scholarly journals Large-Scale Production of Porcine Mature Interleukin-18 (IL-18) in Silkworms Using a Hybrid Baculovirus Expression System

2003 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro MUNETA ◽  
Hong Kun ZHAO ◽  
Shigeki INUMARU ◽  
Yasuyuki MORI
2005 ◽  
Vol 386 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Di Gennaro ◽  
Anna G. Ficca ◽  
Daniela Panichi ◽  
Elia Poerio

Abstract A cDNA encoding the proteinase inhibitor WSCI (wheat subtilisin/chymotrypsin inhibitor) was isolated by RT-PCR. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers were designed based on the amino acid sequence of WSCI and on the nucleotide sequence of the two homologous inhibitors (CI-2A and CI-2B) isolated from barley. For large-scale production, wsci cDNA was cloned into the E. coli vector pGEX-2T. The fusion protein GST-WSCI was efficiently produced in the bacterial expression system and, as the native inhibitor, was capable of inhibiting bacterial subtilisin, mammalian chymotrypsins and chymotrypsin-like activities present in crude extracts of a number of insect larvae (Helicoverpa armigera, Plodia interpunctella and Tenebrio molitor). The recombinant protein produced was also able to interfere with chymotrypsin-like activity isolated from immature wheat caryopses. These findings support a physiological role for this inhibitor during grain maturation.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorush Niknamian

Obesity is the prime suspect in a wide frequency of diabetes type II and cardiovascular diseases worldwide. Recombinant YY (tyrosine-tyrosine) peptide is a locally acting hormone, controlling secretion in the digestive tract. Interestingly, it was later shown that a truncated version of YY peptide, YY(3-36) peptide, has the potential as an important biopharmaceutical in a fight against obesity. This peptide has shown promising results in human clinical experiments in appetite reduction in human experiments. To develop an economical expression system for large-scale production of the peptide in gram-negative bacteria, we have developed a chimeric gene for extracellular expression of this peptide with the assistance of signal sequence of asparaginase II from Escherichia coli. This system has the advantage of producing the complete sequence of YY(3-36) without any extra tags that require further removal with the assistance of expensive specific proteases and reduce the downstream steps significantly. Our results pave the way for the recombinant production of YY(3-36) peptide and further proves the efficacy of asparaginase II signal sequence as a communicator of foreign peptides and proteins into extracellular space of E. coli.


2013 ◽  
Vol 798-799 ◽  
pp. 1007-1012
Author(s):  
Wen He Zhu ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Jun Jie Xu ◽  
Shi Jie Lv

Melittin is a novel peptide of biological activity isolated from bee venom. It has potential application value in medicine and agriculture. Here we encoded melittin gene with the EK recognition sequence in the N-terminus into expression vector pGEX-2T.The expressed fusion protein, which is about 29KDa, identified by Western Blot. To facilitate large-scale production of recombinant GST-fusion protein, we optimized different expression conditions to increase the overall production of the fusion protein. The production of the protein had increased about 10-fold when we used an auto-inducing medium. The GST fusion protein showed an equivalent activity with the natural melittin after digested by EK and can inhibited the proliferations of several human cancer lines. The expression system described in this study provides a feasible way for producing melittin in further studies.


1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.F. Herrmann ◽  
C. Krezdorn ◽  
M. Malissard ◽  
R. Kleene ◽  
H. Paschold ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 3292-3297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard M. Gibbs ◽  
Barrie E. Davidson ◽  
Alan J. Hillier

ABSTRACT Piscicolin 126 is a class IIa bacteriocin isolated from Carnobacterium piscicola JG126 that exhibits strong activity against Listeria monocytogenes. The gene encoding mature piscicolin 126 (m-pisA) was cloned into an Escherichia coli expression system and expressed as a thioredoxin-piscicolin 126 fusion protein that was purified by affinity chromatography. Purified recombinant piscicolin 126 was obtained after CNBr cleavage of the fusion protein followed by reversed-phase chromatography. Recombinant piscicolin 126 contained a single disulfide bond and had a mass identical to that of native piscicolin 126. This novel bacteriocin expression system generated approximately 26 mg of purified bacteriocin from 1 liter of E. coli culture. The purified recombinant piscicolin 126 acted by disruption of the bacterial cell membrane.


1999 ◽  
Vol 342 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corné H. W. KLAASSEN ◽  
Petra H. M. BOVEE-GEURTS ◽  
Godelieve L. J. DECALUWÉ ◽  
Willem J. DEGRIP

Here we describe a generic procedure for the expression and purification of milligram quantities of functional recombinant eukaryotic integral membrane proteins, exemplified by hexahistidine-tagged bovine rhodopsin. These quantities were obtained with the recombinant baculovirus/Sf9 insect cell-based expression system in large-scale bioreactor cultures with the use of a serum-free and protein-free growth medium. After optimization procedures, expression levels up to 4 mg/l were established. The recombinant rhodopsin could be purified with high overall yield by using immobilized-metal-affinity chromatography on Ni2+-agarose. After reconstitution into a native lipid environment, the purified protein was functionally indistinguishable from native rhodopsin with regard to the following parameters: spectral absorbance band, structural changes after photoactivation, and G-protein activation. The procedures developed can be adapted to other membrane proteins. The ability to produce and purify tens of milligrams of functional recombinant eukaryotic membrane protein meets the ever-increasing demand of material necessary to perform detailed biochemical and structural biophysical studies that are essential in unravelling their working mechanism at a molecular level.


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