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ArticlePloS one2021

A highly efficient method for the production and purification of recombinant human CXCL8.

Sophie McKenna, Sean Patrick Giblin, Rosemarie Anne Bunn, Yingqi Xu, Stephen John Matthews, James Edward Pease

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sophie McKennaDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Sean Patrick GiblinNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9702-7987
Rosemarie Anne BunnNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Yingqi XuDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Stephen John MatthewsDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
James Edward PeaseNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3749-0341
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemokines play diverse and fundamental roles in the immune system and human disease, which has prompted their structural and functional characterisation. Production of recombinant chemokines that are folded and bioactive is vital to their study but is limited by the stringent requirements of a native N-terminus for receptor activation and correct disulphide bonding required to stabilise the chemokine fold. Even when expressed as fusion proteins, overexpression of chemokines in E. coli tends to result in the formation of inclusion bodies, generating the additional steps of solubilisation and refolding. Here we present a novel method for producing soluble chemokines in relatively large amounts via a simple two-step purification procedure with no requirements for refolding. CXCL8 produced by this method has the correct chemokine fold as determined by NMR spectroscopy and in chemotaxis assays was indistinguishable from commercially available chemokines. We believe that this protocol significantly streamlines the generation of recombinant chemokines.

Indexed as

BiochemistryChemotaxisHumansInterleukin-8Proton Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyRecombinant ProteinsCXCL8 protein, humanInterleukin-8Recombinant Proteins

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PMID34653205
PMCPMC8519433
OpenAlexW3205158486

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