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Infect Immun. 1991 October; 59(10): 3562-3565

Construction and expression of plasmids containing mutated diphtheria toxin A-chain-coding sequences.

K S Fisher, I H Maxwell, J R Murphy, J Collier and L M Glode

Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Denver 80262.

ABSTRACT

We previously demonstrated that cells can be killed through transfection of an expression plasmid that encodes the diphtheria toxin A-chain fragment (DT-A). This report describes the construction of expression plasmids containing three mutant DT-A-coding sequences substituting glutamic acid 148 with aspartic acid, serine, or glutamine which are known to have 100- to 300-fold-reduced ADP-ribosylation activity measured in vitro. The toxicity of these constructs was determined in cotransfection experiments using HeLa and 293 cells with a luciferase expression plasmid as the reporter. Dose responses were compared for the three new DT-A mutant plasmids and for the corresponding plasmids containing wild-type DT-A and the previously characterized tox 176 mutant. The dose required to produce 50% inhibition of control luciferase expression in 293 embryonic kidney cells for the five plasmids ranged from 0.01 micrograms for wild-type DT-A to 1.2 micrograms for the least toxic plasmid, which replaces glutamic acid 148 with glutamine. In conclusion, a wide range of DT-A toxicity can be achieved by using plasmid expression vectors that encode different DT-A mutations.

Infect Immun. 1991 October; 59(10): 3562-3565






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