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MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ
卷 102, 期 7, 页码 891-894出版社
FUNDACO OSWALDO CRUZ
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000123
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intergenic spacer; heterologous protein system; polypyrimidine tract; trans; splicing acceptor site
Leishmania (Sauroleishmania) tarentolae has biotechnological potential for use as live vaccine against visceral leishmaniasis and as a system for the over expression of eukaryotic proteins that possess accurate post-translational modifications. For both purposes, new systems for protein expression in this non-pathogenic protozoan are necessary. The ribosomal RNA promoter proved to be a stronger transcription driver since its use yielded increased levels of recombinant protein in organisms of both genera Trypanosoma or Leishmania. We have evaluated heterologous expression systems using vectors with two different polypyrimidine tracts in the splice acceptor site by measuring a reporter gene transcribed from L. tarentolae RNA polymerase I promoter. Our data indicate that the efficiency of chloramphenicol acetyl transferase expression changed drastically with homologous or heterologous sequences, depending on the polypyrimidine tract used in the construct and differences in size and for distance from the A G dinucleotide. In relation to the promoter sequence the reporter expression was higher in heterologous lizard-infecting species than in the homologous L. tarentolac or in the mammalian-infecting L. (Leishmania) amazonensis.
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