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HEREDITAS ›› 2005, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 623-628.

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A Preliminary Study of the Structure Prediction and Expression of SARS-CoV Spike Protein

SUN Mei-Ling, PIAO Jing-Hua, YIN Chang-Cheng, HUANG Hua-Liang   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology , Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
  • Received:2004-04-23 Revised:2005-01-02 Online:2005-08-10 Published:2005-08-10

Abstract: In this study, the encoding sequences of SARS-CoV spike protein were analyzed by bioinformatics methods, the structural characteristics and functions were forecasted based on available data. It suggests that the fragment of spike glycoprotein (S401~659) may be crucial for viral attachment and may be a major immunodominant epitope. Then the fragment was amplified and subcloned into expression vector pET28a(+) and pPIC9K. These two plasmids pET28a(+)-S and pPIC9K-S were transformed to E.coli strain BL21(DE3)-star and Pichia pastoris, respectively. SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis showed that the recombinant protein was successfully expressed. The denatured inclusion bodies were purified with Ni-NTA chelate agarose and its purity can reach 90%.

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