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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 24, 期 14, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411779
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non-canonical amino-acid-containing proteins; bio-orthogonal amino acid global substitution; azidohomoalanine; homopropargylglycine; photo-methionine; E; coli
Residue-specific incorporation of non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins can introduce bio-orthogonal functionalities. This study investigated protein expression with three methionine analogs in different strains of E. coli and evaluated the impact of ncAAs on bacterial growth and the expression of specific proteins. The results showed varying levels of ncAA incorporation and protein expression in different bacterial strains, indicating the importance of strain selection and optimization for high ncAA content in protein expression.
Residue-specific incorporation of non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) introduces bio-orthogonal functionalities into proteins. As such, this technique is applied in protein characterization and quantification. Here, we studied protein expression with three methionine analogs, namely photo-methionine (pMet), azidohomoalanine (Aha) and homopropargylglycine (Hpg), in prototrophic E. coli BL-21 and auxotrophic E. coli B834 to maximize ncAA content, thereby assessing the effect of ncAAs on bacterial growth and the expression of cytochrome b(5) (b(5)M46), green fluorescence protein (MBP-GFP) and phage shock protein A. In auxotrophic E. coli, ncAA incorporation ranged from 50 to 70% for pMet and reached approximately 50% for Aha, after 26 h expression, with medium and low expression levels of MBP-GFP and b(5)M46, respectively. In the prototrophic strain, by contrast, the protein expression levels were higher, albeit with a sharp decrease in the ncAA content after the first hours of expression. Similar expression levels and 70-80% incorporation rates were achieved in both bacterial strains with Hpg. Our findings provide guidance for expressing proteins with a high content of ncAAs, highlight pitfalls in determining the levels of methionine replacement by ncAAs by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and indicate a possible systematic bias in metabolic labeling techniques using Aha or Hpg.
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