Part:BBa_K2976008

HA tag

Usage and Biology

Protein tags are protein or peptide sequences located either on the C- or N- terminal of the target protein, which facilitates the following characteristics: solubility, detection, purification, localization and expression. The HA tag (YPYDVPDYA) is derived from an epitope of the influenza hemagglutinin protein which has been used extensively as a general epitope tag in expression vectors due to its small size and low influence on the tagged protein’s biochemical properties. In 2019 CPU_CHINA project, we insert HA tag into the fusion proteins on the membrane of exosomes for the immunoblotting assay.

Characteristics

We transfected plasmid (anti-PD-L1-lamp2 fusion protein-hsa-let-7f) into RAW264.7 cells to express the specific exosomes, and harvest the exosomes by way of exosome extracting kit. The plasmid for expressing exosomes was designed with an extra HA tag, for detection of exosomes by utilizing the anti-HA tag antibody. From electron microscopy(Fig.1), we demonstrated the existence of exosomes, the protein extracted from this sample was detected with signal of HA tag(Fig.2), indicating that using HA tag as a marker on exosomes is feasible.

Figure 1: Electron microscopy of exosomes.

Figure 2: Western blot result of exosome protein.

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Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]