PRODUCTION OF HEPATITIS-B VIRUS PRES POLYPEPTIDE IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI BY MUTATION OF THE 5'-END CODING SEQUENCE AND ITS PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
Hs. Kim et al., PRODUCTION OF HEPATITIS-B VIRUS PRES POLYPEPTIDE IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI BY MUTATION OF THE 5'-END CODING SEQUENCE AND ITS PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION, Gene, 177(1-2), 1996, pp. 173-177
The preS1 and preS2 antigens (preS Ag) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) elic
it virus-neutralizing and protective antibodies which can overcome non
responsiveness to the currently available vaccine for HBV and also car
ry the attachment site to HBV hepatocyte receptor. Therefore, in order
to study the development of more effective vaccine and the receptor-l
igand interaction, it will be helpful to obtain high-level production
of the preS Ag from bacteria. We have found that the native preS regio
n gene was not expressed under the control of commonly used promoters
in Escherichia coli. By site-directed mutagenesis of some nucleotides
at the 5'-end of the preS1 region gene, we have generated a mutant gen
e which is highly expressed in soluble form in E. coli. The produced p
olypeptide could be efficiently purified by 20% ammonium sulfate preci
pitation and a gel permeation chromatography and the purified polypept
ide was demonstrated to exhibit the antigenicity and the immunogenicit
y of the preS1 and preS2 Ag, suggesting that it is functional.