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- The study focuses on expressing functional proteins in alternative hosts to E. coli, highlighting Lactococcus lactis as a promising option due to its lack of endotoxins during purification.
- Researchers optimized the expression of the challenging HIV-1 Tat protein in L. lactis by testing different promoters and varying conditions like pH and glucose.
- The recombinant Tat protein was shown to be functionally active, suggesting potential for future research on expressing other toxic proteins using this system.
Article Abstract
Efficient expression of functional proteins in heterologous hosts has become the pivotal focus of modern biotechnology and biomedical research. To this end, multiple alternatives to E. coli are being explored for recombinant protein expression. L. lactis, being a gram-positive organism, circumvents the need for an endotoxin removal step during protein purification. We report here the optimisation of the expression of HIV-1 Tat, a notoriously difficult protein, in Lactococcus lactis system. We evaluated five different promoters in two different Lactococcus lactis strains and examined the effect of pH, glucose, and induction time on the yield and purity of Tat. Finally, the recombinant Tat was functionally competent in transactivating the HIV-1 promoter in HLM-1 reporter cells. Our work provides a scaffold for future work on the expression of toxic proteins in Lactococcus lactis.
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