412 results about "Protein engineering" patented technology

The present invention provides methods for protein engineering and serine protease variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides serine protease variants having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides compositions comprising these serine protease variants. In some embodiments, the present invention provides cleaning compositions comprising at least one of these serine protease variants.

A self-cleaving element for use in bioseparations has been derived from a naturally occurring, 43 kDa protein splicing element (intein) through a combination of protein engineering and random mutagenesis. A mini-intein (18 kDa) previously engineered for reduced size had compromised activity and was therefore subjected to random mutagenesis and genetic selection. In one selection a mini-intein was isolated with restored splicing activity, while in another, a mutant was isolated with enhanced, pH-sensitive C-terminal cleavage activity. The enhanced cleavage mutant has utility in affinity fusion-based protein purification. The enhanced splicing mutant has utility in purification of proteins such as toxic proteins, for example, by inactivation with the intein in a specific region and controllable splicing. These mutants also provide new insights into the structural and functional roles of some conserved residues in protein splicing. Thus, disclosed and claimed are: a genetic system and self-cleaving inteins therefrom; bioseparations employing same; protein purification by inactivation with inteins in specific regions and controllable intein splicing; methods for determining critical, generalizable residues for varying intein activity; and products.

Isolated and/or recombinant enzymes that include surface binding domains, surfaces with active enzymes bound to them and methods of coupling enzymes to surfaces are provided. Enzymes can include large and/or multiple surface coupling domains for surface coupling.

The present invention relates to the intersection of the fields of immunology and protein engineering, and particularly to antigens and vaccines useful in prevention of infection by influenza virus. Provided are recombinant protein antigens, compositions, and methods for the production and use of such antigens and subunit vaccine compositions. In some embodiments, influenza antigens include hemagglutinin polypeptides neuraminidase polypeptides, and/or combinations thereof.

PCT No. PCT/DK96/00158 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 26, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 26, 1997 PCT Filed Apr. 1, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/30394 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 1996The invention relates to the technical application of electromagnetic radiation such as microwaves and radiowaves and application of ultra sound to chain molecules. In particular, the present invention relates to the utilization of topological excitations such as wring, twist and torsional modes, e.g., for generating structure, such as in folding, refolding or renaturation, and denaturation or unfolding of peptides, polypeptides, proteins, and enzymes; for generating changes in molecular affinity; for stimulating drug receptor interactions; and for changing molecular communication, is described. The technique is based on a new understanding of the underlying physical phenomenon and can also be applied to other chain molecules and biologically active biomolecules and tailored polymers such as glucoproteins, antibodies, genomic chain molecules such as DNA and RNA as well as PNA, carbohydrates, and synthetic and natural organic polymers. The invention is especially applicable for solving problems related to inclusion bodies and aggregation when using recombinant DNA and protein engineering techniques. Furthermore, the invention can be utilized in therapeutic treatment and in development and production of pharmaceuticals. The area of applicability ranges from biotechnological industry, food industry, drug industry, pharmacological industry, chemical industry, and concerns, e.g., the treatment of conditions and diseases related to influenza, hepatitis, polio, malaria, borrelia, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, other prion related diseases, multiple sclerosis, cataract, heart diseases, cancer, and aging.

The present invention relates to the intersection of the fields of immunology and protein engineering, and particularly to antigens and vaccines useful in prevention of infection by influenza virus. Provided are recombinant protein antigens, compositions, and methods for the production and use of such antigens and vaccine compositions.

Using a novel water-soluble, active ester amide-containing functionalized controlled radical polymerization initiator, stimuli responsive polymers have been grown from the surface of a protein, exemplified by chymotrypsin or any protein having surface amino acids that will covalently bind to the active ester amide-containing functionalized initiator. It is shown that changes in temperature or pH can change the conformation of the polymer surrounding the enzyme, which in turn enabled the rational tailoring of enzyme activity and stability. This method has afforded an increase in the activity and stability of the enzyme by an order of magnitude at pH's where the enzyme is usually inactive or unstable. Multimodal temperature responsive protein-block copolymer conjugates are described.

The present invention relates to the intersection of the fields of immunology and protein engineering, and particularly to antigens and vaccines useful in prevention of infection by human papilloma virus. Provided are recombinant protein antigens, compositions, and methods for the production and use of such antigens and vaccine compositions.

