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( Daisuke Morokuma ),( Masato Hino ),( Miho Tsuchioka ),( Akitsu Masuda ),( Hiroaki Mon ),( Kazuhito Fujiyama ),( Hiroyuki Kajiura ),( Takahiro Kusakabe ),( Jae Man Lee ) 한국잠사학회 2018 International Journal of Industrial Entomology Vol.36 No.1
N-glycosylation is an important posttranslational modification that results in a variety of biological activities, structural stability, and protein-protein interactions. There are still many mysteries in the structure and function of N-glycans, and detailed elucidation is necessary. Baculovirus expression system (BES) is widely used to produce recombinant glycoproteins, but it is not suitable for clinical use due to differences in N-glycan structure between insects and mammals. It is necessary to develop adequate model glycoproteins for analysis to efficiently alter the insect-type N-glycosylation pathway to human type. The previous research shows the recombinant alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (a1AGP) secreted from silkworm cultured cells or larvae is highly glycosylated and expected to be an excellent research candidate for the glycoprotein analysis expressed by BES. Therefore, we improved the a1AGP to be a better model for studying glycosylation. The modified a1AGP (a1AGPΔ) recombinant protein was successfully expressed and purified by using BES, however, the expression level in silkworm cultured cells and larvae were lower than that of the a1AGP. Subsequently, we confirmed the detailed profile of N-glycan on the a1AGPΔ by LS/MS analysis the N-glycan structure at each glycosylation site. These results indicated that the recombinant a1AGPΔ could be usable as a better model glycoprotein of N-glycosylation research in BES.
Daisuke Morokuma,Jian Xu,Hiroaki Mon,Kazuma Hirata,Masato Hino,Shoko Kuboe,Mami Yamashita,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재만 한국응용곤충학회 2015 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.18 No.2
Glycosylation is an important post-translational modification that confers various biological activities, structural stability, and inter-molecular interactions to proteins. Baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is widely used to produce recombinant glycoproteins, which may not be suitable for clinical use due to differences in the N-linked glycan structure between insects and mammals. It is necessary to develop an appropriate model protein-base platform for glycoanalysis to engineer the insect-type N-glycosylation pathway into human type efficiently. In this study,we employed human plasma protein alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (α1AGP). Itwas highly secreted from cultured silkworm cells and larvae when using the BEVS and glycosylated with insect type N-linked glycans. Interestingly, when separated on SDS-PAGE, the purified recombinant α1AGP secreted into silkworm haemolymph generated six distinct products from three alternative translates, suggesting that α1AGP has variations for the recognition or choice of glycosylation sites.
Morokuma, Daisuke,Hino, Masato,Tsuchioka, Miho,Masuda, Akitsu,Mon, Hiroaki,Fujiyama, Kazuhito,Kajiura, Hiroyuki,Kusakabe, Takahiro,Lee, Jae Man Korean Society of Sericultural Science 2018 International Journal of Industrial Entomology Vol.36 No.1
N-glycosylation is an important posttranslational modification that results in a variety of biological activities, structural stability, and protein-protein interactions. There are still many mysteries in the structure and function of N-glycans, and detailed elucidation is necessary. Baculovirus expression system (BES) is widely used to produce recombinant glycoproteins, but it is not suitable for clinical use due to differences in N-glycan structure between insects and mammals. It is necessary to develop adequate model glycoproteins for analysis to efficiently alter the insect-type N-glycosylation pathway to human type. The previous research shows the recombinant alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (${\alpha}1AGP$) secreted from silkworm cultured cells or larvae is highly glycosylated and expected to be an excellent research candidate for the glycoprotein analysis expressed by BES. Therefore, we improved the ${\alpha}1AGP$ to be a better model for studying glycosylation. The modified ${\alpha}1AGP$ (${\alpha}1AGP{\Delta}$) recombinant protein was successfully expressed and purified by using BES, however, the expression level in silkworm cultured cells and larvae were lower than that of the ${\alpha}1AGP$. Subsequently, we confirmed the detailed profile of N-glycan on the ${\alpha}1AGP{\Delta}$ by LS/MS analysis the N-glycan structure at each glycosylation site. These results indicated that the recombinant ${\alpha}1AGP{\Delta}$ could be usable as a better model glycoprotein of N-glycosylation research in BES.
