title: Differential expression in Escherichia coli of the alpha and beta forms of heparin-binding acidic fibroblast growth factor-1: potential role of RNA secondary structure.
abstract: Synthetic DNA fragments encoding the entire open-reading frame of human heparin-binding growth factor-1 (HBGF-1 beta) and its NH2-terminal truncated form (HBGF-1 alpha) were constructed. When both constructs were expressed in Escherichia coli under control of the trp-lac promoter, biologically active HBGF-1 alpha, but not HBGF-1 beta was produced in high yield. However, high level expression of HBGF-1 beta was obtained using the T7 polymerase expression vector. Computer analysis of HBGF-1 beta predicts the potential for the formation of exaggerated RNA secondary structure near the translation initiation codon and this could be implicated in contributing to the poor translation of HBGF-1 beta under the trp-lac promoter.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences, American Red Cross, Rockville, MD 20855.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forough
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Engleka
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Imamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maciag
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D016220:Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 / Q000235:genetics*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D016220:Fibroblast Growth Factor 1; D012313:RNA