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Characterization of β-Actin Promoter of Leuciscus merzbacheri
Wenge Hu, Shiwei Ma, Chuangfu Chen, Yuanzhi Wang, Yan Ren, Xudong Cao and Jinliang Sheng

Abstract: Leuciscus merzbacheri is a unique vulnerable indigenous fish which is only distributed in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. In this study, researchers cloned two L. merzbacheri β-actin promoter fragments of different length: SZ11 and SZ21 and analyzed their structural features. The mammalian expression vector pEGFP-N1 was used to construct eukaryotic expression vectors β1 pEGFP-N1-AFP III and β2 pEGFP-N1-AFP III in which fish type III antifreeze protein gene was used as the structural gene. The results showed that the cloned two fragments of β-actin promoters had the ability to drive the expression of the green fluorescent protein gene in BHK-21 cells. These data suggest that the vectors researchers constructed based on β-actin promoter could be exploited as all fish recombinant eukaryotic expression vector.

How to cite this article
Wenge Hu, Shiwei Ma, Chuangfu Chen, Yuanzhi Wang, Yan Ren, Xudong Cao and Jinliang Sheng, 2012. Characterization of β-Actin Promoter of Leuciscus merzbacheri. Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 11: 3849-3854.

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