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Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli
Thionins are antimicrobial plant peptides produced as preproproteins consisting of a signal peptide, the thionin domain, and a so-called acidic domain. Only thionin itself has been isolated from plants. To study the processing of the precursor, it has to be produced in a heterologous system. Since b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23515894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z |
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author | Abbas, Amjad Plattner, Stephan Shah, Kausar Hussain Bohlmann, Holger |
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description | Thionins are antimicrobial plant peptides produced as preproproteins consisting of a signal peptide, the thionin domain, and a so-called acidic domain. Only thionin itself has been isolated from plants. To study the processing of the precursor, it has to be produced in a heterologous system. Since both domains contain several cysteines and, due to the known antimicrobial activity of the thionin, we tested the expression of all four Arabidopsis proproteins as fusion proteins. Periplasmic expression as fusion with maltose binding protein was not successful but cytoplasmic expression as His-tagged TRX fusion proteins with a TEV recognition sequence resulted in proteins of correct size. Use of the SHuffle strain C3030 further improved the expression. Fusion proteins inhibited growth of Escherichia coli. They could be cleaved by TEV protease, releasing authentic proproteins without any additional amino acid at the N-terminus. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-36779762013-06-11 Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli Abbas, Amjad Plattner, Stephan Shah, Kausar Hussain Bohlmann, Holger Biotechnol Lett Original Research Paper Thionins are antimicrobial plant peptides produced as preproproteins consisting of a signal peptide, the thionin domain, and a so-called acidic domain. Only thionin itself has been isolated from plants. To study the processing of the precursor, it has to be produced in a heterologous system. Since both domains contain several cysteines and, due to the known antimicrobial activity of the thionin, we tested the expression of all four Arabidopsis proproteins as fusion proteins. Periplasmic expression as fusion with maltose binding protein was not successful but cytoplasmic expression as His-tagged TRX fusion proteins with a TEV recognition sequence resulted in proteins of correct size. Use of the SHuffle strain C3030 further improved the expression. Fusion proteins inhibited growth of Escherichia coli. They could be cleaved by TEV protease, releasing authentic proproteins without any additional amino acid at the N-terminus. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Netherlands 2013-03-21 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3677976/ /pubmed/23515894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z Text en © The Author(s) 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Paper Abbas, Amjad Plattner, Stephan Shah, Kausar Hussain Bohlmann, Holger Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title | Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title_full | Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title_fullStr | Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title_short | Comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of Arabidopsis thionin proproteins in E. coli |
title_sort | comparison of periplasmic and intracellular expression of arabidopsis thionin proproteins in e. coli |
topic | Original Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23515894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1180-z |
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