登革病毒血清型特异单克隆抗体的制备和鉴定

登革病毒 (Dengue virus,DENV) 是全球传播最为广泛的虫媒病毒,由于缺乏快速鉴别感染病毒血清型的诊断技术,导致异型交叉感染引起重症登革出血热病例居高不下。为实现免疫学方法快速鉴别诊断不同血清型DENV感染,本研究采用哺乳动物细胞293T表达并纯化了4种DENV血清型NS1蛋白,免疫小鼠后通过杂交瘤技术制备了针对NS1蛋白的单克隆抗体。利用酶联免疫吸附方法 (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay,ELISA)、间接免疫荧光法 (Indirect immunofluorescence assay,IFA)、免疫斑点杂交试验 (Dot blotting) 以及蛋白质免疫印迹试验 (Western blotting) 确认所制备的单克隆抗体能够有效识别天然病毒NS1以及重组NS1蛋白。获得的单克隆抗体包含2株可识别1–4型DENV NS1蛋白的通用型抗体及3株分别针对DENV-1、DENV-2和DENV-4的血清型特异抗体。以所制备的DENV NS1抗体为基础,采用双抗体夹心ELISA可快速鉴别不同血清型DENV。DENV血清型特异单克隆抗体的制备和甄别DENV血清型ELISA方法的建立为快速鉴别感染DENV血清型的临床诊断奠定了基础。     

登革病毒共有序列候选DNA疫苗的免疫原性和保护性研究

目的研究登革病毒(Dengue virus, DENV)共有序列候选DNA疫苗pVAX1-cE80在小鼠体内的免疫原性及其保护作用。方法首先利用pVAX1-cE80 DNA免疫BALB/c小鼠,通过ELISA和噬斑减少中和试验(plaque reduction neutralization test, PRNT)分别检测免疫后小鼠血清中抗登革病毒的4种血清型(dengue virus serotype 1-4, DENV1-4)IgG抗体和中和抗体(neutralizing antibody, nAb)效价;利用酶联免疫斑点试验(enzyme-linked immunospot assay, ELISPOT)检测小鼠脾细胞分泌DENV1-4特异性Th1/Th2型细胞因子的能力;通过攻毒试验评价疫苗对DENV1-4感染的保护作用。结果接种疫苗的小鼠可产生针对DENV1-4的四价抗体,其中抗DENV2抗体水平最高,IgG抗体和nAb效价分别为1∶1 086和1∶120;免疫后小鼠脾细胞在DENV1-4抗原刺激下均可分泌较高水平的IFN-γ和IL-4;疫苗免疫可为小鼠提供针对DENV1-4的部分保护作用。结论单一共有序列登革病毒候选DNA疫苗可诱导小鼠产生四价体液免疫反应和细胞免疫反应,并为小鼠提供部分保护作用,为登革病毒共有序列疫苗的研发奠定了基础。     

DNA损伤检查点蛋白调节子1片段的表达纯化及抗体制备

目的：原核表达、纯化DNA损伤检查点蛋白调节子1（MDC1）片段,并制备其多克隆抗体。方法：设计特异引物,通过RT-PCR扩增编码MDC1 N端194个氨基酸残基的基因片段,测序正确后插入含GST基因的原核表达载体pGEX-KG中,以IPTG诱导表达,并经谷胱甘肽琼脂糖珠纯化融合蛋白;用纯化的蛋白免疫小鼠制备多克隆抗体,用ELISA测定抗体的效价,Western印迹鉴定抗体的特异性。结果：原核表达并纯化了MDC1 N端片段,并获得了抗MDC1的多克隆抗体,抗体效价达到1∶12800,Western印迹显示该抗血清能特异识别原核及真核细胞表达的MDC1。结论：MDC1 N端片段能够诱导小鼠产生具有较高效价和特异性的多克隆抗体,为进一步研究MDC1在Fhit特异信号通路中的作用奠定了基础。     

