Journal
PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 500-506Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/prep.2000.1331
Keywords
SR alpha; pSGHVO; CHO cells; electroporation
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A mammalian expression vector with features optimized for simple expression and purification of secreted proteins has been developed. This vector was constructed to facilitate X-ray crystallographic studies of cysteine-rich glycoproteins that are difficult to express by other means. Proteins expressed with this vector possess an N-terminal human growth hormone domain and an octahistidine tag separated from the desired polypeptide sequences by a tobacco etch virus protease recognition site. Advantages of this vector are high levels of expression, simple detection and purification of expressed proteins, and reliable cleavage of the fusion protein. Cotransfection of this vector with a dihydrofolate reductase gene allows amplification of expression levels with methotrexate. Over one dozen cysteine-rich secreted proteins have been expressed in sufficient quantity for structural studies using this vector; the structure of at least one of these proteins has been determined. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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