期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
卷 35, 期 7, 页码 1085-1091出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z
关键词
Fusion protein; His-tag; Maltose-binding protein; Tobacco etch virus; Thionin; Thioredoxin
资金
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21896-B16]
- Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 21896] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21896] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Thionins are antimicrobial plant peptides produced as preproproteins consisting of a signal peptide, the thionin domain, and a so-called acidic domain. Only thionin itself has been isolated from plants. To study the processing of the precursor, it has to be produced in a heterologous system. Since both domains contain several cysteines and, due to the known antimicrobial activity of the thionin, we tested the expression of all four Arabidopsis proproteins as fusion proteins. Periplasmic expression as fusion with maltose binding protein was not successful but cytoplasmic expression as His-tagged TRX fusion proteins with a TEV recognition sequence resulted in proteins of correct size. Use of the SHuffle strain C3030 further improved the expression. Fusion proteins inhibited growth of Escherichia coli. They could be cleaved by TEV protease, releasing authentic proproteins without any additional amino acid at the N-terminus.
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