重组丙型肝炎病毒核心蛋白的原核表达、纯化和抗体制备

本文旨在获得纯化丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)核心蛋白(HCV-C)及抗HCV-C多克隆抗体,为深入研究HCV-C与肝细胞相互作用的分子机制奠定基础。首先以HCV1b亚型HC-J4-91全基因组质粒为模板,聚合酶链反应(PCR)扩增HCV-C基因,构建重组质粒pQE31-HCV-C。融合蛋白经原核表达、纯化后,免疫BALB/c小鼠,制备抗HCV-C多克隆抗体。利用酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)检测抗体效价,蛋白免疫印迹(Westernblot)和间接免疫荧光染色鉴定抗体特异性。结果显示,表达HCV-C的原核表达质粒pQE31-HCV-C构建正确,获得相对分子质量约22000的纯化融合蛋白。ELISA检测重组蛋白免疫小鼠的抗血清效价达1:12800。结果显示,自制的抗HCV-C多克隆抗体能特异性识别HCV-C。本研究获得了纯度较好、原核表达的HCV-C,并成功制备了抗HCV-C多克隆抗体,为深入研究HCV-C的致病机制提供了有实用价值的研究工具。     

利用DNA免疫技术制备GATA1蛋白多克隆抗体

转录因子GATA1对正常红系细胞的分化起着关键作用,其缺失导致原成红细胞的凋亡,其过表达则能抑制红系细胞晚期的分化。本研究为了进一步利用斑马鱼研究gata1基因在血液血管发育过程中的功能,通过反转录PCR(RT-PCR)扩增了斑马鱼gata1基因编码区序列,构建了真核表达质粒pCAGGS-P7/gata1,采用质粒DNA免疫技术的方法免疫了BALB/c小鼠,制备了斑马鱼GATA1蛋白多克隆抗体。实验结果表明:构建的真核表达重组质粒pCAGGS-P7/gata1 DNA具有良好的免疫原性,在免疫小鼠后所获得的抗血清抗体效价达1∶500。Western blot和免疫荧光检测表明,抗血清能特异型地识别GATA1蛋白。斑马鱼GATA1抗体成功制备为进一步的功能研究奠定了重要基础。     

人类博卡病毒(HBoV)非结构蛋白NS1基因的克隆、原核表达及多克隆抗体的制备

目的:克隆、表达、纯化人类博卡病毒(HBoV)非结构蛋白NS1,制备抗NS1多克隆抗体。方法:利用PCR扩增HBoV非结构蛋白NS1基因,将其克隆至pMAL-c2X表达载体上,重组质粒转化大肠杆菌DH10B,IPTG诱导表达。表达的融合蛋白经Amylose Resin亲和层析柱纯化后,免疫新西兰大白兔制备多克隆抗体。用间接ELISA法检测抗体效价。结果:原核表达融合蛋白MBP-NS1,并获得了其多克隆抗体,抗体效价达到1∶32000。结论:在原核表达系统中表达、纯化了融合蛋白,制备抗NS1多克隆抗体,为进一步研究该病毒非结构蛋白基因的转录和翻译机制提供可靠的工具。     

Ⅱ型登革病毒NS1蛋白的表达及其免疫血清的制备

目的原核表达、纯化II型登革病毒NS1A蛋白(NS1蛋白1～180氨基酸即DENV2 NS1A),将其免疫动物制备免疫血清并鉴定。方法构建重组融合质粒p ET22b-p64K-L-DENV2 NS1A,转化至大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中,IPTG低温诱导表达。表达的融合蛋白经Hitrap Talon crude柱亲和层析纯化后,免疫雌性日本长耳兔获得抗DENV2 NS1A兔抗血清,用Western blot和免疫荧光检测免疫血清对重组麻疹病毒MV_(S191)-DENV2 NS1 6Xhis的识别和结合特性。结果重组融合质粒p ET22b-p64K-L-DENV2 NS1A经双酶切和测序证明构建正确。表达的重组融合蛋白相对分子质量为100 000,纯化后蛋白纯度在85%以上,免疫获得的抗DENV2 NS1A兔抗血清可识别重组病毒MV_(S191)-DENV2 NS1 6XHis表达的DENV2 NS1蛋白。结论原核表达并纯化了DENV2 NS1A蛋白,建立了基于NS1蛋白的重组病毒MV_(S191)-DENV2 NS1 6XHis的Western blot和免疫荧光检测方法,为登革热疫苗研制中重组病毒MV_(S191)-DENV2 NS1 6XHis的质检奠定了基础。     

