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Addition of an N-Terminal Poly-Glutamate Fusion Tag Improves Solubility and Production of Recombinant TAT-Cre Recombinase in Escherichia coli

Authors
 A-Hyeon Kim  ;  Soohyun Lee  ;  Suwon Jeon  ;  Goon-Tae Kim  ;  Eun Jig Lee  ;  Daham Kim  ;  Younggyu Kim  ;  Tae-Sik Park 
Citation
 JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, Vol.30(1) : 109-117, 2020-01 
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN
 1017-7825 
Issue Date
2020-01
Keywords
Cre recombinase ; inclusion body ; solubility ; polyglutamate ; trans-activator of transcription
Abstract
Cre recombinase is widely used to manipulate DNA sequences for both in vitro and in vivo research. Attachment of a trans-activator of transcription (TAT) sequence to Cre allows TAT-Cre to penetrate the cell membrane, and the addition of a nuclear localization signal (NLS) helps the enzyme to translocate into the nucleus. Since the yield of recombinant TAT-Cre is limited by formation of inclusion bodies, we hypothesized that the positively charged arginine-rich TAT sequence causes the inclusion body formation, whereas its neutralization by the addition of a negatively charged sequence improves solubility of the protein. To prove this, we neutralized the positively charged TAT sequence by proximally attaching a negatively charged poly-glutamate (E12) sequence. We found that the E12 tag improved the solubility and yield of E12-TAT-NLS-Cre (E12-TAT-Cre) compared with those of TAT-NLS-Cre (TAT-Cre) when expressed in E. coli. Furthermore, the growth of cells expressing E12-TAT-Cre was increased compared with that of the cells expressing TAT-Cre. Efficacy of the purified TAT-Cre was confirmed by a recombination test on a floxed plasmid in a cell-free system and 293 FT cells. Taken together, our results suggest that attachment of the E12 sequence to TAT-Cre improves its solubility during expression in E. coli (possibly by neutralizing the ionic-charge effects of the TAT sequence) and consequently increases the yield. This method can be applied to the production of transducible proteins for research and therapeutic purposes.
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DOI
10.4014/jmb.1909.09028
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Internal Medicine (내과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Daham(김다함) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1871-686X
Lee, Eun Jig(이은직) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-8370
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/190293
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