The invention provides a method for in-vitro expression and purification of recombinant human
interleukin 15 in mammalian cells, which comprises the following steps: a, providing a first
expression vector comprising
nucleic acid encoding a
fusion protein of
maltose binding protein (MBP) and recombinant human IL-15, the
fusion protein comprises the following elements from the 5'end to the 3 'end: 5'-MBP-
Furin restriction enzyme cutting site-His tag-enterokinase
restriction enzyme cutting site (EK)-rhIL-15-3 '; b, providing a second
expression vector, wherein the second
expression vector comprises
nucleic acid for coding
furin; c, co-transfecting the first expression vector and the second expression vector to mammalian cells, and performing
fermentation culture to enable the cells to express recombinant human IL-15
protein; d, centrifuging to obtain
fermentation supernate from the step c; e, carrying out
affinity chromatography through a His tag, so as to obtain a His-EK-rhIL-15 fragment; f, the fragment is subjected to
enzyme digestion with enterokinase, affinity purification is conducted again through the His tag, a flow-through substance is collected, and the flow-through substance comprises rhIL-15; and g, purifying the flow-through substance from the step f by
anion exchange chromatography to obtain the purified rhIL-15
protein.