کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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2020201 | 1542320 | 2016 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• We observed a truncated version of a yeast protein expressed in Escherichia coli.
• The truncated protein resulted from cryptic initiation from a GTG codon.
• Mutating the cryptic Shine Dalgarno site eliminated the truncated protein.
• Introducing cryptic sites for other proteins did not produce truncated proteins.
Undesirable truncated recombinant protein products pose a special expression and purification challenge because such products often share similar chromatographic properties as the desired full length protein. We describe here our observation of both full length and a truncated form of a yeast protein (Gcn5) expressed in Escherichia coli, and the reduction or elimination of the truncated form by mutating a cryptic Shine-Dalgarno or START codon within the Gcn5 coding region. Unsuccessful attempts to engineer in a cryptic translation initiation site into other recombinant proteins suggest that cryptic Shine-Dalgarno or START codon sequences are necessary but not sufficient for cryptic translation in E. coli.
Journal: Protein Expression and Purification - Volume 121, May 2016, Pages 17–21