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Protein Expression and Purification 1999-Mar

Processing of preproricin in transgenic tobacco.

רק משתמשים רשומים יכולים לתרגם מאמרים
התחבר הרשם
הקישור נשמר בלוח
P C Sehnke
R J Ferl

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תַקצִיר

The plant protein toxin ricin has found widespread application as a potential therapeutic agent for many human diseases and in disease-model systems such as those involving apoptosis. Genetic engineering and expression of the complete two-polypeptide chain toxin have only been possible in plants, specifically in transgenic tobacco carrying the preproricin gene under the control the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. Production of modified ricin for altered controllable activity and/or fusion therapeutics to target delivery requires knowledge of the heterologous processing that occurs when preproricin is expressed in tobacco. Here, recombinant ricin from transgenic tobacco was purified using lectin affinity chromatography and characterized using various biochemical and biophysical techniques. Coomassie blue staining of an SDS-PAGE gel of lactose-agarose purified material identified predominant proteins of 30 and 35 kDa molecular weight. Western analysis using anti-ricin a- and b-chain antibodies confirmed the expression and purification of recombinant ricin, with identical protein banding profiles to that of authentic castor-bean-derived ricin. High-resolution gel filtration chromatography characterized the lactose binding complex as a 66-kDa native molecular weight protein which could be separated into 30- and 35-kDa proteins upon incubation with the reducing agent dithiothreitol. N-terminal sequencing of the recombinant ricin a-chain revealed that an equimolar ratio of two alternately processed peptides was present, which varied by an additional amino acid derived from the signal peptide. Similar analysis of ricin b-chain again identified two forms of this polypeptide as well; however, full-length ricin b-chain and b-chain missing the first alanine residue were present at 11:1 molar ratios. Transgenic tobacco plants expressing ricin were used to develop a stable cell suspension culture system from callus induced with the growth regulators 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 6-benzylaminopurine. Double sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using anti-ricin b-chain antibodies and Western analysis identified soluble ricin in the media of the cultures, indicating that cell cultures provide a safe and simple means to produce properly processed recombinant ricin.

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