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Expression of soluble, active, fluorescently tagged hephaestin in COS and CHO cell lines

ASLAN, ES; WHITE, KN; SYED, BA; SRAI, KS; EVANS, RW; (2020) Expression of soluble, active, fluorescently tagged hephaestin in COS and CHO cell lines. Turkish Journal of Biology , 44 (6) pp. 393-405. 10.3906/biy-2005-39. Green open access

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Abstract

Hephaestin (Hp) is a trans-membrane protein, which plays a critical role in intestinal iron absorption. Hp was originally identified as the gene responsible for the phenotype of sex-linked anaemia in the sla mouse. The mutation in the sla protein causes ac-cumulation of dietary iron in duodenal cells, causing severe microcytic hypochromic anaemia. Although mucosal uptake of dietary iron is normal, export from the duodenum is inhibited. Hp is homologous to ceruloplasmin (Cp), a member of the family of multi copper fer-roxidases (MCFs) and possesses ferroxidase activity that facilitates iron release from the duodenum and load onto the serum iron trans-port protein transferrin. In the present study, attempts were made to produce biologically active recombinant mouse hephaestin as a secretory form tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP), Hpsec-GFP. Plasmid expressing Hpsec-GFP was constructed and transfected into COS and CHO cells. The GFP aided the monitoring expression in real time to select the best conditions to maximise expression and provided a tag for purifying and analysing Hpsec-GFP. The protein had detectable oxidase activity as shown by in-gel and solution-based assays. The methods described here can provide the basis for further work to probe the interaction of hephaestin with other proteins using complementary fluorescent tags on target proteins that would facilitate the fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements, for example with transferrin or colocalisation studies, and help to discover more about hephaestin works at the molecular level.</jats:p>

Type: Article
Title: Expression of soluble, active, fluorescently tagged hephaestin in COS and CHO cell lines
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3906/biy-2005-39
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-2005-39
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Structural and Molecular Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118258
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