Abstract
Although cell-based protein expression systems enable us a certain amount of protein suitable for subsequent biological experiments to be obtained, aggregates of the protein of interest are sometimes encountered during the purification procedure. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a member of the pentraxin family that is classified as a carbohydrate-binding protein based on its structure, comprises one of the humoral arms of the pattern recognition receptors that play an important role in the innate immune response. PTX3 comprises two domains; an N-terminal domain and a C-terminal domain. The C-terminal domain containing pentraxin signature has similar biological functions as other pentraxins such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid-P component (SAP). On the other side, the N-terminal domain is specific to PTX3. A supply of the PTX3 protein in full length or partial fragments is thus essential for the elucidation of its biological functions. Here we describe the expression and purification of recombinant PTX3. An arginine-containing buffer is essential for the elution of bacterially expressed PTX3 N-terminal domain to minimize aggregation. This method allows high-yield purification of full-length or domain-fragment recombinant PTX3 proteins for biological study.
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This work was supported by the research program of social collaboration course at Nippon Medical School funded by FUJIFILM Corporation and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K07104. We thank Dr. Kevin Boru of Pacific Edit for reviewing the manuscript.
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Daigo, K., Hamakubo, T. (2020). Expression and Purification of Full-Length and Domain-Fragment Recombinant Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) Proteins from Mammalian and Bacterial Cells. In: Hirabayashi, J. (eds) Lectin Purification and Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2132. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0430-4_7
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