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Thioredoxin is a class of small redox proteins known to be present in all organisms. It plays a role in many important biological processes, including redox signaling. In humans, thioredoxins are encoded by TXN and TXN2 genes. Loss-of-function mutation of either of the two human thioredoxin genes is lethal at the four-cell stage of the developing embryo. Although not entirely understood, thioredoxin plays a central role in humans and is increasingly linked to medicine through their response to reactive oxygen species (ROS). In plants, thioredoxins regulate a spectrum of critical functions, ranging from photosynthesis to growth, flowering and the development and germination of seeds. They have also recently been found to play a role in cell-to-cell communication.
The present invention is directed to prodrugs of hydroxamic acid based histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, e.g., suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA). The prodrugs are acylated derivatives having increased aqueous solubility and cellular permeability as compared with the free hydroxamic acid, and are useful for inhibiting HDACs, and for selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cellgrowth arrest and / or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the prodrugs of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The prodrugs of the invention are also useful in the prevention and treatment of thioredoxin (TRX)-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and / or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases.
The invention relates to methods for monitoring patient response to histone deacetylase inhibitors (e.g., suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA)) or other therapeutic agents by measuring the level of thioredoxin in body fluids, tissues, and / or cells, such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells, plasma, or serum. The invention also relates to methods of monitoring and / or assisting with the diagnosis of a wide variety of thioredoxin-related diseases and conditions, such as inflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, diseases associated with oxidative stress or diseases characterized by cellular hyperproliferation.
Novel DNA constructs and host cells comprising the same are disclosed. DNA constructs comprise a transcription unit (e.g. operon) comprising DNA sequences encoding for ribonucleotidereductase and thioredoxin. In preferred embodiments, constructs further comprise DNA sequences encoding for thymidylate synthase and / or transcription units comprising sequences encoding for uridinekinase preferably together with dCTP deaminase. In particularly preferred embodiments, host cells comprising constructs having all of the above characteristics wherein the host cell displays repressed or no uracilDNA glycosylase activity. This may be achieved by removal of the host cell ung gene. Use of host cells in the manufacture of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleotides e.g. thymidine is also disclosed.
The present invention relates to a gene engineered bacteria, and its preparation method and uses, belongs to biological engineering field. The gene engineered bacteria is composed of plasmid and host bacteria in which host bacteria is any one of Ecoli DH5alpha,BL21(DE3) or Rosetta-gami(DE3), the recombinant plasmid is pET32a(+) containing gene GAD65. The construction method of engineered bacteria comprise: designing Nest-PCR upper-stream primer and down-stream primer, amplifying human GAD65 gene fragment using PCR from human pancreascDNA library, transforming Ecoli via vector and obtaining highly effective expression recombinant human GAD65 gene engineered bacteria. The inventive engineered bacteria can be used to produce soluble active thioredoxin- human Glutamic Decarboxylase 65 fusion protein and active recombinant human GAD65 which has enzymatic activity and immunological activity and are easy to purify. The expression volume is high and cost is low .
The invention discloses a non-induced expression genetic engineering strain and the constructing method and the application. The host cell of the strain is enteric bacilli E.coliBL21, CCTCC M205136, PCR expanding hrp Z gene section to clone to pGEM-T carrier, ferment cutting and bonding by EcoR I / Xho I, inserting the hrp Z gene into the enteric bacilli expression carrier pET-32b(+) lower reaches of thioredoxin, constructing rebuilding expression particle pET-32b-hrp, and transferring into E.coliBL21, filtering to gain positive clone. The non-induced expression rebuilt albumen HrpZ, SDS-PAGE shows that high efficiently expresses APDZ albumen. The rebuilt albumen has good prevention effect to plantdisease and could improves the yield.
The invention belongs to the technical field of biomedicine and provides a cyanea capillata thioredoxin. Currently, researches and reports related to jellyfishthioredoxin are not seen yet. The cyanea capillata thioredoxin provided by the invention has protein formed by an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention further provides a coding gene of the cyanea capillata thioredoxin, wherein the coding gene has a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. Meanwhile, the invention further provides application of the cyanea capillata thioredoxin and the coding gene of the cyanea capillata thioredoxin in preparation of anti-oxidation drugs, anti-radiation drugs, skin protectants, food preservatives, anti-aging drugs and the like. The cyanea capillata thioredoxin and the coding gene of the cyanea capillata thioredoxin have greater clinical application values.
Disclosed herein are nucleic acid constructs and expression vectors for enhancing the production of recombinant polypeptides / proteins, and methods for the massive production of recombinant polypeptides / proteins, in which a first nucleic acid sequence encoding thioredoxin and a second nucleic acid sequence encoding hemoglobin are cloned into a host cell, thereby enhancing the capability of the thus formed recombinant host cell in producing a selected gene product, and thereby assisting said recombinant host cell in relieving intracellular stress due to the overproduction of said gene product.
The invention is to provide an information acquisition apparatus for acquiring information relating to at least one of an oxidized form concentration, a reduced form concentration and a ratio of the concentrations of thioredoxin, useful for judging a stress level, and a stress levelinformation acquisition apparatus and a stress level judging method utilizing the same. A reaction by an enzyme or the like catalyzing an redox reaction of thioredoxins is used to measure at least one of an oxidized form concentration, a reduced form concentration and a concentration ratio of thioredoxins, and data of such measurement is used for judging the stress level of a subject person.
The present invention is directed to prodrugs of hydroxamic acid based histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, e.g., suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA). The prodrugs are acylated derivatives having increased aqueous solubility and cellular permeability as compared with the free hydroxamic acid, and are useful for inhibiting HDACs, and for selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cellgrowth arrest and / or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the prodrugs of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The prodrugs of the invention are also useful in the prevention and treatment of thioredoxin (TRX)-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and / or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases.
The current invention provides methods for producing a polypeptide as inclusion bodies in bacterial host cells. The present methods are carried out by forming a gene construct comprising the genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide operatively linked to that of an inclusion partner protein, such as E. coli thioredoxin or a modified E. coli thioredoxin, such that host cells comprising the gene construct produce the polypeptide as intracellularinclusion bodies. The methods of the present invention facilitate the rapid isolation and purification of recombinant proteins. In addition, the present methods may be useful for producing polypeptides or proteins which are small and are typically difficult to express, as well as those proteins that are toxic to host cells such as E. coli. The present invention also provides plasmids, vectors and host cells to be used in the present invention for production of polypeptides, and methods of production of polypeptides using these vectors and host cells. The invention further provides methods for producing protein molecular weight ladders for use in proteingel electrophoresis, as well as proteins and protein molecular weight ladders produced by these methods.
The present invention relates, e.g., to a method for detecting a full-length protein and a truncated form (e.g., a naturally occurring cleavage product) thereof, in a sample, comprisingoptionally denaturing and reducing proteins in the sample,cleaving the proteins into smaller peptides, anddetecting a unique peptide identifier for the full-length protein and / or a unique peptide identifier for the truncated protein, in the sample.In one embodiment of the invention, the full-length protein is thioredoxin (TRX), and the truncated form thereof is its biologically active, C-terminal truncated, 10 kDa cleavage product, TRX 80.
This invention provides a nucleic acid which encodes a soluble polypeptide which comprises the extracellular domain of a gonadotropinreceptor and thioredoxin, wherein the soluble polypeptide is capable of binding to the gonadotropin. This invention also provides the polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acids and methods to produce the polypeptides. This invention also provides methods of preventing or terminating pregnancy, preventing or treating cancer, and decreasing androgen and estrogen production.