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Divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1) is a ferrous iron import protein. The improper expression of DMT1 is involved in neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, we constructed a recombinant adenovirus containing the gene of DMT1 without the iron response element (DMT1-IRE) and investigated its expression and function in the C6 glioma cell line. The DMTI-IRE gene, obtained by RT-PCR, was cloned into the shuttle plasmid-ing pAdTrack-CMV containing green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene. Linearized plasmid pAdTrack-CMV-DMTI-IRE was subsequently co-transformed into Escher-iehia coli (E. coli) BJ5183 cells along with an adenoviral backbone plasmid pAdEasy-1 after digestion with Pme I. Pac I-digested pAdEasy 1-DMT 1-IRE was then transfected into El-transformed human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293 cells), in which recombinant adenoviruses were generated within 7 to 10 days. The results demon-strated that we obtained the DMTI-IRE gene. pAdEasyl-DMT1-IRE yielded a large fragment, plus a smaller fragment of 4.5kb after digestion with Pac I. PCR confirmed pAdEasy1-DMT1-IRE contained gene DMT1-IRE, indicating the successful construction of recombi-nant adenovirus plasmid containing DMT1-IRE. GFP fluorescence further confirmed the generation of recombi-nant AdDMTI-IRE adenovirus. AdDMTI-IRE could efficiently infect C6 glioma cells. And cell viability decreased in AdDMT1-IRE infected cells after iron overload compared to the control. These results suggest that the over expressed DMT1-IRE can aggravate the iron induced cell death due to its iron influx function.