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Published on: February 2, 2018
[Glycosylation modifications improve secretion and activity of intein spliced coagulation factor VIII]
Fu-xiang ZHU1, Ze-long LIU, Jing MIAO
1Biomedical Institute, Life Science College of Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China. fuxiangmail@163.com
Objective:
to investigate the effect of glycosylation modification on secretion of intein spliced B-domain-deleted FVIII (BDD-FVIII).
Methods:
a total of 226 amino acid residues of FVIII B domain with six potential asparagines-linked glycosylation sites (N6) were incorporated into heavy chain of BDD-FVIII. By dual-vector co-transfer of heavy and light chain genes with fused intein (N6HCIntN and IntCLC) into cultured 293 cells, the amounts of spliced BDD-FVIII protein and coagulation activity in culture supernatant were observed by ELISA and Coatest method respectively.
Results:
the amounts of spliced BDD-FVIII protein and activity were up to (123 ± 18) ng/ml and (0.94 ± 0.11) U/ml in supernatant from cells co-transfected with N6HCIntN and IntCLC genes. And they were higher than those of cells co-transfected with intein-fused heavy (HCIntN) and light chain (IntCLC) genes [(86 ± 12) ng/ml and (0.65 ± 0.07) U/ml, both P < 0.05]. Spliced BDD-FVIII protein and activity could also be detected in the supernatant from mixed cells individually transfected with N6HCIntN and IntCLC genes [(18 ± 6) ng/ml and (0.15 ± 0.05) U/ml].
Conclusion:
it demonstrated that the glycosylation modified heavy chain can improve the secretion of intein spliced BDD-FVIII and the protein splicing can occur independent of cellular mechanism.
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