کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2022058 1069277 2006 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Exceptional total and functional yields of the human adenosine (A2a) receptor expressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Exceptional total and functional yields of the human adenosine (A2a) receptor expressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
چکیده انگلیسی

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used to express a medically relevant G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), the human adenosine (A2a) receptor, with a C-terminal green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion tag. In prior studies, we established an expression system for A2a-GFP. Here, we quantified the total A2a-GFP expression levels by correlating GFP levels as detected by fluorescence and densitometry to A2a-GFP molecules overexpressed in the system. We also quantified A2a-GFP functional levels by classical radioligand binding assays. Approximately, 120,000 functional A2a-GFP molecules per cell were present on the plasma membrane as determined by radioligand binding. Using whole cell GFP fluorescence, 340,000 A2a-GFP molecules per cell were detected; approximately 70% of those molecules were plasma membrane localized, as determined by using confocal microscopy analysis. These results show that a significant portion of the total expressed protein is functional. In addition, the quick and inexpensive whole cell fluorescence appears to provide a good approximation of functional receptor numbers for this case. Importantly, the amount of functionally expressed A2a-GFP per culture (∼4 mg/L) is among the highest reported for any GPCR in any expression system.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Protein Expression and Purification - Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2006, Pages 204–211
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