The invention discloses a method for high-efficiency expression of all subtype mature proteins of IL-37 by utilizing tobaccos. The method comprises the following steps of: inserting coding sequences of
TEV protease and
enzyme cutting sites thereof between coding sequences of
signal peptide and mature IL-37 proteins to form an IL-37-TEV
fusion gene; according to the preference of tobacco codons, under the condition of guaranteeing no change of the
amino acid sequence, optimizing the sequence of the
fusion gene; connecting 5'-end upstream of the constructed IL-37-TEV
fusion gene with a common
promoter including other regulating areas, and connecting the 3'-end downstream with a transcription terminator; integrating a constructed
recombinant expression vector onto
cell chromosomes of the tobacco to culture a transgenic tobacco
plant with high-efficiency stable expression of IL-37 and injecting the constructed
recombinant expression vector to the tobacco leaves to instantaneously express target proteins. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that by construction of the
plant expression vector, the mature proteins of IL-37 with
high activity are expressed in the plants, and the obtained product has important application value for treatment of numerous inflammatory diseases and
early detection and diagnosis of the inflammatory diseases.