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KMID : 1199120080320020131
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Korean Diabetes Journal
2008 Volume.32 No. 2 p.131 ~ p.140
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Cloning of Novel Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) Plasmid for Gene Therapy on Diabetic Foot Ulcer
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Jeong Hye-Sook
Yoon Chang-Sin
Kwon Min-Jung
Kim Mi-Kyung
Lee Soon-Hee
Koh Kyung-Soo
Lee Byung-Doo
Park Jeong-Hyun
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Abstract
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Background: Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) is one of the important growth factors involved in the epithelialization during cutaneous wound healing. Peptide EGF has been used for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer. But the inferiority of cost-effectiveness and the inconvenience of daily application might have restricted its wide clinical usage. EGF gene therapy could dramatically improve the efficacy and inconvenience through long-term expression and bypassing the EGF degradation by hostile non-specific proteinases expressed in the wound bed.
Methods: EGF DNAs were amplified via PCR. For the more effective secretion from the transfected cell, we inserted furin cleavage site into EGF plasmids. The efficacy of novel plasmid pβ-EGF was verified by transfection into the various animal cell lines, and the biologic potency of expressed EGF was confirmed via phosphorylation of PI3K and GSK3β by Western blotting.
Results: We tested various kinds of human EGFs. One of the human EGF isoforms, EGF828 including a membrane-anchoring domain was successfully released as the mature EGF protein in the cell culture media. Also EGF plasmid including furin cleavage site showed more than 2-fold increased EGF expression compared with the sequence without furin cleavage site.
Conclusion: In conclusion, these findings suggest that mature EGF could be released easily out of cells by modifying EGF DNA sequence. Our novel EGF plasmid DNA could markedly increase the efficiency of non-viral gene therapy for diabetic foot ulcer. (KOREAN DIABETES J 32:131~140, 2008)
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KEYWORD
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Diabetesmellitus, Epidermalgrowthfactor, Genetherapy, Woundhealing
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