Construction of pancreatic duodenal homeobox-1 recombinant retroviral vector and its stable expression in liver progenitor cells
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    Objective: To construct a recombinant retroviral vector expressing pancreatic duodenal homeobox-1 (PDX-1) gene and express the PDX-1 expression cassette in liver progenitor cells (LEPCs), so as to study the conversion of hepatic cells to pancreatic-like cells, Methods: The full length of PDX-1 gene was amplified by PCR and subcloned into pMSCVpuro vector. The pMSCV PDX-1 puro was then introduced into Phoenix package cells and the cell culture supernatant was used for Ping- Pong infection of another packaging cell line PT67 to obtain stable virus-producing cell line. Results: The pMSCV PDX-1 puro vector was successfully constructed and transfected into PT67 cells. The viral supernatants of PT67 cells efficiently infected LEPCs in vitro and the infected LEPCs stably expressed PDX-1 gene, Conclusion: The pMSCV PDX-1 puro vector and PDX-1 expressing LEPCs have been successfully constructed, laying a basis for studying the transdifferentiation of liver progenitor cells to pancreas lineage cells.

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  • Received:March 07,2006
  • Revised:June 07,2006
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  • Online: August 20,2006
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