id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-282764-d9x1wii6 Chang, Chia-Yin Influence of intron and exon splicing enhancers on mammalian cell expression of a truncated spike protein of SARS-CoV and its implication for subunit vaccine development 2006-02-20 .txt text/plain 4812 231 52 title: Influence of intron and exon splicing enhancers on mammalian cell expression of a truncated spike protein of SARS-CoV and its implication for subunit vaccine development A truncated S protein of the TW1 strain, S(TR2) (88 kDa), carrying three S fragments (S74–253, S294–739, and S1129–1255) was investigated to study the influences of intron and exon splicing enhancers to improve S(TR2) protein expression in mammalian cells. Therefore, several different strategies for improving S TR2 protein expression in mammalian cells were investigated in this report, including intron addition and the application of exon splicing enhancers. The intron-dependent enhancement of S TR2 protein expression in CHO/dhFr− cells was further investigated by measuring total RNA level, in vivo RNA stability, and RNA elongation rate in this study. The results indicated that the intron-dependent S TR2 protein expression in mammalian cells correlated with a higher level of total RNA accumulation as determined by quantitative RT-PCR (Fig. 4A) . ./cache/cord-282764-d9x1wii6.txt ./txt/cord-282764-d9x1wii6.txt