Functional recombinants designed from a fetuin/asialofetuin-specific marine algal lectin, rhodobindin

Mar Drugs. 2015 Apr 13;13(4):2183-95. doi: 10.3390/md13042183.

Abstract

Plant lectins have attracted much attention for biomedical applications including targeted drug delivery system and therapy against tumors and microbial infections. The main problem of using lectins as a biomedical tool is a batch-to-batch variation in isoforms content. The production of lectins using recombination tools has the advantage of obtaining high amounts of proteins with more precise properties, but there are only a handful of functional recombinant lectins presently available. A fetuin/asialo-fetuin specific lectin, Rhodobindin, has unique tandem repeats structure which makes it useful in exploiting for recombinant lectin. We developed three functional recombinant lectins using E. coli expression system: one from full cDNA sequence and two from fragmentary sequences of Rhodobindin. Hemagglutinating activity and solubility of the recombinant lectins were highest at OD 0.7 cell concentration at 20 °C. The optimized process developed in this study was suitable for the quality-controlled production of high amounts of soluble recombinant lectins.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Asialoglycoproteins / metabolism*
  • Binding Sites
  • Drug Delivery Systems*
  • Fetuins / metabolism*
  • Gene Expression
  • Hemagglutination Tests
  • Open Reading Frames
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry
  • Peptide Fragments / genetics
  • Peptide Fragments / metabolism
  • Peptide Fragments / pharmacology
  • Plant Lectins / chemistry
  • Plant Lectins / genetics
  • Plant Lectins / metabolism*
  • Plant Lectins / pharmacology
  • Protein Engineering
  • Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
  • Protein Stability
  • Quality Control
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / metabolism
  • Recombinant Proteins / pharmacology
  • Republic of Korea
  • Rhodophyta / chemistry*
  • Rhodophyta / growth & development
  • Seaweed / chemistry*
  • Seaweed / growth & development
  • Solubility
  • Tandem Repeat Sequences
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Asialoglycoproteins
  • Fetuins
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Plant Lectins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • asialofetuin