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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 14, 页码 8135-8144出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab578
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- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [BX004528]
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [DK093660]
The study found that there is restricted cross-species transposition activity within the piggyBac family, with PGBD5 unable to mobilize piggyBac transposons and bind piggyBac terminal repeats.
Mobile genetic elements have been harnessed for gene transfer for a wide variety of applications including generation of stable cell lines, recombinant protein production, creation of transgenic animals, and engineering cell and gene therapy products. The piggyBac transposon family includes transposase or transposase-like proteins from a variety of species including insect, bat and human. Recently, human piggyBac transposable element derived 5 (PGBD5) protein was reported to be able to transpose piggyBac transposons in human cells raising possible safety concerns for piggyBac-mediated gene transfer applications. We evaluated three piggyBac-like proteins across species including piggyBac (insect), piggyBat (bat) and PGBD5 (human) for their ability to mobilize piggyBac transposons in human cells. We observed a lack of cross-species transposition activity. piggyBac and piggyBat activity was restricted to their cognate transposons. PGBD5 was unable to mobilize piggyBac transposons based on excision, colony count and plasmid rescue analysis, and it was unable to bind piggyBac terminal repeats. Within the piggyBac family, we observed a lack of cross-species activity and found that PGBD5 was unable to bind. excise or integrate piggyBac transposons in human cells. Transposition activity appears restricted within species within the piggyBac family of mobile genetic elements.
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