title: Strategies for recombinant expression of small, highly disulphide-bonded, cationic antimicrobial peptides.
abstract: Expression of two recombinant hepcidin homologues from Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, characterization of their antimicrobial activity, and partial structural determination of the peptides is described. Expression was attempted in baculovirus and bacterial expression systems and the various purification and refolding methods used to determine the optimal strategy for production of active, correctly refolded hepcidin are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Marine Biosciences, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3Z1.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Greenshields
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Knickle
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Syvitski
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Douglas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D023181:Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D010450:Endopeptidases / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D064451:Hepcidins; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D017510:Protein Folding; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D020317:Salmo salar; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D023181:Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides; D064451:Hepcidins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D010450:Endopeptidases; C099488:TEV protease