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ArticleCellular & molecular biology letters2007

Improved fusion protein expression of EGFP via the mutation of both Kozak and the initial ATG codon.

Chao Dai, Zhijian Cao, Yingliang Wu, Hong Yi, Dahe Jiang, Wenxin Li

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Article in Cellular & molecular biology letters, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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6 authors.

Chao DaiState Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P R China.
Zhijian Cao
Yingliang Wu
Hong Yi
Dahe Jiang
Wenxin Li

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Abstract

Since its discovery, green fluorescence protein (GFP) has been used as a reporter in a broad range of applications, including the determination of gene expresion in diverse organisms, and subcellular protein localization. pEGFP-N1 is a eukayotic expression vector encoding EGFP, the MCS of which locates at the N terminus of EGFP. In this study, the cDNA sequence of scorpion toxin BmKK2 was inserted into the XhoI-HindIII cut of pEGFP-N1 to construct a toxin-EGFP fusion gene (named pEGFP-BmKK2). Fluorescence imaging revealed that HEK 293T cells that were transfected by pEGFP-BmKK2 emitted green fluorescence. Transcription of pEGFP-BmKK2 was confirmed by RT-PCR. However, western blotting analysis showed that the transfected HEK 293T cells expressed mostly EGFP, but little toxin-EGFP fusion protein, implying that pEGFP-N1 cannot be used as a fusion expression vector for subcellular protein localization for the BmKK2 gene. Consequently, two modified recombinant vectors (pEGFP-BmKK2-M1 and pEGFP-BmKK2-M2) were constructed based on pEGFP-BmKK2. This greatly improved the expression of toxin-EGFP fusion protein from pEGFP-BmKK2-M2.

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Base SequenceCodonGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansMicroscopy, FluorescenceMutagenesis, InsertionalMutationRecombinant Fusion ProteinsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionScorpion VenomsTransfectionCodonenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsKK toxin, Buthus martensiRecombinant Fusion ProteinsScorpion Venoms

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PMCPMC6275746

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