Journal of Jilin University Medicine Edition ›› 2017, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (04): 694-697.doi: 10.13481/j.1671-587x.20170406

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Packaging and identification of miR-137 overexpression lentivirus

LYU Dong1, LIANG Chunmei2, LI Mingying1, YIN Jingwen1, LUO Xudong1, LIN Juda1, MA Guoda2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China;
    2. Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang 524001, China
  • Received:2017-03-01 Online:2017-07-28 Published:2017-08-01

Abstract: Objective: To construct lentiviral vector which can overexpression miR-137and produce lentivirus by lentivirus packaging system, and to explore its infection efficiency and expression in HEK293T cells.Methods: miR-137 sequence was chemically synthesized and cloned into lentiviral vector GV209, and the recombinant plasmid containing human miR-137 was obtained and identified. Then miR-137 recombinant plasmid together with two helper plasmids were transfected into HEK293T cells using Lipofectamine 2000.After the HEK293T cells were infected in multiplicity of infection(MOI) 40 for 48 h, the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) was observed by fluorescence microscope and the expression level of miR-137 was detected by fluorescence quantitative PCR.Results: The sequencing results showed that the inserted gene sequence was completely consistent with the published human miR-137 gene sequence in GenBank. The GFP was observed in the HEK293T cells infected with miR-137 overexpression lentivirus under fluorescence microscope. The fluorescence quantitative PCR results showed that the expression level of miR-137 in the cells infected with overexpression lentivirus was 12.74 times higher than that in the control cells.Conclusion: The lentivirus containing miR-137 gene is successful packaged, and it could efficiently infect the HEK293T cells.

Key words: miR-137, lentivirus, HEK293T cell, green fluorescent protein

CLC Number: 

  • Q786