Part:BBa_K3089021
Characterization
BBa_K3089011 was characterized in following experiments:
- protein expression
- protein purification
- Surface coating analysis
Protein expression
csgA-linker-mfp5 was cloned into pET28b and expressed in E.coli BL21(DE3) Rosetta by 500μM IPTG for 5h at 37℃. In order to detect its expression, whole cells were collected after induction by centrifuging and prepared for SDS-PAGE. Results (Figure 1)showed that no obvious protein bands of CsgA-mfp5(~24 kDa) could be observed on lane csgA-linker-mfp5 compared with lane NC (pET28b empty vector) and mfp5(BBa_K1583002), which means the expression of this protein is not well in BL21(DE3) Rosetta (Figure 1A). Quantitative densitometry of SDS-PAGE gel analysis revealed that csgA-linker-mfp5 expressed better than mfp5 alone (Figure 1B).
Protein purification
Barnacle cement proteins are very promising in making biomedical bio-glues. rBalcp19K from Balanus albicostatus had the properties of both self-assembly and adhesion.
It also could function in more basic condition than Mfps. Thus we also designed a novel recombinant protein by combining it with Mfp5. We expected rBalcp19k-Mfp5 would perform better adhesive ability to solidify our idea of modularisation of Mfp5.
We tried to purify it under native conditions, and we found bands of rBalcp19K-linker-mfp5 appeared between 25kDa and 35kDa on 12% SDS-PAGE gel(Figure 2), which meant it was successfully expressed and purified under native condition(see details on our methods).
Protein concentrations of rBalcp19k-linker-mfp5 were measured by BCA assay, and its yield is 1mg/L.
Surface coating analysis
After obtaining a small number of recombinant proteins, surface coating analysis for qualitatively assessing the surface adsorption ability of recombinant proteins was conducted on two of most commonly used bio-related surfaces: hydrophilic glass slides and hydrophobic polystyrene tissue culture plates. As shown in Figure3, rBalcp19k-linker-mfp5 recombinant protein showed higher surface absorption abilities on both different substrates than rBalcp19k without fusion of mfp5 on its C-terminal. It’s suggested that Mfp improves the coating ability of rBalcp19k-linker-mfp5 fusion proteins. The In-vitro DOPA modification by mTyr-CNK tyrosinase significantly improved its surface absorption abilities, which suggested the positive contribution of DOPA in adhesive protein performances.
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