核酸免疫制备鼠抗棉铃虫FK506结合蛋白的多克隆抗体

利用电注射基因导入法制备小鼠抗棉铃虫FK506结合蛋白(FKBP12)的多克隆抗体,并通过Western blot验证抗体与抗原的特异性结合。构建重组质粒pc DNA3-FKBP12并测序验证序列的正确性,利用基因导入法将重组质粒pc DNA3-FKBP12注射到小鼠体内,免疫4次后用ELISA检测法确定抗体的效价,并对抗体的特异性结合进行Western blot以及免疫组化检测。结果表明,小鼠抗FK506结合蛋白血清的效价达到1∶25 600,Western blot结果显示此抗血清能与融合蛋白His-FKBP12结合,免疫组化结果表明在棉铃虫3龄幼虫不同组织中FKBP12均有表达。说明电注射基因导入法制备的小鼠抗FK506结合蛋白的抗体在滴度和特异性结合方面都达到预期要求。     

多胺调节因子-1原核表达与多克隆抗体制备

[目的]原核表达和纯化人多胺调节因子-1(PMF-1)并以此为抗原制备多克隆抗体。[方法]PCR扩增人PMF-1编码序列并构建原核表达质粒。将此质粒转化大肠杆菌后,IPTG诱导PMF-1蛋白表达并在变性条件下用NiNTA树脂纯化。将纯化的PMF-1用作抗原免疫大耳白兔以制备抗PMF-1多克隆抗体。ELISA法检测抗体效价,免疫印迹法和细胞免疫化学法分析抗体特异性。[结果]成功构建PMF-1原核表达质粒,在大肠杆菌中IPTG可诱导该质粒高效表达PMF-1蛋白。以纯化的PMF-1蛋白为抗原免疫大耳白兔后,获得高效价的抗PMF-1抗血清(抗体效价为1∶128 000)。该抗体能与PMF-1蛋白特异性结合,并可用于PMF-1的免疫印迹和细胞免疫化学分析。[结论]成功建立了人PMF-1原核表达和纯化技术,并制备出高特异性的抗PMF-1多克隆抗体,该抗体可用于PMF-1的免疫印迹分析和细胞免疫化学分析。     

抗人DR5多克隆抗体的制备与纯化

目的:分离纯化融合蛋白GST-eDR5,免疫小鼠制备抗人DR5多克隆抗体.方法:用GST纯化试剂盒和电泳两次纯化的融合蛋白GST-eDR5免疫小鼠,制备抗CST-eDR5抗血清,然后用GST纯化得到抗人DR5抗血清.通过Westem blot、ELISA方法鉴定抗血清特异性和效价.结果:通过亲和纯化得到了高纯度的融合蛋白GST-eDR5,其浓度为0.65μg/μl.免疫产生的DR5抗血清特异性高,且效价高达1:25600,纯化后的抗人DR5抗血清不再识别GST,只识别人DR5.结论:成功制备了高特异性、高效价的抗人DR5多克隆抗体,为深入研究其对肿瘤细胞的生长抑制和凋亡作用提供了实验工具.     

