Cell Structure and Function
Online ISSN : 1347-3700
Print ISSN : 0386-7196
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A dual promoter system to monitor IFN-γ signaling in vivo at single-cell resolution
Taisei TanakaYoshinobu KonishiHiroshi IchiseShinya TsukijiMichiyuki MatsudaKenta Terai
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS Advance online publication

Article ID: 21052

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IFN-γ secreted from immune cells exerts pleiotropic effects on tumor cells, including induction of immune checkpoint and antigen presentation, growth inhibition, and apoptosis induction. We combined a dual promoter system with an IFN-γ signaling responsive promoter to generate a reporter named the interferon sensing probe (ISP), which quantitates the response to IFN-γ by means of fluorescence and bioluminescence. The integration site effect of the transgene is compensated for by the PGK promoter-driven expression of a fluorescent protein. Among five potential IFN-γ-responsive elements, we found that the interferon γ-activated sequence (GAS) exhibited the best performance. When ISP-GAS was introduced into four cell lines and subjected to IFN-γ stimulation, dose-dependency was observed with an EC50 ranging from 0.2 to 0.9 ng/mL, indicating that ISP-GAS can be generally used as a sensitive biosensor of IFN-γ response. In a syngeneic transplantation model, the ISP-GAS-expressing cancer cells exhibited bioluminescence and fluorescence signals in an IFN-γ receptor-dependent manner. Thus, ISP-GAS could be used to quantitatively monitor the IFN-γ response both in vitro and in vivo.
Key words: in vivo imaging, tumor microenvironment, interferon-gamma, dual promoter system
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