title: [Gene cloning and expression of TNF in Streptomyces lividans TK54].
abstract: With the plasmid pIJ486 as a vector, TNF cDNA originated from plasmid pHT1 has been cloned into Streptomyces lividans TK54. After transformation, hundreds of transformants, resistant to neomycin (30 micrograms/ml) were selected. Result showed that TNF cDNA was inserted into the plasmid pIJT7 harboured in No. 7 transformant, namely Streptomyces lividans TK54-HT. Cytotoxic activity experiment of L929 cell demonstrated that the maximal TNF activity in Streptomyces lividans TK54-HT is more than 10(8) unit/L culture. The neutralization experiment showed that the product producing by Streptomyces lividans TK54-HT is human TNF-alpha. SDS-PAGE confirmed that there is a 17,000 dolton protein band which has the same molecular weight as that of TNF in the clear lysate supernatant of Streptomyces lividans TK54-HT cells. All of these results mentioned above showed that the TNF gene has been successfully cloned and expressed in Streptomyces lividans TK54.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015870:Gene Expression; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000378:metabolism*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha