Extracellular Production of Alpha-Interferon by Recombinant Escherichia coli : Part I. Construction of Expression Vectors

유전자 재조합 대장균을 사용한 Alpha-interferon의 생산과 분비: 제 1 부. 발현벡터의 제작

We constructed hybrid plasmids to allow controlled and extracellular production of human alpha-interferon in Escherichia coli. The hybrid plassmids were constructed by transferring alpha-lFN gene from plasmid Hif-2h which has the alpha-lFN gene at PstI restriction site of pBR322, to plasmids pIN -IIIB3 and pIN-IIIC3 at restriction sites between HindIII and BamHI. Plasmids pIN-IIIB3 and pIN-IIIC3 carry E. coli lipoprotein promoter, lac promoter and operator in tandem. The plasmids also have lacl genes which encode for lac repressors, which allows controlled expression of genes cloned to the plasmids by using of inducer IPTG. Lipoprotein signal sequence is located just ahead of cloning sites of the plasmids, which helps cells to excrete or secrete cloned gene products. Plasmid pUC9 was used as a intermediate vector for transferring of alpha-lFN gene from Hif-2h to pIN vectors in order to solve the problem of different restriction sites between Hif-2h and pIN vectors.

대장균으로부터 alpha interferon의 생산과 분비를 유도하기 위해 대장균의 lipoprotein promoter, lactose promoter 및 operator와 lipoprotein의 signal seqquence를 가지는 vector에 alpha-IFN유전자를 cloning하여 발현 vector pIF-III-B와 vector pIF-III-C를 제작하였다.