The invention relates to a gene mutation type recombined protease K and an industrialized production method thereof. Specifically, the invention relates to the gene mutation type recombined protease K which is obtained by performing gene reformation and protein engineering and has an enzymatic activity being more than two times of the enzymatic activity of the same natural protein, and further relates to the industrialized production method and a technical process for utilizing yeast cells to large-scale culture expressing foreign proteins and prepare the gene mutation type recombined protease K.

The invention relates to the filed of genetic engineering, and specifically relates to a xylanase xyn-CDBFV-m with modified thermal stability, a gene thereof, and an application thereof. The amino acid sequence of the xylanase is represented by SEQ ID NO.1. The invention aims at improving the thermal stability of the xylanase xyn-CDBFV of rumen fungi neocallimastix patriciarum, so that the xylanase can resist high temperature during a feestuff granulation process, and thereby the xylanase can be applied in feedstuffs. According to the invention, with a protein engineering approach, disulfide bond is introduced into an N terminal of the xylanase xyn-CDBFV; two relatively high regions of B-factor are eliminated; and salt bond is introduced into a molecular surface, so that a xylanase xyn-CDBFV-m with substantially improved thermal stability is obtained. According to the xylanase xyn-CDBFV-m provided by the invention, 56.7% of enzymatic activity is maintained after 4min of treatment under a temperature of 80 DEG C. Therefore, the xylanase can resist short high-temperature treatment during feedstuff granulation. The xylanase provided by the invention shows great application potential.

The present invention is one gene engineering process of preparing metallothionein in high yield. The process incldues constituting the expression plasmid or its mutant gene, transferring and fermentation culture in engineering colibacillus, induction and adding metal ion before further culture, collecting thallus; ultrasonic crushing thallus, centrifugation, static adsorption with affinity chromatographic column of glutathione-agarose gel 4B, incision with thrombase on the column, column chromatograhic desalting, gradient salt elution and collecting destination protein. The present inventioncan obtain destination protein with purity over 95 %. Using the said method to prepare 6 mutant proteins of monkey metallothionein I can obtain yield and purity similar to that in wild recombinant protein.

The invention relates to a novel method for characterizing and multi-dimensionally representing the folding process of proteins (FIG. 9). Said method comprises, in a methodically novel combination, kinetically arranging the hydrodynamic size of the refolding and thus modified protein, associating the proteolytically fragmented intermediates on the basis of the bioinformatic detection patterns, classifying the folding pathway association of the intermediates, characterizing the folding sequences, and multi-dimensionally visualizing the characterized folding process in a computer-aided manner. Said method is characterized in that all intermediates modified during the refolding and thus structurally blocked are identified and digitalized according to the four individual characteristics of said intermediates, namely the hydrodynamic size, the formation time, the folding pathway association, and amount. Said novel method has many applications in the field of research of protein folding and proteopathy, protein engineering, antibody engineering, molecular biology, therapeutic medicine, biotechnology, biotechnological production of protein pharmaceuticals, protein taxonomy, and nanotechnology for developing and producing novel functional protein materials. According to the invention, many and varied products in the form of different assay kits, devices, software, and machines can be produced and used to carry out said method.

The invention relates to a mutant of a cyclodextrin glucosyltransferase with the capability of highly yielding beta-cyclodextrin and a mutation method, which belong to the fields of gene engineering and enzyme engineering. The invention improves the capability of the cyclodextrin glucosyltransferase (CGT enzyme for short) for producing the beta-cyclodextrin by a rite-directed mutagenesis method, provides a mutant proposal for improving the capability of CGT enzyme from Peanibacillus macerans JFB05-01 (CCTCC NO: M 208063) for producing the beta-cyclodextrin, and substitutes Lys on the 47 position of the CGT enzyme for Arg, His and Thr respectively; the beta-cyclodextrin production capacity of the obtained three mutant enzyme of K47R, K47H and K47T is improved compared with wild type CGT enzymes, wherein the mutant enzyme K47T is particularly obvious. The mutant enzymes are more favorable for industrial production of the beta-cyclodextrin than the wild type CGT enzymes.

The present invention relates to the intersection of the fields of immunology and protein engineering, and particularly to antigens and vaccines useful in prevention of infection by Trypanosoma protozoa. Provided are recombinant protein antigens, compositions, and methods for the production and use of such antigens and vaccine compositions.

The present invention relates to protein engineering, and concerns especially family G/11 xylanases, and genes encoding said enzymes. In specific, the invention concerns Trichoderma reesei XYNII gene, which codes for endo-1,4-β-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8). The invention describes how site-directed mutagenesis can be used to improve the properties of an enzyme to match the industrial conditions where it is used. Protein engineering can be used to improve thermoactivity and thermostability of xylanases, as well as to broaden their pH range.

