Biophysical Journal 65: 1684-1689 (1993)
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Study of mechanisms of electric field-induced DNA transfection. V. Effects of DNA topology on surface binding, cell uptake, expression, and integration into host chromosomes of DNA in the mammalian cell.

Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, St. Paul 55108.

ABSTRACT

Neumann and coworkers (Neumann, E., M. Schaefer-Ridder, Y. Wang, and P. H. Hofschneider. 1982. EMBO J. 1:841-845) have shown that the efficiency of pulsed electric field (PEF)-induced DNA transfection of mouse L-cells by the thymidine kinase gene is several times higher for the linear DNA than for the closed circular DNA. Transfection of Escherichia coli bacteria by several plasmids indicates that the transfection efficiency was much higher for the closed circular/supercoiled (sc-) and circular/relaxed (cr-) DNA than for the linearized (In-) DNA (Xie, T. D., L. Sun, H. G. Zhao, J. A. Fuchs, and T. Y. Tsong. 1992. Biophys. J. 63:1026-1031). To resolve these conflicting observations, we have systematically examined electrotransfection of NIH3T3 mouse fibroblast by the plasmids, pRSVcat, pRSVneo, and pRSVgpt. Mg(2+)-facilitated surface binding of DNA before, and DNA uptake by 3T3 cells after treatment with PEF, were monitored by 3H-labeled plasmids. Transfection efficiency was evaluated by both the transient expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) activity 2-3 days after, and the permanent expression of neomycin phosphotransferase (neo) and xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (gpt) genes in the transformants 2 weeks after the PEF treatment. Our results indicate that cell surface binding and PEF-induced cell uptake of DNA did not depend on the topology of DNA. However, both the transient and the permanent expression of the plasmids were three to five times more efficient for the cr-DNA and the sc-DNA than for the in-DNA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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