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Functional expression of recombinant tumstatin in stably transformed Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells

  • Hee Kyoung Jeon
  • , Kyung Hwa Chang
  • , Kyung Il Kim
  • , In Sik Chung

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Abstract

Recombinant tumstatin was expressed in stably transformed Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells and secreted into the medium with a molecular size of 29 kDa. Recombinant endostatin was also purified to homogeneity using a simple one-step Ni2+ affinity fractionation. Purified recombinant tumstatin inhibited endothelial cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner. The concentration at half-maximum inhibition for recombinant tumstatin was approx. 0.7 μg ml-1. A maximum production of 4.6 μg recombinant tumstatin (107 cells)-1 was obtained in a T-flask culture of S2 cells, 7 d after induction with 0.5 mM CuSO4.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)185-189
Number of pages5
JournalBiotechnology Letters
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2003

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors thank the Kalluri laboratory for providing the human tumstatin cDNA construct. This work was supported by grants from the Brain Korea 21 project and from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation through the Plant Metabolism Research Center, Kyung Hee University.

Keywords

  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Endothelial cells
  • Recombinant protein
  • Tumstatin

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