Symmetric primary and tertiary structure mutations within a symmetric superfold: a solution, not a constraint, to achieve a foldable polypeptide

In previous studies designed to increase the primary structure symmetry within the hydrophobic core of human acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-1) a combination of five mutations were accommodated, resulting in structure, stability and folding kinetic properties similar to wild-type (despite the symmetric constraint upon the set of core residues). A sixth mutation in the core, involving a highly conserved Met residue at position 67, appeared intolerant to substitution. Structural analysis suggested that the local packing environment of position 67 involved two regions of apparent insertions that distorted the tertiary structure symmetry inherent in the beta-trefoil architecture. It was postulated that a symmetric constraint upon the primary structure within the core could only be achieved after these insertions had been deleted (concomitantly increasing the tertiary structure symmetry). The deletion of these insertions is now shown to permit mutation of position 67, thereby increasing the primary structure symmetry relationship within the core. Furthermore, despite the imposed symmetric constraint upon both the primary and tertiary structure, the resulting mutant form of FGF-1 is substantially more stable. The apparent inserted regions are shown to be associated with heparin-binding functionality; however, despite a marked reduction in heparin-binding affinity the mutant form of FGF-1 is surprisingly approximately 70 times more potent in 3T3 fibroblast mitogenic assays. The results support the hypothesis that primary structure symmetry within a symmetric protein superfold represents a possible solution, rather than a constraint, to achieving a foldable polypeptide.     

Integrating statistical pair potentials into protein complex prediction

The biophysical study of protein-protein interactions and docking has important implications in our understanding of most complex cellular signaling processes. Most computational approaches to protein docking involve a tradeoff between the level of detail incorporated into the model and computational power required to properly handle that level of detail. In this work, we seek to optimize that balance by showing that we can reduce the complexity of model representation and thus make the computation tractable with minimal loss of predictive performance. We also introduce a pair-wise statistical potential suitable for docking that builds on previous work and show that this potential can be incorporated into our fast fourier transform-based docking algorithm ZDOCK. We use the Protein Docking Benchmark to illustrate the improved performance of this potential compared with less detailed other scoring functions. Furthermore, we show that the new potential performs well on antibody-antigen complexes, with most predictions clustering around the Complementarity Determining Regions of antibodies without any manual intervention.     

Protein microarrays as a discovery tool for studying protein–protein interactions

Exploring the function of the genome and the encoded proteins has emerged as a new and exciting challenge in the postgenomic era. Novel technologies come into view that promise to be valuable for the investigation not only of single proteins, but of entire protein networks. Protein microarrays are the innovative assay platform for highly parallel in vitro studies of protein–protein interactions. Due to their flexibility and multiplexing capacity, protein microarrays benefit basic research, diagnosis and biomedicine. This review provides an overview on the basic principles of protein microarrays and their potential to multiplex protein–protein interaction studies.     

The heat capacity of proteins

The heat capacity plays a major role in the determination of the energetics of protein folding and molecular recognition. As such, a better understanding of this thermodynamic parameter and its structural origin will provide new insights for the development of better molecular design strategies. In this paper we have analyzed the absolute heat capacity of proteins in different conformations. The results of these studies indicate that three major terms account for the absolute heat capacity of a protein: (1) one term that depends only on the primary or covalent structure of a protein and contains contributions from vibrational frequencies arising from the stretching and bending modes of each valence bond and internal rotations; (2) a term that contains the contributions of noncovalent interactions arising from secondary and tertiary structure; and (3) a term that contains the contributions of hydration. For a typical globular protein in solution the bulk of the heat capacity at 25°C is given by the covalent structure term (close to 85% of the total). The hydration term contributes about 15 and 40% to the total heat capacity of the native and unfolded states, respectively. The contribution of non-covalent structure to the total heat capacity of the native state is positive but very small and does not amount to more than 3% at 25°C. The change in heat capacity upon unfolding is primarily given by the increase in the hydration term (about 95%) and to a much lesser extent by the loss of noncovalent interactions (up to ～5%). It is demonstrated that a single universal mathematical function can be used to represent the partial molar heat capacity of the native and unfolded states of proteins in solution. This function can be experimentally written in terms of the molecular weight, the polar and apolar solvent accessible surface areas, and the total area buried from the solvent. This unique function accurately predicts the different magnitude and temperature dependences of the heat capacity of both the native and unfolded states, and therefore of the heat capacity changes associated with folding/unfolding transitions. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

