Trx-NAP 5融合蛋白在大肠杆菌中的表达及其活性检测

目的:用大肠杆菌表达获得重组线虫抗凝血肽5(rNAP 5),为研究开发NAP5的功能与应用提供原料来源。方法:将扩增的NAP5基因经BamHⅠ和HindⅢ双酶切后与表达载体pET-32a连接。构建好的重组表达质粒转化至大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)后,分别经IPTG和乳糖诱导表达,并探讨诱导表达条件,分析表达产物的可溶性情况。表达产物经镍亲和纯化后,用凝血酶原时间(PT)和活化部分凝血活酶时间(aPTT)检测体外抗凝活性。结果:成功构建了pET-32a/NAP5表达载体,IPTG和乳糖均能诱导目的蛋白在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中高效地可溶性表达。优化条件下每升LB培养基可获可溶性目的融合蛋白量达65.3mg。纯化的蛋白能明显延长PT及aPTT,7.0mg/L的蛋白平均约延长5.09倍aPTT,2.55倍PT。结论:在大肠杆菌中成功表达了具有很好生物活性的Trx-NAP5融合蛋白,为研究开发NAP5的功能与应用奠定了基础。     

B型肉毒毒素轻链的高效制备及活性鉴定

目的:在大肠杆菌中高效表达B型肉毒毒素轻链(BoNT/BLC)并纯化,研究其生物学活性。方法:根据报道的BoNT/B LC基因序列设计引物,从肉毒梭菌中扩增BoNT/BLC基因片段,将其克隆至原核表达载体pET-22b中,重组质粒转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)Rosetta感受态细胞,构建重组大肠杆菌pET-22b BoNT/BLC/BL21(DE3)Rosetta,在20℃条件下用IPTG诱导目的蛋白表达,表达产物经His Trap FF柱纯化,用SDS-PAGE对目的蛋白进行鉴定,并利用相应底物对纯化产物进行生物活性分析。结果与结论:构建了重组大肠杆菌pET-22b BoNT/BLC/BL21(DE3)Rosetta,BoNT/BLC表达量达到了细菌总蛋白的30%左右,通过一步亲和纯化目的蛋白后经SDS-PAGE检测其纯度在95%以上,制备的重组LC的酶活略高于B型肉毒毒素全毒素,可作为试剂用于BoNT/BLC抑制剂高通量体外检测方法的研究。     

细粒棘球蚴FABP基因的原核表达及蛋白鉴定

构建原核表达载体pET-FABP,优化表达条件,采用免疫学方法鉴定纯化的FABP融合蛋白。载体pMD19-T-FABP和pET-44a(+)经EcoRⅠ和HindⅢ双酶切,将回收的FABP片段与pET-44a(+)连接,构建原核表达载体pET-FABP并在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中表达,优化表达条件,纯化FABP融合蛋白,Western blotting鉴定。成功构建了原核表达载体pET-FABP并在大肠杆菌中高效表达。纯化后的蛋白经SDS-PAGE和Western blotting鉴定正确。构建的表达载体pET-FABP可以在大肠杆菌中大量表达Nus-FABP融合蛋白,为进一步研制FABP亚单位疫苗奠定了基础。     

人角质细胞生长因子2基因的克隆及其在大肠杆菌中的表达

目的:构建人角质细胞生长因子2(hKGF2)基因的高效原核表达载体pET-30a( )-hKGF2,并在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中获得表达。方法:从培养的人胚胎肺成纤维细胞中提取总RNA,采用RT-PCR技术扩增出去除了信号肽部分的hKGF2基因,克隆到pMD18-T载体,经DNA序列分析后与pET-30a( )表达载体连接,在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)诱导表达6×His-hKGF2,用SDS-PAGE及Western印迹鉴定表达蛋白。结果:构建了表达载体pET-30a( )-hKGF2,经IPTG诱导后,表达的重组蛋白理论相对分子质量约为23000,约占菌体总蛋白的20%。结论:6×His-hKGF2蛋白在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中为可溶性高效表达,为获得高纯度、高活性的产物,以及进一步的大规模生产和应用研究奠定了基础。     

