The invention relates to a method for expressing an
antibacterial peptide apidaecin by using
Escherichia coli and for preparing the
antibacterial peptide apidaecin. The method comprises the following steps:
cloning AP2
gene and a polyhedron
gene sequence polh into a recombinant vector in order to form a recombinant vector with a polh-AP
fusion gene fragment;
cloning the polh-AP
fusion gene fragment into an
expression vector, converting the
expression vector to an expression host
cell, and culturing the expression host
cell to express a
fusion protein with an
antibacterial peptide AP2; and culturing the expression host
cell to induce the expression of the recombinant
protein polh-AP, centrifuging induced bacterial strains, collecting, re-suspending, carrying out ultrasonic fragmentation, centrifuging, collecting the above obtained insoluble inclusion body, purifying, and collecting a recombinant
protein sample. An expression
system has the characteristics of simple expression
system culture program, low production cost, efficient expression of the antibacterial
peptide apidaecin, and realization of AP2 and polh fusion expression, so compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages of effective reduction of
toxicity of the AP2 to
Escherichia coli, improvement of the stability of the antibacterial
peptide, realization of
high level expression of the antibacterial
peptide, convenient purification of the active antibacterial peptide, and improvement of the output of the antibacterial peptide apidaecin.