The invention discloses a
mycobacterium tuberculosis fusion protein AR2, a construction, expression and purification method and application thereof. The construction, expression and purification method comprises the following steps: S1, extracting
gene sequences coded by Rv1988 and Rv1886c from a whole
genome sequence of
mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv; S2, constructing a pET30b-Rv1988 recombinant
plasmid and a pET28a-Rv1886c recombinant
plasmid by taking pET28a and pET30b as carriers; S3, synthesizing Rv1988-Rv1886c, namely, a
fusion protein AR2, according to the extracted
gene sequences of the Rv1988 and the Rv1886c; S4, by taking the
plasmid pET28a as a carrier, constructing a recombinant plasmid pET28a-AR2; S5, transferring the recombinant plasmids constructed in the step S2 and the step S4 into an
expression vector E.coli BL21 strain; and S6, expressing and purifying the
fusion protein AR2 and subcomponent proteins rRv1988 and rRv1886c. According to the invention, the fusion
protein AR2 and an
adjuvant are combined to construct a
tuberculosis subunit vaccine, the vaccine can induce strong cellular immune response in a mouse body and promote generation of memory T cells, and the tuberculosis
subunit vaccine is expected to become a more effective novel candidate vaccine for tuberculosis in the later period.