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Characterization of Membrane Transporters by Heterologous Expression in E. coli and Production of Membrane Vesicles
Published on: December 31, 2019
Collection and characterisation of bacterial membrane proteins
Massoud Saidijam1, Georgios Psakis, Joanne L Clough
1Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Abstract:
A general strategy for the amplified expression in Escherichia coli of membrane transport and receptor proteins from other bacteria is described. As an illustration we report the cloning of the putative alpha-ketoglutarate membrane transport gene from the genome of Helicobacter pylori, overexpression of the protein tagged with RGS(His)6 at the C-terminus, and its purification in mg quantities. The retention of structural and functional integrity was verified by circular dichroism spectroscopy and reconstitution of transport activity. This strategy for overexpression and purification is extended to additional membrane proteins from H. pylori and from other bacteria.
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