Construction and use of a prokaryotic expression system for Helicobacter pylori AhpC

BMC Research Notes

Fariha Hasan¹  Khalid Mehmood² 

[1] Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan;Department of Pharmacy, Hazara University, Havelian, Abbottabad, Pakistan

关键词: AhpC;    Recombinant fusion protein;    Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase;    tsaA;    H. pylori;    Prokaryotic expression system;   

Others  :  1166219
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-5-328

 received in 2012-02-29, accepted in 2012-06-21,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Helicobacter pylori is an important pathogen responsible for human gastric problems like inflammation, ulcers and cancer. It is widely prevalent in developing countries with low socioeconomic status. Since the infection remains asymptomatic in most individuals, efforts for efficient diagnostic markers to identify high risk patients are warranted. In this study, we constructed an expression vector that overexpresses the H. pylori AhpC protein as a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein. We furthermore examined whether this recombinant fusion protein retained immunogenicity and thus would be useful as a diagnostic marker.

Findings

The full-length tsaA gene from H. pylori strain G27, which encodes AhpC, was cloned in plasmid vector pGEX-6P-2 to create the recombinant plasmid vector pGEX-tsaA. The nucleotide sequence of the clone showed 100% homology with corresponding published sequence of original gene. Over-expression of the target protein GST-AhpC was achieved in E. coli BL21 (DE3) cells by induction with isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG). GST-AhpC was extracted and identified using SDS-PAGE as a 52 kDa protein. Western blotting results using commercial antibodies against whole cell H. pylori showed that the fusion protein retained immunogenecity.

Conclusion

A recombinant prokaryotic expression system was successfully established with high expression efficiency for target fusion gene pGEX-tsaA. The expressed GST-AhpC protein showed immunoreactivity against commercial anti-H. pylori antibodies. This recombinant fusion protein can be developed as a diagnostic marker for screening patients with chronic H. pylori infections.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Mehmood and Hasan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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