小鼠beta防御素2原核表达与抗菌作用的初步研究

构建小鼠β-防御素-2( mouse beta defensins 2,mBD2)原核表达质粒pET32/mBD2,进行蛋白诱导表达及纯化,测定并纯化蛋白的抗菌活性.旨在为选一步研究其生物学特性奠定基础.通过腹腔注射脂多糖(lipopoly-saccharide,LPS)建立小鼠急性时相反应,采用RT-PCR方法扩增mBD2成熟肽,经KpnⅠ和XhoⅠ双酶切后插入相同酶切的pET-32a(+)载体,构建的重组质粒.将鉴定正确的重组质粒转化大肠杆菌表达菌株BL21 (DE3),采用异丙基-D-硫代半乳糖苷(IPTG)诱导融合蛋白的表达.通过镍亲和层析获得纯化的融合蛋白.将融合蛋白采用肠激酶酶切、洗脱并用滤纸片法测定目的蛋白的抗菌活性.成功构建了原核表达质粒pET32a(+)/mBD2,并转化工程菌BL21( DE3).在0.25 mmol/L IPTG、30℃诱导4h条件下获得的融合蛋白.采用抑菌试验证实蛋白具有一定的抑制革兰阳性菌及阴性菌生长的作用.本研究成功构建了pET32/mBD2原核表达质粒,得到了在大肠杆菌中稳定表达mBD2蛋白.     

重组人磷脂爬行酶1的原核表达及纯化

目的:建立重组人磷脂爬行酶1(hPLSCR1)原核表达及纯化工艺。方法:PCR扩增hPLSCR1编码基因并连接到原核表达载体pET-28a,转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)并进行诱导表达,Western印迹鉴定所表达蛋白;优化表达条件后,Ni2+柱亲和层析纯化重组蛋白。结果:构建了pET-28a-PLSCR1重组质粒,诱导表达后,经SDS-PAGE分析目的蛋白的表达量达32%,Ni2+金属螯合法纯化目的蛋白后纯度达到95%以上,Western印迹验证了融合蛋白的特异性。结论:建立了高效稳定的His-PLSCR1表达体系,获得大规模生产His-PLSCR1的分离纯化工艺,为进一步研究其蛋白功能奠定了基础。     

A型肉毒毒素轻链的原核表达、纯化及活性鉴定

目的:在大肠杆菌中表达、纯化A型肉毒毒素轻链(Bo NT/A LC),研究其生物学活性。方法:根据Gen Bank中报道的Bo NT/A LC基因序列设计特异引物,从肉毒梭菌中扩增Bo NT/A LC基因片段,构建重组大肠杆菌p ET-32a Bo NT/A LC/BL21(DE3)Rosetta,IPTG诱导目的蛋白高效表达,表达产物经Ni螯合亲和层析纯化,SDS-PAGE鉴定目的蛋白,并利用相应底物对纯化产物进行生物活性分析和酶活动力学测定。结果与结论:构建了重组大肠杆菌p ET-32a Bo NT/A LC/BL21(DE3)Rosetta,原核表达获得高水平可溶性重组Bo NT/A LC,纯化得到纯度较高的蛋白质,重组Bo NT/A LC的酶活略高于A型肉毒毒素全毒素,可作为试剂用于Bo NT/A LC抑制剂高通量体外检测方法研究。     

棉花咖啡酸-O-甲基转移酶基因的原核表达及蛋白纯化鉴定

为获得大量高纯度的GhCOMT2蛋白以便研究其功能和性质,以pMD18-GhCOMT2质粒为模板,PCR扩增GhCOMT2基因的cDNA编码区,构建原核表达载体pET-28a-GhCOMT2,经酶切鉴定并测序后转化到大肠杆菌BL21 (DE3)中进行诱导表达,并采用Western blotting方法鉴定表达产物.结果表明:在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)菌株中成功表达了与标签蛋白融合的GhCOMT2蛋白,大小约为40.062 kD,浓度为0.62 mg/mL.重组蛋白的最佳诱导条件为:0.2 mmol/L IPTG在16℃诱导12 h.重组蛋白以可溶形式高效表达,用蛋白标签亲和层析柱(His TrapTM HP)获得纯化重组蛋白,Western blotting分析表明其能与His多克隆抗体起特异性反应.     

