Publications by authors named "Diane M Retallack"

The circumsporozoite protein (CSP) of Plasmodium falciparum is a major surface protein, which forms a dense coat on the sporozoite's surface. Preclinical research on CSP and clinical evaluation of a CSP fragment-based RTS, S/AS01 vaccine have demonstrated a modest degree of protection against P. falciparum, mediated in part by humoral immunity and in part by cell-mediated immunity.

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A bottleneck to product development can be reliable expression of active target protein. A wide array of recombinant proteins in development, including an ever growing number of non-natural proteins, is being expressed in a variety of expression systems. A Pseudomonas fluorescens expression platform has been developed specifically for recombinant protein production.

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Cost-effective production of soluble recombinant protein in a bacterial system remains problematic with respect to expression levels and quality of the expressed target protein. These constraints have particular meaning today as "biosimilar" versions of innovator protein drugs are entering the clinic and the marketplace. A high throughput, parallel processing approach to expression strain engineering was used to evaluate soluble expression of human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in Pseudomonas fluorescens.

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Bacterial expression of recombinant proteins containing disulfide bonds is facilitated by transport of the proteins to the periplasmic space. Several Pseudomonas fluorescens signal sequences have been identified that efficiently direct proteins to the periplasm and provide solubility and yield advantages over the production of proteins fused to the PelB signal sequence in E. coli.

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DNA microarray technology was used to survey changes in gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens after mitomycin C treatment. As expected, genes associated with the SOS response were upregulated, such as those encoding the recombination protein RecA, DNA repair protein RecN, excinuclease ABC subunit A UvrA, and the LexA repressor protein. Interestingly, expression of 33 clustered bacteriophage-like genes was upregulated, suggesting that mitomycin C (MMC) may induce a prophage resident in the P.

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Background: In an effort to identify alternate recombinant gene expression systems in Pseudomonas fluorescens, we identified genes encoding two native metabolic pathways that were inducible with inexpensive compounds: the anthranilate operon (antABC) and the benzoate operon (benABCD).

Results: The antABC and benABCD operons were identified by homology to the Acinetobacter sp. anthranilate operon and Pseudomonas putida benzoate operon, and were confirmed to be regulated by anthranilate or benzoate, respectively.

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