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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2018

Modifying Baculovirus Expression Vectors to Produce Secreted Plant Proteins in Insect Cells.

Sayan Chakraborty, Krittin Trihemasava, Guozhou Xu

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Sayan ChakrabortyDepartment of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University.
Krittin TrihemasavaDepartment of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University.
Guozhou XuDepartment of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University; gxu3@ncsu.edu.
North Carolina State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been a challenge for scientists to express recombinant secretory eukaryotic proteins for structural and biochemical studies. The baculovirus-mediated insect cell expression system is one of the systems used to express recombinant eukaryotic secretory proteins with some post-translational modifications. The secretory proteins need to be routed through the secretory pathways for protein glycosylation, disulfide bonds formation, and other post-translational modifications. To improve the existing insect cell expression of secretory plant proteins, a baculovirus expression vector is modified by the addition of either a GP67 or a hemolin signal peptide sequence between the promoter and multiple-cloning sites. This newly designed modified vector system successfully produced a high yield of soluble recombinant secreted plant receptor proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana. Two of the expressed plant proteins, the extracellular domains of Arabidopsis TDR and PRK3 plasma membrane receptors, were crystallized for X-ray crystallographic studies. The modified vector system is an improved tool that can potentially be used for the expression of recombinant secretory proteins in the animal kingdom as well.

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AnimalsBaculoviridaeGenetic VectorsInsectaPlant ProteinsPlant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30176019
PMCPMC6128212
OpenAlexW2888770704

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