• Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China;
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Objective  To construct recombinant adenovirus vector co-expressing human interleukin (hIL)-10 and green fluorescent protein (GFP) for study of the expression of genes of interest in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs).
Methods  hIL-10 cDNA was amplified from pUCm-T/hIL-10 cDNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and cloned into shuttle plasmid pShuttle-IRES-hrGFP-1. Kanamycin resistance screeninged for recombinant plasmids, which were linealized with PmeⅠand transformed into BJ5183-AD-1 containing pAdEasy-1 by electroporation after determining the insert’s sequence correct by NotⅠ and XholⅠdigestion, sequencing and basic local alignment search tool (BLAST). Prepared recombinant adenovirus plasmids were transformed into XL10-Gold cells. Amplified plasmids were transfected to AD-293 cells for packaging after being linearized with PacⅠ. PCR was used to determine target gene; The titer of the recombinant adenovirus was measured. VSMCs were transfected by recombinant adenovirus and viewed under fluorescence microscope. hIL-10 concentration in transfected VSMCs supernant was measured by enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA).
Results  Recombinant shuttle plasmids contained interest gene. Recombinant adenovirus had 30 kb and 3 kb fragments after digestion with PacⅠ. PCR indicated that the recombinant adenovirus contained interest gene. The titer of recombinant adenovirus was 3×1010 efu/ml. Transfected VSMCs had GFP expression and hIL-10 concentration in supernatant was 25 ng/106 cells.
Conclusion  The recombinant adenovirus co-expressing hIL-10 and GFP is successfully constructed and could effectively express in VSMCs, this lays the foundation for the gene therapy of vascular intimal hyperplasia.

Citation: WANG Shengyi,WANG Yuqi,FU Weiguo,LIU Kangda,LIUYi. Construction of Adenovirus Vector with Human Interleukin 10 and Its Expression in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2007, 14(6): 660-664. doi: Copy