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标题：Production and Purification of Secretory Simian Cytidine Monophosphate- N -acetylneuraminic Acid Hydroxylase Using Baculovirus-Protein Expression System
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作者：Tadanobu Takahashi ; Sawako Kawagishi ; Hiroki Funahashi 等
期刊名称：Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0918-6158
电子版ISSN：1347-5215
出版年度：2015
卷号：38
期号：8
页码：1220-1226
DOI：10.1248/bpb.b15-00299
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：Cytidine monophosphate (CMP) N -acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) hydroxylase (CMAH) is an essential enzyme for N -glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) synthesis. In humans, Neu5Gc cannot be synthesized because of a deletion in the CMAH gene. Since Neu5Gc research has not been actively performed in comparison with Neu5Ac research, little is known about the function of Neu5Gc. Possible reasons are that CMAH for controlling Neu5Gc synthesis is not understood well at the molecular level, that commercial Neu5Gc is expensive, and that addition of exogenous Neu5Gc to glycoconjugates is not a general method because of the difficulty in obtaining CMAH. One solution to these problems is to achieve large-scale production of CMAH with enzymatic activity. To produce and purify CMAH as simply as possible, we generated simian CMAH as a secretory protein with a histidine tag using a baculovirus protein expression system. After culture of baculovirus-infected cells in serum-free medium, secretory simian CMAH (approximately 180 µg) was highly purified from the supernatant (150 mL) of cell culture. HPLC analysis showed conversion of CMP-Neu5Ac to CMP-Neu5Gc by the secretory CMAH. We succeeded in producing secretory CMAH with enzymatic activity that is easy to purify. In addition, peptide- N -glycosidase F treatment of CMAH indicated that secretory CMAH was a glycoprotein with N -glycan. It will also contribute to research on Neu5Gc function by easy-to-use methods for controlling Neu5Gc synthesis, for exogenous addition of Neu5Gc to glycoconjugates and by application to industrial Neu5Gc synthesis.