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An Efficient Method for Production of Extracellular Human Tissue Factor in Escherichia coli

인간조직인자 세포외 부분의 효과적인 제조 방법

  • Published : 2009.05.30

Abstract

Human Tissue factor is an essential enzyme activator that forms a catalytic complex with factor VII/ VIIa, and catalyzes both the extrinsic and intrinsic blood coagulation cascades. The extracellular domain of human tissue factor is responsible for association with the biological partner. The efficient procedures for preparing biologically active human tissue factor are essential for the preclinical and clinical studies with coaguligands. An expression vector in Escherichia coli has been constructed to direct the production of extracellular human tissue factor without a fusion protein or a $His_6$ at the N-terminus. The recombinant human tissue factor was expressed in large amounts as a non-native state in E. coli. The recombinant protein was simply renatured during the DEAE-sephacel chromatographic purification procedure. Our expression and purification system does not require a protease treatment or an additional chromatographic step to remove a fusion contaminant, which provides a very useful alternative to conventional expression systems for the production of human tissue factor.

인간조직인자는 혈액응고인자 factor VII 과 복합체를 형성하며 연속적인 혈액응고 연쇄반응을 촉매하는 효소 활성체이다. 복합체 형성에 필수적인 이 조직인자의 세포 외 부분이, 기존의 융합 단백질 및 히스티딘 말단이 없는 새로운 발현 벡터에 의해 대장균 내에서 과량 발현 되었다. 봉입체 형태로 발현된 재조합 인간조직인자는 DEAE-Sephacel 크로마토그라피 기술을 적용하여 분리, 정제 및 구조적 복원이 동시에 시도 되었다. 정제된 재조합 단백질은 SDS-PAGE 분석에서 순수한 형태로 나타났으며, 생물학적 활성도 또한 기존의 조직인자와 거의 동등함을 보였다. 본 연구의 발현 및 정제 시스템은 이전의 보고에서 보여진 방법들에 비해 단백질 분해효소를 사용하지 않아 추가적인 크로마토그라피 과정이 필요 없어 좀 더 효율적이기 때문에 기존의 발현 시스템에 대해 대체할 수 있는 매우 유용한 방법으로 제공된다.

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