The present invention provides methods for protein engineering. Specifically, the invention provides methods utilizing site evaluation libraries to design libraries that optimize two or more properties of a protein.

The invention discloses an expressing carrier of black porgy antibiotic peptide Hepcidin, expressing product and preparing method, which is characterized by the following: incorporating E. coliTrc promoter, protein project improving CKS gene and procaryotic expressing carrier pTrc-CKS of histidine tag (His-Tag); connecting to black porgy Hepcidin gene; constructing pTrc-CKS/hepcidin expressing plasmid; possessing P3C enzyme cutting site; fusing six histidine on C end; getting CKS-hepcidin; purifying through C end His-Tag affinity chromatography; getting the purified product; cutting CKS with P3C enzyme in fuse protein; getting the purified Hepcidin.

New methods are provided for the post-genomic era that will permit the analysis of the dynamic expression and localization of gene products in living cells. Herein we propose the development of such a method from a bioorganic approach involving organic synthesis and protein engineering. Specifically, novel compounds bearing two maleimide groups attached directly to fluorescent cores will be prepared, whose latent fluorescence is quenched until their maleimide groups undergo a specific thiol addition reaction. Complementary a-helical proteins are designed bearing two cysteine residues appropriately positioned to react with our novel fluorogens. Genetically fusing our helical probe peptides to test proteins of interest, we can selectively label the target sequence in living cells with our small synthetic fluorogenic molecules. The scope of this technique is described in the context of studying protein localization and protein-protein interactions in living cells.

The invention discloses a method for producing gamma-aminobutyric acid with a high yield, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. Glutamic acid decarboxylase derived from Bacillus megaterium is modified by protein engineering, and a modified glutamic acid decarboxylase gene is linked to a pET24a vector, and is epressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3). A recombinant strain is cultured in a fermenter for transforming glutamic acid to produce the gamma-aminobutyric acid, the wet cell addition amount is 7.0g/L, the transformation period is 8h, the yield can reach 425.0g/L, and the glutamic acid molar conversion rate is up to 99%, the space time yield of the gamma-aminobutyric acid is 53.1 g/L/h.

The invention provides an ELISA detection kit for bovine Brucella, belonging to the technical field of protein engineering. In the kit provided by the invention, the mixed antigen of the outer membrane proteins OMP19, OMP22 and OMP28 of bovine Brucella is used as an envelope antigen of the ELISA kit; the concentration of each antigen is 1mu g/ml, and the antigens are mixed in a volume ratio of 1:1:1 to obtain the mixed antigen; the serum dilution is 1:200, and the dilution of the enzyme-labeled secondary antibody is 1:20,000; and the bovine Brucella is detected through an indirect ELISA method. The kit provided by the invention has the characteristics of high specificity, high sensitivity, high accuracy, easiness in operation and good reproducibility while the market application prospect is good.

The invention discloses a signal peptide for mediating protein secretion expression and belongs to the field of protein engineering and gene engineering. By modifying known signal peptides PelB and OmpA, the N terminal of the signal peptide contains the first three amino acid residues MKK of the signal peptide OmpA, the C terminal of the signal peptide contains the last three amino acid residues AQA of the signal peptide OmpA, and a middle hydrophobic structure is the hydrophobic sequence LLPTAAAGLLLLAAQP of the signal peptide PelB. After the signal peptide capable of effectively improving protein secretion efficiency is used, the secretion expression capability of a strain on target protein is obviously improved; the extracellular enzyme activity of phospholipase D of target protein can be improved by 2 times, the extracellular enzyme production capability of the modified strain is significantly improved, and industrialized application is better facilitated.

Water-forming NADH oxidase derived from Streptococcus mutans should be further improved in terms of stability for practical use in industrial production. An object of the present invention is to provide an enzyme that is obtained through modification of a water-forming NADH oxidase, which is useful as an NAD+ regeneration system for stereoselective oxidation catalyzed by an oxidoreductase, by protein engineering techniques so that the enzyme can withstand long-term use without exhibiting a reduction of its activity for the regeneration of NAD+, that is, an enzyme having improved stability, and to provide a method for efficiently producing a useful substance such as an optically active alcohol or amino acid. The present invention relates to an enzyme modification method that can improve the stability of water-forming NADH oxidase derived from Streptococcus mutans by appropriately introducing mutation.