Collection and characterisation of bacterial membrane proteins
Overview of Saidijam M et al.
| Authors | Saidijam M Psakis G Clough JL Meuller J Suzuki S Hoyle CJ Palmer SL Morrison SM Pos MK Essenberg RC Maiden MC Abu-bakr A Baumberg SG Neyfakh AA Griffith JK Stark MJ Ward A O'Reilly J Rutherford NG Phillips-Jones MK Henderson PJ |
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| Affiliation | Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT UK. |
| Journal | FEBS Lett |
| Year | 2003 |
Abstract
A general strategy for the amplified expression in Escherichia coli of membrane transport and receptor proteins from other bacteria is described. As an illustration we report the cloning of the putative alpha-ketoglutarate membrane transport gene from the genome of Helicobacter pylori, overexpression of the protein tagged with RGS(His)6 at the C-terminus, and its purification in mg quantities. The retention of structural and functional integrity was verified by circular dichroism spectroscopy and reconstitution of transport activity. This strategy for overexpression and purification is extended to additional membrane proteins from H. pylori and from other bacteria.