucO8的摩尔比,可以改变回路对尿酸的调控范围及调节程度。
Objective： To study the regulation of uric acid homeostasis at cellular level introduced by uric acid-mediated gene circuit that was constructed with synthetic biology approach. Methods： Based on the transcriptional inhibitor hucR and its binding site hucO in the genome of Deinococcus radiodurans R1, synthesize optimized tran-scriptional inhibitor gene mUTs and its binding site 8-series structure（hucO8） chemically to construct the circuit;transfect HeLa cells, verifying the mechanisms of the circuit and its reaction to uric acid by assaying the expres-sion of secreted alkaline phosphatase（SEAP）; based on these, use optimized Aspergillus flavus urate oxidase gene smUox to replace SEAP gene, transfect HeLa cells, and verify the ability of circuit to regulate the uric acid by as-saying the uric acid concentration change in the culture medium before and after the transfection. Results： The transcriptional inhibitor expression vector pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs, reporter gene expression vector pSEAP-hucO8, smUox expression vector phucO8-smUox, pBudCE4.1-smUox, the co-direction co-expression vector pBudCE4.1-SEAP-mUTs, pBudCE4.1-mUTs-smUox were constructed; the single transfection with pBudCE4.1-SEAP-mUTs or the co-transfection with pSEAP-hucO8 and pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs, by assaying SEAP expression level in the culture medium, verifies the impact of the double and single vector circuit to uric acid; replacing SAEP gene with smUox,the ability of double and single vector circuits to mediate uric acid is demonstrated by assaying the concentration change of uric acid concentration in the medium within 48 hours. Conclusion： At the cellular level, the construct-ed double vector circuit（phucO8-smUox、pcDNA3.1/V5-mUTs） and the single vector circuit（pBudCE4.1-mUTs-smUox） could both sense and regulate the urid acid. By increasing the mole ration between mUTs and hucO8 in a certain extent, the level and the extent in which the circuit regulates the uric acid could be changed.
出处
《生物技术通讯》
CAS
2014年第4期460-466,共7页
Letters in Biotechnology
关键词
合成生物学
基因回路
尿酸
稳态控制
共表达
synthetic biology
genetic circuit
uric acid
homeostatic control
co-expression
作者简介
曲国龙（1988-），男，硕士研究生
通信作者：刘刚，（E-mail）jueliu@sohu．com
