Embodiment
1.HBV the structure of specific siRNA expression vector
(1) transcribes the strategy that generates siRNA by DNA
Every of the oligonucleotide chain of design is 64nt, and 5 ' end and 3 ' end contains BglII and HindIII restriction enzyme site respectively, is convenient to be connected with the pSUPER carrier.Sequence and its reverse complemental of the encoding sequence of 5 ' end 19nt and target gene homology, another section 19nt, the TTCAAGAGA intervening sequence by 9nt forms ring texture therebetween, and end is added with transcription termination signal TTTTT.Form double-stranded DNA, the directed then pSUPER carrier (accompanying drawing 1) that inserts after having the oligonucleotide chain warp annealing, phosphorylation of said structure feature.PSUPER carrier with said structure can be transcribed the RNA (shRNA) that generates the hair clip shape, and the latter becomes siRNA and brings into play the function of inhibition of gene expression after the Dicer enzyme is cut.
(2) at the selection in HBV gene interference site and the design of oligonucleotide
According to the HBV nucleotide sequence of reporting among the GenBank (U95551), in siRNA design website
Http:// wwwl.qiagen.com/Products/GeneSilencing/CustomSiRna/SiRna Design Er.asDx, selecting to start length with AA in the gene coding region is 21 bases, the sequence of G+C content about 50% is as candidate siRNA target site.The siRNA sequence of designing carry out BLAST (
Http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/) the homology analysis turns out to be the HBV distinguished sequence.Choose HBV coding region 1683-1701,1580-1598,671-689,413-431,2027-2045 nucleotide sequence, according to can the encode oligonucleotide chain of siRNA of 2 64nt of the requirement of pSUPER carrier design, the oligonucleotide sequence two ends comprise BglII and HindIII restriction enzyme site, can directly be connected with the pSUPER carrier of cutting through same enzyme.Designed in addition with the siRNA expression vector pSUPER-EGFP of the irrelevant enhanced green fluorescence protein (EGFP) of HBV sequence in contrast.RNA at HBV gene and transcript thereof interferes site information as shown in Figure 2.
(3) double chain oligonucleotide is cloned into the pSUPER carrier
1. the annealing of oligonucleotide and phosphorylation
The synthetic single stranded oligonucleotide is dissolved in H
2Among the O, adjusting its concentration is 3 μ g/ μ l.Respectively get the synthetic fragment of the corresponding oligonucleotide of 1 μ l, add 48 μ l annealing buffers, 95 ℃ of insulation 5min were hatched 10 minutes for 70 ℃, slowly cooled to 4 ℃ and obtained the double-stranded DNA of annealing; Get 2 μ l annealed oligonucleotide, add 1 μ l T4 PNK damping fluid, 1 μ l 1mM ATP, 1 μ l T4 PNK, 5 μ l H
2O carries out the 30min phosphorylation 37 ℃ of water-baths, hatches 10 minutes deactivation PNK for 70 ℃.
2. double chain oligonucleotide and carrier is connected
The oligonucleotide of annealing and phosphorylation is connected with the pSUPER carrier through BglII and HindIII double digestion, transform DH5 α competent cell, picking is cloned, is shaken bacterium and cultivates back extraction plasmid, EcoR I and Hind III double digestion are identified, positive plasmid cuts out the band of about 300bp, and the size of empty plasmid is 240bp (accompanying drawing 3).Sequencing confirmation recombinant plasmid sequence and designed sequence are in full accord, respectively called after pSUPER-HBV1, pSUPER-HBV2, pSUPER-HBV3, pSUPER-HBV4, pSUPER-HBV5 and pSUPER-EGFP.
2.siRNA the genetic expression of HBV and duplicating in the inhibition cell
The HepG2 2.2.15 cell of siRNA expression vector that sequence is correct and 10: 1 in molar ratio cotransfection stably express of pTK-Hyg plasmid HBV, obtain stable monoclonal cell strain through the screening of 200 μ g/ml hygromycin resistances, observe the siRNA cell cycle of importing and the influence of the cell speed of growth; On the mRNA level, detect the inhibition situation of HBV mRNA with RT-PCR and Northern blot; With HBsAg and HBeAg content in micropartical enzyme immunoassay (MEIA) the detection by quantitative culture supernatant, immunofluorescence dyeing and Western blot detect the expression of corresponding antigens in the cell on protein level; Quantitative fluorescent PCR (FQ-PCR) detects the situation of duplicating of the inside and outside HBV DNA of cell; And dynamic observe the long term inhibition effect of siRNA to HBV.
