Abstract
A 1.6-kilobase DNA segment of the genomic human interferon beta 1 (IF-beta 1) gene was inserted into each of two possible orientations at the single HindIII site of a recombinant plasmid pBPV69T, consisting of the 69% transforming region of the bovine papilloma virus type 1 (BPV-1) and a modified SalI-SalI fragment of plasmid pBR322. After cleavage of the pBR322 sequences from this recombinant, BPV69T-IF-beta 1 hybrid DNAs were transfected onto C127 mouse cells by the standard calcium precipitation technique. Mouse cells transformed by this hybrid DNA produced low levels of human IF-beta 1 constitutively and responded to induction with either inactivated Newcastle disease virus or polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid. The BPV69T-IF-beta 1 hybrid DNA was nonintegrated in the transformed mouse cells but had acquired DNA sequences as a result of the transfection. Accurate transcripts of the IF-beta 1 mRNA were detected in cells only after induction. When the IF-beta 1 gene was oriented in the plasmid in the same direction of transcription as the BPV-1 genome, transcription was promoted from within the BPV-1 sequences. These results indicate that the regulatory sequences responsible for the inducible expression of the human IF-beta 1 gene are present in the 1.6-kilobase genomic segment and that these sequences can function in a free extrachromosomal state linked to BPV-1 sequences.
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