Cloning of Six Pluripotent Related Transcription Factors OSKMNL in Yak and Construction of Polycistron Lentiviral Vector
The purpose of this study was to clone 6 pluripotency-related transcription factors Oct 4,Sox2,Klf4,c-Myc,Nanog,Lin28(OSKMNL)of yak and construct polycistronic lenti-viral vectors FUW-teto-OSM-EGFP and FUW-teto-KNL mCherry.In this study,the reproduc-tive crest tissue of a 3-5-month-old healthy female yak fetus was used as the research material.The complete coding region sequences of 6 pluripotent related transcription factors OSKMNL were cloned by RT-PCR and analyzed by bioinformatics.Lentiviral vectors FUW-teto-OSM-EGFP and FUW-teto-KNL-mCherry were constructed by seamless cloning.The lentivirus was packaged with 293T cells,and the packaged lentivirus was infected with 293T cells and yak fibro-blasts.The virus infection was detected by fluorescence expression and RT-PCR technique(the experiment was divided into virus infection group and blank control group,each group had 3 re-peats).The results showed that the coding region of cloned yak OSKMNL gene was 1 083,963,1 434,1 320,903 and 618 bp,respectively.Sequence analysis showed that the amino acid se-quence of OSKMNL in yak shared more than 99%homology with cattle,and the homology of Sox2,Klf4,c-Myc with cattle was 100%.The results of evolutionary tree showed that yak had the closest genetic relationship with cattle,zebu cattle and buffalo,but the farthest relationship with mice.Protein structure prediction showed that the 6 transcription factors OSKMNL of yak all had the corresponding protein functional structures of the gene family,such as POU domain,HOX domain,HMG domain,Znf-C2H2 domain,HLH domain,CSP domain and so on.Lentivi-ral vectors FUW-teto-OSM-EGFP and FUW-teto-KNL-mCherry were constructed.293T cells in-fected by lentivirus were found to express red and green fluorescence.Yak fibroblasts infected with lentivirus showed red and green fluorescence in the experimental group,and RT-PCR results showed bands with expected size.In this study,6 pluripotency related transcription factors OSKMNL of yak were successfully cloned.Lentiviral vectors FUW-teto-OSM-EGFP and FUW-teto-KNL-mCherry were constructed,which contain 3 transcription factors of yak,respectively.Lentivirus could infect yak fibroblasts.It is helpful to promote the application of pluripotent re-lated transcription factor OSKMNL in yak stem cells and prepare for the follow-up study of yak iPSC.