Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages 118-123Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2009.12.013
Keywords
Radiation; DNA shuffling; Radiation-responsive promoter; p21; p53 responsive element
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences and Technology of Japan [21591618]
- National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21500403, 21591618] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A promoter that augments gene expression in response to stimulation of ionizing radiation would be a desired tool for radiogenetic therapy, a combination of radiotherapy and gene therapy. Although various promoters occurring naturally or artificially have been used for researches, one showing higher reactivity to ionizing radiation is desirable. In the present study, we attempted to improve a radiation-responsive promoter of the p21 through a technique called DNA shuffling. A library of DNA fragments was constructed by re-ligation of randomly digested promoter fragments and improved promoters were chosen out of the library. We repeated this process twice to obtain a promoter showing 2.6-fold better reactivity to ionizing radiation compared with its parent, p21 promoter after 10 Gy gamma-ray irradiation. Nucleotide sequence analyses revealed that the obtained promoter was densely packed with some of the as-acting elements including binding sites for p53, NF-kappa B, NRF-2, AP-1 and NF-Y more than p21 promoter. In addition, it was shown that its induction by ionizing radiation was dependent upon p53 status of a cell line, suggesting that the promoter retained properties of the p21 promoter. This technique is simple and efficient to improve a promoter responsive to other stimulus of interest besides IR. (C) 2010, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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