(1) the siRNA cell cycle does not have obvious influence
Single cell suspension is made in the monoclonal cell digestion, the washing that filter out, through fixing, dyeing, detects the cell cycle and calculates the cell proliferation index.The flow cytometry result shows (accompanying drawing 4, table 1) stably express siRNA monoclonal cell strain, cell cycle is compared with contrast HBV-pSUPER with proliferation index and there is no significant difference, shows that importing HBV specific siRNA expression vector does not have obvious influence to the growth of HepG2 2.2.15 cell.
The cell cycle of the cell strain of table 1 stably express siRNA and proliferation index (PI)
Cell | G
1%
| S% | G
2%
| G
2/G
1 | PI% |
HBV1 HBV2 HBV3 HBV4 HBV5 HBV-pSUPER | 51.9 78.3 74.5 79.3 78.5 75.7 | 31.4 16.7 10.5 6.9 17.1 20.2 | 16.7 5.1 15.0 13.7 4.4 4.1 | 1.841 1.841 1.840 1.800 1.799 1.800 | 48.1 21.8 25.5 20.6 21.5 24.5 |
(2) siRNA cell growth curve does not have obvious influence
According to 3 * 10
3The monoclonal cell that the inoculation of/100 μ l/ holes filters out is in 7 96 orifice plates, when cultivating 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 day, respectively get 1 96 orifice plate, nutrient solution is abandoned in suction, every hole adds the MTT of 20 μ l 5mg/ml, sops up nutrient solution after continuing to cultivate 4h, and every hole adds 150 μ l DMSO, 10min is dissolving crystallized in concussion, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay instrument is measured the 490nm light absorption value.With the incubation time is X-coordinate, and light absorption value is an ordinate zou, draws each cell growth curve.Found that the cell speed of growth of stably express siRNA is similar to the speed of growth of control cells, do not have significant difference (accompanying drawing 5) between each group
(3) siRNA is to the degraded of HBV mRNA in the HepG2 2.2.15 cell
According to the gene order of HBV, be designed for the RT-PCR primer P1 and the P2 of amplification HBV 356-714 position, the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydro-genase that is used to increase (glyceraldehyde phosphatedehydrogenase, GAPDH) the primer G1 and the G2 of gene.The total RNA of the monoclonal cell that extraction filters out, reverse transcription generates cDNA, carries out the pcr amplification of HBV mRNA by following parameter with corresponding primer: 94 ℃ of pre-sex change 4min; 94 ℃ of 30sec, 55 ℃ of 30sec, 72 ℃ of 45sec, totally 25 circulations; 72 ℃ are extended 5min.The RT-PCR product that the result shows interference group cell at the band of 358bp position obviously secretly in the contrast band, the HBV mRNA expression product of transfection pSUPER-EGFP, pSUPER cell is compared no considerable change with HepG2 2.2.15 cell, and the expression of prompting HBV mRNA is obviously suppressed; And internal reference GAPDH mRNA all can produce the 250bp fragment through the RT-PCR amplification at each cell, and the expression no significant difference (accompanying drawing 6) between each group shows that siRNA is efficient, special to the Degradation of HBV mRNA in the HepG2 2.2.15 cell.
P1 5’-CAA CTT GTC CTG GTT ATC GC-3’
P2 5’-AAG CCC TAC GAA CCA CTG AA-3’
G1 5’-CAA CGG ATT TGG TCG TAT TGG G-3’
G2 5’-CCT GGA AGA TGG TGA TGG GAT T-3’
(4) siRNA is to the Degradation of HBV transcription product
The total RNA of the monoclonal cell that extraction filters out, through denaturing gel electrophoresis, change film, with α-
32The probe hybridization of P mark, the radioautograph result shows that the transcription product band of transfection pSUPER, pSUPER-EGFP cell HBV 3.5kb, 2.4kb, 2.1kb is clear, and the corresponding band of interference group cell obviously weakens, suppress the intracellular HBV transcription product of outstanding effect band and can't see (accompanying drawing 7) substantially, show that siRNA is efficient, special to the Degradation of HBV RNA in the HepG22.2.15 cell.
