High-Fidelity Translation of Recombinant Human Hemoglobin in Escherichia coli

AUTOR(ES)

Weickert, Michael J.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Coexpression of di-α-globin and β-globin in Escherichia coli in the presence of exogenous heme yielded high levels of soluble, functional recombinant human hemoglobin (rHb1.1). High-level expression of rHb1.1 provides a good model for measuring mistranslation in heterologous proteins. rHb1.1 does not contain isoleucine; therefore, any isoleucine present could be attributed to mistranslation, most likely mistranslation of one or more of the 200 codons that differ from an isoleucine codon by 1 bp. Sensitive amino acid analysis of highly purified rHb1.1 typically revealed ≤0.2 mol of isoleucine per mol of hemoglobin. This corresponds to a translation error rate of ≤0.001, which is not different from typical translation error rates found for E. coli proteins. Two different expression systems that resulted in accumulation of globin proteins to levels equivalent to ∼20% of the level of E. coli soluble proteins also resulted in equivalent translational fidelity.

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