title: High-level expression of the human tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
abstract: Five expression plasmids for a total chemically synthesized gene of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) were constructed, which differ in two aspects: 1) distance (D) between the SD and the initiation codon ATG; 2) energy-delta G0f298 released to form the stable secondary structure in the translation initiation region. The plasmid with a (D) of 6bp has the lowest delta G0f298 (absolute value) and showed the highest expression level, up to 60% of the total bacterial proteins. Codons usage will impose much influence on expression level, so it is reasonable and understandable that the total chemically synthesized TNF-alpha gene with the codons preferable to E. coli use gave much higher expression level than the sc-TNF-alpha in which only partial N-terminal codons were modified.
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ming
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000235:genetics*; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha