Purified Recombinant Protein (purified + recombinant_protein)

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Novel DNA repair alkyltransferase from Caenorhabditis elegans

ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS, Issue 2-3 2001
Sreenivas Kanugula
Abstract O6 -Alkylguanine DNA-alkyltransferase (AGT) is a widely distributed DNA repair protein that protects living organisms from endogenous and exogenous alkylation damage to DNA at the O6 -position of guanine. The search of the C. elegans genome database for an AGT protein revealed the presence of a protein (cAGT-2) with some similarity to known AGTs in addition to the easily recognized cAGT-1 protein. The predicted protein sequence of cAGT-2 contains the amino acid sequence ,ProCysHisPro, at the presumed active site of the protein, whereas all other known AGTs have ,ProCysHisArg,. A truncated version of the cAGT-2 protein was expressed in E. coli. This purified recombinant protein was able to repair O6 -methylguanine and O4 -methylthymine adducts in DNA in vitro and also reacted with the bulky benzyl adduct in O6 -benzylguanine. This fragment of cAGT-2 (104 amino acids) is the smallest protein possessing AGT activity yet described. The full-length cAGT-2 protein (274 amino acids) totally lacks the N-terminal domain present in all other known AGTs but has a long C-terminal extension that has significant homology to histone 1C. Expression of cAGT-2 in an E. coli strain lacking endogenous AGT activity provided modest but statistically significant resistance to the toxicity of N -methyl- N,-nitro- N -nitrosoguanidine, confirming that cAGT-2 is an alkyltransferase. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 38:235,243, 2001. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Recombinant newcastle disease virus capsids displaying enterovirus 71 VP1 fragment induce a strong immune response in rabbits

JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY, Issue 8 2006
Lalita Ambigai Sivasamugham
Abstract The complete VP1 protein of EV71 was truncated into six segments and fused to the C-terminal ends of full-length nucleocapsid protein (NPfl) and truncated NP (NPt; lacks 20% amino acid residues from its C-terminal end) of newcastle disease virus (NDV). Western blot analysis using anti-VP1 rabbit serum showed that the N-terminal region of the VP1 protein contains a major antigenic region. The recombinant proteins carrying the truncated VP1 protein, VP11,100, were expressed most efficiently in Escherichia coli as determined by Western blot analysis. Electron microscopic analysis of the purified recombinant protein, NPt-VP1,100 revealed that it predominantly self-assembled into intact ring-like structures whereas NPfl-VP1,100 recombinant proteins showed disrupted ring-like formations. Rabbits immunized with the purified NPt-VP1,100 and NPfl-VP1,100 exhibited a strong immune response against the complete VP1 protein. The antisera of these recombinant proteins also reacted positively with authentic enterovirus 71 and the closely related Coxsackievirus A16 when analyzed by an immunofluorescence assay suggesting their potential as immunological reagents for the detection of anti-enterovirus 71 antibodies in serum samples. J. Med. Virol. 78:1096,1104, 2006. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Production of Polyclonal Antibodies to a Recombinant Coat Protein of Potato mop-top virus

JOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 4 2003
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Abstract The coat protein (CP) coding regions of two Czech Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) isolates were sequenced and shown to be identical. One, the Korneta isolate CP gene, was cloned in several expression vectors. The recombinant PMTV-CP was expressed in Escherichia coli and the purified recombinant protein was used to produce PMTV-specific polyclonal antibodies. The antiserum had a titre of 1 : 2000 in an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and reacted specifically in immunoblotting and IPTA- ELISA (indirect plate-trapped antigen (PTA)-ELISA). [source]


Characterization of point mutations in the cdtA gene of the cytolethal distending toxin of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 5 2005
Linsen Cao
Summary The Cdt is a family of gram-negative bacterial toxins that typically arrest eukaryotic cells in the G0/G1 or G2/M phase of the cell cycle. The toxin is a heterotrimer composed of the cdtA, cdtB and cdtC gene products. Although it has been shown that the CdtA protein subunit binds to cells in culture and in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (CELISA) the precise mechanisms by which CdtA interacts with CdtB and CdtC has not yet been clarified. In this study we employed a random mutagenesis strategy to construct a library of point mutations in cdtA to assess the contribution of individual amino acids to binding activity and to the ability of the subunit to form biologically active holotoxin. Single unique amino acid substitutions in seven CdtA mutants resulted in reduced binding of the purified recombinant protein to Chinese hamster ovary cells and loss of binding to the fucose-containing glycoprotein, thyroglobulin. These mutations clustered at the 5,- and 3,-ends of the cdtA gene resulting in amino acid substitutions that resided outside of the aromatic patch region and a conserved region in CdtA homologues. Three of the amino acid substitutions, at positions S165N (mutA81), T41A (mutA121) and C178W (mutA221) resulted in gene products that formed holotoxin complexes that exhibited a 60% reduction (mutA81) or loss (mutA121, mutA221) of proliferation inhibition. A similar pattern was observed when these mutant holotoxins were tested for their ability to induce cell cycle arrest and to convert supercoiled DNA to relaxed and linear forms in vitro. The mutations in mutA81 and mutA221 disrupted holotoxin formation. The positions of the amino acid substitutions were mapped in the Haemophilus ducreyi Cdt crystal structure providing some insight into structure and function. [source]


