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Experimental Analysis of E2BB (LTIIb) Signal Peptide in Secretory Production of Reteplase in Escherichia coli

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Recombinant reteplase is the truncated form of tissue plasminogen activator. Signal peptides play a pivotal role in the secretion of recombinant proteins. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of LTIIb signal peptide on the recombinant reteplase secretion in Escherichia coli. In the current study, cloning and expression of reteplase coding sequence with and without sequence corresponds to the peptide signal using pET 28a system was performed and its recombinant protein expression in E. coli BL21 (DE3) was induced by adding isopropyl β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) to the final concentrations 0.1 mM. The recombinant reteplase expression was analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and western blot assay. The activity of reteplase in periplasmic fraction and supernatant was measured by colorimetric assay. Our results confirm that high levels of reteplase protein are expressed as inclusion bodies. In the presence of peptide signal LTIIb, in periplasmic fraction, reteplase activity was negligible compared to the reteplase standard. No activity observed for reteplase in the periplasmic and extracellular fraction. The comparison between results obtained for LTIIb-reteplase with those to reteplase revealed that LTIIb signal peptide is not the proper candidate for the secretory production of reteplase.

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This work has been supported by the Research and Technology Deputy of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

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  1. Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Pegah Mousavi, Mohammad Hossein Morowvat, Zohreh Mostafavi-Pour & Younes Ghasemi

  2. Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71345-1583, Shiraz, Iran

    Mohammad Hossein Morowvat, Navid Nezafat & Younes Ghasemi

  3. Recombinant Protein Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Zohreh Mostafavi-Pour

  4. Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medical Sciences, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Pegah Mousavi & Kianoosh Malekzadeh

  5. Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Mohammad Hossein Morowvat, Navid Nezafat & Younes Ghasemi

  6. Institute of Biotechnology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Farzaneh Aram

  7. Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Pegah Mousavi & Kianoosh Malekzadeh

  8. Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 7919693116, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Pegah Mousavi

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Mousavi, P., Morowvat, M.H., Mostafavi-Pour, Z. et al. Experimental Analysis of E2BB (LTIIb) Signal Peptide in Secretory Production of Reteplase in Escherichia coli. Int J Pept Res Ther 27, 209–218 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10989-020-10059-x

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