WO2001055174A3 - Universal procedure for refolding recombinant proteins - Google Patents

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WO2001055174A3
WO2001055174A3 PCT/US2000/035632 US0035632W WO0155174A3 WO 2001055174 A3 WO2001055174 A3 WO 2001055174A3 US 0035632 W US0035632 W US 0035632W WO 0155174 A3 WO0155174 A3 WO 0155174A3
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A universal folding method that has been demonstrated to be effective in refolding a variety of very different proteins expressed in bacteria as inclusion bodies has been developed. Representative proteins that can be dissolved and refolded in biologically active form, with the native structure, are shown in Table I. The method has two key steps to unfold and then refold the proteins expressed in the inclusion bodies. The first step is to raise the pH of the protein solution in the presence of denaturing agents to pH greater than 9, preferably 10. The protein solution may be maintained at the elevated pH for a period of up to about 24 hours, or the pH immediately decreased slowly, in increments of about 0.2 pH units/24 hours, until the solution reaches a pH of about 8.0, or both steps used. In the preferred embodiment, purified inclusion bodies are dissolved in 8 M urea, 0.1 M Tris, 1 mM glycine, 1 mH EDTA, 10 mM beta-mercaptoethanol, 10 mM dithiothreitol (DTT), 1 mM redued glutathion (GSH), 0.1 mM oxidized glutathion (GSSG), pH 10. The absorbance at 280 nm (OD280) of the protein solution is 5.0. This solution is rapidly diluted into 20 volumes of 20 mM Tris base. The resulting solution is adjusted to pH 9.0 with 1 M HC1 and is kept at 4 C for 24 hrs. The pH is adjusted to pH 8.8 and the solution is kept at 4 C for another 24 hrs. This process is repeated until the pH is adjusted to 8.0. After 24 hrs at pH8.0, the refolded proteins can be concentrated by ultrafiltration and applied to a gel filtration column for purification.
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EP00988440A EP1255769B1 (en) 2000-01-25 2000-12-28 Universal procedure for refolding recombinant proteins
DE60034707T DE60034707T2 (en) 2000-01-25 2000-12-28 GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR RECYCLING RECOMBINANT PROTEINS
JP2001561026A JP3929777B2 (en) 2000-01-25 2000-12-28 A routine procedure for refolding recombinant proteins
DK00988440T DK1255769T3 (en) 2000-01-25 2000-12-28 Universal procedure for refolding recombinant proteins
CY20071101003T CY1106768T1 (en) 2000-01-25 2007-07-30 GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMBINANT PROTEINS

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