Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10749951 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) ie-1 promoter exhibits strong transcriptional activity and is used in transient foreign gene expression systems in insect cells. In a reporter assay experiment using the BmNPV ie-1 promoter, we found that it exhibited activity even in non-host mammalian BHK cells, plant BY-2 cells, and also bacterial Escherichia coli cells. An analysis using a deletion series of the BmNPV ie-1 promoter demonstrated that the core promoter region of this promoter was sufficient to display promoter activity in BHK cells, BY-2 cells, and E. coli cells, whereas upstream elements were required for higher activity in insect cells. Furthermore, we found that the BmNPV ie-1 promoter exhibited sufficient activity for a β-galactosidase assay in E. coli cells. The results obtained here suggest that the BmNPV ie-1 promoter has potential as a universal promoter for transient expression systems in insect, mammalian, plant, and bacterial cells.
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Authors
Ryosuke Fujita, Chikako Ono, Isamu Ono, Shin-ichiro Asano, Hisanori Bando,