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A strategy, termed alanine-scanning mutagenesis, was used to identify the amino acid residues which are critical to the antigenicity of Escherichia coli l-asparaginase (l-ASP). Three continuous alkaline residues, 195RKH197, were mutated to Ala selectively. Four mutant recombinant l-ASPs were constructed and expressed in E. coli, and then purified. The purified mutants showed a single band by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and were more than 95% pure by reverse high-perfomance liquid chromatography. The activities of wild-type and m l-ASPs in the fermentative medium were all about 130 U/mL. The change from 195RKH 197 to 195AAA 197 reduced the antigenicity ofhe enzyme greatly as shown in competition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using polyclonal antibodies raised against the wild-type l-ASP from rabbits. The results show that residues 195RKH197 of E. coli l-ASP are critical to its antigenicity.
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Jianhua, C., Yujun, W., Ruibo, J. et al. Probing the antigenicity of E. coli l-asparaginase by mutational analysis. Mol Biotechnol 33, 57–65 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1385/MB:33:1:57
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