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Yasushi Kawauchi, Jun Takasaki, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Yasuhiko Masuho, Preparation and Characterization of Human Rheumatoid Arthritic Synovial Fluid Phospholipase A2 Produced by Recombinant Baculovirus-Infected Insect Cells, The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 116, Issue 1, July 1994, Pages 81–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a124507
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Abstract
We prepared human rheumatoid arthritic synovial fluid phospholipase A2 (PLA2) [EC 3.1.1.4] from insect cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus. The PLA2 DNA was designed, changing the original codons to those used frequently in the polyhedrin gene. Sixteen oligo-deoxynucleotides ranging from 40 to 70 nucleotides were chemically synthesized and then assembled to form the whole PLA2 gene. The gene thus synthesized was then placed under the control of the polyhedrin promoter of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus. The recombinant virus was infected into Spodoptera frugiperda cells. The infected cells secreted protein having PLA2 activity into the culture medium. The enzyme level in the medium reached about 3 mg/liter on day 4 after infection. The secreted protein was purified to a single band of 14, 000 Da on SDS-PAGE, by means of cation exchange chromatography and reverse-phase HPLC. N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis revealed that the recombinant protein was recognized and cleaved at the signal sequence in the insect cell. The purified enzyme had almost the same specific enzyme activity, substrate specificity, pH optimum, Ca2+ ion dependency, and kinetic values as those of the natural enzyme.
- rheumatoid arthritis
- recombinant proteins
- baculoviruses
- cations
- chromatography
- high pressure liquid chromatography procedure
- codon nucleotides
- culture media
- dna
- genes
- insecta
- nucleopolyhedrovirus
- nucleotides
- oligonucleotides
- phospholipases a
- sequence analysis, protein
- spodoptera
- substrate specificity
- synovial fluid
- infections
- enzymes
- kinetics
- viruses
- signal sequences, peptide
- sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- enzyme activity