

Author: Habel Marie-Eve Drouin Mathieu Jung Daniel
Publisher: NRC Research Press
ISSN: 1208-6002
Source: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vol.82, Iss.3, 2004-06, pp. : 375-380
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Abstract
Vectors carrying the origin of replication (oriP) and driving expression of the EBNA-1 protein from Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) replicate as extrachromosomal episomes in human cells. Whether these vectors can be maintained as episomes in murine cells is still controversial. Here we demonstrate that EBNA-1 expression alone was unable to maintain episomal expression of an EBV-based vector in the murine Sp2/0 cell line. However, we were able to obtain long-term episome maintenance in Sp2/0 cells after exogenously expressing human EBP2 by genetic engineering. Our results provide further evidence for the fundamental role of human EBP2 in episomal maintenance of EBV-based vectors. Moreover, we demonstrate that EBV-based vectors can be successfully used in cells presumably incompetent for episomal maintenance.
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