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Isolation and some effects of functional, low-phenylalanine kappa-casein expressed in the milk of transgenic rabbits
Authors:Baranyi Mária  Hiripi László  Szabó László  Catunda Ana Paula  Harsányi Ibolya  Komáromy Péter  Bosze Zsuzsanna
Institution:Agricultural Biotechnology Center, H-2100 G?d?llo, Szent-Gy?rgyi A. u. 4, Hungary.
Abstract:Patients suffering certain metabolic diseases (e.g. phenylketonuria) need a low-phenylalanine diet throughout their lives. Transgenic rabbits were created to express low-phenylalanine kappa-casein in their milk. The aim was to demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of producing a modified milk protein in addition to normal milk proteins. A gene construct containing the coding region of the rabbit kappa-casein gene was modified by site-specific oligonucleotide directed mutagenesis. Four of the five phenylalanine amino acids present in the mature protein were mutated and the gene construct was used to create two transgenic rabbit lines. The transgenic rabbits produced the recombinant kappa-casein at a high level in their milk causing a reduction in the average size of the casein micelles. The low-phenylalanine kappa-casein was digestible with chymosin and it was separated from its native counterpart and from the other milk proteins by a one-step HPLC method on a reversed-phase column. In the future, low-phenylalanine casein produced in transgenic animals could be used as dietary replacements to meet the special requirements of certain consumer groups.
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