| Abstract: | AIM: To constnuct a stable transfectant of human livercarcinoma cell line SMMC7721 that could secret humanencicstatin and to explore the effect of human encostatinexpressed by the transfectant on enciotheliai cell proliferation.METHODS: Recombinant retroviral plasmid pLncx-Endocontaining the eDNA for human endoslsin gene togetherwith mt albumin signal peptide was engineered andtransferred into SMMC7721 cell by lipofectamine. Afterselection with G418, endcotatin-transfected SMMC7721 ceiiswere chosen and expanded. Immunohistochemical stainingand Western blot were used to detect the expression ofhuman endosatin in transfected SMMC7721 cells and itsmedium. The conditioned medium of endostatin-transfectedand control SMMC7721 cells were collected to cultivate withhuman umbilical vein endothelial cells for 72 hours. Theinhibitory effect of endoststin, expressed by transfectedSMMC7721 cells, on endothelial proliferation in vitro wasobserved by using Mn assay.RESULTS: A 550 bp specific fragment of endostatin gene wasdetected from the PCR product of endostatin-transfeclsdSMMC7721 cells. Immunohistochemistry and Western blotanalysis confirmed the expression and secretion of foreighhuman endostatin protein by endoslstin-transfeclsdSMMC7721 cells. In vitro endothelial proliferation assayshowed that 72 hours after cultivation with human umbilicalvein endothelial cells, the optical density (OD) in groupusing the medium from endostatin-transfected SMMC7721cells was 0.51 ±0.06, lower than that from RPMI 1640 group(0.98 ± 0.09) or that from control plasmid pLncx-transfeotedSMMC7721 cells (0. 88 ± 0. 11). The inhibitory rate formedium from endostatin-transfeclsd SMMC7721 cells was 48%, significantly higher than that from empty plasmid plncx-transfected SMMC7721 cells (10.2 %, P＜ 0.01).CONCLUSION: Human endoslstin can he stably expressedby SMMC7721 cell tran sferred with human endoslsin geneand its product can significantly inhibit the proliferation ofhuman umbilical vein endothelial cell in vitro. |