(5) restraining effect of secretion HBsAg and HBeAg in the siRNA pair cell culture supernatant
The cell 3 * 10 that filters out
5The culture supernatant of 48h, 72h detects HBsAg and HBeAg content with MEIA method (MEIA) under two resistance conditions.The result shows that HBsAg in the culture supernatant, HBeAg all are subjected to obvious inhibition, the strongest with the pSUPER-HBV2 restraining effect, it is respectively 97% and 87% to HBsAg and the HBeAg inhibiting rate in the cell conditioned medium of cultivating 48h, and cultivation 72h is 98% and 88% to the inhibiting rate of corresponding antigens; The pSUPER-HBV5 effect is taken second place, and it is respectively 87.4% and 77% to HBsAg and the HBeAg inhibiting rate in the cell conditioned medium of cultivating 48h, and cultivation 72h is 90% and 80.8% to the inhibiting rate of corresponding antigens; Other carrier also has the good restraining effect to the secretion of HBsAg and HBeAg, HBsAg is suppressed efficient be 60.2% (pSUPER-HBV3,72h) (pSUPER-HBV1 72h), suppresses efficient to HBeAg and do not wait by 53.8% to 64.4% to 91.7%.The above results and corresponding pSUPER control group comparing difference highly significant (P<0.05), pSUPER-EGFP and control group no significant difference (accompanying drawing 8) by contrast.The restraining effect of prompting siRNA is efficient, special.
(6) siRNA suppresses the expression of interior HBsAg of cell and HBcAg
The monoclonal cell that filters out is carried out immunofluorescence dyeing, the virus antigen of red fluorescence mark obviously reduces in the showed cell as a result, pSUPER-HBV2 and pSUPER-HBV5 transfection group cell detect the expression less than HBsAg and HBcAg substantially, and antigenic expression does not have obvious reduction (accompanying drawing 9) in pSUPER-EGFP and the control group, and it is antigenic synthetic to show that siRNA can suppress the interior HBV of cell efficiently, specifically.
(7) the Western blot of HBsAg detects in the cell
The Western blot detected result that the pair cell lysate is carried out shows, the expression of HBsAg is obviously reduced in the cell of expression HBV specific siRNA, and antigenic expression does not have obvious reduction (accompanying drawing 10) in pSUPER-EGFP and the control group, and it is antigenic synthetic to show that siRNA can suppress the interior HBV of cell really efficiently, specifically.
(8) siRNA is to the restraining effect of HBV DNA
Getting the last cleer and peaceful concentration of 3 * 105 cell cultures 72h is that each 5 μ l of 1.0ng/ μ l cell genomic dna add respectively in the PCR reaction tubes that has prepared, set up negative control and the contrast of positive quantitatively gradient simultaneously, mixing is placed on the automatic fluorescence detector of PE7700, increase by following condition: 93 ℃ of pre-sex change 2min, 93 ℃ of 45s, 55 ℃ of 60s do 10 circulations earlier, by 93 ℃ of 30s, 55 ℃ of 45s do 30 circulations again.After reaction finishes, calculate the copy number of HBV by the computer automatic analyser.Quantitative fluorescent PCR (fluorogenicquantitative PCR, FQ-PCR) result shows, siRNA can reduce the copy number of the inside and outside HBV DNA of cell, wherein pSUPER-HBV2, pSUPER-HBV5 all make 2 orders of magnitude of HBV DNA decline in the culture supernatant, inhibiting rate is up to 99.7% and 98.5%, and all the other pSUPER-HBV1, pSUPER-HBV4 and pSUPER-HBV3 are respectively 95.7%, 92.3% and 62.9% (accompanying drawing 11A) to the inhibiting rate of HBV DNA in the culture supernatant.Resulting result is similar in FQ-PCR detected result that the pair cell genomic dna carries out and the culture supernatant, and pSUPER-HBV (1-5) is respectively 81.1%, 82.8%, 63.8%, 74.5% and 82.1% (accompanying drawing 11B) to the inhibiting rate of HBV DNA in the pair cell.Above-mentioned FQ-PCR presentation of results siRNA can suppress duplicating of the interior HBV DNA of cell.
(9) siRNA continues to suppress the antigenic expression of HBV
The monoclonal cell that the filters out cultivation that in the MEM substratum that contains 10%FBS, 200 μ g/ml G418 and 200 μ g/ml Totomycin, continues to go down to posterity, regularly inoculating cell 3 * 10
5In 6 orifice plates, cultivate based on cultivating 72h under the equal conditions with the DMEM that contains same concentrations G418 and Totomycin in totally 3 multiple holes, and the culture supernatant of collecting day part is used for the detection of HBsAg and HBeAg.To the HBV antigen presentation lasting, dynamic observe and found that, the siRNA that carrier is transcribed can continue, suppress efficiently the HBV expression of gene: suppress effect preferably pSUPER-HBV2, pSUPER-HBV5 HBsAg in reaching 10 months culturing process almost remain unchanged, only HBeAg has slight rising; PSUPER-HBV1, pSUPER-HBV4 result be (accompanying drawing 12) similarly, and the results change amplitude of pSUPER-HBV3 is bigger, this may with clone when the picking monoclonal cell impure relevant.
