Optimizing Membrane Protein Overexpression in the Escherichia coli strain Lemo21(DE3)

被引:121
作者
Schlegel, Susan [1 ]
Lofblom, John [2 ]
Lee, Chiara [3 ]
Hjelm, Anna [1 ]
Klepsch, Mirjam [1 ]
Strous, Marc [4 ,5 ]
Drew, David [3 ]
Slotboom, Dirk Jan [6 ]
de Gier, Jan-Willem [1 ]
机构
[1] Stockholm Univ, Ctr Biomembrane Res, Dept Biochem & Biophys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Sch Biotechnol, Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
[3] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Div Mol Biosci, London SW7 2AZ, England
[4] Univ Bielefeld, Inst Genome Res & Syst Biol, Ctr Biotechnol, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
[5] Max Planck Inst Marine Microbiol, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[6] Univ Groningen, Dept Biochem, Groningen Biomol Sci & Biotechnol Inst, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
基金
美国国家卫生研究院; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
membrane protein production; optimization of protein expression; membrane protein biogenesis; 17 RNA polymerase-based overexpression; membrane protein functional/structural studies; COUPLED-RECEPTORS; RNA-POLYMERASE; EXPRESSION; GENES; BACTERIOPHAGE-T7; PURIFICATION; ENHANCE; SYSTEM; HOSTS;
D O I
10.1016/j.jmb.2012.07.019
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) is widely used to overexpress proteins. In this overexpression host, the gene encoding the target protein is located on a plasmid and is under control of the T7 promoter, which is recognized exclusively by the T7 RNA polymerase (RNAP). The 17 RNAP gene is localized on the chromosome, and its expression is governed by the non-titratable, IPTG-inducible lacUV5 promoter. Recently, we constructed the Lemo21(DE3) strain, which allows improved control over the expression of genes from the 17 promoter. Lemo21(DE3) is a BL21(DE3) strain equipped with a plasmid harboring the gene encoding T7 lysozyme, an inhibitor of the T7 RNAP, under control of the exceptionally well-titratable rhamnose promoter. The overexpression yields of a large collection of membrane proteins in Lemo21(DE3) at different concentrations of rhamnose indicated that this strain may be very suitable for optimizing the production of membrane proteins. However, insight in the mechanism by which optimized expression yields are achieved in Lemo21(DE3) is lacking. Furthermore, whether the overexpressed proteins are suitable for functional and structural studies remains to be tested. Here, we show that in Lemo21(DE3), (i) the modulation of the activity of the 17 RNAP by the 17 lysozyme is key to optimizing the ratio of membrane proteins properly inserted in the cytoplasmic membrane to non-inserted proteins; (ii) maximizing the yields of membrane proteins is accompanied by reduction of the adverse effects of membrane protein overexpression, resulting in stable overexpression; and (iii) produced membrane proteins can be used for functional and structural studies. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:648 / 659
页数:12
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