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PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION
卷 59, 期 1, 页码 79-85出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2008.01.005
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protein kinase; environmental stresses; bacteria; Escherichia coli
We cloned, overexpressed and purified the Escherichia coli yeaG gene product, whose amino acid sequence displays homology to prokaryotic serine protein kinases. The gene coding for YeaG was generated by amplifying the yeaG gene from E coli by polymerase chain reaction. It was inserted into the expression plasmid pET-21a, under the transcriptional control of the bacteriophage T7 promoter and lac operator. A BL21(DE3) E. coli strain transformed with the YeaG-expression vector pET-21a-yeaG accumulates large amounts of a soluble protein with a molecular mass of 76 kDa in SDS-PAGE, which matches the expected YeaG molecular weight of 74.5 kDa. YeaG, although soluble, has a marked tendency to aggregate in the absence of detergents, so that it was purified in the presence of 0.1% Triton X-100, by ion exchange chromatography and hydroxyapatite chromatography. The purified protein is monomeric and displays autokinase and casein kinase activities which are optimal in the presence of 10 mM Mn2+. The purification of the active protein kinase YeaG described in this study should allow us to characterize its biochemical target(s) in E coli extracts. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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