3.siRNA restraining effect to HBV in the transgenic mice body
(1) processing of HBV transgenic mice
A cleaning level C57BL/6J-HBV transgenic mice (6-8 age in week, body weight 15-20g) is bought from the department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of Department Of Medicine, Peking University laboratory animal section, and every HBV transgenic mice all has the expression of HBV all through strict detection in the body.24 HBV transgenic mices are divided into 3 groups at random: pSUPER-HBV2 group, pSUPER-HBV5 group and pSUPER group, 8 every group.
Hydraulic pressure infection protocol (hydrodynamics-based transfection) administration: prepare normal saline solution (1.5-2.0ml) according to 10% of HBV transgenic mice body weight, the plasmid DNA of getting the different groups of 40 μ g is dissolved in the normal saline solution of respective volume.To be fixed on the outer mouse tail sterilization of mousetrap, with minimum number sword-shaped needle puncture tail vein, quick (<5 seconds) inject fluid in the mouse body behind the blood back.Injection back the 4th, 7 day, 4 mouse of each component other places reason are collected the detection that blood sample is used for experimental index, get the hepatic tissue film-making, HE or immunohistochemical staining.
(2) siRNA is to the restraining effect of HBsAg in the HBV transgenic mice body
Anti-HBV effect preferably pSUPER-HBV2, pSUPER-HBV5 and control vector pSUPER in the hydraulic pressure infection protocol is injected into the mouse body, the HBsAg in serum measurement result shows, when injecting the 4th, 7 day, pSUPER-HBV2 is respectively 59.3% and 60.3% to the inhibiting rate of HBsAg in the mouse body, and the inhibiting rate of pSUPER-HBV5 is 26%, 40%.Show that pSUPER-HBV2 anti-HBV effect in vivo is better than pSUPER-HBV5, the result of the 7th day result than the 4th day good slightly (accompanying drawing 13).
(3) siRNA suppresses the expression of HBsAg in the transgenic mice body liver
Each histoorgan of C57BL/6J-HBV transgenic mice is not seen the visible pathology of obvious naked eyes.C57BL/6J-HBV transgenic mice liver cell anthorisma under the light microscopic, the liver cell kytoplasm is Yihong levelling (ground-glass-like sex change), local visible macronucleus liver cell, the single liver cell kytoplasm pyknosis engrain companion pyknosis engrain that is dispersed in, visible eosinophilic body in the part of hepatocytes matter, bile duct epithelial cell is arranged not whole, and the acidophilia material increases (accompanying drawing 14) in the kytoplasm.The C57BL mouse hepatic tissue is not seen obvious pathological change.
The HBV transgenic mice liver that imports siRNA is fixed, paraffin embedding, section is carried out immunohistochemical staining after the dewaxing aquation, the result observes in control group (injection pSUPER plasmid) the HBV transgenic mice liver cytoplasm a large amount of brown granulars (HBsAg), and the interior brown granular of HBV transgenic mice liver cell of having injected 40 μ g recombinant plasmid 7d obviously reduces, and stained positive cell proportion reduces.Wherein in the hepatic tissue of pSUPER-HBV2 treatment group HBV transgenic mice the HBsAg expression level near normal C57BL mouse coloration result (Figure 15).
(4) siRNA suppresses duplicating of the interior HBV DNA of transgenic mice body
Get transgenic mice serum and carry out FQ-PCR detection HBV DNA, FQ-PCR result show pSUPER-HBV2 in the time of the 4th, 7 day to the mouse body in the inhibiting rate of HBV DNA be respectively 67.6% and 78.3%, the inhibiting rate of pSUPER-HBV5 is 60.3%, 73% (Figure 16).Illustrate that the s iRNA that carrier is transcribed can suppress duplicating of the interior HBV DNA of transgenic mice body.
(5) siRNA is to the influence of transgenic mice serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT)
(alanine aminotransferase, ALT), ALT can be discharged in the serum during liver damage, causes ALT to give birth to height, so detect the infringement that Serum ALT can reflect liver to be rich in alanine aminotransferase in the liver.
Behind the injection siRNA expression vector, on 7070 automatic biochemistry analyzers, measure ALT content in the mice serum with rate method, the result shows injection pSUPER-HBV2, pSUPER-HBV5 the 4th, 7d, and the ALT level is compared no significant difference (table 2) in the mouse body with control group.Illustrate that siRNA body planted agent's time spent that carrier is transcribed can not cause damage to liver.
Table 2 siRNA to the influence of transgenic mice Serum ALT (x ± s, n=4)
| 4d | 7d |
pSUPER-HBV2 pSUPER-HBV5 pSUPER | 35.20±19.06 29.20±9.12 36.33±14.01 | 33.33±12.86 39.20±19.58 32.02±14.42 |
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