Sleeping Beauty Transposon-based System for Rapid Generation of HBV-replicating Stable Cell Lines
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2018-07-05
[Abstract] The stable HBV-transfected cell lines, which based on stable integration of replication-competent HBV genome into hepatic cells, are widely used in basic research and antiviral drug evaluation against HBV. However, previous reported strategies to generate HBV-replicating cell lines, which primarily rely on random integration of exogenous DNA by plasmid transfection, are inefficient and time-consuming. We newly developed an all-in-one Sleeping Beauty transposon system (denoted pTSMP-HBV vector) for robust generation of stable HBV-replicating cell lines of different genotype. The pTSMP-HBV vector contains HBV 1.3-copy genome and dual selection markers (mCherry and puromycin resistance gene), allowing rapid enrichment of stably-transfected cells via red fluorescence-activated cell sorting ...
[摘要] 稳定的HBV转染细胞系基于将复制能力的HBV基因组稳定整合到肝细胞中,广泛用于基础研究和针对HBV的抗病毒药物评估。然而,先前报道的产生HBV复制细胞系的策略(其主要依赖于通过质粒转染的外源DNA的随机整合)是低效且耗时的。我们新开发了一体化睡眠美容转座子系统(表示为pTSMP-HBV载体),用于稳定产生不同基因型的稳定HBV复制细胞系。 pTSMP-HBV载体含有HBV1.3拷贝基因组和双重选择标记(mCherry和嘌呤霉素抗性基因),允许通过红色荧光激活细胞分选和嘌呤霉素抗生素选择快速富集稳定转染的细胞。在该方案中,我们描述了构建HBV复制稳定细胞和系统评估这些细胞的HBV复制和病毒蛋白表达谱的详细程序。
【背景】慢性乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)感染目前是一个主要的公共卫生负担,影响全球超过2.4亿人(Witt-Kehati et al。,2016)。慢性HBV患者患慢性活动性肝炎,肝硬化或原发性肝细胞癌(HCC)的风险升高(Schweitzer et al。,2015)。目前用干扰素-α或核苷类似物治疗并不能根除病毒,它们对清除乙型肝炎表面抗原(HBsAg)的作用有限(Lucifora和Protzer,2016; Soriano et al。,2017) 。因此,迫切需要开发新的抗病毒抑制剂(Nassal,2015)。
用于评估新药抗HBV活性的细胞培养模型是新药开发的重要工具。稳定的HBV复制细胞系,携带复制能力的HBV基因组稳定整合到人肝癌细胞系(Huh7和/或HepG2)的基因组中,被广泛用于评估抗病毒药物的作用(Witt-Kehati ...
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Bacterial Microcolonies in Gel Beads for High-throughput Screening
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2018-07-05
[Abstract] High-throughput screening of a DNA library expressed in a bacterial population for identifying potentially rare members displaying a property of interest is a crucial step for success in many experiments such as directed evolution of proteins and synthetic circuits and deep mutational scanning to identify gain- or loss-of-function mutants.
Here, I describe a protocol for high-throughput screening of bacterial (E. coli) microcolonies in gel beads. Single cells are encapsulated into monodisperse water-in-oil emulsion droplets produced with a microfluidic device. The aqueous solution also contains agarose that gelates upon cooling on ice, so that solid gel beads form inside the droplets. During incubation of the emulsion, the cells grow into monoclonal microcolonies ...
[摘要] 在细菌群体中表达的DNA文库的高通量筛选用于鉴定显示感兴趣性质的潜在稀有成员是在许多实验中成功的关键步骤,例如蛋白质和合成回路的定向进化以及用于鉴定增益的深度突变扫描 - 或功能丧失的突变体。
在这里,我描述了一种用于高通量筛选凝胶珠中细菌(大肠杆菌)微菌落的方案。将单细胞包封成用微流体装置产生的单分散油包水乳液液滴。水溶液还含有琼脂糖,其在冰上冷却时凝胶化,从而在液滴内部形成固体凝胶珠。在乳液温育期间,细胞在珠内生长成单克隆微菌落。在从乳液中分离凝胶珠并通过荧光激活细胞分选(FACS)分选后,从凝胶珠中回收细菌,然后准备进行进一步的分选,诱变或分析。为了通过FACS分类,该方案需要荧光读数,例如荧光报告蛋白的表达。测量微小菌落的平均荧光信号降低了高表型细胞间变异性的影响,并且与单细胞分选相比提高了灵敏度。我们应用这种方法在ON和OFF状态下对pBAD启动子文库进行分类(Duarte et al。,2017)。
【背景】荧光激活细胞分选(FACS)具有> 10 7 事件/ h的无与伦比的筛选通量(Davies,2012)。然而,通过FACS根据其荧光分选单个细胞以筛选合成回路的文库(Schaerli和Isalan,2013)经常受到高表型细胞间变异性的阻碍。或者,可以对水凝胶珠中所含的小细胞集落(微集落)进行分类(Weaver ...
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FACS-based Isolation of Neural and Glioma Stem Cell Populations from Fresh Human Tissues Utilizing EGF Ligand
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2017-12-20
[Abstract] Direct isolation of human neural and glioma stem cells from fresh tissues permits their biological study without prior culture and may capture novel aspects of their molecular phenotype in their native state. Recently, we demonstrated the ability to prospectively isolate stem cell populations from fresh human germinal matrix and glioblastoma samples, exploiting the ability of cells to bind the Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) ligand in fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). We demonstrated that FACS-isolated EGF-bound neural and glioblastoma populations encompass the sphere-forming colonies in vitro, and are capable of both self-renewal and multilineage differentiation. Here we describe in detail the purification methodology of EGF-bound (i.e., EGFR+) human neural and ...
[摘要] 从新鲜组织中直接分离人类神经和胶质瘤干细胞允许其在没有事先培养的情况下进行生物学研究,并且可以在其天然状态中捕获其分子表型的新方面。最近,我们展示了前瞻性地从新鲜人类生发基质和胶质母细胞瘤样品中分离干细胞群的能力,利用细胞在荧光激活细胞分选(FACS)中结合表皮生长因子(EGF)配体的能力。我们证明FACS分离的EGF结合的神经和成胶质细胞瘤细胞群体在体外包含球体形成的集落,并且能够自我更新和多向分化。在此我们详细描述了具有来自新鲜死亡和手术组织的干细胞特性的EGF-结合(即EGFR +)人类神经和胶质瘤细胞的纯化方法。利用天然配体结合能力前瞻性分离干细胞群的能力为了解非培养条件下的正常和肿瘤细胞生物学打开了新的门,并且适用于在种群和单细胞分辨率下的各种下游分子测序研究。
【背景】由于缺乏通用的神经和神经胶质瘤干细胞标志物(Lathia et al。,2015)以及频繁依赖于培养的细胞,理解人神经和胶质瘤干细胞的内在生物学一直是一个挑战比那些直接从组织分离的。跨膜糖蛋白Prominin或CD133是分离神经(Uchida等,2000)和神经胶质瘤干细胞(GSC)(Singh等,2000)的最好描述和经常使用的干细胞标记物之一。等人,2003; Singh等人,2004; ...
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