Document Type : Full paper (Original article)
Authors
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Ph.D. Student in Biotechnology, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Fellow Member of Academy of Science of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is one of the key cytokines in defining T helper 1 lymphocyte immune
responses. In this study, the bovine IFN-γ gene was cloned from spleen tissue RNA using the reverse
transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). IFN-γ cDNA was sub-cloned and expressed in
mammalian expression plasmid (pcDNA3.1(+)) under the control of the human cytomegalovirus (CMV)
promoter. The predicted amino acid (aa) sequence of bovine IFN-γ compared with corresponding known
sequence from bovine (Bos taurus) was 100% identity and with ovine, caprine, camel, lama, equine, canine,
feline, human, mice and chicken cytokine was 95, 95, 86, 83, 77, 75, 75, 61, 44 and 35%, respectively. Invitro expression of recombinant bovine IFN-γ (rBoIFN-γ) and secretion to culture medium was confirmed by ELISA test. Maximum expression of rBoIFN-γ occurred at 96 and 144 h after transfection in COS-7 cells.
These results showed that pcDNA3.1 expression vector and COS-7 cells transfected by diethylaminoethyl
(DEAE)-dextran allowed the high level expression of bovine IFN-γ gene and the release of protein in
supernatant of cell culture.
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