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Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran
National Research Centre of Medical Sciences of I.R. IRAN
ISSN: 1016-1430
Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004, pp. 141-146
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Bioline Code: mr04027
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004, pp. 141-146
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IMPROVEMENT OF hGM-CSF EXPRESSION USING A FUSION SYSTEM BY DIRECTING PROTEIN TO THE PERIPLASMIC SPACE
OLOOMI, MANA & BOUZARI, AEID
Abstract
Bacterial expression systems provide economic and logistic advantages in manufacturing proteins for human therapeutic purposes. However, most such proteins accumulate in insoluble biologically inactive form when overexpressed in bacterial cells. This is the case while attempting to produce recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) in E. coli. In this report, different strong promoters are used to compare the yield of expression when the protein is expressed as insoluble and soluble forms. The results obtained indicated that the level of expression was independent of the nature of promoter used. Moreover experimental data presented here suggest that the fusion system which directs hGM-CSF to the periplasmic space not only can prevent inclusion body formation but also improve the level of expression significantly.
Keywords
Escherichia coli, hGM-CSF, Expression, Inclusion body, Fusion protein.
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