title: Construction and expression of a synthetic wheat storage protein gene.
abstract: A synthetic wheat high-molecular-weight (HMW) glutenin storage protein gene analog was constructed for expression in E. coli. This first synthetic HMW-glutenin gene and future modifications are intended to allow systematic dissection of the molecular basis of HMW-glutenin role in the visco-elastic properties critical for wheat product processing and utilization. The design of the gene included four features: different construction strategies for the separate assembly of major polypeptide domains, the inclusion of convenient restriction sites for modifications, use of a codon selection similar to E. coli highly expressed genes, and the ability to produce repetitive sequence domains of exact numbers of defined repeats. The complete synthetic HMW-glutenin construct was 1908 bp, and contained 32 identical copies of one of the HMW-glutenin repetitive domain motifs. The gene expressed the novel HMW-glutenin protein to relatively high levels in bacterial cultures and the protein exhibited the known anomalous behavior of HMW-glutenins in SDS-PAGE.
authors.affiliation: Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA. oandersn@pw.usda.gov
authors.forename: O D
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kuhl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tam
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005813:Genes, Synthetic; D005983:Glutens / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D014908:Triticum / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005983:Glutens; C037302:glutenin