HIV-1膜蛋白在甲醇型酵母中的表达和抗原性的研究

通过计算机辅助分析了中国广西B/C重组亚型HIV-1病毒株的Env蛋白(共851氨基酸残基)氨基酸的疏水性、潜在的抗原表位,与其它亚型的Env蛋白在氨基酸组成的保守性方面进行了比较,选择了env基因的469-511aa,538-674aa和700-734aa三段保守性及抗原性都较强的氨基酸序列构建成嵌合基因,将嵌合基因构建到毕赤酵母Pichia pastoris表达载体pPICZαB中,利用甲醇诱导表达,对表达的蛋白进行了Wester blot和SDS-PAGE分析,结果表明,三段基因能在毕赤酵母Pichia pastoris中表达,产物为40kD的特异性诱导糖蛋白,通过Ni-sepharose 4B金属Ni螯合层析柱分离纯化表达蛋白,酶联免疫检测结果表明,纯化的抗原有很强的抗原特异性,可以用于HIV检测试剂的研制和开发。

Studies on Antigencity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1(HIV-1) External Glycoprotein as well as Its Expression in Pichia pastoris

Based on the computer simulation, we analyzed hydrophobicity, potential epitope of recombined subtypes HIV-1 Env protein (851 amino acids) from Guangxi in China. Compared with conservative peptides of other subtypes in env protein, three sequences (469-511aa, 538-674aa, 700-734aa) were selected to recombine into a chimeric gene that codes three conservative epitope peptides with stronger antigencity, and was constructed in the yeast expression plasmid pPICZB.Chimeric proteins were expressed in Pichia pastoris under the induction of methanol, and were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and Westernblot. The results showed that fusion proteins of three-segment antigen were expressed in Pichia pastoris and that specific protein band at the site of 40kD was target protein, which is interacted with HIV-1 serum. The target proteins were purified by metal Ni-sepharose 4B, and were demonstrated to possess good antigenic specificity from the data of ELISA. This chimeric antigen may be used as research and developed into HIV diagnostic reagents.