A solubility-enhancement tag (SET) for NMR studies of poorly behaving proteins

Protein-fusion constructs have been used with great success for enhancing expression of soluble recombinant protein and as tags for affinity purification. Unfortunately the most popular tags, such as GST and MBP, are large, which hinders direct NMR studies of the fusion proteins. Cleavage of the fusion proteins often re-introduces problems with solubility and stability. Here we describe the use of N-terminally fused protein G (B1 domain) as a non-cleavable solubility-enhancement tag (SET) for structure determination of a dimeric protein complex. The SET enhances the solubility and stability of the fusion product dramatically while not interacting directly with the protein of interest. This approach can be used for structural characterization of poorly behaving protein systems, and would be especially useful for structural genomics studies.     

Improvement of protein stability in protein microarrays

Protein stability in microarrays was improved using protein stabilizers. PEG 200 at 30% (w/v) was the most efficient stabilizer giving over 4-fold improvement in protein stability compared to without the stabilizer. PEG 200 above 10% (w/v) in the array solution prevented the evaporation of water in the sample and thereby improved protein stability in the microarray. When the streptavidin-biotin binding reaction was performed under optimized conditions, biotin-BSA-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) was detected from 1 ng ml^–1 to 5 g ml^–1 by fluorescence analysis.     

A large scale test of computational protein design: folding and stability of nine completely redesigned globular proteins

A previously developed computer program for protein design, RosettaDesign, was used to predict low free energy sequences for nine naturally occurring protein backbones. RosettaDesign had no knowledge of the naturally occurring sequences and on average 65% of the residues in the designed sequences differ from wild-type. Synthetic genes for ten completely redesigned proteins were generated, and the proteins were expressed, purified, and then characterized using circular dichroism, chemical and temperature denaturation and NMR experiments. Although high-resolution structures have not yet been determined, eight of these proteins appear to be folded and their circular dichroism spectra are similar to those of their wild-type counterparts. Six of the proteins have stabilities equal to or up to 7kcal/mol greater than their wild-type counterparts, and four of the proteins have NMR spectra consistent with a well-packed, rigid structure. These encouraging results indicate that the computational protein design methods can, with significant reliability, identify amino acid sequences compatible with a target protein backbone.     

Lethal mutations in the major homology region and their suppressors act by modulating the dimerization of the rous sarcoma virus capsid protein C‐terminal domain

An infective retrovirus requires a mature capsid shell around the viral replication complex. This shell is formed by about 1500 capsid protein monomers, organized into hexamer and pentamer rings that are linked to each other by the dimerization of the C‐terminal domain (CTD). The major homology region (MHR), the most highly conserved protein sequence across retroviral genomes, is part of the CTD. Several mutations in the MHR appear to block infectivity by preventing capsid formation. Suppressor mutations have been identified that are distant in sequence and structure from the MHR and restore capsid formation. The effects of two lethal and two suppressor mutations on the stability and function of the CTD were examined. No correlation with infectivity was found for the stability of the lethal mutations (D155Y‐CTD, F167Y‐CTD) and suppressor mutations (R185W‐CTD, I190V‐CTD). The stabilities of three double mutant proteins (D155Y/R185W‐CTD, F167Y/R185W‐CTD, and F167Y/I190V‐CTD) were additive. However, the dimerization affinity of the mutant proteins correlated strongly with biological function. The CTD proteins with lethal mutations did not dimerize, while those with suppressor mutations had greater dimerization affinity than WT‐CTD. The suppressor mutations were able to partially correct the dimerization defect caused by the lethal MHR mutations in double mutant proteins. Despite their dramatic effects on dimerization, none of these residues participate directly in the proposed dimerization interface in a mature capsid. These findings suggest that the conserved sequence of the MHR has critical roles in the conformation(s) of the CTD that are required for dimerization and correct capsid maturation. Proteins 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.