Cytochemical observation of regulated bacterial β-galactosidase gene expression in mammalian cells

H. S. Liu, E. S. Feliciano, P. J. Stambrook

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摘要

Bacterial β-galactosidase, encoded by the lacZ gene, serves as a sensitive cytochemical marker in eukaryotic cells and tissues. In transient expression experiments, human and simian cells stain blue 48 hr after transfection with a plasmid containing a lacZ gene, whose expression is directed by a simian virus 40 promoter containing a synthetic lactose operator sequence. Transfection efficiency was about 0.6%. Incorporation of an operator sequence within the promoter permits regulation of β-galactosidase gene expression by the lacI gene product, the lac repressor. When cells were cotransfected with the lacZ plasmid and a second plasmid containing the lacI gene, β-galactosidase activity was extinguished. Its activity could be reestablished to original levels upon application of isopropyl β-D-thiogalactoside to transfected cells. A cell line that stably carries both the lacI and lacZ genes was efficiently induced to synthesize β-galactosidase after isopropyl β-D-thiogalactoside administration. In transient expression experiments and in stably transfected lines, repression and induction of β-galactosidase activity were predominantly at the transcriptional level.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)9951-9955
頁數5
期刊Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
86
發行號24
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 1989

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  • 多學科

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