人铜锌超氧化物歧化酶在大肠杆菌中的融合表达与纯化

目的:在大肠杆菌中表达并纯化人铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(HuSOD1)。方法:合成HuSOD1编码基因,PCR扩增后连入pMAL-p5x质粒构建融合表达载体,转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)感受态,IPTG诱导表达,NBT法测定HuSOD1酶活,利用麦芽糖结合蛋白亲和层析柱纯化MBP-HuSOD1融合蛋白,经因子Ⅹa酶切及分子筛柱层析纯化HuSOD1蛋白。结果:构建了pMAL-p5x-HuSOD1表达载体,在大肠杆菌中实现了高表达,目的蛋白占全菌蛋白的30%,其中可溶性表达占63%,具有超氧化物歧化酶活性;通过亲和层析纯化得到纯度大于95%的融合蛋白MBP-HuSOD1,经因子Ⅹa酶切后纯化得到纯度约90%的HuSOD1蛋白。结论:在大肠杆菌中表达并纯化获得有活性的MBP-HuSOD1,经进一步酶切、纯化后得到HuSOD1。     

手掌参γ-硫素的原核表达及纯化

目的：在原核系统中高效表达手掌参γ-硫素,并对其进行纯化。方法：通过筛选手掌参cDNA文库获得γ-硫素基因（gcthionin）,分别对其全长及信号肽编码序列缺失的cDNA片段进行PCR扩增,克隆入原核表达载体pET-32（a）,构建重组质粒pET-32（a）/gcthionin和pET-32（a）/Δgcthionin;测序鉴定后,转化大肠杆菌BL21（DE3）,经IPTG诱导表达融合蛋白;SDS-PAGE分析后,采用Ni-NTA亲和层析柱及凝胶柱对可溶性蛋白进行纯化,Western blotting鉴定。结果：gcthionin基因开放式阅读框全长225nt,编码一个由74个氨基酸残基组成的蛋白;带有信号肽的重组质粒在大肠杆菌BL21（DE3）中以包涵体形式表达;信号肽缺失可以极大地提高外源蛋白的可溶性,该可溶性产物经Ni-NTA柱及凝胶过滤后可获得纯度较高的蛋白,经Western blotting分析,相对分子质量约21.9×10^3处有明显的蛋白条带,与预期蛋白分子大小一致。结论：信号肽编码序列缺失的Δgcthionin可在大肠杆菌中可溶、高效表达。     

抗凝血蛋白的抗凝溶栓机制

自然界中存在着大量具有抗凝溶栓活性的生物大分子,如水蛭素、蚓激酶等。这些生物大分子主要是通过抑制凝血酶及凝血因子活性,水解纤维蛋白或纤溶酶原,或是抑制血小板聚集来达到抗凝溶栓的作用。该文对这些活性物质的抗凝溶栓机制进行综述。     

Heparin activation of protein Z-dependent protease inhibitor (ZPI) allosterically blocks protein Z activation through an extended heparin-binding site

Protein Z (PZ)-dependent protease inhibitor (ZPI) is a plasma anticoagulant protein of the serpin superfamily, which is activated by its cofactor, PZ, to rapidly inhibit activated factor X (FXa) on a procoagulant membrane surface. ZPI is also activated by heparin to inhibit free FXa at a physiologically significant rate. Here, we show that heparin binding to ZPI antagonizes PZ binding to and activation of ZPI. Virtual docking of heparin to ZPI showed that a heparin-binding site near helix H close to the PZ-binding site as well as a previously mapped site in helix C was both favored. Alanine scanning mutagenesis of the helix H and helix C sites demonstrated that both sites were critical for heparin activation. The binding of heparin chains 72 to 5-saccharides in length to ZPI was similarly effective in antagonizing PZ binding and in inducing tryptophan fluorescence changes in ZPI. Heparin binding to variant ZPIs with either the helix C sites or the helix H sites mutated showed that heparin interaction with the higher affinity helix C site most distant from the PZ-binding site was sufficient to induce these tryptophan fluorescence changes. Together, these findings suggest that heparin binding to a site on ZPI extending from helix C to helix H promotes ZPI inhibition of FXa and allosterically antagonizes PZ binding to ZPI through long-range conformational changes. Heparin antagonism of PZ binding to ZPI may serve to spare limiting PZ and allow PZ and heparin cofactors to target FXa at different sites of action.     

Thrombin-binding affinities of different disulfide-bonded isomers of the fifth EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin.

