USE OF MICRORNA PRECURSORS AS DRUGS FOR INDUCING CD34-POSITIVE ADULT STEM CELL EXPANSION

摘要

This invention generally relates to a composition and its production method useful for developing drugs/vaccines and/or therapies against a variety of degenerative diseases in humans. Particularly, the present invention teaches the essential steps of production and purification processes necessary for producing small hairpin-like RNA (shRNA) compositions, such as microRNA precursors (pre-miRNA) and short interfering RNAs (siRNA), which are useful for treating human ageing related diseases, such as, but not limited, Alzheimer's diseases, Parkinson's diseases, osteoporosis, diabetes, and cancers. The novelty of the present invention is to create an artificially enhanced adaptation environment for prokaryotic cells to adopt eukaryotic pol-2 and/or pol-2-like promoters for transcribing desired ncRNAs and/or their precursors without going through error-prone prokaryotic promoters, so as to improve the productive efficiency and reading fidelity of the shRNA transcription in the prokaryotic cells. The resulting shRNAs, preferably pre-miRNAs and siRNAs, are useful for developing therapeutic drugs against human degenerative diseases, particularly through a mechanism to induce CD34-positive stem cell expansion and/or regeneration.

主权项

1. A method of producing microRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs) containing a sequence of SEQ.ID.NO.3 and capable of inducing CD34-positive adult stem cell expansion or regeneration in human, comprising:
(a) providing at least a chemical inducer agent, containing a molecular structure of 3-morpholinopropane-1-sulfonic acid (MOPS), ethanol, glycerin, or a mixture thereof. (b) providing at least a line of transformed prokaryotic cells that carry at least a plasmid vector containing at least a eukaryotic pol-2 or pol-2-like RNA promoter and are capable of expressing said pre-miRNA containing the sequence SEQ.ID.NO.3 through the eukaryotic promoter, wherein the expression of said pre-miRNA from said plasmid vector is inducible by the at least a chemical agent provided in (a), and wherein said transformed prokaryotic cells are E. coli competent cell lines and said eukaryotic promoter is cytomegalovirus (CMV) or mammalian EF1alpha promoter; and. (c) mixing the at least a chemical agent from (a) and the at least a line of transformed prokaryotic cells from (b) together under a condition to induce the eukaryotic promoter-driven transcription of said pre-miRNA.