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Protein Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 12, 949-952, December 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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Silent mutations in secondary Shine–Dalgarno sequences in the cDNA of human serum amyloid A4 promotes expression of recombinant protein in Escherichia coli

Andelko Hrzenjak, Andreas Artl, Gabriele Knipping, Gerhard Kostner, Wolfgang Sattler and Ernst Malle,1

Karl-Franzens University Graz, Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harrachgasse 21, A-8010 Graz, Austria

The serum amyloid A (SAA) superfamily comprises a number of differentially expressed genes with a high degree of homology in mammalian species. SAA4, an apolipoprotein constitutively expressed only in humans and mice, is associated almost entirely with lipoproteins of the high-density range. The presence of SAA4 mRNA and protein in macrophage-derived foam cells of coronary and carotid arteries suggested a specific role of human SAA4 during inflammation including atherosclerosis. Here we underline the importance of ribosome binding site (rbs)-like sequences (also known as Shine–Dalgarno sequences) in the SAA4 cDNA for expression of recombinant SAA4 protein in Escherichia coli. In contrast to rbs sequences coded by the expression vectors, rbs-like sequences in the cDNA of target protein(s) are known to interfere with protein translation via binding to the small 16S ribosome subunit, yielding low or even no expression. Here we show that PCR mutations of two rbs-like sequences in the human SAA4 cDNA promote expression of considerable amounts of recombinant SAA4 in E.coli.


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