Abstract
Substitution of hydrophobic residues with hydrophilic ones at surface-exposed positions may influence the yield of antibody fragment expression in Escherichia coli by reducing its aggregation potential. We introduced such substitutions at 8 surface-exposed framework region residues of a fusion protein Fv/Tumor Necrosis Factor, which resulted in the expression of 10 mutant fusion proteins (Mut 1-10) in E. coli. Our results showed that expression levels of Mut 1-3, with mutations of A9S, T18K, and G41D, respectively, decreased by 4- to 8-fold, whereas expression levels of Mut 4, 9, and 10, with mutations of S60D/S70D, T28D, and G65D, respectively, were not affected. In contrast, mutation of F83A at light-chain residue 83, which is usually buried at the variable/constant domain interface of antibody molecules but becomes surface-exposed in recombinant Fv molecules, increased the expression level of Mut 5 by 4-fold. Our results suggest that this important substitution of a hydrophobic residue with a hydrophilic one may also be applied to increase the secretion of other recombinant Fv molecules in E. coli periplasm.
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