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Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants
Plant-based expression platforms are currently gaining acceptance as a viable alternative for the production of recombinant proteins (RPs), but the degradation of RPs by proteases in cells hinders their superb potentials. Co-expression of a protease inhibitor (PI) shows promise as a strategy to prev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.699442 |
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author | Ma, Jiexue Ding, Xiangzhen Li, Zhiying Wang, Sheng |
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description | Plant-based expression platforms are currently gaining acceptance as a viable alternative for the production of recombinant proteins (RPs), but the degradation of RPs by proteases in cells hinders their superb potentials. Co-expression of a protease inhibitor (PI) shows promise as a strategy to prevent RP from proteolytic degradation in plants. However, competitive effects behind the PI-RP co-expression system may mask or obfuscate the in situ protective effects of a companion PI. Here, we explored the competitive effects by co-expressing reteplase (rPA) with three unrelated PIs, namely NbPR4, HsTIMP, and SlCYS8, in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. Remarkably, the accumulation of rPA was significantly repressed by each of the three PIs, suggesting that the competitive effects may be common among the PIs. The repression can be attenuated by reducing the PI inoculum dose in the co-inoculation mixtures, showing a negative correlation between the PI abundance of the PI-RP system and competitive effects. Interestingly, when a replicating vector was used to modulate the relative abundance of PI and RP in vivo, rPA was still boosted even at the maximal testing dose of PI, indicating that the competitive effects reduced to an ignorable level by this in vivo approach. Furthermore, a 7- to 12-fold increase of rPA was achieved, proving that it is a useful way for stimulating the potentials of a companion PI by overcoming competitive effects. And, this approach can be applied to molecular farming for improving the RP yields of plant expression systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-82487932021-07-02 Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants Ma, Jiexue Ding, Xiangzhen Li, Zhiying Wang, Sheng Front Plant Sci Plant Science Plant-based expression platforms are currently gaining acceptance as a viable alternative for the production of recombinant proteins (RPs), but the degradation of RPs by proteases in cells hinders their superb potentials. Co-expression of a protease inhibitor (PI) shows promise as a strategy to prevent RP from proteolytic degradation in plants. However, competitive effects behind the PI-RP co-expression system may mask or obfuscate the in situ protective effects of a companion PI. Here, we explored the competitive effects by co-expressing reteplase (rPA) with three unrelated PIs, namely NbPR4, HsTIMP, and SlCYS8, in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. Remarkably, the accumulation of rPA was significantly repressed by each of the three PIs, suggesting that the competitive effects may be common among the PIs. The repression can be attenuated by reducing the PI inoculum dose in the co-inoculation mixtures, showing a negative correlation between the PI abundance of the PI-RP system and competitive effects. Interestingly, when a replicating vector was used to modulate the relative abundance of PI and RP in vivo, rPA was still boosted even at the maximal testing dose of PI, indicating that the competitive effects reduced to an ignorable level by this in vivo approach. Furthermore, a 7- to 12-fold increase of rPA was achieved, proving that it is a useful way for stimulating the potentials of a companion PI by overcoming competitive effects. And, this approach can be applied to molecular farming for improving the RP yields of plant expression systems. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8248793/ /pubmed/34220920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.699442 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ma, Ding, Li and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Ma, Jiexue Ding, Xiangzhen Li, Zhiying Wang, Sheng Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title | Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title_full | Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title_fullStr | Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title_full_unstemmed | Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title_short | Co-expression With Replicating Vector Overcoming Competitive Effects Derived by a Companion Protease Inhibitor in Plants |
title_sort | co-expression with replicating vector overcoming competitive effects derived by a companion protease inhibitor in plants |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.699442 |
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