The invention discloses an
influenza virus RNA polymerase purifying or crystallizing method. The
influenza virus RNA polymerase crystallizing method comprises the following steps: co-expressing and purifying PB1
subunit encoding
gene and PA
subunit encoding
gene of
influenza virus RNA polymerase and encoding
gene of PB2
subunit truncation in
insect cells to obtain
RNA polymerase, combining the
RNA polymerase with
RNA to form a complex, and crystallizing the complex to obtain influenza
virus RNA polymerase crystals, wherein the PB2 subunit truncation is a
protein formed by
amino acid residues from N end to 126th position in a PB2 subunit
amino acid sequence. Experiments prove that after different PB2 subunit truncations are used, the expression level of the influenza
virus polymerase complex containing the 126
amino acid fragments of the amino end of PB2 is high, and 10mg of the
protein can be purified through 1L of an
insect cell culture solution, so the expression level of the influenza
virus polymerase complex containing the 126 amino acid fragments of the amino end of PB2 is higher than that of other truncations; and the crystals obtained in the invention have the advantages of good purity, slight degradation, good
crystallization repeatability, good quality,
large size and strong
diffraction.