Summary

प्रतिदीप्ति माइक्रोस्कोपी द्वारा कई पीढ़ियों पर लाइव स्तनधारी कोशिकाओं में प्लास्मिड प्रतिकृति की निगरानी

Published: December 13, 2012
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Summary

व्यक्ति जीवित कोशिकाओं में डीएनए अणु की नमाज़ की एक विधि का वर्णन है. तकनीक fluorescently टैग लाख repressor बाध्यकारी हित के डीएनए में इंजीनियर साइटों के लिए प्रोटीन के बंधन पर आधारित है. इस विधि के लिए समय के साथ जीवित कोशिकाओं में कई रीकॉम्बीनैंट DNAs का पालन करने के लिए अनुकूलित किया जा सकता है.

Abstract

Few naturally-occurring plasmids are maintained in mammalian cells. Among these are genomes of gamma-herpesviruses, including Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which cause multiple human malignancies 1-3. These two genomes are replicated in a licensed manner, each using a single viral protein and cellular replication machinery, and are passed to daughter cells during cell division despite their lacking traditional centromeres 4-8.

Much work has been done to characterize the replications of these plasmid genomes using methods such as Southern blotting and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). These methods are limited, though. Quantitative PCR and Southern blots provide information about the average number of plasmids per cell in a population of cells. FISH is a single-cell assay that reveals both the average number and the distribution of plasmids per cell in the population of cells but is static, allowing no information about the parent or progeny of the examined cell.

Here, we describe a method for visualizing plasmids in live cells. This method is based on the binding of a fluorescently tagged lactose repressor protein to multiple sites in the plasmid of interest 9. The DNA of interest is engineered to include approximately 250 tandem repeats of the lactose operator (LacO) sequence. LacO is specifically bound by the lactose repressor protein (LacI), which can be fused to a fluorescent protein. The fusion protein can either be expressed from the engineered plasmid or introduced by a retroviral vector. In this way, the DNA molecules are fluorescently tagged and therefore become visible via fluorescence microscopy. The fusion protein is blocked from binding the plasmid DNA by culturing cells in the presence of IPTG until the plasmids are ready to be viewed.

This system allows the plasmids to be monitored in living cells through several generations, revealing properties of their synthesis and partitioning to daughter cells. Ideal cells are adherent, easily transfected, and have large nuclei. This technique has been used to determine that 84% of EBV-derived plasmids are synthesized each generation and 88% of the newly synthesized plasmids partition faithfully to daughter cells in HeLa cells. Pairs of these EBV plasmids were seen to be tethered to or associated with sister chromatids after their synthesis in S-phase until they were seen to separate as the sister chromatids separated in Anaphase10. The method is currently being used to study replication of KSHV genomes in HeLa cells and SLK cells. HeLa cells are immortalized human epithelial cells, and SLK cells are immortalized human endothelial cells. Though SLK cells were originally derived from a KSHV lesion, neither the HeLa nor SLK cell line naturally harbors KSHV genomes11. In addition to studying viral replication, this visualization technique can be used to investigate the effects of the addition, removal, or mutation of various DNA sequence elements on synthesis, localization, and partitioning of other recombinant plasmid DNAs.

Protocol

1. कोशिकाओं की दर्शनीय प्लास्मिड के साथ इंजीनियरिंग मानक प्रतिबंध पाचन या मुताबिक़ पुनर्संयोजन तकनीक का उपयोग करने के लिए एक डीएनए टुकड़ा कल्पना प्लाज्मिड में लैक्टोज ऑपरेटर अनुक्रम (LACO) की लगभग 250…

Representative Results

Z-ढेर एक प्रतिनिधि प्रयोग में अधिग्रहण की अधिकतम तीव्रता अनुमानों 3 चित्र में दिखाया जाता है. ठेठ प्लाज्मिड संकेतों पर निर्भर करता है कि क्या वे एक या plasmids के समूहों का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं, Z-ढे?…

Discussion

यहाँ वर्णित विधि कई पीढ़ियों फैले समय पर जीवित स्तनधारी कोशिकाओं में plasmids का पालन करने के लिए इस्तेमाल किया जा सकता है. उत्तेजना प्रकाश करने के लिए जोखिम को सीमित करके, हम इन तकनीकों का इस्तेमाल किया है 16…

Disclosures

The authors have nothing to disclose.

Acknowledgements

इस काम NIH और ACS, T32CA009135 सहित, CA133027, CA070723, और CA022443 से अनुदान द्वारा वित्त पोषित किया गया था. विधेयक सागडेन एक अमेरिकन कैंसर सोसायटी रिसर्च प्रोफेसर है.

Materials

Name of the reagent Company Catalogue number Comments
DMEM GIBCO 11965
OptiMEM GIBCO 31985
Fetal bovine serum Hyclone SH30910.03
Penicillin Sigma P3032
Streptomycin sulfate Sigma S9137
Hygromycin Calbiochem 400050 400 μg/ml for SLK; 300 μg/ml for HeLa
Isopropyl-b-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG) Roche 10 724 815 001 Final concentration 200 μg/ml
Lipofectamine 2000 Invitrogen 11668-027
HEPES GIBCO 15630
Glass-bottom dishes MatTek P35G-1.5-10-C
CultFoil Pecon 000000-1116-08
Axiovert 200M Zeiss
Colibri Zeiss 423052-9500-000
Neutral white LED Zeiss 423052-9120-000
Filter Cube 75 HE Zeiss 489075-0000-000
Plan-Apochromat 63x/1.4 objective Zeiss 440762-9904-000
CascadeII:1024 EMCCD camera Photometrics B10C892007
Tempcontrol mini Zeiss/Pecon 000000-1116-070
Tempcontrol 37-2 digital Zeiss/Pecon 000000-1052-320
CTI Controller 3700 digital Zeiss/Pecon 411856-9903
Objective heater Zeiss/Pecon 440760-0000-000
Stage heating insert P Zeiss/Pecon 411861-9901-000
Stage-top Incubator S Zeiss/Pecon 411860-9902-000
Humidifier System Zeiss/Pecon 000000-1116-065

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Norby, K., Chiu, Y., Sugden, B. Monitoring Plasmid Replication in Live Mammalian Cells over Multiple Generations by Fluorescence Microscopy. J. Vis. Exp. (70), e4305, doi:10.3791/4305 (2012).

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