Expression of Human Placenta-specific 1 (PLAC1) in CHO-K1 Cells

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BACKGROUND: Placenta-specific 1 (PLAC1), as a new Cancer/Testis Antigen (CTA), is frequently expressed in a variety of cancers and localized to cytoplasm and plasma membrane. Surface expression of cancer target antigens is of great importance that enables antibody-mediated cancer immunotherapy. The aim of the current study was to express the intact human PLAC1 protein on plasma membrane of a eukaryotic cell as a model for future anti-PLAC1-based cancer immunotherapy.

METHODS: In the first approach, entire human PLAC1 gene including its own Signal Peptide (SP) was cloned into pIRES2-EGFP and LeGO-iG2 vectors and expressed in CHO-K1 cells. In the second approach, cytosolic and Signal-Anchor (SA) sequence of Transferrin Receptor Protein 1 (TFR1) were fused to extracellular portion of PLAC1 and expressed as above. Expression of PLAC1 was then assessed using Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), Western Blot (WB), Immunocytochemistry (ICC), Immunofluorescence (IF) and Flow Cytometry (FC).

RESULTS: The first approach resulted in the expression of PLAC1 in submembranous but not in the surface of transfected CHO-K1 cells. Using the chimeric human PLAC1 construct, the same intracellular expression pattern was observed.

CONCLUSION: These results indicated that there are some yet unknown PLAC1 localization signals employed by cancer cells for surface expression of PLAC1.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Avicenna journal of medical biotechnology - 12(2020), 1 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 24-31

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mahmoudian, Jafar [VerfasserIn]
Nazari, Mahboobeh [VerfasserIn]
Ghods, Roya [VerfasserIn]
Jeddi-Tehrani, Mahmood [VerfasserIn]
Ostad, Seyed Nasser [VerfasserIn]
Ghahremani, Mohammad Hossein [VerfasserIn]
Vafaei, Sedigheh [VerfasserIn]
Amiri, Mohammad Mehdi [VerfasserIn]
Zarnani, Amir-Hassan [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Eukaryotic cells
Journal Article
PLAC1 protein expression
Protein transport

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Date Revised 13.04.2022

published: Print

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NLM307420388