人晚期糖基化终产物受体胞质内段融合蛋白表达载体的构建与表达

目的 构建人晚期糖基化终产物受体胞质内段(hRAGE-C)GST融合蛋白的重组原核基因表达载体并进行表达与纯化，研究其功能并鉴定与其相互作用的蛋白。方法 采用PCR方法扩增hRAGE基因编码区的胞质内段。并将其重组于pGEX-KG载体中。重组质粒经PCR、酶切、序列鉴定分析后，转化大肠杆菌BL21，以异丙基β-D硫代半乳糖(IPTG)诱导产生hRAGE胞质内段的GST融合蛋白。结果 PCR、酶切和测序结果表明所克隆的GST／hRAGE-C原核表达载体完全正确，继而表达、纯化获得了相对分子质量约35000的融合蛋白(符合预期大小)。结论 将hRAGE胞质内段构建于含有GST标记的载体上并获得融合蛋白的高效表达。

Vector construction for the intracellular domain of human receptor for advanced glycation end- products and expression of the fusion protein]

OBJECTIVE: To construct a eukaryotic expression vector for GST-tagged intracellular domain of human receptor for advanced glycation end-products (hRAGE), and to study the function of the expressed fusion protein and identify its interacting proteins. METHODS: The coding sequence of the intracellular fragment of hRAGE was amplified by PCR and inserted into pGEX-KG vector, a general GST fusion protein expression vector. After PCR identification, endonuclease digestion and DNA sequencing, the recombinant was transformed into E.coli BL21 to achieve the expression of GST fusion protein induced by isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG), followed by purification of the protein on glutathione-superflow resin. RESULTS: The recombinant of GST/hRAGE-C was constructed and identified by PCR, endonucleases digestion and DNA sequencing. After protein expression was achieved in E. coli, a molecular mass of 35 kD GST fusion protein was purified, whose molecular mass and purity were assessed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). CONCLUSION: The expression vector for intracellular domain of hRAGE has been successfully constructed and efficient expression of the fusion protein is obtained, which can be of value for further studies.