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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 306, Issue 1-2, Pages 51-67Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2005.07.022
Keywords
scTCR; TCR; recombinant expression; skp; crystallography
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- NIAID NIH HHS [NIH-AI8540, F32 AI055245-01, F32 AI055245] Funding Source: Medline
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While numerous antibody-antigen systems have been structurally characterized, studies of structurally analogous T-cell receptor MHC systems have lagged behind largely due to the lack of a general TCR expression system. Efforts to develop bacterial systems have resulted in low yields (< 0.5 mg/1) of active material which is prone to proteolysis and aggregation. Here we report a strategy to secrete folded, soluble single chain T-cell receptors (scTCR) in the Escherichia coli periplasm using three representative alpha beta TCRs (172.10, 1934.4/c19 and 2134). Shake flask yields between 0.5 and 30 mg/1 active, purified material were attained for all TCRs studied and found to depend on the introduction of solubility-increasing amino acid substitutions, skp chaperone co-expression and C-terminal fusion to a human kappa constant domain in the context of a tightly regulated expression vector. This system will greatly enable crystallographic, thermodynamic and other biophysical analyses of TCRs which require large quantities of homogeneous material. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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