Escherichia coli(M15)을 이용한 serotonin N-acetyltransferase 유전자의 발현 = The Expression of Serotonin N-acetyltransferase Gene through Escherichia coli(M15)

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AA-NAT cDNA was obtained by RT-PCR technique from total RNA of rat sacrified at night(02:00am). pCRNAT was cloned using the pCRII vector with insertion of AA-NAT cDNA(about 1.4 kb) at EcoRI site. For the expression of the gene, pQECNAT was subcloned, in which the coding region of AA-NAT was inserted into expression vector pQE30 at BamHI and HindIII sites.
According to the experimental results, Escherichia coli strain M15, transformed by the expession vector pQECNAT, was selected as a host to express AA-NAT gene with the induction of isopropyl β-D-thiogalactoside(IPTG). Optimal condition for the expression of AA-NAT gene was achieve from the experimental results, showing that the expression of the protein was inducible much 19.800 ± 2,200 dpm per ml of culture volume in 4 hours at the concentration of 2 mM IPTG. Partial purification through the affinity column(Ni-NTA agarose) binding to the continuous 6 histidine residues of protein resulted in 5 times more increase in the specific activity of AA-NAT than that of the homogenate of bacterial pellet. These experimental results will provide basic data in further study for the enzymatic kinetics and antibody production of AA-NAT.