Kurihara H, Sezutsu H, Tamura T, Yamada K
Toray Industries, Inc., New Frontiers Research Laboratories, 1111 Tebiro, Kamakura, Kanagawa 248-8555, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Apr 20;355(4):976-80. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.055. Epub 2007 Feb 21.
We constructed the fibroin H-chain expression system to produce recombinant proteins in the cocoon of transgenic silkworms. Feline interferon (FeIFN) was used for production and to assess the quality of the product. Two types of FeIFN fusion protein, each with N- and C-terminal sequences of the fibroin H-chain, were designed to be secreted into the lumen of the posterior silk glands. The expression of the FeIFN/H-chain fusion gene was regulated by the fibroin H-chain promoter domain. The transgenic silkworms introduced these constructs with the piggyBac transposon-derived vector, which produced the normal sized cocoons containing each FeIFN/H-chain fusion protein. Although the native-protein produced by transgenic silkworms have almost no antiviral activity, the proteins after the treatment with PreScission protease to eliminate fibroin H-chain derived N- and C-terminal sequences from the products, had very high antiviral activity. This H-chain expression system, using transgenic silkworms, could be an alternative method to produce an active recombinant protein and silk-based biomaterials.
我们构建了丝素蛋白重链表达系统,以在转基因家蚕的茧中生产重组蛋白。猫干扰素(FeIFN)被用于生产及评估产品质量。设计了两种分别带有丝素蛋白重链N端和C端序列的FeIFN融合蛋白,使其分泌到后部丝腺腔中。FeIFN/重链融合基因的表达由丝素蛋白重链启动子结构域调控。转基因家蚕通过携带源自piggyBac转座子的载体导入这些构建体,从而产生含有各FeIFN/重链融合蛋白的正常大小的茧。尽管转基因家蚕产生的天然蛋白几乎没有抗病毒活性,但用PreScission蛋白酶处理以从产物中去除丝素蛋白重链衍生的N端和C端序列后的蛋白具有非常高的抗病毒活性。这种利用转基因家蚕的重链表达系统可能是生产活性重组蛋白和丝基生物材料的一种替代方法。