Chinami M, Yuge K, Kawano K, Shingu M
Department of Virology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Protein Expr Purif. 1991 Apr-Jun;2(2-3):175-8. doi: 10.1016/1046-5928(91)90068-t.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 E7-lacZ fusion protein was produced in Escherichia coli, extracted as inclusion bodies, refolded with reducing reagents, and subjected to gel filtration. The refolded protein was purified by ion-exchange column chromatography, resulting in a single band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectral changes were observed in the high field methyl region in the presence of Zn2+ ion, suggesting that the refolded form of the fusion protein is possibly renaturated into the putative zinc finger motif (C. Edmond and K. H. Vousden, 1989, J. Virol. 63, 2650-2656) and supporting the data of J. A. Rawls, R. Pusztai, and M. Green (1990, J. Virol. 64, 6121-6129) on zinc binding to E7 protein using radioisotopically labeled zinc ion.