KISO/KWFC Observation of the Dust Ejecta Associated with the 2007 Outburst of 17P/Holmes
Masateru Ishiguro,Yuki Sarugaku,Daisuke Kuroda,Hidekazu Hanayama,Yoonyoung Kim,Yuna Kwon,Hiroyuki Maehara,Jun Takahashi,Tsuyoshi Terai,Fumihiko Usui,Jeremie J.Vaubaillon,Tomoki Morokuma,Naoto Kobayash 한국천문학회 2015 天文學會報 Vol.40 No.2
Atsushi Masuda,Jian Xu,TakumiMitsudome,Daisuke Morokuma,Hiroaki Mon,Yutaka Banno,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재만 한국응용곤충학회 2015 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.18 No.2
Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H) catalyzes cleavage between the GlcNAc residues of the chitobiose core of N-linked glycans, leaving one GlcNAc residues attached to asparagine. Endo H cleaves high mannose and hybrid, but not complex, N-linked oligosaccharides on glycoproteins. Because of its unique specificity, Endo H is widely used for the structural and functional analyses of glycoproteins. In our previous study, the recombinant Endo H was produced as a secreted protein using silkworm–baculovirus expression system, but the yield was low (30 μg Endo H/10 ml larval hemolymph) compared to that of Escherichia coli. In this study, we purified active recombinant Endo H as an intracellular protein from fat body of silkworm infected with the recombinant baculovirus expressing Endo H without the exogenous signal peptide. Remarkably, the yield (9.3mgfrom20 silkwormlarvae)was about 310-fold higher than that secreted into larval hemolymph as reported previously. In addition,we screened the silkwormstrains maintained in Kyushu University and identified n17 as a high-level expression strain for Endo H.
Masato Hino,Takuji Kawanami,Jian Xu,Daisuke Morokuma,Kazuma Hirata,Mami Yamashita,Noriko Karasaki,Tuneyuki Tatsuke,Hiroaki Mon,Kazuhiro Iiyama,Noriho Kamiya,Yutaka Banno,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재민 한국응용곤충학회 2016 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.19 No.2
Interleukin 2 (IL-2) is a pharmacologically vital cytokine secreted mainly by activated CD4+ T lymphocyte. Recombinant human IL-2 (rhIL-2) protein has already been globally applied as an immune-therapeutic reagent for various diseases. Therefore, there is great interest in developing an active form of rhIL-2 in very large amounts and with excellent purity for clinical use. In this study, we successfully mass-expressed and purified N- or C-terminal tandem tag-fused rhIL-2 in a baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) using silkworm larvae as factories. We confirmed that the intrinsic instability of hIL-2 causes the loss and low recovery of N-tagged rhIL-2 and that C-tagged rhIL-2 ismore suitable for mass production. Furthermore, the activity of purified rhIL-2s was further validated by a cell proliferation assay of a human natural killer cell line, and both rhIL-2 proteins produced in the silkworm-BEVS exhibited comparable activity to that of the commercial E.coli-derived rhIL-2. Taken together, our results and strategies could contribute greatly to the mass production of active rhIL-2.
DETECTION OF REMNANT DUST CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2007 OUTBURST OF 17P/HOLMES
Ishiguro, Masateru,Sarugaku, Yuki,Kuroda, Daisuke,Hanayama, Hidekazu,Kim, Yoonyoung,Kwon, Yuna G.,Maehara, Hiroyuki,Takahashi, Jun,Terai, Tsuyoshi,Usui, Fumihiko,Vaubaillon, Jeremie J.,Morokuma, Tomok American Astronomical Society 2016 The Astrophysical journal Vol.817 No.1
<P>This article reports a new optical observation of 17P/Holmes one orbital period after the historical outburst event in 2007. We detected not only a common dust tail near the nucleus. but also a long narrow structure that extended along the position angle 274 degrees.6 +/- 0 degrees.1 beyond the field of view (FOV) of the Kiso Wide Field Camera, i.e., >0 degrees.2 eastward and >2 degrees.0 westward from the nuclear position. The width of the structure decreased westward with increasing distance from the nucleus. We obtained the total cross section of the long extended structure in the FOV, C-FOV = (2.3 +/- 0.5) x 10(10) m(2). From the position angle, morphology, and mass, we concluded that the long. narrow structure consists of materials ejected during the 2007 outburst. On the basis of the dynamical behavior of dust grains in the solar radiation field, we estimated that the long. narrow structure would be composed of 1 mm(-1) cm grains having an ejection velocity of >50 m s(-1). The velocity was more than one order of magnitude faster than that of millimeter-centimeter grains from typical comets around a heliocentric distance r(h) of 2.5 AU. We considered that sudden sublimation of a large amount of water-ice (approximate to 10(30) mol s(-1)) would be responsible for the high ejection velocity. We finally estimated a total mass of M-TOT = (4-8) x 10(11) kg and a total kinetic energy of E-TOT = (1-6) x 10(15) J for the 2007 outburst ejecta, which are consistent with those of previous studies that were conducted soon after the outburst.</P>
