Abstract

The production of correctly folded, disulfide bonded proteins in high yields remains a technological challenge, especially for the commonly used expression system Escherichia coli. This work provides a standardizable method based on cleavable self-aggregating tag (cSAT) scheme that enables the facile production of a series of traditionally challenging disulfide bonded proteins and peptides. The yields of the six targets were in the range of 3 to 89 mg/L at the shake flask scale. Further scale up of human growth hormone resulted in a yield of 2.6 g/L in a 30-L fermenter. This cSAT scheme allows the correct folding of proteins and peptides in an aggregated form during expression, and can be combined to a standard two-step column purification to achieve high purity and high activity products. This promises a generally applicable platform for the production and purification of proteins and peptides with markedly reduced development time and cost.

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