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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-11-28
pubmed:abstractText
Genetic engineering has been used for fusion of peptides, with different length and composition, on a protein to study the effect on partitioning in an aqueous two-phase system. The system was composed of dextran and the thermoseparating ethylene oxide-propylene oxide random copolymer, EO30P070. Peptides containing tryptophan, proline, arginine or aspartate residues were fused at the C-terminus of the recombinant protein ZZ-cutinase. The aim was to find effective tags for the lipolytic enzyme cutinase for large-scale extraction. The target protein and peptide tags were partitioned separately and then together in the fusion proteins in order to gain increased understanding of the influence of certain amino acid residues on the partitioning. The salt K2SO4 was used to reduce the charge dependent salt effects on partitioning and to evaluate the contribution to the partition coefficient from the hydrophobic-hydrophilic properties of the amino acid residues. The effect of Trp on peptide partitioning was independent of the difference in primary structure for (Trp)n, (Trp-Pro)n, (Ala-Trp-Trp-Pro)n and was only determined by the number of Trp. The effect of the charged residues, Arg and Asp, was dependent on the surrounding residues, i.e. if they were situated next to Trp or not. The partitioning behaviour observed for the peptides was qualitatively and in some cases also quantitatively the same as for the fusion proteins. The effect of the salts sodium perchlorate and triethylammonium phosphate on the partitioning was also studied. The salt effects observed for the peptides were qualitatively similar to the effects observed for the fusion proteins.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1387-2273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
743
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
295-306
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Partitioning of peptides and recombinant protein-peptide fusions in thermoseparating aqueous two-phase systems: effect of peptide primary structure.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Chemical Center, Lund University, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't