Purification and characterization of recombinant ligand-binding domains from the ecdysone receptors of four pest insects |
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Authors: | Graham Lloyd D Pilling Patricia A Eaton Ruth E Gorman Jeffrey J Braybrook Carl Hannan Garry N Pawlak-Skrzecz Anna Noyce Leonie Lovrecz George O Lu Louis Hill Ronald J |
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Affiliation: | CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Sydney Laboratory, P.O. Box 184, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia. lloyd.graham@csiro.au |
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Abstract: | Cloned EcR and USP cDNAs encoding the ecdysone receptors of four insect pests (Lucilia cuprina, Myzus persicae, Bemisia tabaci, Helicoverpa armigera) were manipulated to allow the co-expression of their ligand binding domains (LBDs) in insect cells using a baculovirus vector. Recombinant DE/F segment pairs (and additionally, for H. armigera, an E/F segment pair) from the EcR and USP proteins associated spontaneously with high affinity to form heterodimers that avidly bound an ecdysteroid ligand. This shows that neither ligand nor D-regions are essential for the formation of tightly associated and functional LBD heterodimers. Expression levels ranged up to 16.6mg of functional apo-LBD (i.e., unliganded LBD) heterodimer per liter of recombinant insect cell culture. Each recombinant heterodimer was affinity-purified via an oligo-histidine tag at the N-terminus of the EcR subunit, and could be purified further by ion exchange and/or gel filtration chromatography. The apo-LBD heterodimers appeared to be more easily inactivated than their ligand-containing counterparts: after purification, populations of the former were <40% active, whereas for the latter >70% could be obtained as the ligand-LBD heterodimer complex. Interestingly, we found that the amount of ligand bound by recombinant LBD heterodimer preparations could be enhanced by the non-denaturing detergent CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethyl-ammonio]-1-propanesulfonate). Purity, integrity, size and charge data are reported for the recombinant proteins under native and denaturing conditions. Certain intra- and intermolecular disulfide bonds were observed to form in the absence of reducing agents, and thiol-specific alkylation was shown to suppress this phenomenon but to introduce microheterogeneity. |
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Keywords: | Ligand-binding domains Ecdysone Ecdysteroid Ponasterone A Receptor Purification Characterization Disulfide bond Alkylation Ligand stoichiometry CHAPS |
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