Novel human testis-specific cDNA: Molecular cloning, expression and immunobiological effects of the recombinant protein

MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2001
Ramasamy Santhanam
Abstract A differential display-polymerase chain reaction was employed to obtain a testis-specific cDNA fragment. On screening the human testis-,gt10-cDNA library with testis-specific cDNA fragment, a novel cDNA encoding for a sperm antigen, designated TSA-1, was obtained. It has a novel open reading frame (ORF) of 471 base pairs encoding for 156 amino acids. The computer generated translated protein has a calculated molecular mass of 17.4 kDa and contains a potential N-glycosylation site at amino acids 122,124. The hydrophilicity analysis of the amino acid sequence suggested that this protein is a membrane-anchored peptide. Extensive analysis for tissue-specificity by Northern blots and RT-PCR-Southern blot procedures using various human tissues indicated that TSA-1 was specifically expressed only in the human testis. Based on the results of in vitro transcription and translation experiments, the TSA-1 (ORF) was subcloned into pGEX-6P-3 vector and expressed using the glutathione S -transferase gene fusion system. Antibodies (Ab) against the purified recombinant protein specifically recognized the ,17 kDa recombinant TSA-1, and a ,24 kDa band in human sperm extract in the Western blot procedure. The recombinant TSA-1 Ab recognized the acrosomal, equatorial, mid-piece, and tail regions of human sperm cell in indirect immunofluorescence, bound to live human sperm in the immunobeads binding technique (IBT) and caused a significant concentration-dependent inhibition of human sperm acrosome reaction. These findings indicate that the novel sperm-specific recombinant TSA-1 has a role in sperm function and may have applications in the development of a contraceptive vaccine, and in the specific diagnosis and treatment of male infertility. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 60: 1,12, 2001. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


NmDef02, a novel antimicrobial gene isolated from Nicotiana megalosiphon confers high-level pathogen resistance under greenhouse and field conditions

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL, Issue 6 2010
Roxana Portieles
Summary Plant defensins are small cysteine-rich peptides that inhibit the growth of a broad range of microbes. In this article, we describe NmDef02, a novel cDNA encoding a putative defensin isolated from Nicotiana megalosiphon upon inoculation with the tobacco blue mould pathogen Peronospora hyoscyami f.sp. tabacina. NmDef02 was heterologously expressed in the yeast Pichia pastoris, and the purified recombinant protein was found to display antimicrobial activity in vitro against important plant pathogens. Constitutive expression of NmDef02 gene in transgenic tobacco and potato plants enhanced resistance against various plant microbial pathogens, including the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, causal agent of the economically important potato late blight disease, under greenhouse and field conditions. [source]


Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a Gene Encoding a 13.1 kDa Antigenic Protein of Naegleria fowleri

THE JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 6 2001
HO-JOON SHIN
ABSTRACT. An antigen-related gene was cloned from a cDNA expression library of Naegleria fowleri by immunoscreening with sera obtained from mice that were either immunized with an amoebic lysate or infected with trophozoites. The coding nucleotide sequence of the cloned gene consisted of 357 bases that were translated into 119 amino acids. This gene was designated as nfal. The predicted amino acid sequence of Nfal protein has two potential glycosylation and three potential phosphorylation sites, and its predicted secondary structure consists of four helices and three corners. The deduced amino acid sequence of Nfal protein shares 43% identity with the myohemerythrin (myoHr) protein from a marine annelid, Nereis diversicolor, including 100% identity in conserved regions and iron-binding residues. A phylogenetic tree constructed from amino acid sequences placed the N. fowleri Nfal protein outside of a cluster of myoHr proteins from eight invertebrates. A purified recombinant protein that migrated as a 13.1 kDa species in SDS-PAGE was produced. This recombinant protein exhibited a strong immunoreactivity with infected, immune, and anti-Nfal sera. In addition. an anti-Nfal serum reacted with an amoeba lysate in immunoblotting analysis. The present nfal gene encoding the myoHr-like protein is the first myoHr gene cloned from protozoa, and the Nfal antigen may be useful in diagnostic studies. [source]