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ArticlePloS one2011

An approach to the production of soluble protein from a fungal gene encoding an aggregation-prone xylanase in Escherichia coli.

Yilin Le, Jingjing Peng, Huawei Wu, Jianzhong Sun, Weilan Shao

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Article in PloS one, 2011. 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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10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yilin LeResearch Center for Biotechnology and Biomass Energy and College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China.
Jingjing Peng
Huawei Wu
Jianzhong Sun
Weilan Shao
Nanjing Normal University · CNJiangsu University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of new procedures and protocols that allow researchers to obtain recombinant proteins is of fundamental importance in the biotechnology field. A strategy was explored to overcome inclusion-body formation observed when expressing an aggregation-prone fungal xylanase in Escherichia coli. pHsh is an expression plasmid that uses a synthetic heat-shock (Hsh) promoter, in which gene expression is regulated by an alternative sigma factor (σ(32)). A derivative of pHsh was constructed by fusing a signal peptide to xynA2 gene to facilitate export of the recombinant protein to the periplasm. The xylanase was produced in a soluble form. Three factors were essential to achieving such soluble expression of the xylanase: 1) the target gene was under the control of the Hsh promoter, 2) the gene product was exported into the periplasm, and 3) gene expression was induced by a temperature upshift. For the first time we report the expression of periplasmic proteins under the control of an Hsh promoter regulated by σ(32). One unique feature of this approach was that over 200 copies of the Hsh promoter in an E. coli cell significantly increased the concentration of σ(32). The growth inhibition of the recombinant cells corresponded to an increase in the levels of soluble periplasmic protein. Therefore, an alternative protocol was designed to induce gene expression from pHsh-ex to obtain high levels of active soluble enzymes.

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BiotechnologyElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelEndo-1,4-beta XylanasesEscherichia coli K12Fungal ProteinsFungiGenes, FungalGenetic VectorsHeat-Shock ProteinsInclusion BodiesMutationPeriplasmic ProteinsPlasmidsProtein Structure, QuaternaryRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSigma FactorEndo-1,4-beta XylanasesFungal ProteinsHeat-Shock Proteinsheat-shock sigma factor 32Periplasmic ProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSigma Factor

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PMID21494625
PMCPMC3072991
OpenAlexW1968704342

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