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- Title
Recombinant lentivirus targeting the pleotrophin gene reduces pleotrophin protein expression in pancreatic cancer cells and inhibits neurite outgrowth of dorsal root ganglion neurons.
- Authors
JUN YAO; WEN-YAO LI; SHUO-GUO LI; XIAO-SHAN FENG; SHE-GAN GAO
- Abstract
The objectives of the present study were to construct the recombinant primate lentivirus-short hairpin RNA-pleiotrophin (pLV-shRNA-PTN) vector, to investigate the silencing effect of pLV-shRNA-PTN on PTN expression in MIA PaCa-2 cells and to observe the inhibition efficiency of pLV-shRNA-PTN on neurite outgrowth from dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons in vitro. The construction procedure for recombinant lentivirus pLV-shRNA-PTN has been described previously. In the present study, pLV-shRNA-PTN was used to infect MIA PaCa-2 pancreatic cancer cells and the efficiency of the knockdown of the PTN gene on day 7 following infection was analyzed using western blotting. The morphological changes in the cultured DRG neurons were observed by monoculture of DRG neurons and co-culture with MIA PaCa-2 cells in vitro. The recombinant lentivirus pLV-shRNA-PTN was successfully constructed. The western blot analysis showed that the inhibition rates of PTN expression were 46, 80, 20 and 21%, respectively, following pLV-shRNA-PTN-A, B, C and D infection. pLV-shRNA-PTN-B showed the highest knockdown efficiency. DRG neurons co-cultured with infected MIA PaCa-2 cells were decreased in size when compared with the control, and there was a significant decrease in the number and length of neurites. The results suggest that efficient and specific knockdown of PTN in MIA PaCa-2 pancreatic cancer cells and the subsequent reduction in PTN expression results in the inhibition of neurite outgrowth from DRG neurons.
- Subjects
RECOMBINANT antibodies; LENTIVIRUS diseases; PLEIOTROPHIN; CARRIER proteins; CYTOKINES
- Publication
Molecular Medicine Reports, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 3, p999
- ISSN
1791-2997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3892/mmr.2014.1918