title: Molecular cloning and expression of the C-terminus of spider flagelliform silk protein from Araneus ventricosus.
abstract: A cDNA coding for the C-terminus of spider flagelliform silk protein (AvFlag) was cloned from Araneus ventricosus. Analysis of the cDNA sequence shows that the C-terminus of AvFlag consists of 167 amino acids of a repetitive region and 87 amino acids of a C-terminal non-repetitive region. The peptide motifs found in spider flagelliform silk proteins, GPGGX and GGX,were conserved in the repetitive region of AvFlag. Phylogenetic analysis further confirmed that AvFlag belongs to the spider flagelliform silk proteins. The AvFlag cDNA was expressed as a 28 kDa polypeptide in baculovirus-infected insect cells. As a new expression approach for spider silk protein,the combination of polyhedrin and AvFlag creates a polyhedrin AvFlag fusion protein (61 kDa) that is produced as recombinant polyhedra; this provides a basis for the source of spider silk proteins for various applications.
authors.affiliation: College of Natural Resources and Life Science, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Korea.
authors.forename: Kwang Sik
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Bo Yeon
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yeon Ho
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Je
authors.forename: Soo Dong
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Hung Dae
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Sohn
authors.forename: Byung Rae
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D047011:Silk / Q000737:chemistry*; D013112:Spiders
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019476:Insect Proteins; D047011:Silk