Fig. 8From: Design and In Vitro Characterization of a Single Regulatory Module for Efficient Control of Gene Expression in Both Plasmid DNA and a Self-Inactivating Lentiviral VectorImmunolocalization of tetR after addition of the NLS sequence. Localization of tetR protein after transfection of Vero cells with different plasmid constructs was performed by immunofluorescence staining. Cells transfected with a control plasmid (panel a), the pcDNAtetR plasmid (panel b), and the 1PihEGF plasmid (panel c) or 1PihEGFNLS (panel d) in the presence of Tc were fixed with 4% formaldehyde/PBS and permeabilized with a detergent before incubation with an anti-tetR mAb. After 2 hr incubation with the primary antibody, a goat anti-mouse IgG coupled to FITC allowed visualization under a fluorescence microscope (final magnification 400×).Back to article page