NDLI: Efficient and cost effective production of active-form human PKB using silkworm larvae

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Author	Maesaki, Ryoko Satoh, Ryosuke Taoka, Masato Kanaba, Teppei Asano, Tsunaki Fujita, Chiharu Fujiwara, Toshinobu Ito, Yutaka Isobe, Toshiaki Hakoshima, Toshio Maenaka, Katsumi Mishima, Masaki
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Protein kinase B (PKB) also known as Akt is involved in many signal transduction pathways. As alterations of the PKB pathway are found in a number of human malignancies, PKB is considered an important drug target for cancer therapy. However, production of sufficient amounts of active PKB for biochemical and structural studies is very costly because of the necessity of using a higher organism expression system to obtain phosphorylated PKB. Here, we report efficient production of active PKBα using the BmNPV bacmid expression system with silkworm larvae. Following direct injection of bacmid DNA, recombinant PKBα protein was highly expressed in the fat bodies of larvae, and could be purified using a GST-tag and then cleaved. A final yield of approximately 1 mg PKBα/20 larvae was recorded. Kinase assays showed that the recombinant PKBα possessed high phosphorylation activity. We further confirmed phosphorylation on the activation loop by mass spectrometric analysis. Our results indicate that the silkworm expression system is of value for preparation of active-form PKBα with phosphorylation on the activation loop. This efficient production of the active protein will facilitate further biochemical and structural studies and stimulate subsequent drug development.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06016
Starting Page	6016
File Format	PDF
ISSN	20452322
e-ISSN	20452322
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Nature Publishing Group
Publisher Date	2014-08-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Nature Publishing Group
Subject Keyword	Science and technology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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