Abstract

A new expression vector was constructed which allows the overproduction in Escherichia coli of tripartite proteins consisting of human carbonic anhydrase isozyme II (hCAII), a peptide linker containing an enterokinase cleavage site, and a target protein of interest. Carbonic anhydrase is soluble and stable in E. coli and serves as a highly specific purification tag in the recovery of the fusion protein by a single affinity chromatography step. The enterokinase cleavage site was engineered into the construct to allow accurate and efficient release of the target protein. To demonstrate the practical value of this vector, the E. coli F 1-ATPase ϵ subunit was expressed as a fusion with hCAII After a single purification step, biologically active recombinant E. coli F 1-ATPase ϵ subunit was recovered following proteolytic removal of the hCAII moiety.

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