The Himar1 mariner transposase cloned in a recombinant adenovirus vector is functional in mammalian cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

The Himar1 mariner transposase cloned in a recombinant adenovirus vector is functional in mammalian cells

L Zhang et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 1998.

Abstract

Mariner transposons belong to the mariner /Tc1 superfamily of class II, DNA-mediated elements. One of these transposons, Himar1 , isolated from the horn fly, is independent of host-specific factors that would limit transfer between different species, making it an ideal candidate for gene transfer technology development. To determine the activity of Himar1 transposase in mammalian cells, we introduced the Himar1 transposase gene into an adenovirus (Ad) vector under control of the phage T7 RNA polymerase promoter. Mammalian cells infected with the Ad vector carrying the Himar1 gene efficiently expressed the Himar1 transposase in the presence of T7 polymerase. In in vitro inter-plasmid transposition reactions, Himar1 transposase expressed by the Ad vector mediated precise cut-and-paste transposition and resulted in a characteristic duplication of TA at the integration site of the target plasmid. Further studies showed that this transposase was capable of catalyzing transposition between twoplasmids co-transfected into 293T7pol cells, which express T7 RNA polymerase. Combining the integration capability of mariner transposons with the transduction efficiency of Ad vectors is expected to provide a powerful tool for introducing transgenes into the host chromosome.

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