丙型肝炎病毒非结构蛋白NS4A肝细胞结合蛋白基因的筛选与克隆

目的筛选并克隆人肝细胞cDNA文库中与丙型肝炎病毒（HCV）非结构蛋白4A（NS4A）相互作用蛋白的基因，明确其具体作用机制。方法应用酵母双杂交系统3，将聚合酶链反应法扩增的HCV NS4A基因连接入酵母表达载体PGBKT7中构建诱饵质粒，转化酵母细胞AH109并在其内表达，然后与转化了人肝cDNA文库质粒PACT2的酵母细胞Y187进行配合，在营养缺陷型培养基和X—α-半乳糖上进行双重筛选阳性菌落，提取阳性酵母菌落的质粒转化大肠杆菌，接种在氨苄青霉素-LB平板上，选择生长菌落，提取质粒酶切鉴定，测序并在GenBank中进行生物信息学分析。结果成功克隆出HCV NS4A基因，构建表达载体并在酵母细胞中表达，与肝文库配合后选出既能在四缺培养基又能在铺有X—α-半乳糖的四缺培养基上生长，并变成蓝色的真阳性菌落22个，序列分析显示，筛选到的肝细胞蛋白编码基因参与细胞能量代谢、蛋白翻译合成等多种生物学过程。结论成功克隆出HCV NS4A蛋白在肝细胞内的结合蛋白，为进一步研究NS4A蛋白的功能、阐明HCV致病的分子生物学机制提供了新线索。

Screening and cloning of hepatitis C virus non-structural protein 4A interacting protein gene in hepatocytes

OBJECTIVE: To investigate biological functions of hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural protein 4A (NS4A). METHODS: Yeast-two hybrid technique was performed to seek proteins in hepatocytes interacting with HCV NS4A. HCV NS4A bait plasmid was constructed by ligating the NS4A gene with carrier plasmid pGBKT7, then it was transformed into yeast AH109 (alpha type). The transformed yeast cells were amplified and mated with yeast cells Y187 (alpha type) containing liver cDNA library plasmid pACT2 in 2 x YPDA medium. Diploid yeast cells were plated on synthetic dropout nutrient medium (SD/-Trp-Leu-His-Ade) and synthetic dropout nutrient medium (SD/-Trp-Leu-His-Ade) containing X-alpha-gal for selection two times. After extracting plasmid from blue colonies, plasmid DNA was transformed into competent E.coli and analyzed by DNA sequencing and bioinformatics methods. RESULTS: Among twenty-two positive colonies there were eleven positive for metallothionein 2A, three for eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1, two for albumin, two for RNA binding motif protein 21, two for myomesin, one for cytochrome C oxidase II, and one for ATPase. CONCLUSIONS: Genes of HCV NS4A interacting proteins in hepatocytes were successfully cloned and the results pave the way for studying the biological functions of NS4A and associated proteins.