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nivm
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Topic Started by nivm
on 4/24/2006 16:15 PM   
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I am have been growing pcDNA3.1 (with insert) tranfected HEK293 cells in G418 for a month now. Although the transfected cells are alive and growing well (all the untransfected cells died), the protein of interest is not being expressed at all. Does anybody know why this might happen?


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scolix
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Posted By scolix
on 6/16/2006 12:49 PM   
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Sometimes the cells could kick out the gene of interest and retain the antibiotic resistance gene so ur cells grow in the presence of the antibiotic yet not produce the protein.

or it could b that the protein production is too low, can happen with stable cell lines.



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Posted By livegene
on 8/3/2006 12:21 PM   
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Your gene is integrated in to cell genome. It gives various kinds of expression level in stable transfection. Like 0-100% of expression. For the your statement not see the any protein (insert), for this conditions there is only possibility is occur that is the expression level is very low.



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Posted By samujjwal796001
on 9/19/2008 9:28 AM   
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similar kind of thing happened to me. I did a transfection in mouse stem cells with my insert in pCDNA3.1 Neo vector. After 24hrs and 36hrs I had collected some cells to see the protein expression, which was positive. The rest of the cells, I continued growing them, and than selected in G418 for 10days. After making the stable cell line, when I tried detecting my protein, its not expressed anymore.
To me it is kind of weird.



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Posted By manduanyy
on 10/2/2008 14:17 PM   
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I met the same problem. I transfected pcDNA3 with my target gene into HEK293 cell, the target gene expressed very well, I can detecte the protein, but when I transfected same gene into another cell line (HEP-2), I can not detect the protein though I can detect the gene expression by RT-PCR.



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Posted By parvoman
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I've only cloned with pCDNA3.1 twice. It failed both times! Almost everyone I've talked to who has used the plasmid has something negative to say about it.

In my case I cloned a cDNA into it from another construct (in which it expressed well). However, once in pCDNA it no longer expressed, although the antibiotic resistance still worked. I wasted a lot of time before sending the plasmid for sequencing and found that the region coding for the C-terminal portion of the protein was not as expected. There was a section in which part of the end had been duplicated and another part was missing! Something unstable about the way the plasmid replicates????

My advice, use Bluescript / pUC etc where possible.

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Sometimes the plasmid involved in the stable transfection is integrated in such a way that resistance is conferred but the protein is not produced. These individuals have a slight competative advantage over the protein producing cells and therefore can eventually become the majority of the cells in your line. This results in a useless stably transfected line. To avoid this, isolation of a single cell(allowed to grow into a colony) or multiple cells that you have confirmed produce the protein(through ELISA or whatnot) is necessary.


Last edited Apr 26, 2010, 15:12 PM by Nat99

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