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Protein Expr Purif ; 56(2): 177-88, 2007 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17904863

ABSTRACT

This study describes the expression in Pichia pastoris of hepatitis B surface antigens (HBsAg) corresponding to the S region of the four major subtypes: adr, adw2, ayr and ayw3 and to the preS2-S region of the two subtypes adr and adw2. The recombinant yeast strains have been selected amongst methanol utilization positive (Mut+) or sensitive strains (Mut s) and cultivated to high cell density in bioreactor using a short protocol. Our results prove the efficiency of P. pastoris to produce all the major HBsAg subtypes and confirm the ability of the methanol regulated promoter of alcohol oxidase I gene (AOX) to express heterologous protein through phenotype Mut+ or Mut s strains. All these recombinant HBsAg proteins, including subtype ayr, whose production has never been presented, have been highly purified using a short original sequence of steps which includes high-pressure cell disruption associated with detergent treatment, ultrafiltration and immunopurification chromatography using a mAb anti-HBs. The whole process avoids possible alterations of antigenic properties and allows to obtain with high yield, high quality reagents for in vitro diagnosis.


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Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/genetics , Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/isolation & purification , Pichia/genetics , Recombinant Proteins/biosynthesis , Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification , Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology , Antibodies, Monoclonal/isolation & purification , Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism , Bioreactors , Cells, Cultured , Fermentation , Genetic Vectors/genetics , Genetic Vectors/metabolism , Hepatitis B/diagnosis , Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/biosynthesis , Pichia/metabolism , Protein Engineering , Recombinant Proteins/genetics
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Protein Expr Purif ; 38(1): 84-98, 2004 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15477086

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Melatonin is synthesized by a series of enzymes, the penultimate one, serotonin N-acetyltransferase, catalyzing the limiting reaction. In the present study, we compared the recombinant serotonin N-acetyltransferases from rat, ovine, and human. The human protein is particularly difficult to purify because it interacts strongly with a putative chaperone protein from bacteria whereas the rat and sheep enzymes, which interact less strongly with this protein, have been purified close to homogeneity. We identified the contaminating protein as GroEL, the bacterial equivalent of Hsp60. We present numerous catalytic activities (substrate and cosubstrate specificities as well as inhibitor specificities) measured on the three species enzymes from which we deduced that the presence of the chaperone might partly explain the differences between the various species enzyme characteristics, beside the inter-species ones resulting from sequence differences. Despite several trials reported in the literature, a purification to homogeneity of the human (recombinant) enzyme has never been described. We present a new purification method, by using an original denaturation/renaturation process in which the enzyme is immobilized on an affinity chromatography column. The enzyme is then eluted in an active and pure form (i.e., absence of chaperone). The up-scaled system permitted us to perform the necessary experiments for the measurement of more accurate affinities of human serotonin N-acetyltransferase towards its main natural substrates, showing that only the activity of the enzyme towards phenylethylamine was modified.


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Arylalkylamine N-Acetyltransferase/isolation & purification , Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Arylalkylamine N-Acetyltransferase/chemistry , Arylalkylamine N-Acetyltransferase/metabolism , Conserved Sequence , Humans , Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions , Kinetics , Molecular Sequence Data , Molecular Weight , Protein Denaturation , Protein Renaturation , Rats , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Sequence Alignment , Sheep , Substrate Specificity
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