[Affection of metallothionein-3 to dUTPase's accommodating cellular toxicity of dUTP].

Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Beijing 100871, China.

Published: May 2004

Metallothionein-3 (MT-3), renamed as growth inhibitory factor (GIF), is a brain specific member of the metallothionein family. Human dUTPase is a recently found protein in brain that can interact with hMT-3. They have the growth inhibitory activity on neuron cell by interaction. To study the affection of hMT-3 to dUTPase's eliminating the cellular toxicity caused by dUTP, the pSVHA-dUTPase and pFLag-hMT-3 genes have been transfected into HEK293 cells. In addition, the dUTPase and hMT-3 proteins were expressed in BL21 to study the role of hMT-3 on the hydrolyzation of dUTP by dUTPase. The results demonstrate that the cells co-transfected with dUTPase and hMT-3 genes have more strong resistibility to dUTP than the cells transfected only with dUTPase gene. And that the hMT-3 protein can accelerate the hydrolyzation of dUTP by dUTPase. All these indicate that hMT-3 can cooperate with dUTPase to protect better the 293 cells from dUTP. This research offered the theoretic elements for the application of hMT-3 and dUTPase in chemic cure.

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