Akihiro Morio,Jian Xu,Akitsu Masuda,Yurie Kinoshita,Masato Hino,Daisuke Morokuma,Hatsumi M. Goda,Nozomu Okino,Makoto Ito,Hiroaki Mon,Ryosuke Fujita,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재만 한국응용곤충학회 2019 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.22 No.2
The O-glycosidase, endo-α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from Enterococcus faecalis (endoEF) catalyzes the cleavage of core 1 and core 3 type O-linked disaccharides between GalNAc and serine or threonine residues from glycoproteins. The endoEF has broad substrate specificity and thus is extensively utilized for the structural and functional analysis of the O-linked glycans. In this study, we expressed and purified the recombinant endoEF (rEndoEF) by using the silkworm-baculovirus expression vector system (Silkworm-BEVS) and confirmed the deglycosylation activity of rEndoEF targeting reporter glycoproteins, which was equivalent to the commercial Oglycosidase. Thus, our study provides important clues to produce highly active rEndoEF O-glycosidases employing silkworm-BEVS as an alternative.
Takumi Yano,이재만,Jian Xu,Yoshiki Morifuji,Akitsu Masuda,Masato Hino,Daisuke Morokuma,Ryosuke Fujita,Masateru Takahashi,Takahiro Kusakabe,Hiroaki Mon 한국응용곤충학회 2019 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.22 No.2
Reverse transcriptase from Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLVRT) is an RNA dependent DNA polymerase, which has been used as a fundamental tool for molecular biology and biotechnology. The secondary structures formed in the RNA templates decrease the accessibility of the reverse transcriptase to the RNA templates; it is important to unfold the RNA secondary structure by increasing the reaction temperature to perform the successful transcription. In this study, we applied silkworm baculovirus expression vector system (silkworm-BEVS) to mass-produce and purify the recombinant MMLVRTs with the N- or C- terminal tandem tags. We confirmed that both of the recombinant MMLVRT enzymes have intact DNA polymerase activity. It is notable that Cterminal tagged MMLVRT outperformed MMLVRT obtained from the E. coli expression system in terms of thermostability and sensitivity to low quantities of RNA template. Taken together, these results demonstrate that silkworm-BEVS is a promising alternative strategy to produce the functional and thermostable reverse transcriptase.
Akitsu Masuda,Jian Xu,Kosuke Minamihata,Genki Kagawa,Yusei Hamada,Yoshiki Morifuji,Takumi Yano,Masato Hino,Daisuke Morokuma,Noriko Karasaki,Hiroaki Mon,Noriho Kamiya,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재만 한국응용곤충학회 2018 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.21 No.2
As a therapeutic treatment, recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (rhbFGF) is usually employed in tissue regeneration, and as an essential component in culture medium for maintaining the induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell and embryonic stem (ES) cell in an undifferentiated state. Therefore, a large amount of biologically active rhbFGF is required. In this study, silkworm-baculovirus expression vector system (silkworm-BEVS) is employed to achieve a high productivity of recombinant rhbFGF with two small affinity tags (His-tag and STREP-tag) at the N or C-terminus. It is observed that rhbFGF with 30 K signal peptide of silkworm were successfully expressed but are not sufficiently secreted into the culture medium of cultured insect cells. Then we purified the N- or C-tagged intracellular rhbFGF protein and obtained a yield of about 0.7 mg/larva and 1.2 mg/ larva, respectively. Although the final yield of the C-tagged rhbFGF is higher than that of the N-tagged, rhbFGF with N-tag demonstrated promising and comparable biological activity, which is evaluated through a mammalian cell proliferation assay. Taken together, these results indicate that silkworm-BEVS could contribute to the mass-production of the biologically active rhbFGF for medical uses.