Cell culture
Both HepG2 and MCF-7 cells (obtained from Iranian Biological Resource Center ,Tehran, Iran) were cultured in Dulbecco’s Minimal Eagle Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 12% Fetal Bovine Serum ,2 mM L-glutamine, 100 units penicillin/mL and 100 mg/mL streptomycin which known as complete MDEM. Both cell-lines were adherent cells which detached by trypsin/EDTA and they were grown at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2.
Adenovector preparation and tittering
Adenovirus type 5 with the GFP reporter gene (AdVGFP) which was used in this study has been propagated and purified as described before (18). In order to determine the AdV5GFP concentration TCID50 was employed on Ad293 cells. In addition, to get an optimal concentration for experiments different MOI of the vector was evaluated in MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines. Therefore, these two cell lines were separately seeded in 96 well plates and then dilutions of vector were added and cell death (trypan blue exclusion test) and typical cytopathic effect was thoroughly monitored for 48hrs.
ZETA potential measurement
So as to determine whether the mentioned coagulation factors shield the AdV properly we measured the electrostatic potential of each complex. The Zeta potential of vector particles alone or in combination with coagulation factors were determined by ZETA-check (Microtrac, Meerbusch, Germany) as described before (18). The test repeated four times; however, the first assessment omitted due to the possibility of inhomogeneity. Thus, the mean of the three round tests considered as the final data.
In vitro transduction of coagulation factor loaded Adenovectors
Three clotting factors VII, VIII, and IX were kindely provided by Dastgheib hospital Children Unit. Coagulation factors VII (FVII, AryoSevenTM) and VIII (FVIII, Saman darooTM) were recombinant human factors whilst coagulation factor IX (FIX, BiotestTM) was human purified factor. The Physiological concentration of FVII, FVIII, and FIX are 0.5µg/mL, 100ɳg/mL, and 5µg/mL, respectively (7, 19). All three factors were solved in injection water and stored at -70°C. In order to prepare the vector-coagulation factor complexes, coagulation factors at physiological concentration were added to the vector in 50µl PBS and incubated in 37°C for 1 hour. Two mentioned cell-lines seeded the day before to reach 90% confluency for transduction. Serum-free DMEM replaced to the complete media and complexes added smoothly to the wells. Totally, there were 5 groups including AdV solely, AdV/FVII, AdV/FVIII, AdV/FIX, and control negative which were cells without receiving anything more. At the end of the transduction, plate was incubating at 37°C in 5% CO2 incubator. In order to perform ELISA and real-time PCR assays, plates were incubated for 48 hours and 6 hours, respectively.
Transduction rate analysis by fluorescent microscopy and Flowcytometry
We exposed seeded cell-lines to AdVGFP and AdV/coagulation factors VII, VIII, and IX for 48h prior to GFP analysis. It is obvious that for negative control non-infected cell in the plate was needed. Firstly, we used fluorescent microscopy in order to subpopulation of bright transduced cells. Afterwards, flow cytometry assay employed to characterize these cells. The exposure time of the camera was 10.587 ms and 38.17 ms for the HepG2 and MCF-7 cell lines, respectively. For capturing the pictures, sensitivity of the CellSense software was set up to ISO 100. Flow cytometric analysis was used for the better evaluation of the transduction using a BD FACSCalibur flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA). Each sample washed three times in PBS and collected by centrifuge (950RPM, 1min). 100µl of each sample was diluted in 200µl PBS then 10,000 cells were calculated and analyzed by flow cytometry. GFP expression seen just at one gated cell population. The data analyzed using FlowJo V10 (Tree Star, Ashland, OR, USA).
Real-time Polymerase chain reaction
Total RNA was extracted by RNX-Plus solution (Sinaclon Inc, Iran) and quality of the RNAs was observed by gel electrophoresis. Afterwards, quality and quantity of each sample measured by using a Nanodrop spectrophotometer (Nanodrop; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Wilmington, DE, USA). Proper RNAs stored at -70°C freezer. To assess validity of viral transduction, extracted RNAs were subjected to RT-qPCR. Reverse transcription was performed by EasyTM cDNA synthesis kit (Parstous Inc, Iran) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The input RNAs for cDNA synthesis were 1 mg. The synthesized cDNAs were used as templates for RT-qPCR assay. Real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed using the Step one system and the RealQ Plus 2× Master Mix Green (Ampliqon A/S, Odense, Denmark). 4 specific innate immunity mediator genes which assessed were PKR, MX-1, IRF-3, STING1 and internal control was PGK for Real-time PCR normalization. All PCRs were performed like the following procedure: 95°C for 15 min followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 15 s, proper annealing temperature (showed in table 1) for 1 min, and an extension at 72°C for 30 s. Melting curves verify the quality of each sample. Finally, fold changes were calculated using the 2-ΔΔCT method.
Table 1 The primers used in the Real-time PCR assay. The table shows 4 genes which evaluated in our study and the reference gene which was PGK
genes
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Sequences (5’-3’)
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Annealing temperature
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PKR
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F:ACGCTTTGGGGCTAATTCTTG
R:CCCGTAGGTCTGTGAAAAACTT
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58°C
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MX-1
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F:TAATAAAGCCCAGAATGCCATC
R: ATGAGTGTCTTGATCTTATACC
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57°C
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IRF-3
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F: GTGATGGTCAAGGTTGTG
R: GTGGCTGTTGGAAATGTG
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57°C
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STING-1
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F: GAAGGTGAAGGTCGGAGTC
R: GAAGATGGTGATGGGATTTC
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62°C
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PGK (ref)
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F : TAAAGCCGAGCCAGCCAAAA
R : CTCCTACCATGGAGCTGTGG
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60°C
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Cytokine analysis
The secretion of inflammatory cytokines by the HepG2 and MCF7 cell lines were quantified using a multiplex Enzyme linked absorbance assay. Briefly, supernatants were collected for ELISA assay after transduction and incubation of either AdV or AdV/coagulation factors complexes at 48h. Proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-1β) were measured by commercial ELISA kits (Karmania pars gene) using the manufacturer's recommendations. The lower detection limit of the IL-1β and IL-6 were 2 pg/ml, and 3 pg/ml, respectively. Absorption was measured via an ELISA reader at 450 nm.
Statistical analytic
ELISA test and Real-time PCR test were performed at least 3 times. Data were expressed as the mean standard error of the mean and analyzed using one-way ANOVA or the Kruskal-Wallis test using SPSS software and for graph designing we used GraphPad Prism 5. To determine significant differences in differential gene or protein expression control and experimental groups p= <0.5 was considered as statistically significant difference between the group means.