Designing an ELP-intein system: toward a more realistic outlook

Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology
Saeed RanjbarDavoud Ahmadvand

Abstract

Despite the ever-growing demand for proteins in pharmaceutical applications, downstream processing imposes many technical and economic limitations to recombinant technology. Elastin-like polypeptides tend to aggregate reversibly at a specific temperature. These biopolymers have been joined with self-cleaving inteins to develop a non-chromatographic platform for protein purification without the need for expensive enzymatic tag removal. Following the design and expression of an ELP-intein-tagged GFP, herein, we report certain complications and setbacks associated with this protein purification system, overlooked in previous studies. Based on our results, a recovery rate of 68% was achieved using inverse transition cycling. Fluorescence intensity analysis indicated a production yield of 11 mg GFP fusion protein per liter of bacterial culture. The low expression level is attributable to several factors, such as irreversible aggregation, slipped-strand mispairing or insufficiency of aminoacyl tRNAs during protein translation of the highly repetitive ELP tag. While the goals we set out to achieve were not entirely met, a number of useful tips could be gathered as a generic means for implementing ELP-intein protein purification. Overa...Continue Reading

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