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Human dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) has been expressed in transformed Drosophila Schneider 2 (S2) cells with yields of > 16 mg/l. Most of the activity was found in the culture fluid. Similarly, human neuroblastoma cells also secrete native DBH into the medium, but at a much lower level than recombinant Drosophila cells. We have purified native and recombinant human DBH by a modified purification procedure using SP-Sepharose, lentil lectin-Sepharose and gel-filtration chromatography and carried out studies to compare the two enzymes. Two variants of human DBH that differ by a single amino acid (either serine or alanine) at position 304 were expressed in Drosophila cells, purified, and found to have no significant difference in enzyme activity. The molecular mass of human DBH monomer has been determined from SDS/PAGE to be 73 kDa, but the recombinant DBH from Drosophila is smaller at 66 kDa. The difference may be due to glycosylation as deglycosylated enzymes from both sources are identical in size (61 kDa). The Km of tyramine for native and recombinant human enzymes are virtually the same but higher than bovine DBH by about 3-fold. Likewise, the inhibition of native and recombinant human DBH by fusaric acid and SKF102698 is not significantly different but IC50 values are 2-3-fold higher than that for the bovine enzyme. These results strongly support the conclusion that recombinant human DBH from Drosophila S2 cells can be used in place of human neuroblastoma-derived DBH for drug screening, characterization of the enzyme's physicochemical properties, and determination of structure-function relationships. The Drosophila expression system has thus provided a convenient source for large quantities of human DBH enzyme.
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Dopamina beta-Hidroxilase/genética , Dopamina beta-Hidroxilase/metabolismo , Drosophila/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Baculoviridae/genética , Sequência de Bases , Bovinos , Linhagem Celular Transformada , Dopamina beta-Hidroxilase/isolamento & purificação , Drosophila/enzimologia , Glicosilação , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Neuroblastoma/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Spodoptera/metabolismo , Spodoptera/virologia , Transfecção , Células Tumorais CultivadasRESUMO
The genetic determinant for the K99 adhesin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli B41 [O101:K99] has been cloned as a 7.0-kilobase BamHI-generated DNA fragment into the vector pBR322 by us and others (J. D. A. van Embden, F. K. de Graaf, L. M. Schouls, and J. S. Teppma, Infect. Immun. 29:1125-1133, 1980). Cells harboring one such construction, known as pK99-64, are capable of expressing K99 antigen on the cell surface. We replaced the natural promoter sequence for the gene encoding the K99 pilus subunit with a strong, inducible exogenous promoter, the E. coli tryptophan (trp) operon promoter, to construct the plasmid pBR-TrpK99. E. coli cells harboring pBR-TrpK99 or a similar construction in the plasmid pDR540, known as pKO-TrpK99, upon induction with 3-beta-indoleacrylic acid, produced about fourfold more K99 antigen than did cells bearing pK99-64 with the natural promoter. Expression of the pilus antigen was found to be under control of the tryptophan promoter. Plasmid instability was encountered, however, in cells bearing pKO-TrpK99 when the trp promoter was derepressed. Introduction of the aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase gene of transposable element Tn5 into pKO-TrpK99 to generate pKON-TrpK99 effectively stabilized the plasmid in cells grown under identical conditions in medium containing kanamycin.
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Antígenos de Bactérias/genética , Antígenos de Superfície/genética , Toxinas Bacterianas , Escherichia coli/genética , Óperon , Triptofano/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Antígenos de Bactérias/administração & dosagem , Antígenos de Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Antígenos de Superfície/administração & dosagem , Antígenos de Superfície/isolamento & purificação , Aderência Bacteriana , Vacinas Bacterianas/normas , Sequência de Bases , Feminino , Fímbrias Bacterianas/imunologia , Genes Bacterianos , Cobaias , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Plasmídeos , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Triptofano/fisiologiaRESUMO
Pili were isolated and purified from Bordetella bronchiseptica. Electron microscopic observations revealed that pili are ubiquitous in this species. The occurrence of pili and flagella appeared to correlate with growth phase and colonial morphology. Pili were about 3 to 4 nm in diameter and morphologically similar to pili isolated from other gram-negative bacteria. Internal core structure was not evident. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of purified pili showed that up to three different pilus subunit variants could be observed on a single strain, depending on the colonial phase and culture condition. Enzyme immunoassay and immunoblot, however, showed that these subunit variants are serologically related. Mice vaccinated with purified pili were protected against a virulent intraperitoneal challenge of B. bronchiseptica. B. bronchiseptica pili were also found to be similar to Bordetella pertussis pili in morphology and in the molecular size and antigenic structure of pilus subunits. The intact pili of B. bronchiseptica and B. pertussis, however, appeared to have weak serological cross-reactivity.
