Streamlined Protein Expression and Purification Using Cleavable Self-Aggregating Tags.
Summary of "Streamlined Protein Expression and Purification Using Cleavable Self-Aggregating Tags."
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND:
Recombinant protein expression and purification remains a fundamental issue for biotechnology. Recently we found that two short self-assembling amphipathic peptides 18A (EWLKAFYEKVLEKLKELF) and ELK16 (LELELKLKLELELKLK) can induce the formation of active protein aggregates in Escherichia coli (E. coli), in which the target proteins retain high enzymatic activities. Here we further explore this finding to develop a novel, facile, matrix-free protein expression and purification approach.
RESULTS:
In this paper, we describe a streamlined protein expression and purification approach by using cleavable self-aggregating tags comprising of one amphipathic peptides (18A or ELK16) and an intein molecule. In such a scheme, a target protein is first expressed as active protein aggregate, separated by simple centrifugation, and then released into solution by intein-mediated cleavage. Three target proteins including lipase A, amadoriase II and beta-xylosidase were used to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. All the target proteins released after cleavage are highly active and pure (over 90% in the case of intein-ELK16 fusions). The yields were in the range of 1.6-10.4 mug/mg wet cell pellet at small laboratory scale, which is comparable with the typical yields from the classical his-tag purification, the IMPACT-CN system (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA), and the ELP tag purification scheme.
CONCLUSIONS:
This tested single step purification is capable of producing proteins with high quantity and purity. It can greatly reduce the cost and time, and thus provides application potentials for both industrial scale up and laboratorial usage.
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Journal Details
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Name: Microbial cell factories
ISSN: 1475-2859
Pages: 42
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21631955
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-10-42
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Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-gamma
A winged-helix transcription factor that regulates GENE expression in metabolic tissues. It plays a role in HOMEOSTASIS of GLUCOSE and controls expression of GLUT2 PROTEIN.
Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group D, Member 1
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