title: [Cloning and expression of fox growth hormone gene in Pichia pastoris].
abstract: To prepare recombinant fox growth hormone (fGH), we amplified its cDNA from silver fox pituitary tissue by RT-PCR and cloned into yeast shuttle vector pPIC9K down stream of a-factor signal peptide sequence by SnaB I and Not I restriction sites. The recombinant secretion vector pPIC9K/fGH, linearized by Sal I, was transformed into histidine-deficient Pichia pastoris strain GS115 by electroporation. We selected His+ -transformed methylotropic (His+, Mut+) yeast using histidine-absent medium containing dextrose (MD) or methanol (MM) as the only carbon source, and then screened the recombinant GS115 with multi-copy fGH genes by G418. The secretive expression of fGH was performed under the induction of methanol in shaking flask culture. The results showed that the fGH cDNA sequence amplified in this paper was basically in consistence with the published in GenBank. We achieved the secretive expression of recombinant fGH identified by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting. The fGH expression level was 119 mg/L, accounted for 34% of total proteins in fermentation medium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding 071001, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiujin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yuzhi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Longfei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qingjie
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D018274:Electroporation; D005589:Foxes / Q000235:genetics*; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010843:Pichia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D013006:Growth Hormone