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      Cattle Mammary Bioreactor Generated by a Novel Procedure of Transgenic Cloning for Large-Scale Production of Functional Human Lactoferrin

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          Large-scale production of biopharmaceuticals by current bioreactor techniques is limited by low transgenic efficiency and low expression of foreign proteins. In general, a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) harboring most regulatory elements is capable of overcoming the limitations, but transferring BAC into donor cells is difficult. We describe here the use of cattle mammary bioreactor to produce functional recombinant human lactoferrin (rhLF) by a novel procedure of transgenic cloning, which employs microinjection to generate transgenic somatic cells as donor cells. Bovine fibroblast cells were co-microinjected for the first time with a 150-kb BAC carrying the human lactoferrin gene and a marker gene. The resulting transfection efficiency of up to 15.79×10 −2 percent was notably higher than that of electroporation and lipofection. Following somatic cell nuclear transfer, we obtained two transgenic cows that secreted rhLF at high levels, 2.5 g/l and 3.4 g/l, respectively. The rhLF had a similar pattern of glycosylation and proteolytic susceptibility as the natural human counterpart. Biochemical analysis revealed that the iron-binding and releasing properties of rhLF were identical to that of native hLF. Importantly, an antibacterial experiment further demonstrated that rhLF was functional. Our results indicate that co-microinjection with a BAC and a marker gene into donor cells for somatic cell cloning indeed improves transgenic efficiency. Moreover, the cattle mammary bioreactors generated with this novel procedure produce functional rhLF on an industrial scale.

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          Mouse embryos undergo genome-wide methylation reprogramming by demethylation in early preimplantation development, followed by remethylation thereafter. Here we show that genome-wide reprogramming is conserved in several mammalian species and ask whether it also occurs in embryos cloned with the use of highly methylated somatic donor nuclei. Normal bovine, rat, and pig zygotes showed a demethylated paternal genome, suggesting active demethylation. In bovine embryos methylation was further reduced during cleavage up to the eight-cell stage, and this reduction in methylation was followed by de novo methylation by the 16-cell stage. In cloned one-cell embryos there was a reduction in methylation consistent with active demethylation, but no further demethylation occurred subsequently. Instead, de novo methylation and nuclear reorganization of methylation patterns resembling those of differentiated cells occurred precociously in many cloned embryos. Cloned, but not normal, morulae had highly methylated nuclei in all blastomeres that resembled those of the fibroblast donor cells. Our study shows that epigenetic reprogramming occurs aberrantly in most cloned embryos; incomplete reprogramming may contribute to the low efficiency of cloning.
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            Homologous recombination based modification in Escherichia coli and germline transmission in transgenic mice of a bacterial artificial chromosome.

            Escherichia coli-based artificial chromosomes have become important tools for physical mapping and sequencing in various genome projects. The lack of a general method to modify these large bacterial clones, however, has limited their utility in functional studies. We developed a simple method to modify bacterial artificial chromosomes directly in the recombination-deficient E. coli host strain by homologous recombination for in vivo studies. The IRES-LacZ marker gene was introduced into a 131 kb BAC containing the murine zinc finger gene, RU49. No rearrangements or deletions were detected in the modified BACs. Furthermore, transgenic mice were generated by pronuclear injection of the modified BAC, and germline transmission of the intact BAC has been obtained. Proper expression of the lacZ transgene in the brain has been observed, which could not be obtained with conventional transgenic constructs.
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              Lactoferrin: a multifunctional glycoprotein involved in the modulation of the inflammatory process.

              Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein found in exocrine secretions of mammals and released from neutrophilic granules during inflammation. This review describes the biological roles of lactoferrin in host defence. Secreted lactoferrin exerts antimicrobial action either by chelation of iron or by destabilization of bacterial membranes. Furthermore, lactoferrin modulates the inflammatory process, mainly by preventing the release of cytokines from monocytes and by regulating the proliferation and differentiation of immune cells. Some of these activities are related to the ability of lactoferrin to bind lipopolysaccharides (LPS) with high affinity. Indeed, recent in vitro studies indicate that lactoferrin is able to compete with the LPS-binding protein for LPS binding and therefore to prevent the transfer of LPS to CD14 present at the surface of monocytes. Moreover, the prophylactic properties of lactoferrin against septicemia in vivo have been demonstrated. Taken as a whole, these observations strongly suggest that lactoferrin is one of the key molecules which modulate the inflammatory response.
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                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                1932-6203
                2008
                20 October 2008
                : 3
                : 10
                : e3453
                Affiliations
                [1 ]State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
                [2 ]Beijing Genprotein Biotechnology Company, Beijing, People's Republic of China
                Cairo University, Egypt
                Author notes

                Conceived and designed the experiments: PY JW BT YD NL. Performed the experiments: PY JW GG XS YL RL FD YD. Analyzed the data: PY JW GG RZ ZD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL. Wrote the paper: PY JW.

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                Current address: College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, People's Republic of China

                Article
                08-PONE-RA-05000R1
                10.1371/journal.pone.0003453
                2565487
                18941633
                ec23c717-0ec6-4125-9e22-df73e9ddffae
                Yang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
                History
                : 7 June 2008
                : 17 September 2008
                Page count
                Pages: 9
                Categories
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                Biotechnology/Bioengineering
                Biotechnology/Protein Chemistry and Proteomics
                Molecular Biology/Recombination

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