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Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of chronic hepatitis which progresses to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) afflicting > 170 million people worldwide. HCV 3a is the most common genotype (about 70% of all genotypes) circulating in Pakistan. Expression of HCV individu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-0556-9-12 |
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author | Butt, Sadia Idrees, Muhammad Rehman, Irshad-ur Ali, Liaqat Hussain, Abrar Ali, Muhammad Ahmed, Naveed Saleem, Sana Fayyaz, Madiha |
author_facet | Butt, Sadia Idrees, Muhammad Rehman, Irshad-ur Ali, Liaqat Hussain, Abrar Ali, Muhammad Ahmed, Naveed Saleem, Sana Fayyaz, Madiha |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of chronic hepatitis which progresses to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) afflicting > 170 million people worldwide. HCV 3a is the most common genotype (about 70% of all genotypes) circulating in Pakistan. Expression of HCV individual gene of 3a would facilitate therapeutic and vaccines strategies against chronic HCV and liver Cirrhosis. The aim of the present study was the establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing structural and non structural proteins of HCV Genotype 3a Pakistani isolate obtained from chronic HCV patients. METHODS: Blood samples were obtained from chronic HCV-3a positive patients. HCV individual genes were amplified using PCR with gene specific primers having restriction sites. These gene amplicons were cloned in mammalian expression vector PcDNA3.1+. Huh-7 cell lines were transfected with these constructed plasmids having structural or non-structural HCV genes in confluent cells with lipofectamine. Positive clones were selected with G418 and then confirmed by genome PCR. Subsequently, transcription and expression of the integrated genes were demonstrated by RT-PCR, sequencing and Western blot analysis. RESULTS: We successfully cloned and express five HCV-3a genes in PcDNA3.1+ mammalian expression vector. Results of western blot and sequencing PCR confirmed the stable expression of these five genes. CONCLUSION: The stable cell-lines expressing HCV-3a individual genes would be a useful tool to investigate the role of various HCV proteins on HCV disease outcome and testing of new therapeutic strategies against HCV. |
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spelling | pubmed-31642222011-09-02 Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs Butt, Sadia Idrees, Muhammad Rehman, Irshad-ur Ali, Liaqat Hussain, Abrar Ali, Muhammad Ahmed, Naveed Saleem, Sana Fayyaz, Madiha Genet Vaccines Ther Research BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of chronic hepatitis which progresses to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) afflicting > 170 million people worldwide. HCV 3a is the most common genotype (about 70% of all genotypes) circulating in Pakistan. Expression of HCV individual gene of 3a would facilitate therapeutic and vaccines strategies against chronic HCV and liver Cirrhosis. The aim of the present study was the establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing structural and non structural proteins of HCV Genotype 3a Pakistani isolate obtained from chronic HCV patients. METHODS: Blood samples were obtained from chronic HCV-3a positive patients. HCV individual genes were amplified using PCR with gene specific primers having restriction sites. These gene amplicons were cloned in mammalian expression vector PcDNA3.1+. Huh-7 cell lines were transfected with these constructed plasmids having structural or non-structural HCV genes in confluent cells with lipofectamine. Positive clones were selected with G418 and then confirmed by genome PCR. Subsequently, transcription and expression of the integrated genes were demonstrated by RT-PCR, sequencing and Western blot analysis. RESULTS: We successfully cloned and express five HCV-3a genes in PcDNA3.1+ mammalian expression vector. Results of western blot and sequencing PCR confirmed the stable expression of these five genes. CONCLUSION: The stable cell-lines expressing HCV-3a individual genes would be a useful tool to investigate the role of various HCV proteins on HCV disease outcome and testing of new therapeutic strategies against HCV. BioMed Central 2011-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3164222/ /pubmed/21711509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-0556-9-12 Text en Copyright ©2011 Butt et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Butt, Sadia Idrees, Muhammad Rehman, Irshad-ur Ali, Liaqat Hussain, Abrar Ali, Muhammad Ahmed, Naveed Saleem, Sana Fayyaz, Madiha Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title | Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title_full | Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title_fullStr | Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title_full_unstemmed | Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title_short | Establishment of stable Huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis C virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-HCV drugs |
title_sort | establishment of stable huh-7 cell lines expressing various hepatitis c virus genotype 3a protein: an in-vitro testing system for novel anti-hcv drugs |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-0556-9-12 |
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