Expression Screening of Fusion Partners from an E. coli Genome for Soluble Expression of Recombinant Proteins in a Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System
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Ahn, Jin Ho; Keum, Jung-Won; Kim, Dong-Myung
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While access to soluble recombinant proteins is essential for a number of proteome studies, preparation of purified functional proteins is often limited by the protein solubility. In this study, potent solubility-enhancing fusion partners were screened from the repertoire of endogenous E. coli proteins. Based on the presumed correlation between the intracellular abundance and folding efficiency of proteins, PCR-amplified ORFs of a series of highly abundant E. coli proteins were fused with aggregation-prone heterologous proteins and then directly expressed for quantitative estimation of the expression efficiency of soluble translation products. Through two-step screening procedures involving the expression of 552 fusion constructs targeted against a series of cytokine proteins, we were able to discover a number of endogenous E. coli proteins that dramatically enhanced the soluble expression of the target proteins. This strategy of cell-free expression screening can be extended to quantitative, global analysis of genomic resources for various purposes.
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2011-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical EngineeringJournal
PLoS ONE
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Public Library of Science
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Ahn, Jin-Ho, Jung-Won Keum, and Dong-Myung Kim. “Expression Screening of Fusion Partners from an E. coli Genome for Soluble Expression of Recombinant Proteins in a Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System.” Ed. Anna Mitraki. PLoS ONE 6.11 (2011): e26875. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.
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1932-6203