The fifth EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin (TM), both with and without the amino acids that connect the fifth domain to the sixth domain, has been synthesized and refolded to form several different disulfide-bonded isomers. The domain without the connecting region formed three disulfide-bonded isomers upon refolding under redox conditions. Of these three isomers, the (1-2,3-4,5-6) bonded isomer was the best inhibitor of fibrinogen clotting and also of the thrombin-TM interaction that results in protein C activation, but all the isomers were inhibitors in both assays. The isomer containing an EGF-like disulfide-bonding pattern (1-3,2-4,5-6) was not found among the oxidation products. The domain with the connecting region amino acids (DIDE) at the C-terminus formed two isolable products upon refolding in redox buffer. These products had the same two disulfide-bonding patterns as the earliest and latest eluting isomers of the domain without the DIDE. In order to compare the thrombin-binding affinities of these isomers to the isomer with the EGF-like disulfide bonds, acetamidomethyl protection of the second and fourth cysteines was used to force the disulfide bonds into the EGF-like pattern. Thrombin-binding affinity, measured as inhibition of fibrinogen clotting and as inhibition of protein C activation correlated inversely with the number of crossed disulfide bonds. As was found for the domain without the connecting region, the isomer that was the best inhibitor of fibrinogen clotting and of protein C activation was the isomer with no crossing disulfide bonds (1-2,3-4,5-6).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Design of a novel plasminogen activator based on the structure of hirudin

Using a phage library, seven peptide sequences with high affinity to human microplasminogen were obtained. Caseinolytic assay indicated that only the synthesized peptide P07 had slight fibrinolytic activity. To enhance its plasminogen activation ability, peptide P07 was fused into loop 32-35 of hirudin. In vitro assay demonstrated that this hirudin-like fusion protein can activate human plasminogen and retain the function of thrombin inhibition. Fusing the sequence ＂SPDASRL＂ into hirudin generated a plasminogen activation activity 100 times higher than peptide P07 in chromogenic and radial caseinolytic assay. This significant functional improvement might originate from a more specific active structure due to the hirudin scaffold.     

蝮蛇毒蛋白C激活物对凝血系统的影响

目的研究蝮蛇毒纯化蛋白C激活物(PCA)的抗凝机制。方法测定PCA对正常人混浆KPTT、PT、TT的影响,对血液凝血活酶生成试验(BTGT)及PA二期法的影响以及对白兔的KPTT和Fgn的影响。结果PCA在最终浓度为0.025mg/L时对正常人混浆KPTT可明显延长,但PT和TT不受影响;当它的浓度增加到50mg/L,PT也可延长,但TT依然无明显变化;最终浓度为0.0125mg/L时,血液凝血活酶生成明显受抑制;当它的浓度增加到2.5mg/L,凝血酶生成显著减少,但抗凝血酶时间始终无明显变化;PCA可明显延长白兔的KPTT。结论PCA在低浓度时首先抑制凝血系统第一阶段内凝途径,在高浓度时也妨碍外凝途径或共同途径,BTGT和PA二期法比KPTT和PT敏感;PCA具有体内抗凝作用。     

Production of biologically active hirudin in plant seeds using oleosin partitioning

A plant oleosin was used as a carrier for the production of the leech anticoagulant protein, hirudin (variant 2). The oleosin-hirudin fusion protein was expressed and accumulated in seeds. Seed-specific expression of the oleosin-hirudin fusion mRNA was directed via an Arabidopsis oleosin promoter. The fusion protein was correctly targeted to the oil body membrane and separated from the majority of other seed proteins by flotation centrifugation. Recombinant hirudin was localized to the surface of oil bodies as determined by immunofluorescent techniques. The oleosin-hirudin fusion protein accumulated to ca. 1% of the total seed protein. Hirudin was released from the surface of the oil bodies using endoprotease treatment. Recombinant hirudin was partially purified through anion exchange chromatography and reverse-phase chromatography. Hirudin activity, measured in anti-thrombin units (ATU), was observed in seed oil body extracts, but only after the proteolytic release of hirudin from its oleosin carrier. About 0.55 ATU per milligram of oil body protein was detected in cleaved oil body preparations. This activity demonstrated linear dose dependence. The oleosin fusion protein system provides a unique route for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins in plants, as well as an efficient process for purification of the desired polypeptide.     

Nonenzymatic anticoagulant activity of the mutant serine protease Ser360Ala-activated protein C mediated by factor Va.

The human plasma serine protease, activated protein C (APC), primarily exerts its anticoagulant function by proteolytic inactivation of the blood coagulation cofactors Va and VIIIa. A recombinant active site Ser 360 to Ala mutation of protein C was prepared, and the mutant protein was expressed in human 293 kidney cells and purified. The activation peptide of the mutant protein C zymogen was cleaved by a snake venom activator, Protac C, but the "activated" S360A APC did not have amidolytic activity. However, it did exhibit significant anticoagulant activity both in clotting assays and in a purified protein assay system that measured prothrombinase activity. The S360A APC was compared to plasma-derived and wild-type recombinant APC. The anticoagulant activity of the mutant, but not native APC, was resistant to diisopropyl fluorophosphate, whereas all APCs were inhibited by monoclonal antibodies against APC. In contrast to native APC, S360A APC was not inactivated by serine protease inhibitors in plasma and did not bind to the highly reactive mutant protease inhibitor M358R alpha 1 antitrypsin. Since plasma serpins provide the major mechanism for inactivating APC in vivo, this suggests that S360A APC would have a long half-life in vivo, with potential therapeutic advantages. S360A APC rapidly inhibited factor Va in a nonenzymatic manner since it apparently did not proteolyze factor Va. These data suggest that native APC may exhibit rapid nonenzymatic anticoagulant activity followed by enzymatic irreversible proteolysis of factor Va. The results of clotting assays and prothrombinase assays showed that S360A APC could not inhibit the variant Gln 506-FVa compared with normal Arg 506-FVa, suggesting that the active site of S360A APC binds to FVa at or near Arg 506.     

Synthesis, activity, and preliminary structure of the fourth EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin.

The fourth EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin (TM4), residues E346-F389 in the TM sequence, has been synthesized. Refolding of the synthetic product under redox conditions gave a single major product. The disulfide bonding pattern of the folded, oxidized domain was (1-3, 2-4, 5-6), which is the same as that found in EGF protein. TM4 was tested for TM anticoagulant activity because deletion and substitution mutagenesis experiments have shown that the fourth EGF-like domain of TM is essential for TM cofactor activity. TM4 showed no TM-like activity in two assay systems, both for inhibition of fibrin clot formation, and for cofactor activity in thrombin activation of protein C. A preliminary structure of TM4 was determined by 2D 1H NMR from 519 NOE-derived distance constraints. Distance geometry calculations yielded a single convergent structure. The structure resembles the structure of EGF and other known EGF-like domains but has some key differences. The central two-stranded beta-sheet is conserved despite the differences in the number of amino acids in the loops. The C-terminal loop formed by the disulfide bond between C372 and C386 in TM4 is five amino acids longer than the analogous loop between C33 and C42 of EGF protein. This loop appears to have a different fold in TM4 than in EGF protein. The loop forms the two outside strands of a broken, irregular tri-stranded beta-sheet, and amino acids H384-F389 lie between the two strands forming the middle strand of the sheet. Thus, although the C-terminus of EGF protein forms one of the outside strands of a tri-stranded antiparallel sheet, the C-terminus of TM4 forms the inside strand of an irregular tri-stranded parallel-anti-parallel sheet. The residues D349, E357, and E374, which were shown to be critical for cofactor activity by alanine scanning mutagenesis, all lie in a patch near the C-terminal loop, and are solvent accessible. The other critical residues, Y358 and F376, are largely buried and appear to play essential structural rather than functional roles.     

Interactions and inhibition of blood coagulation factor Va involving residues 311-325 of activated protein C.

Activated protein C (APC) exerts its physiologic anticoagulant role by proteolytic inactivation of the blood coagulation cofactors Va and VIIIa. The synthetic peptide-(311-325) (KRNRTFVLNFIKIPV), derived from the heavy chain sequence of APC, potently inhibited APC anticoagulant activity in activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and Xa-1-stage coagulation assays in normal and in protein S-depleted plasma with 50% inhibition at 13 microM peptide. In a system using purified clotting factors, peptide-(311-325) inhibited APC-catalyzed inactivation of factor Va in the presence or absence of phospholipids with 50% inhibition at 6 microM peptide. However, peptide-(311-325) had no effect on APC amidolytic activity or on the reaction of APC with the serpin, recombinant [Arg358]alpha 1-antitrypsin. Peptide-(311-325) surprisingly inhibited factor Xa clotting activity in normal plasma, and in a purified system it inhibited prothrombinase activity in the presence but not in the absence of factor Va with 50% inhibition at 8 microM peptide. The peptide had no significant effect on factor Xa or thrombin amidolytic activity and no effect on the clotting of purified fibrinogen by thrombin, suggesting it does not directly inhibit these enzymes. Factor Va bound in a dose-dependent manner to immobilized peptide-(311-325). Peptide-(311-315) inhibited the binding of factor Va to immobilized APC or factor Xa.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)